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Searching for nests of the invasive Asian hornet (Vespa velutina) using radio-telemetry
Asian hornets (Vespa velutina) are voracious predators of bees, and are the latest emerging threat to managed and wild pollinator populations in Europe. To prevent establishment or reduce the rate of spread of V. velutina, early detection and destruction of nests is considered the only option. Detec...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6123801/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30271969 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-018-0092-9 |
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author | Kennedy, Peter J. Ford, Scott M. Poidatz, Juliette Thiéry, Denis Osborne, Juliet L. |
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description | Asian hornets (Vespa velutina) are voracious predators of bees, and are the latest emerging threat to managed and wild pollinator populations in Europe. To prevent establishment or reduce the rate of spread of V. velutina, early detection and destruction of nests is considered the only option. Detection is difficult as their nests are well hidden and flying hornets are difficult to follow over long distances. We address this challenge by tracking individual V. velutina workers flying back to their nests using radio telemetry for the first time, finding five previously undiscovered nests, up to 1.33 km from hornet release points. Hornets can fly with 0.28 g tags if the tag:hornet ratio is less than 0.8. This method offers a step-change in options to tackle the spread of this invader, providing an efficient means of finding V. velutina nests in complex environments to manage this emerging threat to pollinators. |
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spelling | pubmed-61238012018-09-28 Searching for nests of the invasive Asian hornet (Vespa velutina) using radio-telemetry Kennedy, Peter J. Ford, Scott M. Poidatz, Juliette Thiéry, Denis Osborne, Juliet L. Commun Biol Article Asian hornets (Vespa velutina) are voracious predators of bees, and are the latest emerging threat to managed and wild pollinator populations in Europe. To prevent establishment or reduce the rate of spread of V. velutina, early detection and destruction of nests is considered the only option. Detection is difficult as their nests are well hidden and flying hornets are difficult to follow over long distances. We address this challenge by tracking individual V. velutina workers flying back to their nests using radio telemetry for the first time, finding five previously undiscovered nests, up to 1.33 km from hornet release points. Hornets can fly with 0.28 g tags if the tag:hornet ratio is less than 0.8. This method offers a step-change in options to tackle the spread of this invader, providing an efficient means of finding V. velutina nests in complex environments to manage this emerging threat to pollinators. Nature Publishing Group UK 2018-07-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6123801/ /pubmed/30271969 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-018-0092-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Kennedy, Peter J. Ford, Scott M. Poidatz, Juliette Thiéry, Denis Osborne, Juliet L. Searching for nests of the invasive Asian hornet (Vespa velutina) using radio-telemetry |
title | Searching for nests of the invasive Asian hornet (Vespa velutina) using radio-telemetry |
title_full | Searching for nests of the invasive Asian hornet (Vespa velutina) using radio-telemetry |
title_fullStr | Searching for nests of the invasive Asian hornet (Vespa velutina) using radio-telemetry |
title_full_unstemmed | Searching for nests of the invasive Asian hornet (Vespa velutina) using radio-telemetry |
title_short | Searching for nests of the invasive Asian hornet (Vespa velutina) using radio-telemetry |
title_sort | searching for nests of the invasive asian hornet (vespa velutina) using radio-telemetry |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6123801/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30271969 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-018-0092-9 |
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