{"id":805,"date":"2026-06-19T23:47:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T23:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scientificbeekeeping.com\/scibee1\/?p=805"},"modified":"2026-08-17T01:57:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T01:57:05","slug":"video-of-yellow-legged-hornets-at-john-kefuss-hive-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scientificbeekeeping.com\/scibee1\/video-of-yellow-legged-hornets-at-john-kefuss-hive-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Video of yellow-legged hornets at John Kefuss\u2019 hive in France"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">June 19, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My friend , Dr. John Kefuss, from France (the guy who coined the term \u201cthe Bond method\u201d for breeding mite-resistant bees) heard about our lack of progress on eradicating this invasive, so sent me video of what it\u2019s like for a hive of bees in France, now that the hornet is established there, and suggested that I share it with U.S. beekeepers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/scl\/fi\/rk6qwe1h9e0ya60th8eow\/Hornets-Kefuss.MOV?rlkey=ho6uhn8o437zywouo1pek6vvm&amp;st=0st91ke1&amp;dl=0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scientificbeekeeping.com\/scibeeimages\/Kefuss-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10644\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To view it, click on the image above, or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/scl\/fi\/rk6qwe1h9e0ya60th8eow\/Hornets-Kefuss.MOV?rlkey=ho6uhn8o437zywouo1pek6vvm&amp;st=0st91ke1&amp;dl=0\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>If we don\u2019t put pressure on our government to eradicate this hornet now<\/strong>, all of us who keep bees in warm-winter areas will be suffering from this voracious predator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Write or phone your state and national beekeeping organizations to put pressure on our legislators to fund serious action against this invasive, similar to how the USDA is reacting to the screwworm fly.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Category:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/scientificbeekeeping.com\/topics\/\">Topics<\/a><br>Tags:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/scientificbeekeeping.com\/tag\/yellow-legged-hornet\/\">yellow-legged hornet<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 19, 2026 My friend , Dr. John Kefuss, from France (the guy who coined the term \u201cthe Bond method\u201d for breeding mite-resistant bees) heard about our lack of progress on eradicating this invasive, so sent me video of what it\u2019s like for a hive of bees in France, now that the hornet is established&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colony-health-diseases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scientificbeekeeping.com\/scibee1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scientificbeekeeping.com\/scibee1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scientificbeekeeping.com\/scibee1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scientificbeekeeping.com\/scibee1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scientificbeekeeping.com\/scibee1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scientificbeekeeping.com\/scibee1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":806,"href":"https:\/\/scientificbeekeeping.com\/scibee1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions\/806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scientificbeekeeping.com\/scibee1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scientificbeekeeping.com\/scibee1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scientificbeekeeping.com\/scibee1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}