Queen Wasps (possibly OT)

In message , Grimly Curmudgeon writes

Bumble bees burning on Halogen uplighters smell just like roast chestnuts.

You afraid of being harried?

Probably to cold. However, they are largely beneficial because they eat lots of garden pests so it is better to leave them alone.

All my posts are factually correct. There are some here too dim to understand.

Always ignore fools.

They only attack overripe fruit that is too far gone to be much use. The balance is in their favour.

And children have to learn about dangers first hand. Featherbedding them turns out more little useless wimps.

No they don't. Another counterfactual post.

Ah poor little things. They will grow up mollycoddled and so unable to function in the real world. You have to explain to your son/daughter how their child came to be stung? That's weird. S*it happens. One has to get used to it. Better to learn sooner than later. I can see you brought them up to your strange standard. Of a non existent world where all is good, people are good and there is no evil etc etc. It's called Lala land.

Bit early I'd say. July seems to be their busy time around here.

Brian

A few people (about 10%) do react badly to wasp and bee stings, and it can be fatal for about a third of that 10% unless treated quickly. But for the great majority, it's just a painful experience, accompanied by mild swelling that goes after a few hours.

A very effective treatment to desensitise people who are allergic to bee and wasp stings is the give them small but gradually increasing doses of sting venom, over a period of several weeks.

Do you take the same attitude to bees as you do to wasps, killing every one you see to (in your opinion) protect your grandchildren?

My Grandfather's generation came from Worcestershire and hated Wasps and Starlings with equal fervour.

Damson harvest was purgatory for us youngsters.

your wasps are different from ours. Ours eat apples on the tree before they are ready for picking.

you have to appreciate that harry lives in a completely different world to anyone else.

A legend in his own mind.

They will only do that if a bird has already taken a peck out of them. Overipe plums by comparison they seem to be able to nibble on their own.

the issue is that they cant actually penetrate the skins. However if something else does that for them the wasps will eat the fruit away whether or not its ripe.

Was it, maybe, a hornet ? They look like big wasps.

David

When replacing the loft insulation 10+ years ago, there were about 8 queens 'hibernating' in the old insulation.

There was also a number of old nests too, one that spanned 3 rafters.

David

Possibly. Totally fooled by the IR of the charcoal, whatever it was.