"Mary Fisher" wrote in message
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Hornets, while bigger than wasps, are relatively gentle.

They prey on honeybees though.

Can do but mostly they're not a real problem. All social wsps can p[rey on
honeybees, occasionally they'll cause a colony to be unsustainable but
it's not common..

When I went to Germany to visit Nuele (you will remember us from another
group) hornets were hovering around the landing platforms of her beehives
all the time.
Having said that, I have yet to meet a hornet in Leicestershire.
They are all over the place in Germany. Take a walk in the wilds where she
lives, and I mean wilds, come upon a bridge which has a metal handrail which
has a hole in it - and in it is a hornet's nest.