So they’re in the country, but we’re not being told where they are. Why? Was someone going to steal them?
Hmm…wouldn’t an “Irish Winter” kill them?
As a beekeeper myself and having seen videos of Asian Hornets hovering in front of hive entrances just plucking bees away, these fuckers are terrifying.
Hornets can empty a hive of bees over a few days. To put that in perspective, a healthy bee hive can have around 10,000 bees in it.
I’ve seen fuck all bees and wasps this summer. Could this be the reason?
Ok who ordered a shipment of those from Temu?
“ImMiGrAtiON is GEttINg oUT Of HaNd!!”
From the article:
>That sighting and capture was the second confirmed identification of an Asian hornet in Ireland and **triggered the establishment of the Asian Hornet Management Group**, chaired by the NPWS.
Just wondering how much this “management group” is going to cost “we the people who pay taxes”.
Also, the fact that this invasive species was allowed to enter the island is proof that there is ZERO border security/control efforts in preventing infestations by nasty insects that don’t belong here.
Ireland should take a leaf off both the Aussie and Kiwi books on stoping these pests from entering their countries.
Terrible news, hopefully everything is being done to eradicate them.
I remember seeing a video from overseas, maybe a couple of years ago, of a tiny little drone following a hornet back to its nest, for eradication. Hopefully the same technology can be employed here.
Seen an asian hornet up beside Powerscourt in the forestry area where the mountain bike paths are, this was about 8-10 years ago, it was very aggressive and went after both myself and one of my other friends, in an area where imported forestry planting would have been done so no doubt they are being harboured in both live tree specimens as well as timber imports.
Was definitely the asian hornet because it was massive, looked like it would be able to lift a small dog!
I had them in the garden in my house in Kyoto,nasty feckers,I would wait until night after locating their nest ,and then blast the entrances with aerosols.(Sold specially for hornets) then run like Usain back inside ,after treating for a few days and beating off one aerial battle formation assault,( 2cans sprayed at the same time while quickly retreating) I finally was free of them.
Couldn’t give a location for “obvious reasons”. Maybe I’m a bit thick so what are the obvious reasons?
To clarify your title OP; an initial sighting, resulted in monitoring, which led to further sightings, and eventually identification of the nest. Those further sightings were all connected to that same nest.
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bad buzz..!
This isn’t the weather for this type of news.
So they’re in the country, but we’re not being told where they are. Why? Was someone going to steal them?
Hmm…wouldn’t an “Irish Winter” kill them?
As a beekeeper myself and having seen videos of Asian Hornets hovering in front of hive entrances just plucking bees away, these fuckers are terrifying.
Hornets can empty a hive of bees over a few days. To put that in perspective, a healthy bee hive can have around 10,000 bees in it.
I’ve seen fuck all bees and wasps this summer. Could this be the reason?
Ok who ordered a shipment of those from Temu?
“ImMiGrAtiON is GEttINg oUT Of HaNd!!”
From the article:
>That sighting and capture was the second confirmed identification of an Asian hornet in Ireland and **triggered the establishment of the Asian Hornet Management Group**, chaired by the NPWS.
Just wondering how much this “management group” is going to cost “we the people who pay taxes”.
Also, the fact that this invasive species was allowed to enter the island is proof that there is ZERO border security/control efforts in preventing infestations by nasty insects that don’t belong here.
Ireland should take a leaf off both the Aussie and Kiwi books on stoping these pests from entering their countries.
Terrible news, hopefully everything is being done to eradicate them.
I remember seeing a video from overseas, maybe a couple of years ago, of a tiny little drone following a hornet back to its nest, for eradication. Hopefully the same technology can be employed here.
Seen an asian hornet up beside Powerscourt in the forestry area where the mountain bike paths are, this was about 8-10 years ago, it was very aggressive and went after both myself and one of my other friends, in an area where imported forestry planting would have been done so no doubt they are being harboured in both live tree specimens as well as timber imports.
Was definitely the asian hornet because it was massive, looked like it would be able to lift a small dog!
I had them in the garden in my house in Kyoto,nasty feckers,I would wait until night after locating their nest ,and then blast the entrances with aerosols.(Sold specially for hornets) then run like Usain back inside ,after treating for a few days and beating off one aerial battle formation assault,( 2cans sprayed at the same time while quickly retreating) I finally was free of them.
Couldn’t give a location for “obvious reasons”. Maybe I’m a bit thick so what are the obvious reasons?
To clarify your title OP; an initial sighting, resulted in monitoring, which led to further sightings, and eventually identification of the nest. Those further sightings were all connected to that same nest.
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