Strange queen

[Arfermo]

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[BeeJayBee]

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Still doesn't work.

Try uploading the picture to your forum gallery and then link to there?

 

[Plenty of honey]

My freebie Welsh virgin I helped emerge was popped in a nuc previously used for hosting a queen. The new queen arrived 18 July but is laying some eggs double or triple in a cell - but at the bottom only not sides. She's too small to mark in a queen catcher so I marked as she walked hence blue wings. I filmed the bees as they were tending to her needs.
Anyone ever seen a queen this size?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e5659Gcz844

Obee 1 thanks for sharing this. !! nice to see!!

 

[Arfermo]

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[Arfermo]

 

[BeeJayBee]

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I'd guess it's a wasp of some sort rather than a bee.

Where's Kaz?? Maybe pm her? http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/member.php?u=3002

 

[kazmcc]

I'd say that's a European hornet, Vespa crabo. There isn't anything else with those colourings here in the UK that I am aware of, and their markings can be quite variable but I couldn't say if it was male or female. Nice find You should record it on irecord, they are very keen for hornet sightings to be recorded.

 

[kazmcc]

Could do with B+ and his opinion on this, as he is very knowledgeable or Karol, just to be sure, but I'm happy that it is V crabo. I could double check if you are happy for me to copy the image. Might be able to get more info

 

[Arfermo]

Thanks for trying - very keen to find out what it is more specifically. Puzzling aspect is that there were loads of them dotted about, flying, drinking from puddles and walking, all around and all very docile, even after poking a hole with a very short stick into the outer flakes of a nest within one of the old walls at Pompeii. Hope somebody can trace them because I haven't managed it.

 

[Hivemaker.]

very keen to find out what it is more specifically.

Oriental hornet, Vespa orientalis.

 

[kazmcc]

Thanks for trying - very keen to find out what it is more specifically. Puzzling aspect is that there were loads of them dotted about, flying, drinking from puddles and walking, all around and all very docile, even after poking a hole with a very short stick into the outer flakes of a nest within one of the old walls at Pompeii. Hope somebody can trace them because I haven't managed it.

Ahh, didn't read back enough to find out it wasn't this country. I assumed it was UK lol. First rule of idenitfication, LOCATION!! Check out this page on buglife, half way down is an image by Steve Falk with all the hornets set out side by side - https://www.buglife.org.uk/campaigns-and-our-work/policy-and-legislation/asian-hornet Although I'm sure hivemaker might be right

 

[Erichalfbee]

Oriental hornet....looks like this one to me

 

[BeeJayBee]

That's a new one to me, brilliant teamwork.

The map on this page suggests the distribution of V. orientalis includes the area around Pompeii http://www.vespa-crabro.com/oriental-hornet.htm

Nice information about V. crabro too http://www.vespa-crabro.com/hornets.htm

 

[Arfermo]

Oriental hornet....looks like this one to me

That's it - thanks.