Beekeeper issues Asian hornet warning after surge in sightings

Beekeeper issued an Asian hornet warning amid a surge in sightings.Source: Good Morning Britain, ITV

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00:00Asian hornets, to give you an example, if there was a nest here it could take out this entire farm

00:05of bees and obviously it would impact on production of honey for example. But the other

00:11main concern with the Asian hornet, which comes over from Asia as the name suggests,

00:15is that it feeds on other insects and pollinators. Now if it takes out all the pollinators, and we've

00:21got some picture here of it killing a wasp, if it takes out the pollinators it will put huge

00:28pressures on our food chain. Essentially experts are estimating it will make farmers have to

00:35produce pollinators, employ people to go out and do manual pollination as it were, to create food,

00:42to have the food that we have on our table, to have all the crops that we take for granted. So

00:48that is the huge concern and it could cost an estimated two billion pounds to employ all those

00:54peoples and to go and do the jobs that bees and other pollinators do.