I don’t know if it’s down to the mild winter or something else entirely, but we seem to have so many queen hornets around at the moment.
Whilst I was spreading compost in Frankenstein’s greenhouse I was joined by one, which couldn’t then find it’s way out again. There’s still one in the bee shed, though I’ve just knocked down her nest. We’ll see if that makes her move one. And whilst I was doing that having seen her leave, another flew past me from the other direction.
Shortly afterwards my father-in-law evicted a dead one from the bedroom. Whether that was one I’d already seen or another I have no idea.