Light anti-hornet tent
The crossed-post anti-hornet tent addresses the economic accessibility and effectiveness issues of existing solutions by capturing and neutralizing hornets at the hive entrance, ensuring no escape and reducing costs.
Patent Information
- Application Number
- FR2023008620
- Authority / Receiving Office
- FR · FR
- Patent Type
- Utility models
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Filing Date
- 2023-08-10
- Publication Date
- 2025-07-18
- Estimated Expiration
- 2033-08-10
AI Technical Summary
Existing anti-hornet solutions are not economically accessible to all beekeepers and fail to effectively prevent hornet predation and colony blockage in apiaries.
A crossed-post anti-hornet tent with a frame made of four posts inserted into reinforced gussets, designed to capture and neutralize hornets at the hive entrance, ensuring no escape and reducing manufacturing costs.
The crossed-post anti-hornet tent effectively captures and neutralizes hornets, preventing bee predation and colony blockage, making it economically accessible to beekeepers.
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Abstract
Description
Title of the invention: Anti-hornet tent with crossed posts
[0001] The invention is a hornet trap allowing the effective and economical protection of hives and apiaries, it prevents both the blocking of colonies and the predation of bees. Context
[0002] Asian hornets have colonized several European countries and destroy thousands of hives each year by capturing bees to feed their larvae. The hornets lay siege to hives, terrorizing the bees, which stop foraging, which leads to a blockage of the colonies and their destruction.
[0003] To date, only the frontal anti-hornet tent can protect bees from hornet attacks. Its inventors are proposing an improved anti-hornet tent with the aim of being economically accessible to all beekeepers. Statement of the invention
[0004] The operating principle of the frontal anti-hornet tent (patent FR3114728A1) is the neutralization of hornets appearing at the apiary with the aim of preventing the hornets from gathering and making the apiary invisible to their nests.
[0005] The front anti-hornet tent, placed against the front facade of the hive, captures hornets that climb to the top of the tent and are unable to come back down.
[0006] The front anti-hornet tent can be supplemented with a definitive capture device without bait which ensures that no hornet will escape from the trap after a few hours of captivity or at nightfall.
[0007] The crossed-post anti-hornet tent provides construction characteristics that significantly reduce its manufacturing cost and make it accessible to all beekeepers. Detailed description
[0008] The crossed-post anti-hornet tent is a frontal hornet capture tent whose frame is made up of four posts inserted into reinforced gussets positioned at its peaks, which cross in its center and give it its volume and rigidity.
[0009] [Fig.l] A hornet-proof tent with crossed posts. Prior art
[0010] Patent FR3114728A1 (2020 by the same inventors) describes the frontal anti-hornet tent which serves as a reference for the anti-hornet tent with crossed posts.
Claims
Claims
1. A frontal hornet capture tent whose frame consists of four uprights inserted into reinforced gussets positioned at its tops and which intersect at its center.