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Asian hornets are very invasive. At this time of year, they are present in the Pyrenees, the drought having undoubtedly pushed them to gain altitude. All the production of a hive has thus been decimated.
They had never come this far before. At an altitude of 1,200 meters in the heart of Ariège, the Asian hornet ravages apiaries. Sylvie Humbert has been a beekeeper for 30 years. Its colonies have been decimated and its homemade traps are filled with the invader. Every day, they park by the dozens in front of the closed hives. The bees are then doomed, the slightest outing is risky. “In fact they decapitate the bees, they take the thorax, they are carnivores”explains Sylvie Humbert.
The livestock must be taken over by the daughter of Sylvie Humbert, but this phenomenon worries the whole industry. “This threat, I see how it is growing this year (…) it’s scary because in fact, we say to ourselves that they adapt to everything”confides Janis Decaupfuture beekeeper. The same observation was made by pest control companies. “The longer it goes, the higher they will go”assures Jérémy Martin, insect killerwhich points to global warming.