Asian Hornet - Update

[MartinL]

According to the R.S.P.B. we have giant hornets too!
http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=38174

Picture of Japanese Hornet (V Mandarinia) in the latest Mag

The RSPB are going to put an article in the next Mag, explaining their mistake & showing correct pics of Asian hornet.

Only took 6 months?

 

[Plenty of honey]

Thorne have got in on the act now.
Special offer for the Honey Show
https://www.thorne.co.uk/hardware-clothing/hive-hardware/miscellaneous?product_id=7426
Nearly £30, though

only just seen your post Ericahalfbee, weve tried these traps this year and they work well on wasps and hornets. but I nearly chocked on my tea just now!! £29!!! they must be joking surely??. my association supplies them for about 6 euros each!! think I am coming over with a truck full next spring!!
They are in truth not very target specific. A good amount of all and sundry too. Flies. waxmoth etc. they are wafer light plastic "Costa coffee type" goblets with a thin fold over roof. Astonishing!!

 

[dickbowyer]

only just seen your post Ericahalfbee, weve tried these traps this year and they work well on wasps and hornets. but I nearly chocked on my tea just now!! £29!!! they must be joking surely??. my association supplies them for about 6 euros each!! think I am coming over with a truck full next spring!!
They are in truth not very target specific. A good amount of all and sundry too. Flies. waxmoth etc. they are wafer light plastic "Costa coffee type" goblets with a thin fold over roof. Astonishing!!

£14.50 each, that's €6 post Brexit?

 

[Millet]

To hear some of the nutters talking they've been around for years, the country is infested with them, a veritable plague.

I best get the old 50 cal Mini gun out of the cupboard and dusted of.

 

[Anduril]

Xmas hive decorations perhaps?

Asian hornet cuddly toys next.

 

[bpmurray]

Asian hornet cuddly toys next.

What a wonderful idea. And don't forget - hornet costumes for Halloween!

 

[tonyofarr]

I saw one of our native hornets at an out-apiary a couple of days ago, the first one I have seen this year, it makes me wonder if people are already going around destroying them because of all this Asian hornet business.

Has anyone else noticed the same thing?

 

[Karol]

Asian hornet cuddly toys next.

Well I'm not doing the stuffing!

 

[bontbee]

I saw one of our native hornets at an out-apiary a couple of days ago, the first one I have seen this year, it makes me wonder if people are already going around destroying them because of all this Asian hornet business.

Has anyone else noticed the same thing?

I had the pleasure of seeing one of our hornets at my out apiary the other day. I've never seen one there before, (at the western edge of the Gower peninsula), in fact, I've never seen one on Gower before, and I've spent a fair bit of time trudging around various bits of it.

Very sadly, I think it's a fair bet that some native hornet nests will be destroyed, given the media's spectacular capacity for sensationalizing the Asian hornet's arrival with inaccurate photos, and the general public's general fear of "creepy crawlies"....

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

it makes me wonder if people are already going around destroying them because of all this Asian hornet business.

Has anyone else noticed the same thing?

Very sadly, I think it's a fair bet that some native hornet nests will be destroyed, given the media's spectacular capacity for sensationalizing the Asian hornet's arrival with inaccurate photos, and the general public's general fear of "creepy crawlies"....

Seeing the blinkered attitude to some on here regards wasp IPM and their blanket killing (of queens as well as workers) I can well believe it will be carnage next year.

 

[charlievictorbravo]

The RSPB are going to put an article in the next Mag, explaining their mistake & showing correct pics of Asian hornet.

Only took 6 months?

A couple of weeks ago I was looking for the latest information on the spread or otherwise of VV in the UK and found a piece on the internet from one of the Wiltshire papers. It was a rehash of one of the NBU press releases but the accompanying photo was wrong - it looked like some sort of hover-fly. I wrote to the Editor of the paper pointing out the error and the impact such an error could have on native species if they were mistaken for Asian Hornets and the fact that AHs might be around but not recognised by the readers. I gave a link to the NBU sight where photos were available.

I had a reply from the reporter who wrote the piece, as follows "I just wanted to apologise for my mistake with the picture on the article about the Asian Hornet.

I’m new to the office, and was on my own covering a late shift. I was asked to keep the website active and use the article elsewhere of the Asian hornet. We didn’t include any picture in the newspaper.

I’m unable to put anything online without a graphic so I searched the company’s database of pictures that we have permission to use. I searched for ‘asian hornet’ on here and this was one of the pictures that came up with ‘asian hornet’ in the details.

My editor has emailed me the information that you sent, so I didn’t remove the article I only changed the picture to one with just a nest so that I don’t cause any confusion. Sorry about the mistake, I will be more careful for future articles to try to double check that each detail is correct.
Kind regards,
Sarah Colston
Reporter
Gazette Series"

It appears that one of the picture agencies has an incorrect picture attached to the name Asian Hornet and this might account for some of the confusion about the invader in publications. How many other newspapers have made the same innocent mistake?

CVB

 

[Erichalfbee]

How about this picture?

 

[bontbee]

Wow, where did that pic come from?

 

[BrianO]

Yeah. Some shot !

 

[REDWOOD]

How about this picture?

someone has to put a caption on that photo lol

 

[Erichalfbee]

someone has to put a caption on that photo lol

 

[enrico]

Caption
Middle bee "oh dear, I think I am going to sneeze!"
E

 

[For want of a better word]

Phew I am glad they only attack yellow hybrids!

Nos da

 

[Amari]

How about this picture?

I thought the asian hornet is supposed to have yellow legs?

 

[Swarm]

Apis Ceranae?