On Tue, 18 May 2004, Tim Challenger wrote:

They may be in the EU protected species lists, I don't know if they all
apply to the UK though. They certainly are protected in Germany, Austria
and I'm pretty sure Switzerland. In Germany there is a fine of up to ten
thousand Euros.

I've never heard of this. Can you give me a reference for this?

There's a quote he
http://www.vespa-crabro.de/downloads/hornissen.pdf
I paraphrase, but you'll have to look up the exact text in the German
Statute books. A copy can be found he
http://www.bna-ev.de/bna_inhalt/gese...tzgesetz_d.htm

Thanks for those references, Tim. Very interesting!

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