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first Asian Hornets in Jersey (Vespa Velutina) 2016 and Vespa mandarinia in USA Washington State and Vancouver island Canada in 2019. I doubt much was in the public domain that USDA would have seen about the 'Jersey Hornet Hunters' and probably approached Japanese colleagues for advice. however...

This is actually quite shocking. why would anyone keep bees like those in hives like that?? were the folk attending actually helping (attempting) to manage them ?? Kids too?? 😲 wonder what getting the honey crop off is like?!?

tep Th*rne Winter Sale on til end of January (y) :)🐝

interesting i wonder if it's the bees fanning close together and the sound is their wings hitting against each others? the workers were also nibbling on the wood at the hive entrance or applying propolis? Nice vid (y)

He even has a website! 😲 who would have thought.... About – Bee Portals

Im really enjoying this thread everyone please keep it up :D(y)

I'd buy it! :)

" The Estate consists of 12000 acres of land and 2000 acres within the Park. " ... Rural still dont believe these bees are anything special... happy to be proved wrong though... ;) 🐝

or woodlice poo...

Thank you, I think I'll have to gen up quite a bit on the demaree to feel confident enough to do it. Sounds really interesting though and something is like to try. BMHoney ... demaree :) 🐝 🐝 🐝

welcome Chris excellent stuff here from Black Mountain Honey https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaa4pgaAzz8DCjiYJrx9cMA including a series... 'My First Nucleus' here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyLxGqqW34TZkRNQKVIj_PLgJWLKOjoJ3 good luck! Steve

I got some smoke into the hive entrance using the extension tube and decided to boost this by vaping under the OMF, without the extension tube. However the copper of the GV must have been touching the polystyrene because flames and smoke belched forth and quickly took hold. Luckily I had 5l of...

Mitochondrial genomes illuminate the evolutionary history of the Western honey bee (Apis mellifera) - Scientific Reports this might also be of interest :) published in 2020 so pretty much upto date... an open access paper to free to download " A. mellifera colonised Europe through at least two...

Ah think you misread my post... they did of course get to ireland because they walked or hopped before the sea level rose as did red squirresl and pine martins... my question was if these species made it why not honeybees to Ireland which can travel alot quicker than a frog.!! Natterjack toads...

yes it kills amphibians ... Osmoregulation :rolleyes:

Thorne's ... Winter Sale: starting from 27th December online and 4th December by phone am sure other sales will be available ;) cut n paste via email today

get well soon (y)