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To trap Asian hornets, beekeepers call on Val-de-Marnais

2024-02-20T05:20:46.150Z

Highlights: To trap Asian hornets, beekeepers call on Val-de-Marnais. Everyone can act at their own level to fight against this insect, says Murat Cetinkaya. “It is now and until May that we must capture the founding queens, in order to avoid the construction of secondary nests which will house 500 to 1,000 hornets each,” he says. People mistakenly believe that cold weather kills hornets. It is not so. To log in, click here.


Everyone can act at their own level to fight against this insect, present in many municipalities in the department, and which decimates bees.


They have established their nests everywhere in Val-de-Marne: at the entrance to the Plage-Bleue park in Valenton, in suburban streets of Saint-Maur and Villiers-sur-Marne, next to the HLM bars in the neighborhood north in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges… “And even in the attic of Father Grégoire, the priest of Valenton!

», notes Murat Cetinkaya.

This Valentonnais beekeeper is launching a call for mobilization among the Val-de-Marnais with several colleagues to invite residents to install hornet traps across the department from this month of February.

“It is now and until May that we must capture the founding queens, in order to avoid the construction of secondary nests which will house 500 to 1,000 hornets each,” explains Murat Cetinkaya with andragogy.

People mistakenly believe that cold weather kills hornets.

It is not so.

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Source: leparis

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