iHORNETS

iHORNETS: Spatio-temporal monitoring of invasive hornets in apiaries Building on the insights from the VELUTINA ALERT project, the iHORNETS initiative aims to develop a user-friendly mobile app to monitor the abundance of exotic hornets in apiaries. In addition to Vespa velutina, our app will track other invasive hornet species from the Vespa genus that pose…

Biological invasions in Europe

Within the AlienScenarios project, we distributed a survey among managers across Europe to understand their perceptions of trends in biological invasions and management practices. The details of the survey and the main results are outlined in the following scientific paper. To make the results accessible to everyone, we created the following platform that displays the…

Control of invasions: Vespa velutina

Avaluació de la utilitat de les arpes elèctriques per reduir la pressió de la vespa asiàtica en explotacions apícoles (VELUTINA) La vespa asiàtica (Vespa velutina ssp. nigrithorax) és una espècie invasora originària de la Xina. Es va introduir accidentalment a França l’any 2004 mitjançant el transport de mercaderies i s’ha estès fins ara a 8…