Sacha wrote:
On 24/7/06 12:49, in article , "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.

IME, Greece has some *horrendous* wasp colonies. And I speak as one who held
onto the boarding ladder at the back of a yacht and was towed out of an
infested and deservedly deserted bay after a major wasp attack as we dropped
anchor!
If we get major wasp trouble, we take the top third off a plastic water
bottle which has its screw cap removed. Invert the top third into the
remainder of the bottle and put some beer into the bottle. Make holes for
string and suspend from a distant tree or stand in a sunny place well away
from your table. The wasps go down into the bottle to find the beer but
don't find the way out again. Bit like the lobster pot principle.

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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(email address on website)

We've got plenty here in Spain, look more like a hornet, but I am
assured that they are wasps, and that they DO sting. Not tried them out
yet. They seem to love the flowers, and seem to fly around the
greenery, perhaps looking for caterpillars etc.
Mike