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Where have all the bees gone?
Lucky Llareggub - no more cannibals in our village, we ate the last one yesterday.. Posted Sep 29, 2006
Well done Galaxy Babe! I've just rescued a moth dazzled by the sunlight and trying to cross the street on foot. When I got near it it aimed straight for my dark coloured shoes . It's now happily hanging in a bush waiting for nightfall I'm pleased to say
Where have all the bees gone?
Teasswill Posted Sep 29, 2006
We've got a huge hornet nest in our barn, so plently of them about, but I'm not sure that I've seen as many wasps & bees as usual. Or flying ants for that matter.
It may be that I've just not been out when they have!
Where have all the bees gone?
Lucky Llareggub - no more cannibals in our village, we ate the last one yesterday.. Posted Sep 29, 2006
Crikey!
I've just been reading an article about a chap who stung by an hornet! It seems that he was aware that he had a wasp-sting allergy (that's fairly common) but thought he'd be safe with hornets. The article is headed "La strada e´ sensa Charlie".
Poor Charlie was only 46 but he had a long-term drink problem which the writer reckoned reduced the body's immunity to the hornet sting.
Be careful in that dangerous barn
Where have all the bees gone?
zendevil Posted Sep 29, 2006
Hmm; i'd be interested to know more about this possible link between drink & insect allergies. Maybe the little swines like a drink as well & are attracted to folks who have had a few!
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Where have all the bees gone?
Lucky Llareggub - no more cannibals in our village, we ate the last one yesterday.. Posted Sep 30, 2006
I believe they do they do like ale>. I was closley (but not too closely) observing an hornet creeping through the dregs from a broken beer bottle at the side of the path the other day. I didn't linger too long.
Where have all the bees gone?
Teasswill Posted Sep 30, 2006
I gather that hornets are of the wasp family. Wasps love fallen apples that you can smell are fermenting - so it seems likely that they'd go for humans who smell of drink.
We're going very carefully around our hornets, but they're not aggressive so no problem just passing by.
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