- Joined
- Jul 26, 2015
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- Location
- North West Dorset
- Hive Type
- Langstroth
- Number of Hives
- 5
Many years ago (when I last had bees) I had a different wasp problem. A single wasp would wait until a bee landed short of the entrance, would then attack from above and immediately bite off the bee's head, followed by the abdomen (and legs if I remember right), and would fly off with the thorax, presumably to feed it's larvae with the flight muscles. Little I could do about it, and not nice to watch!
I watched European Hornets coming in to take bees exactly like that a couple of years ago. They came in one after another about two minutes apart on a warm September afternoon.