tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post4990076352214265422..comments2024-03-28T13:49:48.236+00:00Comments on Magnon's Meanderings: 'Murder Hornets'.Cro Magnonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-75569721310879572020-05-09T04:25:32.157+01:002020-05-09T04:25:32.157+01:00I certainly am familiar with Paper Wasps. They are...I certainly am familiar with Paper Wasps. They are thinner than their cousins and nest almost anywhere (I recently had a small nest in the car). I have been stung once by one, who'd made his nest in the handle of a small metal shovel; they hurt!Cro Magnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-71138345908953186502020-05-09T04:20:38.467+01:002020-05-09T04:20:38.467+01:00Generally we leave them in peace, but if one comes...Generally we leave them in peace, but if one comes in the house (and refuses to leave) then he is usually 'dispatched'. Too dangerous to leave them to possibly sting.Cro Magnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-2906171960225662142020-05-09T04:18:33.844+01:002020-05-09T04:18:33.844+01:00Dutch courage, Spanish flu, French leave, Scottish...Dutch courage, Spanish flu, French leave, Scottish generosity, and now Asian hornets... where will it end? The PC brigade have been reasonably quiet about this, maybe because they know how nasty theie stings can be!Cro Magnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-62371351909282611872020-05-08T19:12:21.850+01:002020-05-08T19:12:21.850+01:00Scary looking buggers! Although I generally like a...Scary looking buggers! Although I generally like and respect all critters, I'm not fond of spiders or bees (especially wasps). I know they have their place - but with a little luck, it's far away.Rianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09472421271620543536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-51751289207874617782020-05-08T16:45:44.196+01:002020-05-08T16:45:44.196+01:00Asian Hornets....
Are you *allowed* to call them ...<b>Asian</b> Hornets....<br /><br />Are you *allowed* to call them that?????? <br /><br />What with all the Politically Correct Police about...<br /><br />-grin-<br /><br />As you can see, The P.C. Police have not let us (USA) call them Asian Hornets, or so it would seem. They are called Murder Hornets, as you saw.<br /><br />>,-))))))))<br /><br />wisps of wordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12995057494013633705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-76156299790377190822020-05-08T16:03:40.619+01:002020-05-08T16:03:40.619+01:00Rachel... I am happy to handle European hornets......Rachel... I am happy to handle European hornets... but not wasps. Wasps require a stick or similar... if Blogga allowed us to post photos in comments I'd be able to show you the evidence of that.<br />I get hornets in my mothtrap unfortunately... not unfortunate for me, but deadly for the lovely moths... that is one of the occasions I regularly handle them... and, in 20 years of the hobby I have only been stung the once... and it wasn't the hornet's fault, I accidentally trapped it against the lid of the mothtrap. But, and this is the peculiar thing... it hurt no more than a nettle? Apparently the European Hornet and the Japanese/Asian Giant Hornet can vary the amount of venom delivered.<br />Wasps cannot do this... and as the Asian Yellow-legged Hornet is closer genetically to the common Wasps... it may not be able to either... and I am not volunteering to do the physical research!!<br />As I have lived where there are scorpions and venemous spiders, I am very wary of putting clothes and shoes on without checking the contents first... because even the little stab the hornet that I mentioned above gave my hand would, I agree, cause me to enter "sprint & scream" mode very rapidly...........<br />And Cro, in order to avoid "that deep buzzing sound in the middle of the night that scares the pants off you"... might I suggest you either don't sleep with the windows open... or screen your windows.<br />The worst wasps in France for stinging unprovoked, are the Polistes sp. "Paper Wasps".... they are very painful... won't be a problem for you yet Rachel, although they are spreading outward from their original stronghold of Ham House in Richmond as the country warms under climate change... but I'll bet Cro is familiar with the nasty little b'stards. Provocation to them is you looking at them from five foot.Le Pré de la Forgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02396822372095610004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-22928187229148886562020-05-08T13:31:04.063+01:002020-05-08T13:31:04.063+01:00VE stands for Victory in Europe; not Victory by Eu...VE stands for Victory in Europe; not Victory by Europeans. Heaven forbid all those surrender Monkeys laid claim to any victory.Cro Magnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-21060370839681607072020-05-08T12:38:13.033+01:002020-05-08T12:38:13.033+01:00Ours seem to turn-up quite late in Summer, when Fi...Ours seem to turn-up quite late in Summer, when Figs and Grapes are ripe.Cro Magnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-83452285999716488432020-05-08T12:37:21.052+01:002020-05-08T12:37:21.052+01:00I did actually delete something I'd originally...I did actually delete something I'd originally written; to save the poor Germans from too much shame. They didn't learn much from WW1.Cro Magnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-63574203768920891022020-05-08T12:35:13.141+01:002020-05-08T12:35:13.141+01:00I was a Beano boy; the Hornet must have been from ...I was a Beano boy; the Hornet must have been from further north.Cro Magnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-67901449549325097432020-05-08T12:33:55.204+01:002020-05-08T12:33:55.204+01:00They're not something you'd encourage; eve...They're not something you'd encourage; even the Germans might agree with that!Cro Magnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-32345418334263587442020-05-08T12:19:37.815+01:002020-05-08T12:19:37.815+01:00Guffaw to RachelGuffaw to Rachellocal alienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14586011850451326646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-74507127074309717262020-05-08T12:15:35.623+01:002020-05-08T12:15:35.623+01:00Haven't noticed many hornets in the last few y...Haven't noticed many hornets in the last few years. There even very few wasps last summer and we use similar traps to catch those. Very effective.<br />Hope it is not the year of killer hornets along with everything elselocal alienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14586011850451326646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-55433670428439645032020-05-08T12:06:56.916+01:002020-05-08T12:06:56.916+01:00Hold your horses, Ro. Cro merged two subjects not ...Hold your horses, Ro. Cro merged two subjects not remotely connected into one post. Namely hornets and Germans. I would have preferred to stick with the hornets as it affects the HERE and NOW. "Mental" on an environmental issue? Who is OTT here, Ro?<br /><br />May I recommend you not speak of which you appear to know little. Your father's intervention notwithstanding.<br /><br />The end of the second world war was seventy five years ago (my parents were children and I wasn't on the radar for a long time after). So please do spare me the lecture as to what Germans speak about/remember. We are not exempt, as amplified on this thread alone, from "sins of the fathers" revisited. I suggest you know nothing, and most certainly have no empathy, of the suffering of a whole people on ground of their nationality. I won't stoop as low as to mention sins of the British. Sins that your nose isn't rubbed into all the time. The British have washed their hands of The Empire and order curries in. As to recent times? Well, you tell me.<br /><br />I have no idea of your nationality (neither is it of any interest to me) but please do beware of glasshouses. And splinters in eyes. Casting the first stone. You know how it goes . . .<br /><br />U Ursulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722046288685936851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-44702357525350265932020-05-08T11:43:34.674+01:002020-05-08T11:43:34.674+01:00The Germans would prefer you don't mention WW2...The Germans would prefer you don't mention WW2. As you have noticed they will go mental over swatting and insect but would prefer you didn't mention their deliberate and systematic murder of millions of people. Nor their deliberate launching of a conflict that killed tens of millions more.<br />Seemingly that was the Nazis who weren't real Germans at all honest! My father was one of the first British officers to enter the death camps. They made the local German, sorry I mean Nazis, bury the dead the dead there. There is even a clip of him in the documentary Night will fall which I didn't see until after he passed. I have a photo from the same day. In his diary he notes that the soldiers he commanded were livid. If they needed any justification for fighting the war they had found it in spades. In the photograph and the film clip you can see the Sten guns they held were fully cocked and ready to fire if those mythical Nazis gave them any trouble for being made to bury the dead their contemptible actions had produced. Rohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03804288884191121969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-47069370195604891712020-05-08T10:30:55.204+01:002020-05-08T10:30:55.204+01:00I could have sworn that "The Hornet" was...I could have sworn that "The Hornet" was a comic. I vaguely remember The Blazing Ace of Space - a ruthless World War II fighter pilot. And they gave away free gifts with "The Hornet" too.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-3150580890842139722020-05-08T10:26:56.511+01:002020-05-08T10:26:56.511+01:00It's that deep buzzing sound in the middle of ...It's that deep buzzing sound in the middle of the night that scares the pants off you.Cro Magnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-27472104348984419612020-05-08T10:15:49.163+01:002020-05-08T10:15:49.163+01:00I rather hope they don't come buzzing up here ...I rather hope they don't come buzzing up here into the Dales.The Weaver of Grasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13947971556343746883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-47522466368208339772020-05-08T09:55:28.378+01:002020-05-08T09:55:28.378+01:00 A hornet in the bedroom lurking in a sock, or wor... A hornet in the bedroom lurking in a sock, or worse his underpants, will have le pre moving quicker than he can say Wikipedia whether it be Asian, European, German, French or Uncle Tom Cobbley and all.Rachel Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16053924416805878169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-9241986407358119662020-05-08T09:50:18.896+01:002020-05-08T09:50:18.896+01:00Hardly the same league, but, yes we did. Hardly the same league, but, yes we did. Rachel Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16053924416805878169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-45396924348418461732020-05-08T09:47:33.088+01:002020-05-08T09:47:33.088+01:00Next, Rachel, you'll be telling me that Englan...Next, Rachel, you'll be telling me that England won the World Cup in 1966.<br /><br />UUrsulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722046288685936851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-54707053909463636872020-05-08T09:46:28.261+01:002020-05-08T09:46:28.261+01:00The two nearby horses are both wearing face masks,...The two nearby horses are both wearing face masks, against Horse Flies. They always worry me as I've heard tales of the Horse Flies getting underneath the masks, and the horses going completely crazy; and having to be shot as a result. Personally I would give them those long tassel things that dangle in front of their eyes. Cro Magnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-84496649593114168982020-05-08T09:42:19.898+01:002020-05-08T09:42:19.898+01:00I would have thought that most people could find a...I would have thought that most people could find a 'good reason' to kill Wasps or Hornets. They are both thoroughly nasty insects; isn't that enough?Cro Magnonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840670227576695352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-10545010360933097722020-05-08T09:34:48.378+01:002020-05-08T09:34:48.378+01:00And V stands for Victory, and VE day is the day Ge...And V stands for Victory, and VE day is the day Germany surrendered. Rachel Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16053924416805878169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227064496185547313.post-10463004458290215262020-05-08T09:30:56.712+01:002020-05-08T09:30:56.712+01:00Well my only story for hornets is to remember one ...Well my only story for hornets is to remember one in Epping Forest. Many years ago whilst out riding in the forest, a hornet came for my horse, she went mad and ended up in a great thicket of blackberry bushes. Always remember it ;)thelmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934860502828923562noreply@blogger.com