Asian hornets continue to cross from France to Britain, threatening to decimate native insects 🐝 But the National Bee Unit is fighting back
. Every report is screened by experts at the bee unit who examine the evidence to find likely sightings. If Asian hornets are suspected, the team is deployed.
Asian hornets are efficient but predictable hunters. They will take the most direct route home and fly at a steady speed. They will also return to the same feeding spot again and again at regular intervals until it is exhausted.All of that makes them trackable. The bee team will follow the hornet visually to see where it flies and then wait for it to return – the hornets fly 100 metres in one minute, so a six-minute wait means home is 300 metres away.
Doing so isn’t easy, says Mr Bickerdike. They’re small, tan and can be 50 feet up in a tree, behind overlapping branches. “There might be just one exact spot that you can see it from and if you’re not stood there, it’s hidden,” he says.Once the nest is found, a specialist team arrives to fumigate it, working in the evening or early morning when the hornets are most likely to be resting.
If stinging, winged insects are your thing, then the Asian hornet is a thing of beauty. Giant, by British standards, at up to 3cm in length, they can be seen flying from several feet away.
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