that we vacuumed at the gents toilets at terminal park. this one here has a green mark on it. and this is one of the ones that s led our volunteer to the nest. my name isjohn de carteret. i m a retired police forensic officer and i m a beekeeper. this is the time of year when each nest will produce several hundred new queens that will be mated and then fly off and hibernate in the area. we regularly use the figure of 200 per nest. five of those will actually go on and produce a mature nest next year. but even at a factor of five, it means that year on year the numbers of nests can build up very quickly. by taking out one nest this year, we re preventing potentially five next year. it s notjust a case of killing hornets. we want to learn from them. so a dead hornet isjust a dead hornet, but the live ones can tell us where the nests are. wwe have to accept now, the last couple of years that we probably have a small resident population. however, because of the high figures in france, and