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27/11/2017 at 3:42pm
Location: Brixham
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The invasive specie I have in mind can fly 60k from its natal nest so Calais to Dover is no problem.....and its surprising it hasn't happened yet. But what may have happened is that a queen got over here in a caravan trip to Woolacombe.....its not definite but I believe the people who owned the hedge where the nest was found owned a caravan and had been to southern France in it!
You don't have to go to the amazon to find insect species that are dangerous to humans and could cause us to find it difficult to grow crops in the UK . The Asian Hornet, Vespa velutina (V.v), has been accidentally introduce to France and is now spreading north and east into Belgium and Germany. Throughout France,Spain,Portugal and soon Italy Germany and Belgium
Honey Bees are being decimated by this insect in its search for proteins (which it gets from the bees by biting their heads and abdomens off and flying of with the thorax where all the muscles are) to feed the thousnds of young worker hornets and to raise hundreds of new queens each autumn.
Its the new queens that are the problem because they search out somewhere to hibernate for the winter. Somewhere nice and warm and cosy out of the wind and wet, like a caravan or motorhome locker, as well as cosy tree holes and sheds and atticks....anywhere you might expect to find our common wasp making a nest.
Of course if you are camping somewhere nice in France or Spain for the autumn or winter then V.v might just fancy your caravan or motorhome. You of course are going to return to UK just in time for the nice weather in spring, and hey presto, a whole new environment to explore, settle down and make a new home. End of the year if all goes well a thousand new queens are produced and mated and off they go to spread their death and destruction for bees of all kind, bumbles as well as honey, and a large number of other insect species.
And the other worry is that they have a sting much more powerful than our native wasps and bees and cause a great number of deaths in Asian countries where they come from, not directly from the poison but from anaphylactic shock ( allergic reaction).
And people in general don't seem to be worried by this. It scares the S..t out of me, and not just because I am a bee keeper.
Post last edited on 27/11/2017 15:46:04
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Trunkles
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