Giant European hornet raiding my honey bees

[CWBees]

Yesterday I watched a hornet the size of a large bumble bee fight with 2 of my honey bees from my mini mating nuc. It ended of flying off with one of them. Anybody else seen this. I should try and get a picture. http://entomology.uark.edu/museum/crabro.html

[Mici]

nothing special, he's just gathering some proteins for their youngs. to get rid of them
-buy a six-pack (bootles neccesary)
-drink only half of each bottle
-place outside


or, get a coke bottle or something, cut in half- height-weise, turn the upper side down into the lower part of the bottle so you get a Y, fill the bottom with a half a cup of wine, cup of water+table spoon of sugar. should work miracles.

[mgmoore7]

You found it.

[MrILoveTheAnts]

Don't the wooden entrance way things stop the hornets form getting inside?
And in the case of a large hive can't we simply insert a strip of wire (the length of a queen excluder) and put that at the entrance?

[Mici]

E. hornets aren't as invasive as japanese hornets so, there's very little chance one would go inside. i've see hundreds of wasps simply scavaging dead bees for the same reason-proteins for youngs.
but wasps however are more likely to go inside and feed on honey.