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BBKA Asian Hornet Conference
February 17 @ 10:00 - 12:30
From the BBKA website: https://www.bbka.org.uk/asian-hornet-events
Confirmed speakers:
Nigel Semmence: ‘An Update from the NBU’
Contingency Planning and Science Officer, National Bee Unit
Alastair Christie: ‘An update on Jersey and what BBKA could learn from the Jersey Experience’
Alastair Christie works for the Environment Department with the Government of Jersey as an Invasive Species Officer. He has been in post as Jersey’s Asian Hornet Coordinator since 2019 managing the control programme and working closely with the volunteers who carry out much of the work. As such he has built up considerable experience of the invasive Asian hornet (Vespa velutina nigrithorax) and has seen how the hornet landscape has changed over the years, and how their techniques for controlling them have evolved and been refined. In 2023 they have found a record 339 nests, up from 174 in 2022. In his lecture he’ll bring you up to date on what happened in 2023 in Jersey, some of the lessons that others can learn.
Further details to follow.