They don't have Amazon delivery.....internet....and food being grown, packed, distributed, and delivered by "other people." The queen will send them back out in a hot minute when the honey starts to run out. Advantage of a monarchy over a Federal Republic.......
LOL... my bees lock themselves in for good 6 months over winter without any of those supplies. I sure hope the hornet will not spread over the US. Even if it does, I am hoping our climate is too cold for them to thrive. But I wonder if something as simple as entrance reducer similar to a mouse guard would help to protect the hive. I am sure with the size of hornet, if it can not enter inside, the colony would be protected.
They could. But from what I have read, 10-20 hornets can destroy an entire colony of 40,000 honeybees in a couple of hours. But that can only happen if they enter inside of the hive. The hornet being much bigger than an average worker honeybee, I think I can make the entrance reducer hole just small enough so that worker bees can get in and out but the hornet can not get inside. I check my hives every day, so if the guard buys them time for me to make a visit, I should be able to get rid of them. I probably have to make the hole smaller than a regular mouse guard for this.
I read a bit saying that Asian bees have a siege-like defense against these hornets- they mass around it in a ball, raising the temperature and CO2 level within until the hornet dies.
That's no siege, that's a murdersquish. National Geographic footage: Note: the National Geographic bit has rapid white flashes edited in toward the end to heighten the drama of the murdersquish. Seems like an unnecessary and dumb addition to me. Warning to anyone adversely affected by rapid white flashes. Anyway, it seems like the murdersquish depends on enticing the hornet into the parlor. Which might not be on the table, if there's a mouse guard at the entrance.
Build a better Hornet "live" trap? The larger wings would have a different flight frequency. So it there were audio identification: audio trace them back to their nest tag them with a slow acting, toxin bait super-glue single tinsel icicle strand Bob Wilson
