Luminos
Queen Bee
- Joined
- May 27, 2011
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- 3,621
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- Location
- Limousin, France
- Hive Type
- WBC
- Number of Hives
- Less than 100. Er, 6, actually...
Heads up, ex-pats - saw an Asian hornet buzzing around my front porch this evening...
Heads up, ex-pats - saw an Asian hornet buzzing around my front porch this evening...
Hey thanks!
So the electric (tennis look a like) bats work on hornets.
Great fun as Asian hornets hover and could be easier targets than the mosquito - let battle commence!
Yep , If you read back some of Chris Lucks posts on the Asian Hornet problem you will see he uses non- electric rackets , i just took it to the extreme . The problem with my method is when the batteries fail and i do not notice i will have a slightly stunned but p***** off hornet chasing me up the hill and i am slowing down in my old age !!!!!
Also improves you back hand . See you at Roland Garrous in the final .
Got one today in its little primary nest that someone spotted and called me about.
Chris
That's a good picture Chris - but have you got any more pictures that offer a better scale of the thing, maybe seen from a distance, so we can see how big the nest is in relation to other things? (I have looked at the linked site)
Just found this in "the connexion " . an english speaking newspaper in france .
Village has too much money
April 29, 2013
A WINDFARM has given a small Tarn village a multi-million windfall - and a headache. The mayor says the council does not know what to do with the money.
Since the windfarm was built at Arfons in 2009 the village of 182 inhabitants has seen its budget soar from 400,000 euros to 2.3 million euros.
Mayor Alain Couzinie told France 3: "It's like gold has rained on the village!"
He said he had asked officials to come up with ideas to improve people's daily lives and they had suggested a campaign against Asiatic hornets, refurbishing the village phone kiosk and installing speed-calming measures on the main street.
Shows the importance France is placing on this mater .
Wild China on bbc2 right now was showing a couple of guys catching a hornet by baiting a long pole with a grass hopper, then carefully lowering the pole and tying a white feather to a hornet whilst it was preoccupied butchering the grasshopper. As it flew back to it's nest ,they followed it and ,again using a long pole ,tied a burning rag to it and set the paper nest on fire!
VM
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