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"Michael Saunby" wrote in message
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"Drakanthus" wrote in message
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I personally wouldn't have put the "even" in front of the hornets.
They
don't occur where I live now, but when we lived further south we had
them in the garden. They're much more docile and less aggressive
than
wasps - big stripey pussycats, in fact :-)

Malcolm

That's how I think of bumble bees. My wife runs a mile, but I think
they
are sort
of "cute". I can be dead heading plants and they land in a flower next
to
my
hand - they never seem the slightest bit interested in me so I leave
them
to it.
Live and let live. Wasps on the other hand - its open warfare!

Bumble bees I remove from the house by closing my hand around them -
since
they rarely sting and it doesn't hurt much if they do. Wasps I'll admit
I
tend to flick with a fingernail and then flick them out the window -
some
live, some don't. Hornets I remove using a glass and a piece of paper.
The same for honey bees, though often they can be directed with a hand
wave
or too.

For those that want to try the experimental method of working out what
you
have by how much the sting hurts - wasp stings hurt a little (rather
more
than a nettle) and a bee sting hurts like hell and the sting is left
behind
with the venom sack still pumping. Not sure what a hornet sting is
like,
probably like a wasp.

Hmmm the wasp that stung me left its sting in my leg!

I would have thought it unlikely to have been a wasp then,
more likely to have been a bee.

Wasps are able to withdraw their stings, bee stings are
retained in the skin.

Alan
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