"Cat(h)" wrote in message
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Broadback wrote:
Love eating out this weather, but since receiving multiple wasp stings a
few years ago I have become allergic to them; this means that I am very
anxious when wasps are about, so cannot enjoy eating out as I did.
This brings me to 2 questions. First in an earlier life I used to
holiday a lot in Greece and cannot recall seeing wasps there, is it my
poor memory or are they not as common as the UK? Secondly is there any
way to keep them away from the table area? I know that jam jars with a
little jam and water act as traps, would that work to attract them away
from the table? Any help would be appreciated.

We used to have a little glass contraption at home to keep them away
from the terrace. To give you an idea of the shape, if you can picture
a wine bottle with the inny bottom bit cut off, leaving a groove in
which you put some sugary water. You suspend the (closed on top)
bottle from a tree, or some other point removed from your picnic spot,
and it attracts wasps away. I am quite sure those must still be
available. It's quite effective, but when you eat out, you also bring
other stuff onto the table which they are equally likely to be
attracted to...

Cat(h) (well, that wasn't very helpful, was it :-(


when I lived in the UK, (1995,96 south of Cambridge), wasps were EVERYWHERE.
Some pubs/beer gardens became grim in the summer.
Our garden had a small orchard and at the peak of waspiness, there was what
literally loooked like a fog of wasps over the ground.
I also lived in Germany and there were plenty in the Summer although not as
much as what we had in England.
Back in Ireland, there are a few of them ok but relatively speaking we are
wasp free compared to those two Summers in England.
We also do not get hornets which helps as you have to change underwear every
time you see one of the really huge ones.
What does all that mean? I have no idea.

Des