I have them in my garden. Well, not IN my garden but they do fly into it and then into my kitchen and they scare the hell out of me.

I can i get them to stay away?

On Fri, 14 May 2004 11:56:27 GMT, Lemmonie
wrote:

I have them in my garden. Well, not IN my garden but they do fly into it
and then into my kitchen and they scare the hell out of me.

I can i get them to stay away?

Short answer - no

Long answer - noooo

They look pretty fierce, but they have an undeserved reputation - and
they appear to be quite docile as long as you leave them alone.

http://www.shwoodwind.co.uk/Notes/Yoiks.htm

Be philosophical - they beat having crap neighbours hands down.

Regards,



--
Stephen Howard - Woodwind repairs & period restorations
www.shwoodwind.co.uk
Emails to: showard{whoisat}shwoodwind{dot}co{dot}uk

I have them in my garden. Well, not IN my garden but they do fly into it
and then into my kitchen and they scare the hell out of me.

I can i get them to stay away?

Try having a sarracenia aka North American pitcher plant in your kitchen.
They are very efficient insect catchers, and some are very good at catching
wasps and hornets, especially sarracenia alata or sarracenia leucophylla.
They thrive on sunny windowsills and are pretty easy to grow.

Regards,

Stuart Forbes
Edinburgh, Scotland

On Fri, 14 May 2004 13:20:08 +0100, Stephen Howard
wrote:

On Fri, 14 May 2004 11:56:27 GMT, Lemmonie
wrote:

I have them in my garden. Well, not IN my garden but they do fly into it
and then into my kitchen and they scare the hell out of me.

I can i get them to stay away?

jam jar half filled with water will, get them to stay forever.


Short answer - no

Long answer - noooo

They look pretty fierce, but they have an undeserved reputation - and
they appear to be quite docile as long as you leave them alone.

http://www.shwoodwind.co.uk/Notes/Yoiks.htm

Be philosophical - they beat having crap neighbours hands down.

What happens if you have both?

On Fri, 14 May 2004 13:47:23 +0100, "Stuart"
wrote:

I have them in my garden. Well, not IN my garden but they do fly into it
and then into my kitchen and they scare the hell out of me.

I can i get them to stay away?

Try having a sarracenia aka North American pitcher plant in your kitchen.
They are very efficient insect catchers, and some are very good at catching
wasps and hornets, especially sarracenia alata or sarracenia leucophylla.
They thrive on sunny windowsills and are pretty easy to grow.

Half a bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale in a jam jar has the same effect
and is far easier to propagate.

"Stephen Howard" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 14 May 2004 11:56:27 GMT, Lemmonie
wrote:

I have them in my garden. Well, not IN my garden but they do fly into it
and then into my kitchen and they scare the hell out of me.

I can i get them to stay away?

Short answer - no

Long answer - noooo

They look pretty fierce, but they have an undeserved reputation - and
they appear to be quite docile as long as you leave them alone.

http://www.shwoodwind.co.uk/Notes/Yoiks.htm

Be philosophical - they beat having crap neighbours hands down.

So very true, but at this time of year there's also a lot of last years wasp
queens looking for nesting sites, are you sure it's not just one of those
???
Duncan


Regards,



--
Stephen Howard - Woodwind repairs & period restorations
www.shwoodwind.co.uk
Emails to: showard{whoisat}shwoodwind{dot}co{dot}uk

So very true, but at this time of year there's also a lot of last years wasp
queens looking for nesting sites, are you sure it's not just one of those
???
Duncan


Regards,



--
Stephen Howard - Woodwind repairs & period restorations
www.shwoodwind.co.uk
Emails to: showard{whoisat}shwoodwind{dot}co{dot}uk [/b][/quote]




Positive, i had them last year too but as i moved in later in the year i didnt really pay too much attention. But they are definitely hornets

On Fri, 14 May 2004 14:50:40 +0200, martin wrote:

On Fri, 14 May 2004 13:20:08 +0100, Stephen Howard
wrote:


Be philosophical - they beat having crap neighbours hands down.

What happens if you have both?

You ring up the BBC pronto, and some pratt comes round and makes a
reality TV show called 'Hornets and Hellraisers from, er Hell' - and
the entire nation turns over to C5 to watch 'Pro-Celebrity
appendectomy' in case one of the Hamiltons is on the slab.

Regards,



--
Stephen Howard - Woodwind repairs & period restorations
www.shwoodwind.co.uk
Emails to: showard{whoisat}shwoodwind{dot}co{dot}uk

"Lemmonie" wrote in message
s.com...
I have them in my garden. Well, not IN my garden but they do fly into it
and then into my kitchen and they scare the hell out of me.

I can i get them to stay away?
-------------------------------------------

I made a remarkable discovery about hornets,if you stack up a large PA
system near to their nest & play anything by Motorhead at top volume it
drives them insane & they leave,unfortunately it also had the same effect on
my neighbour who started running around the garden naked with a stick of
celery poking out of his arse muttering weird incantations in an obscure
Peruvian dialect.

ROTFLOLPMP and then some!

On Sat, 15 May 2004 09:48:14 +0100, "Scooter" Scooter @ Hooter
wrote:


"Lemmonie" wrote in message
ws.com...
I have them in my garden. Well, not IN my garden but they do fly into it
and then into my kitchen and they scare the hell out of me.

I can i get them to stay away?
-------------------------------------------

I made a remarkable discovery about hornets,if you stack up a large PA
system near to their nest & play anything by Motorhead at top volume it
drives them insane & they leave,unfortunately it also had the same effect on
my neighbour who started running around the garden naked with a stick of
celery poking out of his arse muttering weird incantations in an obscure
Peruvian dialect.

a real petomaine or what?

"Scooter" Scooter @ Hooter wrote in message
...

"Lemmonie" wrote in message
s.com...
I have them in my garden. Well, not IN my garden but they do fly into it
and then into my kitchen and they scare the hell out of me.

I can i get them to stay away?
-------------------------------------------

I made a remarkable discovery about hornets,if you stack up a large PA
system near to their nest & play anything by Motorhead at top volume it
drives them insane & they leave,unfortunately it also had the same effect
on
my neighbour who started running around the garden naked with a stick of
celery poking out of his arse muttering weird incantations in an obscure
Peruvian dialect.

ROFL

The message
from martin contains these words:

I can i get them to stay away?

jam jar half filled with water will, get them to stay forever.

Hornets are protected.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

In article , Jaques
d'Alltrades writes
The message
from martin contains these words:

I can i get them to stay away?

jam jar half filled with water will, get them to stay forever.

Hornets are protected.

No, I don't think they have any protection under UK law. However, as
several people have said, they are rarely aggressive and should be left
alone.

--
Malcolm

On Sat, 15 May 2004 11:22:44 +0100, "Ophelia"
wrote:


"Scooter" Scooter @ Hooter wrote in message
...

"Lemmonie" wrote in message
s.com...
I have them in my garden. Well, not IN my garden but they do fly into it
and then into my kitchen and they scare the hell out of me.

I can i get them to stay away?
-------------------------------------------

I made a remarkable discovery about hornets,if you stack up a large PA
system near to their nest & play anything by Motorhead at top volume it
drives them insane & they leave,unfortunately it also had the same effect
on
my neighbour who started running around the garden naked with a stick of
celery poking out of his arse muttering weird incantations in an obscure
Peruvian dialect.

ROFL

YELLOW CARD :-)