I saw her yesterday, the first of the year.
A queen Asian Hornet building her Spring nest (there is a later, Summer nest that is as big as a medicine ball). Inside the front porch of the Croft.
Reginacide is unpleasant but occasionally necessary. Asian Hornets are not very republican - they have between two and four hundred queens in their Summer nests - so killing this one will have almost no effect on their predation of the bees that live at the Croft.
Like many reginacides, including that of poor Mary Queen of Scots, it's a symbolic act by a weak, frustrated neighbour armed, in this case, with a big clunky stick.
A queen Asian Hornet building her Spring nest (there is a later, Summer nest that is as big as a medicine ball). Inside the front porch of the Croft.
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| Off with her head |
Reginacide is unpleasant but occasionally necessary. Asian Hornets are not very republican - they have between two and four hundred queens in their Summer nests - so killing this one will have almost no effect on their predation of the bees that live at the Croft.
Like many reginacides, including that of poor Mary Queen of Scots, it's a symbolic act by a weak, frustrated neighbour armed, in this case, with a big clunky stick.
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