Velutina in Ambridge

[jenkinsbrynmair]

No, not more pseudo Latin drivel spouted by Boris the Johnson.
Just happened to have the Archers on yesterday when I was driving to an apiary and heard a conversation about a character that was 'attacked' by hornets the day before - now transpires they were Yellow legged hornets, the NBU has been informed and the troops are on their way to investigate and destroy the nest....................

 

[Sutty]

We just need them on Eastenders and Coronation Street now!

 

[BeeKeyPlayer]

No, not more pseudo Latin drivel spouted by Boris the Johnson.
Just happened to have the Archers on yesterday when I was driving to an apiary and heard a conversation about a character that was 'attacked' by hornets the day before - now transpires they were Yellow legged hornets, the NBU has been informed and the troops are on their way to investigate and destroy the nest....................

You can rely on the Archers. Anything - everything! - topical finds its way into the script.

 

[Erichalfbee]

We just need them on Eastenders and Coronation Street now!

Lots of them. A plague.

 

[RJC]

Lots of them. A plague.

Joking aside, am just back from week on Jersey with a group from Lincs BKA helping volunteers track and locate nests (actually prob not much help, but learned an awful lot). Their main concern on Jersey is from low level nests in hedges. Last week two Agric workers had a trip to A&E after tangling a bit of bramble in their kit - the other end of which was attached to an AH nest. A couple of weeks before that a tractor driver flailed a hedge and nest. He was saved by having all his tractor windows closed. And last week an elderly walker was killed in France when she and others walked past (brushed past?) a nest by their path. Reports suggest she suffered an anaphalytic reaction after a number of stings. Two of her companies were also hospitalised. All that said, AHs are remarkably uninterested in, for example, people standing around bait stations they are feeding at. They only get (very) defensive if their nest is threatened.

 

[Parsonage Bees]

A school friend claims he can start harvest when it happens in Ambridge.
They must use very good agricultural consultants. Let's hope no nests found in, where is it? Borsetshire. Don't listen myself.

 

[Newbeeneil]

What concerns me is the fact they have got YLHs as far north as Borsetshire!!!!

 

[JamezF]

What concerns me is the fact they have got YLHs as far north as Borsetshire!!!!

They'll turn out to be queen wasps or something.

James

 

[rossbyjove]

My mothers cousin Kim Durham played the evil Max in the Archers.
I was gutted when they cancelled HS2 because that was going straight through the middle of Ambridge.
I guess now we are reliant on the nuclear waste storage facility and the dam to get rid of the place.

 

[Gilberdyke John]

You can rely on the Archers. Anything - everything! - topical finds its way into the script.

Did they mention Colorado Beetle in the 1950s (or thereabouts)

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

They'll turn out to be queen wasps or something.

James

just been getting an update on this by SWMBO (she listens to the podcasts when insomnia sets in.)
apparently a while ago some 'unusual' vespines were observed hawking Jills hives, then, someone was attacked by a 'swarm' of aggressive hornets, was rushed to hospital and somewhere down the line they were positively identified as Velutina so the NBU are swooping in, and I'm sure that eventually Ed Grundy will have a fit when Dad's Army move in and trample his prize marrows.
I'm afraid it's doubtful as I'll keep up with the story as now as I don't catch the afternoon episode when on radio/weather watch, so I only catch it if I happen to be driving somewhere.

 

[rossbyjove]

just been getting an update on this by SWMBO (she listens to the podcasts when insomnia sets in.)
apparently a while ago some 'unusual' vespines were observed hawking Jills hives, then, someone was attacked by a 'swarm' of aggressive hornets, was rushed to hospital and somewhere down the line they were positively identified as Velutina so the NBU are swooping in, and I'm sure that eventually Ed Grundy will have a fit when Dad's Army move in and trample his prize marrows.
I'm afraid it's doubtful as I'll keep up with the story as now as I don't catch the afternoon episode when on radio/weather watch, so I only catch it if I happen to be driving somewhere.

I stopped around Walter/Nelson years.
Once Walter was gone that was it, a death too far.

 

[The Poot]

I think it might have been The Archers that got me into beekeeping, in the car on the drive home from work, following the “news”.
It seemed so easy, only inspecting once a year (that’s how often the hives were mentioned), with a great pay off of honey in the Autumn.
Jill was so knowledgeable too.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

well the velutina nest was successfully killed and someone contracted to remove it and package it up to send to NBU for a post mortem