Wasps!

[olirow]

Seriously, they are a late summer thing right? So why so many of the persistent little buggers? What do they know? How can WOMAD let this happen?

[beef]

They always seem particularly bad around the arboretum and anywhere near cider... once one landed on a sandwich I was eating a few Womads ago... and I didn't see it... I sure felt it though... spiciest tuna sandwich I ever had... thank heavens for the St John's Ambulance crew!

[Zenrider]

No wasp problems today.

[deserttraveller]

I had One wasp that was dedicated to me, tremedous dedication, everytime I arrived in the arboretum, he was there, I called him Doris. Had to wave him away a few times but I did not eat him.

[bloohair]

A wasp shared my sandwich once, I bit on it twice and it felt like a needle going through my tongue. I had jaw and ear ache for about 4 hours, then it went away. Blooming things!

[sc]

When my boys were young they kicked their football into a bush in the garden. They came and got me as even with a stick they couldn’t get it out. They handed me the stick and showed me where the football was, you could just see bits of the ball in the bush, I bashed at it and was mobbed by angry wasps!! Sometimes it’s tough being a Dad, but the wicked humour of a child will have been the same since we came down from the trees and always will be. The boys thought that it was a great laugh getting Dad to bash a wasps nest, I only fell for that prank once 😂🤣

[beef]

Great story sc!

[deserttraveller]

Aug 4, 2022 13:46:43 GMT sc said:

When my boys were young they kicked their football into a bush in the garden. They came and got me as even with a stick they couldn’t get it out. They handed me the stick and showed me where the football was, you could just see bits of the ball in the bush, I bashed at it and was mobbed by angry wasps!! Sometimes it’s tough being a Dad, but the wicked humour of a child will have been the same since we came down from the trees and always will be. The boys thought that it was a great laugh getting Dad to bash a wasps nest, I only fell for that prank once 😂🤣

I would have made them sit down and listen to Perry Como music all afternoon.

[sc]

Aug 4, 2022 21:08:06 GMT deserttraveller said:

Aug 4, 2022 13:46:43 GMT sc said:

When my boys were young they kicked their football into a bush in the garden. They came and got me as even with a stick they couldn’t get it out. They handed me the stick and showed me where the football was, you could just see bits of the ball in the bush, I bashed at it and was mobbed by angry wasps!! Sometimes it’s tough being a Dad, but the wicked humour of a child will have been the same since we came down from the trees and always will be. The boys thought that it was a great laugh getting Dad to bash a wasps nest, I only fell for that prank once 😂🤣

I would have made them sit down and listen to Perry Como music all afternoon.

It was a few weeks before I discovered that there was no ball and never had been a ball in the bush 😂🤣😂

[beef]

Aug 5, 2022 8:02:14 GMT sc said:

Aug 4, 2022 21:08:06 GMT deserttraveller said:

I would have made them sit down and listen to Perry Como music all afternoon.

It was a few weeks before I discovered that there was no ball and never had been a ball in the bush 😂🤣😂

... that takes it to a whole new level sc... I guess you could only laugh? Kind of reminds me of me and my brothers' tricks, but I think we were probably too wary of wasps to try that...

[Zenrider]

Aug 3, 2022 20:46:02 GMT bloohair said:

A wasp shared my sandwich once, I bit on it twice and it felt like a needle going through my tongue. I had jaw and ear ache for about 4 hours, then it went away. Blooming things!

I shared some of my Banoffee crepe with a wasp as well. Mostly some of the toffee that had dripped on the plate.

[Zenrider]

Aug 3, 2022 20:46:02 GMT bloohair said:

A wasp shared my sandwich once, I bit on it twice and it felt like a needle going through my tongue. I had jaw and ear ache for about 4 hours, then it went away. Blooming things!

Ouch, how did I miss that excitement? Thankfully it wasn't worse than that.

[standing stone]

I saw wasps very excited around cider..... this was definitely an attraction for them.

[deserttraveller]

Aug 1, 2022 17:59:07 GMT deserttraveller said:

I had One wasp that was dedicated to me, tremedous dedication, everytime I arrived in the arboretum, he was there, I called him Doris. Had to wave him away a few times but I did not eat him.

Got home washing the dust off before the hosepipe ban and Doris had called a pal and I was met with a huge hornet called Morris settled on my car, luckily rather dozy in the heat, she said she had flown the Atlantic. I thought Crikey; Atlantic Morris set.

[sc]

Aug 5, 2022 22:49:30 GMT deserttraveller said:

Aug 1, 2022 17:59:07 GMT deserttraveller said:

I had One wasp that was dedicated to me, tremedous dedication, everytime I arrived in the arboretum, he was there, I called him Doris. Had to wave him away a few times but I did not eat him.

Got home washing the dust off before the hosepipe ban and Doris had called a pal and I was met with a huge hornet called Morris settled on my car, luckily rather dozy in the heat, she said she had flown the Atlantic. I thought Crikey; Atlantic Morris set.

😂🤣😂🤣