Outlander
Field Bee
- Joined
- Feb 21, 2012
- Messages
- 951
- Reaction score
- 2
- Location
- Norwich Norfolk
- Hive Type
- 14x12
- Number of Hives
- 12 14x12 hives. 2 standard nationals and 8 14x12 nucs.
My wife called me into the garden this evening; she was watching the bees stream in from a busy day. On the Hive was what I expect was some kind of hornet. I beehive it was about 1 ¼ inches my wife thought more like 1 ½ to 1 ¾ I only got a quick glimpse of it whilst swatting at it and missing.. It had a wide defined yellow stripe running down from top of its head in-between its eyes down towards the Jaw. Large triangular wings. Top of the abdomen was a wide orange band then yellow bands broken by slimmer brown band. It was a nice looking thing but I’m sorry next time I won’t miss. Any Idea’s to what this was.