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The usual pics coming from the indiscriminate trapping in Portugal. Height of attack season there are the temperatures cool.

This was the method I was using early 2014, most don’t make it back to the nest, most die immediately, if one does make it back it seems to knock the foragers back quite a lot, similar to trapping though, only works on the foragers so as long as the queen isn’t affected they still produce. There...

Here is one of our local VV nests, discovered in the winter of 2018, 100m from their main food source. Observations, small secondary nest, around 20-25cm. To me proof the method works, no other reason the nest failed.

Added a few video’s here. Will add more as I go along. They show the mixture, hornet free, a hornet hawking and i’m trying to show one of how I do it, not the easiest to film.

My observations in PT no need science at all behind it. 1. People who trap have hoenets 2. People who wait for authorities still have hornets 3. People who use harps still have hornets 4. I am hornet free. I had many Portuguese beekeepers/customers visit me and ask do you not have hornets...

Who said the hornet recognised it as poison, it’s sugar and egg, the hornets eat it if allowed to, you get a larger load coating the legs or and thorax. I’m not going to waste my time arguing with whether it works or not.

We aren’t trying to kill the workers, only the queen, she is the ONLY target, a small amount will kill her. Once she is gone the nest is finished, the workers redundant and the issue is gone, no queens released and no further issue.

Just more expense and a waste of time as far as I’ve seen, the hornets don’t stop, they just move. I was desperate and the way I used worked, I wasn’t at the time bothered about the official way, 1 drop of fipronil in the air per day per 300 hornets didn’t bother me for a second, I didn’t even...

Yes although I think it was just a backstreet beekeeping supply shop, I seriously doubt it was an officially approved product

Correct, even the 0.25 administered directly will kill. Towards the end of the treating in 2021 I was down to 1 drop in quite a large container of one yolk and sugar, the amount required is minuscule, that would last the entire season.

These simply don’t work in Portugal never mind the U.K., again they target foragers, they work their way around the defence, the ones that are shocked are quickly replaced. One splash of rain and they short circuit. It’s a moneymaking scheme same as the traps.

Very little interest except from beekeepers

There is zero interest from authorities to control VV. where I kept my bees in the north, an area of around 20 square kms, the fire brigade had a backlog of 300 reported nests, these are people who have reported nests on property where people are living, in august 2021 they reported they...

Hahaha, or varroa, almost! Nice to be back, thanks