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https://www.bto.org/understanding-birds/birdfacts/honey-buzzard

I repeat, there is no report of a honey buzzard attack on an apiary, another thing is a wild hive (but those have not been eradicated by varroa due to the lack of treatment?), which does not represent an economic loss for a beekeeper; Therefore, in ecological terms it is very effective (it is so...

It would be such a bad idea that since the VV invasion, the number of breeding pairs of Pernis apivorus has increased, consolidating Galicia as a stable base for this species compared to the rest of Spain. You can try to laugh at me, but nature always finds a way to restore errors.

So everyone can do what they want, a rehash of the previous guide. This is the national plan that Karol was talking about?

https://www.farodevigo.es/sociedad/2019/03/31/abejero-liquido-24-500-nidos-15733121.html That's why it's research, but without a doubt it's best to deny the possibility. It is true that the Galicia does not need to be "trained" but taking into account that it is not such a common species in the...

There are many actions and investigations to carry out. Actions: -In each county there must be a nest removal team and additionally 1 more for every 20 nests removed the previous year. -Beekeepers will monitor and/or capture queens in spring in the vicinity of established apiaries or nests from...

https://www.persee.fr/doc/bsef_0037-928x_2006_num_111_4_16372 Entomology Bulletin 2006. The INPN had been keeping track of sightings since 2004. The nest located in Lot-Garone in 2005 was eradicated. Sightings in winter of that year and capture of vv queens in spring of 2006. On the INPN page...

That was also the plan of France, Spain and others before the groups dedicated to removing nests collapsed due to the high incidence, remember that all European velutines come from a single mother who arrived in Bordeaux in 2004. The French national plan collapsed in 2012.

The panic is created by misinformation, and is partly the fault of the British media and authorities. Where is the complete free consultation document of the nests captured from 2019 to 2023 included, with its conclusions? Where is the guide for beekeepers and third parties, beyond reporting if...

The data and information are available, everyone is free and responsible to take them as they wish, but VV will not disappear without measures. If the problem is imports, as Karol points out, shouldn't measures be taken in that regard?

Climate is not the same as weather. Climate is the average weather of 30 years, while the other is a specific fact. It is not simply wrong that the specific perception of a non-coincident atmospheric phenomenon in two places does not mean that the accumulated average is .

https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/37816~51381/Comparison-of-the-Average-Weather-in-Glanamman-and-Amsterdam

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Distribution-of-the-Asian-hornet-under-current-climate-conditions_fig1_359563642 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-06212-0 Two analyzes of nothing, by the way I already stated that the British climate is not that different from any point on the...

You can present the data that supports your argument, and all the studies I have seen imply that VV can establish itself in the long term (15 years from the first successful hibernation) throughout England and Wales.

No, simply due to the low availability of drones (not all nests in the same area reach the point of producing fertile individuals for the next generation) the queen only has genetic material from one source in her spermatheca, and it does not have to be the same for all British queens. You can...

But we had not agreed that until now the queens of the British nests had been fertilized with a single drone compared to the founding queens of China or Atlantic France, who were fertilized for more than 4. The story of importation does not thus decay.

I still don't understand the messianism that presupposes that humanity is capable of surpassing nature. If what is intended is that a queen can have a collection of at least 12 drones, what she should do is set up breeding stations with controlled drones and flood them in front of outsiders.

And yet it is not so easy because there are at least 2 contributions that it does not take into account: A. The effect of vitellogenin that can partially couple to a gene and activate it. This means that a queen and a worker may have the same genetic code, but its manifestation is different. B...

Post in the 'Asian Hornet App' thread https://beekeepingforum.co.uk/threads/asian-hornet-app.56342/post-892922 Post #119 dated January 17 while the BKA update is from March according to a post from days ago. By the way, some users didn't like my proposal but applauded others.

I appreciate you passing off an idea I proposed in another previous AH thread as your own. Their color risk system is very similar to when I proposed that counties be classified based on the number of nests and different "forces" be mobilized.