Ask a Japanese beekeeper: Is an open air colony safe from hornet attacks? #apiscerana



Someone asked me: Is an open air colony safe from hornet attacks?

Hornets are very dangerous and certain precautions are necessary.

Two years ago, in early September, our open air colony was attacked by giant hornets.

Several attacked when the colony was weak so the Japanese honey bees absconded.

One reason for this was that we didn’t take enough precautions because we thought hornets wouldn’t start attacking so early in the season.

Three years ago, we were able to prevent hornet attacks by stretching a fine, sturdy net in front of the open air colony.

Hornets appear from September to October, when food availability decreases, so we plan to set up nets again around August.

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49 thoughts on “Ask a Japanese beekeeper: Is an open air colony safe from hornet attacks? #apiscerana”

  1. Step 1, follow hornets home

    Step 2, procure war crime gas ingredients (your choice)

    Step 3, craft your gas (wear PROPER PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT)

    Step 4, send the hornets back to hell where they belong. Remember to seal all exits of their hive or nest.

    Step 5, profit

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  2. I just got stung by some kind of Bald Hornet? I was in northern Michigan splitting wood for my grandmother because my grandfather passed away this January and they had cut down over 30 trees before he passed and they have a fire pit and have parties etc. and apparently their nest was underground under a couple of the logs I was splitting and after picking up the WRONG log, one of them ended up on my shin and started stinging me and I managed to slap him off and ran a good ways away but literally collapsed from the pain of that sting, I’ve been stung by bees, wasps, even yellow jackets but that bald hornet was HUGE and the red mark on my shin is the size of a dime. I didn’t swell up at all but the pain was so intense, it came in waves after waves after waves. We took care of them. Sadly we had to get rid of a bee hive we noticed before I started splitting (they were not honey bees but I felt bad) so we thought everything in the area was gone. The hornet that stung me was a good e times the size of the bees I had to get rid of. Hate those things!

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  3. Seasons no longer apply in Climate Change. Younger people need to absorb this, that what’s in the books is now vague guidance. Also, some hornets are invasive species and so unpredictable in a habitat where they did not evolve.

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  4. Step one:secure 5 liters of gas
    Step two:grab ANY flamethrower you have
    Step three:find hornets
    Step four:follow them to their nests
    Step Five BUR THE FUCKING NESTS THAT GAVE BIRTH TO THESE FUCKERS
    Step six:go home thinking you have saved people from countless hornet attacks while feeling proud

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  5. Wasps and hornets should disappear off the face of the earth. Bees are the only flying, stinging black and yellow insects that deserve to be on earth. The other two are just a**holes.

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  6. I think I’ve been stung by one of the hornets that were in the video it might have been a different kind but they are about as big and the sting was one of the most painful things I have ever experienced and my sense of pain is messed up I have an abnormal tolerance to pain

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