I was just reading a letter about wasps in the DT Online and the useful role that they play in ‘cleaning up our environment’.<\/p>\n
Trouble is over here in France we’re now getting them about 2 inches in length. If you tackle a nest that they’ve made in a hole in your wall (I had one near my backdoor a while back) they all come out and attack you in force and as they only have to touch you for the briefest moment with their sting to inflict a painful injury as I found to my cost, you’re wise to beat a hasty retreat.<\/p>\n
Lord help any children or pets in the vicinity.<\/p>\n
I patched a hole in my roof where a tile had broken a couple of days ago in anticipation of thunderstorms and before I knew it a number of smaller wasps emerged and attacked me while I was at the top of the ladder. One stung me in my eye (on my eyelid actually) but fortunately I was able to descend safely and put vinegar on the site (and, painfully, in my eye also) very quickly to mitigate the discomfort.<\/p>\n
So fine for all you real and budding ecologists out there, if the damn things stayed in the countryside where they belong. But they don’t and inevitably end up in conflict with we humans. There can then be only one outcome, but as there seems to be so many more of the blighters this year, it’s unfortunate but probably not catastrophic for the global ecosystem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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