So they catch the bees in the air for the honey?
Thank you for your good thought, me (engineer), my colleague (PHD in Chemistry) and guys from âMusĂ©um national dâHistoire naturelleâ needed your great experience with that kind of hornet.
We are putting some wax/honey cap from the extraction in our trap to lure them and it works fine.
We got some honey leak from a supper after a 40 degree C day cause we put the bee escape to empty it. There was like 10 hornets eating the honey from the side of the hive and none of them gave a damn about the bees. They eat the honey for themselves, they catch the bees for their colony and they seem to prefer the honey.
Not sure if itâs the translation, but donât quite understand this part of your comment?
some reading on this & related species
https://beeinformed.org/2014/04/15/killer-hornets/
just a matter of time before they make it to the states
Here is a vidéo of hornets on our hives and a nest at 100m 
Letâs hope not. (silly padding to make 20 characters)
how do Chinese honey bees survive?
We had bee catcher wasps in South Africa. We put a few buckets of water out and for some reason the bee catchers mistook their reflection for a bee and dove into the water and drowned. It was a dry place (Karoo) so maybe they were not used to seeing water.
The problem was that the bees were so scared that they would not leave the hive to forage with the wasps buzzing about close to the hive entrance.
This was a long time ago and Iâm in Canada now so hopefully we will not have to deal with these wasps here.
Hi alex how goes thongs about velutina? I am from northwest of spain its desastre here.next year we are
Going to try electric trap.we will see. Do you have any news ideas?
Hello,
The season is over, we have remove the protection and only let the green plate from nicot to reduce the entrance.
Now that leaves did go down, we have found more than 10 nest in 500m radius, they are everywhere
Everything must be tested, the eletric harp seems to be a good product, but too expensive for us.
Shop are selling one for 400 euro here âŠ
Here is some design if you need them : http://mielleriedesgraves.over-blog.com/2015/09/plan-d-une-harpe-ou-museliere-electrique-anti-frelon.html
Thank you, if you will have some news ideas about how to fight with these pest infestation, share it please. With regards P.
Would you be interested in sharing your pattern?
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I will take photos from differents angles.
We donât have the blueprints.
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We changed the system this year.
We installed an electric harp produce by api protection.
We didnât installed the old protection cause after 1 month the bees stoped going out.
We only putted entry size reductor from nico.
