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In reply to Post #50
Well she did tell him she wanted return to the UK walking like John Wayne 
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In reply to Post #50
Ouchy!
I am laughing...sympathetically...
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We are now coming into my favourite time of year for fishing here in southern Spain ...but its the worst time of year for aggressive wasps
i am usually forced off the banks by wasps ..once you have 20 or 30 around you they seem to become aggitated with each other and then eventually take it out on me  last time i had 3 stings under 1 eye and i looked like the elephant man for a week
last week a mate was over from UK and drove up to the lake for a look around and a chat with me ...he brought his Mrs with him and she needed to have a wee ...so she wandered off in the trees away from us and then we heard a scream and we legged it to where she was crying her eyes out and quite hysterical running around ....she had been stung on a very intimate part of her antomy whilst squatting over a wasp nest 
i personally didnt have a look but my mate said it didnt look right  and kept saying have a look will you and what can we do !!!!! ...so i got him to cover it in Fenistil pain relief stuff and drive her home quickly as she was in a serious amount of pain ...im told by my mrs that it looked really bad and it was swollen for a week which obvoiusly seriously curtailed there romance for the rest of the holiday 
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I fished my favourite France venue late august 2020 for the 1st time. Setup the swim and opened a 2.5l tub of tiger nuts. No word of a lie I was swarmed by 50+ wasps. I spent the majority of that week in my bivvy with my tigernuts wrapped in a black bag.
I put some of the tigernut juice in a make shift bottle wasp trap and caught hundreds of them
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In reply to Post #1
Burn some coffie in a pot it will keep them away...
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In reply to Post #46
I set up in a tight little swim by a fallen tree, thought there were a few wasps about but I'm not fussed about them so carried on. Turns out that they had made their nest in a the dead tree roots.
I watched them fly in and out all day on their little missions, it was interesting to watch. Reminded me of the Heathrow flight path, one after the other, after the other.
Fun fact, there are 7,000 different species of wasp in the UK alone.
Hornet's I'm not so happy about being around.
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In reply to Post #2
I read that too the other day, something to do with the hotter the year the quicker the workers mature and when there are no grubs left as the queen stops laying preparing for winter it's basically everyone for themselves.
I thought there were lots of the buggers around here a month ago, seems to have eased a bit as of late. I'm guessing less moths etc due to caterpillar carnage from the Wasps but it's natures cycle.
Many years ago in France I set up on a point, bivvy facing lake, all day it was apparent I was in the flight path of a wood Hornet nest, but they kept veering up and away so no probs.....What I didn't know is that they remain active all night and it would appear they couldn't see the bivvy as it's was open and I guess the rear being black fitted in with the forrest behind lovely. 1st one to hit the back of the bivvy while I was in bed scared the living daylights out of me ( I hate Wasps/Hornets), then another, then another...wth I packed up from that spot there and then!
Another time, same lake, we had a large tarp between some trees, social area under, petrol Coleman dual mantle on, it attracted the bloody things like a magnet
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In reply to Post #1
I got stung on the arse July 2019 bivvied up about 7 metres from a wasps nest in the ground. After that I bought some wasp killer (powder) and did a night time raid, puffed the wasp nest with the powder and did a hasty retreat. Next time I went fishing a few days later only a few wasps left and didnt look very well, they didnt give me any hastle ! The following week I went back and the wasp nest was dug up (a remote secret swim) I was thinking another angler fishing my swim ay ay, on closer inspection I could see claw marks on the side of the hole and remembered a Badger one night previously rummaging and making his way through the undergrowth at the back of my swim.
Fast forward to last weekend on Sunday morning my swim was crawling with wasps feeding on honeydew, how I didnt get stung I dont know ? more interested in the honeydew ! But I did find a tick just got stuck on to the fleshy part of my lower right thumb. 1st time Ive had a problem with them, horrible little critters !
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In reply to Post #43
That's terrible, got any spam links you'd like to share?
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In reply to Post #42
I hate ants. Those tiny creatures bother me every time I see them. Tbh, I’ve tried everything to get rid of them, from salt to soda, etc. Nothing has helped.
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In reply to Post #11
We had a hornet buzzing round our BBQ yesterday evening. Guy came round for a chat and as soon as it came near him he literally punched it out of the air and stamped on it. Me and my mate were speechless 
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30 odd years ago I worked on the docks and we used to have a fair bit of timber from Europe and the far east, whilst using the odd bits of timber I'd sometimes come across big foreign wasps that looked dead.
After hours in the sun they would wake, stubble around then fly off, I wondered if they survived for long or would be able to reproduce etc.
What else came in on those ships?
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=trP-4gSfoEY
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In reply to Post #24
Agreed - I stumbled on a Hornet's nest whilst lure fishing along a fenland drain - it was a pretty remote spot, as I'd walked 3 miles from the nearest access point... anyway, they'd made their home in a dead tree stump. Something had disturbed them, probably one of the cows in the field, I don't know, but when several started coming my way, I gave the whole thing a very wide birth! There were hundreds of them and they looked angry... I'd love to have gotten a picture of them all swarming around the tree, but life's too short for that ****! Having said that, I often come across them at this time of year - they like to feed on the apples that fall from the trees in my garden. Quite funny seeing them getting pissed and having trouble taking off...
Wasps? Different story there, they'll just attack you if you annoy them - I once had to get an ambulance for a young lad who set up his bivvy over a wasps nest. He was just putting the groundsheet in and then I heard this screaming - he ran out and clearly a few followed him. He ripped off his T shirt and trousers, as they'd got inside his clothing. He was very badly stung and in shock. I did what I could to keep him calm and guided the ambulance down to the water by phone. So, just check you don't ever set-up in a swim with a wasp nest in it!
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In reply to Post #34
That's because the media gets confused with the Giant Asian Hornet. These can cause life threatening injuries to humans and have been found in the United States and are of real concern.
Asian Hornets finding there way into the UK are slightly smaller than our European Hornet but they are extremely aggressive and will wipe out honey bee colonies given the chance. Bees in other countries are slowly starting to fight back though. When an Asian Hornet Scout enters a hive, the bees vibrate their wings which increases the temperature by a couple of degrees. The Hornet Scout cannot withstand the heat and subsequently dies preventing an attack.
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