On 01/12/2013 08:50, David Hill wrote:
At around 5.45am this morning I had a very rude awakening, I was sound
asleep but I must have felt something on my face, I brushed it off only
to have it sting me.
After a hunt of around 5 mins I found the bugger and killed it, it
turned out to be a Queen Wasp.it certainly woke me.
Not the way to have my Wasp desensitization put to the test. It's close
to 6 years since I was last stung and getting on for 20 years since I
had the course, this is only my 4th sting since the treatment.
Now 4 hours on my cheek is throbbing but no great reaction, so the
treatment is still working.
I must say I've never seen a wasp this late in the year let alone been
stung by one in December.
David @ a still frost free and dry side of Swansea bay

Funny you should mention that.

I was having lunch yesterday with some old work colleagues in a pub in
mid-Hampshire (between Alresford and Alton). We were disturbed by a
large wasp, which I thought might be a queen, flying around the inside
of the window we were sitting it. It flew around the pub a bit, then
back to the window, then we lost sight of it.

I also don't remember a wasp flying so late in the year.

Good to see your desensitisation worked!

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Jeff