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20/12/2024 at 7:27am
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To the average Joe like myself, those pictures look like bees?
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20/12/2024 at 3:32pm
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There is a very informative video uploaded to YouTube by the Angling Trust that gives some great help to identify the Asian Hornet, its likely habitat's building nests in tree's and differentiate the species from other native insect's, growing to approximately 25mm long, although similar in size to the European Hornet which is 25-30mm in length, the Asian Hornet being slightly shorter, in it's established adult form, it's much bigger than a Honey Bee and Wasp and it has distinctive markings including it's predominantly black body, a yellow band on it's forth segment of the abdomen, yellow legs and an orange head, please see the photo.
Believe me you don't want to be stung by the Asian Hornet, its much larger in size and quite distinctive from a Honey Bee, it is a ferociously dominating species, and a much more aggressive creature, especially towards our native Honey Bee, the importance to identify, eradicate and prevent the establishment of the Asian Hornet colonies in the UK cannot be stressed enough. So please everybody, report your sightings.
We have all heard how the Red Squirrel, over time was devastated here in the majority of the UK by its Grey Squirrel cousin, a predatory invader, thankfully the work of conservation groups who are helping to turn the tide and re-establish the Red Squirrel in small numbers in parts of the country and are doing great work, but the potential of the Asian Hornet's impact on our native honey bee population is just as severe, the threatened ecological destruction could have much wider implications for our unique ecosystem, our countryside and economy.
Please use the apps afore mentioned to report sightings of the Asian Hornet and keep this intruder off our native insect population.
Stay safe everyone, please don't attempt to remove these parasites yourselves, they can be dangerous to human's, simply report your sightings and let's enjoy our countryside and who know's we may even encourage a budding future Melittologists or Apiologists into a career to help save our native Bees.
For info, my two sister's keep Honey Bee's in two separate locations in the UK and have both identified the Asian Hornet's locally, and as a huge threat to our native Bee and insect population nationwide. Keeping our environment is in everybody's interest, you never know who you could be camping next to in the future!
https://youtu.be/l1mLgrvoHzA?si=Q76FqIKYu3QyYWGZ
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/l1mLgrvoHzA/hqdefault_207000.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEnCNACELwBSFryq4........
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Yes they think they are mostly blown over the channel or hitch a ride on a ferry but there was a nest in Yarm (near Darlington) so not only down South. I had a couple of hives (North Yorkshire) at the time which is why I remembered the Yarm nest.
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