The Asian wasp is an invasive species originally from Chinanorth of India and Indonesia. At the end of 2004 it was introduced in France through a container that came from Asia. Subsequently, it extended in the south of the French territory and in 2007 it was already estimated that there were thousands of nests. From there he moved to the rest of Europe.
The Velutine It is one wasp of relatively large format, with a length that can vary between 17 and 32 millimeters. It has a dark body, mainly black or dark brown, with yellow tires in the abdomen. The head is black with a yellow face. The Legs are dark with yellow ends, which represents a distinctive feature compared to others wasps
This type of wasp is particularly aggressive towards hosted beesof which she is a predator. Build large nests, often located in trees, buildings or other high structures. Vespa Velutina is also known for its ability to adapt to various environments, which contributes to the dispersion.
Galicia against the Velutine Wesp
The Xunta started the campaign of the Galician Surveillance and Control Program against the Velutine Wasp Agreed in 2020 between the Galician Government and the Galician Federation of the Municipalities and Provinces (Fegamp) in a meeting in which it was reported that the shock measures in this campaign will start in the spring with the realization of the organized, selective and planned trapping to act in the primary nests, the first to be the first.
The traffic is endorsed by technicians and specialists coordinated by scientists and researchers, which means that they respond to one of the Most important requirements of the groups that are affected by the Velutine wasp. This promotion is mainly focused on the conquest of the queens, who already meant in the pilot project in the previous campaign that the installation of more than 20,500 falls into 261 municipalities, caught with more than 113,200 Queens.
Natalia Prieto explained that, in addition to the Special action campaign on primary nests with trappedThe shock plan includes actions aimed at training, information and distribution among the troops that work in the fight against this species, the affected professionals and the entire citizenship, who also activate a distribution campaign. Scientific research is also being promoted to know their behavior and to determine the most effective method to prevent its spread.
The general director of the local government recalled that the plan was completed with the withdrawal of the nests, the Xunta of which comes from renewing another year to SEA, with the aim Offer a homogeneous, centralized and coordinated solution With the municipalities for the elimination and withdrawal of this species.
In fact, the official Gazette of Galicia today publishes the renewal of the committee to the Public Company Sea for the withdrawal and destruction of the nests of the nests include these 2025 In the Galician program for supervision and control against the wasp Asian.
This year the 313 municipalities confirmed their voluntary adhesion to the program and therefore the program for the second consecutive year already reached the Galician area compared to the 285 with which it started in 2020. The ESAGA company has a coordination team that organizes the intervention groups, to which the Xunta van de Gieten equipment needed to guarantee the safety of their troops in the activities.
Balance 2024
Regarding the balance of last year, the centralized nests -reimbursement plan Velutine Wesp Agreed with the municipalities, the withdrawal of more than 18,700 nests allowed. A Coruña was the province that registered a larger number of neutralized or neutralized nests in 2024 With more than 8,600, followed by the more than 5,800 in the province of Pontevedra. In Lugo and Ourense they retired and neutralized respectively more than 2,000 and more than 2,200 nests.
Received from De Alert on the telephone number of attention and information to Burgers 012, goes to the withdrawal in the shortest possible timeAlthough there are cases where nests are unreachable or hardly accessible and require additional actions or administrative or owner permits. When they match an urgency or a special risk, they are referred to the emergency services of 112 for immediate withdrawal.
The general manager of the local administration explained that the Pilot Trampeo Project and the other measures of the shock plan They contributed to a reduction of more than 46% in the notifications managed by Seaga by more than 26,200 compared to the more than 49,400 last year.
Note channel reinforcement
It is necessary to remember that in the summer months it will strengthen the specific line of the telephone number of attention and information to citizenship 012 To meet Velutine’s warning nests, coincides with the era of the greatest proliferation of the species.
Along these lines Natalia Prieto influenced the importance of the collaboration between citizens and the need to contact the telephone 012 when a nest of Velutine Wesp To inform your presence with the aim of minimizing its impact and to put its progress in the community. If additional roads to the telephone number of attention and information for citizenship 012 To communicate the presence of a Velutine wasp with the Xunta, nests a chatbot and a virtual agent.
He recalled that the Galician government makes progress every year with the implementation of New technologies to make new ways of contacting with citizens. Thus the Velutin control application enables the Seaga troops to update any notification. Its integration with the emergency services of 112 has already been carried out, so that the withdrawal means can be mobilized in the most urgent cases.