Asian Hornet, Durham

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Asian Hornet

Name: Asian Hornet, Durham
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The Beekeeper's Guide to Defences against the Yellow-legged Hornet Vespa Velutina

Andrew Durham

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Northern Bee Books (1st ed. 2025)

Softback / 228 Pages

ISBN 978-1-912271-97-9

An essential guide, written in plain language, for any beekeeper who may be confronted by the Asian hornet in their apiary.

Covering all aspects of defence against the hornet in and around the apiary, this practical guide’s strength lies in its depth and detail. Where others stop or leave open questions, this guide ensures that the beekeeper has the knowledge they need.

Using measures approved and adopted by French beekeeping organisations, Andrew explains not just how and when to use defences but also why you use them, the necessary combination, and where the compromises lie.

Andrew looks at the hornet’s effect on French honey bee colony losses, the rift between scientists and beekeepers, the controversial debate about the spring trapping of foundress queens, the under-estimated risk to human health, and he questions the beekeeper’s role in track and trace and nest destruction.

Andrew Durham is a Cambridgeshire beekeeper who started his research into the Asian hornet in 2014. It was to take him across France, involve many thousands of hours of study, and saw him join French national beekeeping associations.

Andrew has given talks on the Asian hornet to beekeeping associations, addressed BBKA Asian Hornet conferences, and his talks during BBKA Asian Hornet Weeks have been widely praised.

Introduction
1. The Beekeeper’s Primary Objective
Background and Sources
Thinking Well Ahead of the Hornet’s Arrival
1. Introduction
2. Apiary Location
3. Apiary Layout
4. Type of Bee
5. What is the Scale of the Problem likely to be in my Apiary?
  1. The Situation in the United Kingdom
Scientists and Solutions
1. Introduction
2. A Failure of Government
3. Research Funding
4. Researchers and Research
5. Beekeepers Under the Spotlight
6. Solutions to the Asian Hornet
7. Summary
Nest Destruction & Wide-area Spring Trapping - A Job for Beekeepers?
1. Introduction
2. Does Nest Destruction Work
3. What is Involved in Effort & Cost – is it Sustainable?
4. Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany – The Conclusion after Many Years
5. The French National Fight Against the Asian Hornet (2023)
6. National Plan 2024 – A Plan with no Clothes?
7. Beekeeper Nest Destruction Teams in Wallonia
8. What is the Beekeeper’s Role in Collective Action?
9. Summary on Nest Destruction
The Hornet and Humans – The Risk to Human Health
1. Introduction
2. Vespa Velutina – the Killer Hornet?
3. Vespa Velutina – Victims of Stings
4. A Duty of Care by Employers and Associations
5. Summary of the Risk to Human Health
The Asian Hornet – A Consummate Predator
1. Introduction
2. The Asian Hornet’s Seasonal Cycle
3. Hornet Nest Numbers – Variations and Surges
4. Spotting That You Are in a Surge Year
5. Hornet Nest Development
The Hornet and the Honey bee
1. Introduction
2. How the Hornet Finds the Hive
3. Predation of Honey Bee
4. Effects of Predation Including Hidden Effects
The Asian Hornet – Honey bee Colony Mortality, Good Beekeeping & Healthy Colonies
1. Introduction
2. Honey bee Colony Losses Due to the Hornet
3. How the Threat From the Asian Hornet Fits in With Other Factors Affecting Honey Bee Colony Mortality
4. Management of the Bees
  1. Varroa Treatment
  2. Apiary Hygiene
  3. Unite Weak Colonies / Re-Queen Early / Reserve NUCs
  4. Stores and Feeding
  5. Do Not Stress the Bees
The Spring Trapping Debate
1. Introduction
2. The Morbihan Wide-Area Spring Trapping campaign
3. Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany – The Conclusion After Many Years
4. The ITSAP Analysis
5. Selective Trapping
6. Summary on Spring Trapping
Defences Around the Apiary
1. Introduction
2. Spring Trapping
3. Destruction of Embryo Nests
Defences in the Apiary
1. Introduction
2. Apiary Environment
3. Hive Stands and Identifiers
4. Reducing the Stress of Predation
5. 1. The Open Mesh Floor
  2. La Museliere
  3. All-Mesh-Muselieres
  4. The Stop-It
  5. The AAVO Tube Muzzle
  6. The Cabane Grillagee or Netted Enclosure
  7. Summary on Muselieres and Recommendations
6. Reducing the Level of Predation in the Apiary
  1. Introduction
  2. The Tap-Trap and similar
  3. The Jaberprode
  4. A Homemade Equivalent?
7. The Harpe electrique / Arpa Electrica
  1. What is it, Why Use it and Does it Work?
  2. Placement and Ratio of Electric Harps to Hives
  3. Choices and Options for the Electric Harp
  4. Choosing the Highest Voltage is a Mistake
  5. Trapping Chamber or Water Bath or Just the Grid?
  6. Derivatives of the Harpe electrique / Arpa Electrica
  7. The SANVE Arpa CEBO
  8. Museliere with Integrated Harpe
  9. Powering the Harpe/Arpa – More Choices
  10. Assembled or Flat Pack or Building Your Own Harpe electrique / Arpa Electrica – system – The Pro’s & Cons.
  11. Fully Assembled or Flat-pack?
  12. Buy in the UK or E.U.?
  13. A Last Word about Electric Harps
8. Defending the Hive
  1. The Entrance Restrictor
  2. The Veto-Pharma ApiShield
Trojan Bait Trapping
1. Introduction
2. If it Works — Why Not Use Trojan baits?
‘Blue sky’ Thinking
Overall Summary – Defences Against the Hornet
1. Introduction
2. Pre-Establishment
3. Hornet in Your Region But Not Yet in Your Area
4. Hornet in Your Area
5. Predation on Hives

Acknowledgements
Further Reading and References
Annex – Building a Harpe electrique

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