Trapping

Yellow legged Hornets are making the news in UK but are a more wide spread problem in France since they arrived in 2004.

It is advised to set traps early in the year to reduce the number of females that awake from hibernation to set up new nests.

My fresh trap- one of three. This has a mixture of beer and blackcurrant juice- should be white wine too!

Checked traps today and two culprits in one of them:

Source

I am awaiting the arrival of my nuc in June.