Category Archives: Pests and diseases

Asian Hornet in the wild

This is a video of Asian Hornets I took while on holiday in the south of France in 2017. It was shot in the grounds of a hotel. Apologies for the bad camerawork. It was the first time I had encountered live Asian hornets and I didn’t know how they would react to being filmed so I was a bit (more…)

videos of interest

I was surfing the t’interweb and came across three videos that will be of interest. They’ve been released by FERA and concern the Asian Hornet and EFB. They’re relatively short and contain the latest information on the hornet and EFB (more…)

Asian hornet conference – part 2

Alistair Christie – Jersey Govt. Alistair Christie tracking tagged hornets Alistair Christie is an Asian Hornet coordinator from Jersey. He said that the importance of getting the public’s help to identify and report nests is important – especially in the Spring. Destroying the primary nests is probably the best thing that can be done to reduce the population of hornets. (more…)

Asian hornet conference – part 1

Warwick and I attended the first BBKA National Asian Hornet conference on the 8th of February 2020 in Warwickshire. The conference was open to Asian Hornet Action Team (AHAT) leaders/coordinators and was well attended by beekeepers from all over the country. The speakers included some of the foremost experts on the Asian hornet. The aim of the conference was for (more…)

Members’ training presentations

Just a small note in this post. The presentations that were used for March’s members training can be found here on the Courses for Members page. (more…)