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Camellias are flowering in the south west and soon will be all over the south of England. Since Camellias come from the part of the world where Asian Hornet originates, these flowers, especially the single forms,are favourites of Vespa velutina founding queens to refuel as they make their...

I guess both of these will be seen on UK hives if and when AH becomes established.... but hey lets give the NBU and BBKA guidance for beekeepers a chance first. All branches of BBKA need to form AHATs and register them with BBKA for its map...

We will know if NBU are serious about setting up some cooperation between AHATs and them when They have had their promised meeting together to discuss cooperation, so maybe there is hope yet that beekeepers will get involved. We know from the number of volunteers Devon BKA have had on Jersey...

My point exactly, when I first started discussing what we could do with Martyn Hocking , the man in Woolacombe whose bees were attacked by AH last September. But if we assume they are here already then they have not been bothering the bee keepers in the area or areas where they are established...

In the UK we have no experience of what to expect. Some of us think they could already be here and at this time of year the only evidence would be nests. Who would spot them? Primaries low down: people with their heads in the bushes Secondaries high in trees: people looking up and about. OK...

If a nest was produced last year somewhere in the country where there were few or no bee keepers to notice flying workers then a nest high in trees would be very noticeable at this time of year; no leaves! I remember last January seeing a number of nests in trees in the south of France as we...

Gilbedyke John, that is a stroke of genius. would you like to join us as a member of the team in the Devon Initiative? Or maybe you should start a similar movement in Yorkshire:winner1st:

Any form of advertising the presence of Asian HOrnet as a threat to UK bee and insect species and especially to the camping fraternity is a good thing and car stickers are one way of getting the message across. We want campers to be able to recognize Vespa velutina queens so that they might(I...

We have an article being written to go in the Camping and Caravan/Caravan Clubs magazines and maybe we could suggest they follow up with this idea. Trouble is we don't have any funds in the Devon Initiative group to do something along those lines. Maybe if everybody who reads this could...

That is a very good idea. I shall get someone onto it right away. Thanks

But it has happened , twice, Tetbury 2016 and Woolacombe 2017. I do love doubting Thomases....they make me all th e more determined!:ohthedrama:

Ah... I didn't go to page two of the Thread....! Didn't realize I had already posted a comment about icanhopits post.......Stupid boy!

I have just come back to this thread after 3 days and read you post, icanhopit. I agree about 'fake news' But the point about the Devon initiative to set up BKA action teams is that we can take the pressure off NBU and the Inspectors by investigating reports and sorting out the spurious from...