Brest: Facing losing 35 nests for Hornet Asia invasive, French breeders Denis Jaffré knew he had to act quickly to save his bees.
Hornets Asia does not have natural predators and can eat through the entire nest in a few hours.
They have bee colonies that are destroyed throughout Europe.
“I have to find a solution at all.
I am very traumatized by losing half my itching,” Jaffré said.
So in 2016 Brittany Beeepers came up with a device with a one-way mechanism such as lobster pots to capture bees, thinking has arrived in France in 2004 in shipping pottery from China.
Initially made of wooden wine crates and metal mesh, the trap now printed 3D in plastic.
After receiving the French inventor prize in 2018, Jaff began making large amounts of traps.
The request was very high, he had stopped receiving orders to catch up.
He employs six staff and ships to several European countries.
Interested by sweet feed, Hornets entered through a one-way funnel on the tool and once inside they can’t get out, while smaller insects can escape through small holes on the wall.
“If you don’t set the trap, you see Hornets flying at the door of Solehive, they caught your bees and they fly with it to go and cut it to another place.
It’s very difficult when you see it all day,” said a fellow Christian breeder, one of the first To try the Jafak Jaffré Jafffré prototype, who also eliminated honeycomb at home and park, said that while destroying the nest prevented an accident, not a little to stop the spread of the insect.
He said the only way to control Hornets would be a systematic trapping throughout the country, with the support of the regional government
French beekeepers handle the Asia Hornet invasion with homemade traps
