Dozy Hornets?

 

Over the last three days I've found three hornets, once in the bathroom,
then in the living room then one upstairs. Besides the mystery of how
they got into the house I'm puzzled by why all three hornet just walked
very slowly along the floor and seemed almost in a daze. I flattened
each under foot without them even attempting to fly away. Anyone else
had any dozy hornets? Why are they behaving like that? The ones I've
encountered occasionally outside seem anything but docile.

--
David in Normandy.   DavidinNormandy@yahoo.fr
   To e-mail you must include the password FROG on the
   subject line, or it will be automatically deleted
   by a filter and not reach my inbox.

 



Well. bully for you, do you kill everything that you don't understand!
Hornets are much more docile than wasps and will only become aggressive if
you get too close to the nests. Only the females have a sting and the ones
that you killed were probably evicted males at this time of year and were
quite harmless. When I was head gardener at Ashton Wold (near Oundle) my
house was on the edge of ancient oak woodland and hornets were around us
throughout the summer. They never bothered us and we never bothered them.
They would come into the house at this time of year (usually on the floor)
and we would scoop them up on a piece of paper and put them outside. Hornets
are becoming rare in Western Europe and becoming endangered in the UK,
indeed, many in the UK have never seen a hornet.

Phil

 

On 27/08/2010 23:20, Phil Gurr wrote:

I'm surprised the French don't shoot them

 

On 29/08/2010 12:33, stuart noble wrote:

and eat them with honey or something :-) .

 

Donwill wrote:

Apparently these days you're supposed to put them in a sack and beat them to
death with a shovel.