Encounter with a queen wasp

 To add to last week.
I got some logs delivered for my woodburner and the next day I was bringing
5 or so inside last thing at night (as you do)
I just got inside the house with them when I felt the most amazing pain in
the end of one of my fingers.  I dropped the logs which luckily missed my
recently broken ankle.
I didn't know it was a wasp, but I suspected it, and I had forgotten how
much a wasp sting hurt.  It's years since I had a sting and this was a big
saved up all the poison one that has been painful for 4 days.
Anyway she crawled out on my carpet away from the logs.

Part of me wanted to stamp on her.  I didn't.  I gathered her up on some
wood and put her outside. No doubt to go back to my woodheap.  I like wasps.
Normally.

Tina



Anyw

 On 31/12/2011 01:50, Christina Websell wrote:

Ouch!  That's very unfortunate, Tina, but I'm glad you spared it's life.
  I was stung by a wasp in the garden years ago and it was incredibly
painful.  I was in shock, and felt unwell for about five days.  Like
you, though, I like them and frequently rescue them from being trapped
indoors, or drowning.  They are very useful insects.  It's a pity they
eat spiders, though :~{

I hope your finger is getting better.

--
Spider
from high ground in SE London
gardening on clay

 

And they attack and rob bee-hives :-(

Bill

 

But the bees gang up and kill them.  I watched my bees do it and very
Hitchcock it was.  Of course, the trouble is, the bees die, too.  ;-(
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

 
Nick lost his queen before CHristmas to a wasp attack.  He was given a new
one just after Christmas, but the hive didn't take to her, and 2 days later
she was dead too.  :-(