Do these things only fuck with the non native European honey bees?
Wasps in general kill honey bees. They’re nastly little buggers.
Regular hornets are devastating to honey bees alone . My friend calls it a redneck yellow jacket trap . He uses soapy vinegar with grease or a piece of meat in it . The meat attracts wasps and hornets and deters bees . He would set them next to the hives and they would fill up daily . Full bottles of dead / trapped hornets and wasps . Maybe this could be of some use to the crazy wasps
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had a friend 
litigating with a particularly nasty attorney douche. He splooged bait from a grocery store wasp trap on his hand and patted him on the back. Good times
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I don’t see wasps or hornets fucking with my native bees, although I’m sure they do. Sounds to me like predators are taking care of unnatural populations of over populated non native species. Good luck stopping that…
Nature is fucking metal
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Going to need a bigger bottle neck for these things. Maybe a huge mason jar lol
I’m sure there is a specific chemical that can deter them. Many insects have evolved to release a pheremone when they die that tells the rest of them to stay away… or attack. One or the other lol
Do you get any honey out of those bees? Afaik, production is very low (or they do undesirable stuff like murder you) for bees other than the european honey bee.
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@Kinsmanofthesun ahhaha yes unfortunately it properly is. hence the highlighted nancy botwin, most of us could use a bit nancy botwin tho 
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That’s it. Crazy brutal.
You could go skeet shooting with those things, kinda like the horse flies back east
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My friend had a small blueberry farm so for him the bees helped with pollination for a good harvest he also grew other vegetables and produce as well . He has about 1 acre of blueberries and it really does add a flavor . I have had cured crystallized honey that was 2 years old that had the strongest blueberry flavor . There’s something about age with honey that adds to its flavor I’ve noticed . This is my favorite honey i would always trade weed for honey . When its around i stockpile it .
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Carpenter bees?
No. I’m more interested in native pollinators for my food forests than trying to maintain non native honey bees. Although multiple people have kept top bar hives on our farms in the past.
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Those things are gangster, use to watch them bore a hole in 2x8’s on the porch
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Theyr ruining my spot right now
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“researchers found an interesting defense that Japanese honeybees have employed against the larger opponent. Bees in Japan have been known to form a ball around the invader and vibrate to produce heat that essentially can cook a hornet to death”
We just have to teach our honeybees to cook. problem solved.
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The only way they survive the attack is prevention. If they don’t preemptively attack the murder scout… it’s all over 
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We use to plug the holes while they were inside and watch them just bore out another one right next to it with no problem
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What crops need them? I don’t know anything about west coast climate. Here in middle america, melons are the only crop that honey bees substantially improve yield, afaik anyway. My grandparents had a hive for the melon patch. Bees pollinate a lot of crops, but here anyway, it doesn’t make much of a difference. Fruit all has to be thinned, in order to get a decent size. I have grown mostly tomatoes, which bumble bees like, but the tomatoes don’t really need them.
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