That was my first thought too 🙁God help the wood wasps!
That was my first thought too 🙁God help the wood wasps!
Oh yes, it is. I was in Zakynthos a few weeks ago and was surprised at the number - they were everywhere.I think you'll find that Vespa Orientalis is already in Europe
Have a word with your AH coordinator and ask him why he's not ordered a bulk load for your association to hand out.I'm a bit disappointed that our national association don't appear to have spent a few quid having thousands of these posters printed and sent them out with the usual monthly comic for every member to find somewhere to site at least one and perhaps request a few more for the cost of postage - particularly in the areas that are most at risk. Not everyone has a colour printer. but printing in quantity is relatively cheap in large quantities and there should be posters everywhere. I'll be having word with our AH Coordinator next time I see him.
Well I thought they had printed up 2,000 AH posters for each association and were handing them out at the Spring Convention to the coordinators, so perhaps your coordinator has distributed themI'm a bit disappointed that our national association don't appear to have spent a few quid having thousands of these posters printed and sent them out with the usual monthly comic for every member to find somewhere to site at least one and perhaps request a few more for the cost of postage - particularly in the areas that are most at risk. Not everyone has a colour printer. but printing in quantity is relatively cheap in large quantities and there should be posters everywhere. I'll be having word with our AH Coordinator next time I see him.
I've not been made aware by my associaton that posters are available - we had a lengthy talk on the AH at one of the association meetings - led by our AH coordinator - distribution of posters was never mentioned. So, if the BBKA have done it - the distribution in our association has been done, it's been dome by the chosen few. I'll be asking questions when we start our winter meetings ...Well I thought they had printed up 2,000 AH posters for each association and were handing them out at the Spring Convention to the coordinators, so perhaps your coordinator has distributed them
BBKA send out info on Hornet resources very regularly. It goes out automatically to AH coordinators via eR2.I've not been made aware by my associaton that posters are available - we had a lengthy talk on the AH at one of the association meetings - led by our AH coordinator - distribution of posters was never mentioned. So, if the BBKA have done it - the distribution in our association has been done, it's been dome by the chosen few. I'll be asking questions when we start our winter meetings ...
maybe he's just uncoordinated?Either your coordinator isn't reading the emails or just isn't acting on them?
Yes, they just emailed everyone recently and followed it up in the magazine.I think the Scottish BA has gone over to calling it the YLH. I’m sure I read that in one of their emails.
I agree. Our BKA has been working hard on education - in schools, at country & village fairs - handing out information, posters in prominent places, AH stickers in cars and vans and frequent posts on social media. Public awareness I would say is pretty good - I get asked about Asian Hornets frequently when people know I am a beekeeper. I’m on our AH team and we meet regularly and try to disseminate as much information as possible to our members and the public.Down here in the front line I think a lot of work has been done educating those people that are likely to come into contact with the AH .. posters with a clear picture of what it looks like have been put up in places like allotments and public notice boards in places that attract nature lovers. Our local community hall has a poster up and they have lots of groups of people that meet there. I did an event at our local model farm in the summer and I was astounded at the number of people (and children) who enquired about the AH so, I think, in some areas the message is getting through.
But, as beekeepers, we have a collective responsibility to let the public know .. if you have access to a colour printer then a poster is available here:
https://www.nonnativespecies.org/assets/Alert_poster_Vespa_velutina_A4-1.pdf
I'm a bit disappointed that our national association don't appear to have spent a few quid having thousands of these posters printed and sent them out with the usual monthly comic for every member to find somewhere to site at least one and perhaps request a few more for the cost of postage - particularly in the areas that are most at risk. Not everyone has a colour printer. but printing in quantity is relatively cheap in large quantities and there should be posters everywhere. I'll be having word with our AH Coordinator next time I see him.
There's a reason AH is called nigrithorax. Black thorax hornet is a much better differentiator IMHO as it excludes more collateral species. Yellow sock black thorax hornet would be too much of a mouth full I guess.I think the Scottish BA has gone over to calling it the YLH. I’m sure I read that in one of their emails.
I must admit I was shocked tooI never thought I'd read such vile racist language (with a touch of xenophobia thrown in) on this forum to be honest
Common knowledge of Latin lacking tooYellow sock black thorax hornet would be too much of a mouth full I guess.
I like the idea of tying the popular name to the Latin name, certainly in this case. It is maybe not be as difficult to change names for groups or categories as we might imagine. It happens all the time but probably needs a body with a strong desire to get the new name accepted.There's a reason AH is called nigrithorax. Black thorax hornet is a much better differentiator IMHO as it excludes more collateral species.
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