On 2010-07-14 19:59:59 +0100, "Christina Websell"
>
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> On Jul 13, 8:55 pm, "Christina Websell"
>> n...@cam.ac.uk wrote:
>>
>>>> Wasps have a serious image problem, don't they?
>>>> No-one is bothered when they are out and about earlier in the year
>>>> (you don't see them much then) gathering up caterpillars from your
>>>> fruit & veg to feed their larvae, but the moment they are on ripe
>>>> fruit later in the year, drunk as **** and likely to sting you,
>>>> it's all "let's set a trap and kill them"
>>
>>> Well, those particular wasps are all under sentence of death, anyway,
>>> so it doesn't make much difference to them :-)
>>
>> Yes, I know the workers will die in autumn, Nick, but let's not go crazy
>> killing them before their time, eh?
>> I think they are beneficial insects and always allow queens to overwinter
>> in
>> my house - even though I had a bad experience with a queen wasp in my
>> jeans..ouch!
>>
>> Tina
>
> I can better that, I had one in my underwear. I pulled on lingeree
> straight from the washing line, ouch and double ouch!!! Years ago I
> posted here about an attack of wasps; I'll never forger it, they
> followed me into the house, stinging me all the way, through my
> clothing. I jumped into the shower fully clothed and could see wasps
> falling into the water at my feet, shudder. One could say I deserved
> it,
>
> Blimey, you must have *seriously*ticked them off for them to pursue you.
> I rather like wasps and I have never known this experience.
>
> Tina
My own bees did just that to me and it's why my bee sting allergy
increased so dramatically. It was my own fault but I can't keep bees
now. When I was a teenager - what a stretch of memory that requires! -
a wasp got under the very full skirt then fashionable that I was
wearing. It stung me 4 times before I managed to extricate the damned
thing.
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Sacha
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> On Jul 13, 8:55 pm, "Christina Websell"
>> n...@cam.ac.uk wrote:
>>
>>>> Wasps have a serious image problem, don't they?
>>>> No-one is bothered when they are out and about earlier in the year
>>>> (you don't see them much then) gathering up caterpillars from your
>>>> fruit & veg to feed their larvae, but the moment they are on ripe
>>>> fruit later in the year, drunk as **** and likely to sting you,
>>>> it's all "let's set a trap and kill them"
>>
>>> Well, those particular wasps are all under sentence of death, anyway,
>>> so it doesn't make much difference to them :-)
>>
>> Yes, I know the workers will die in autumn, Nick, but let's not go crazy
>> killing them before their time, eh?
>> I think they are beneficial insects and always allow queens to overwinter
>> in
>> my house - even though I had a bad experience with a queen wasp in my
>> jeans..ouch!
>>
>> Tina
>
> I can better that, I had one in my underwear. I pulled on lingeree
> straight from the washing line, ouch and double ouch!!! Years ago I
> posted here about an attack of wasps; I'll never forger it, they
> followed me into the house, stinging me all the way, through my
> clothing. I jumped into the shower fully clothed and could see wasps
> falling into the water at my feet, shudder. One could say I deserved
> it,
>
> Blimey, you must have *seriously*ticked them off for them to pursue you.
> I rather like wasps and I have never known this experience.
>
> Tina