Nature Notes

[poliphilo]

I felt something tickling the back of my neck and reached round to find what it was- and it stung me and buzzed off. I found it on the stairs later- a very sleepy wasp- and persuaded it to go outside.

BTW Ailz taught the other day me how to tell a wasp from a bee. You look at their waists. Wasps have them, bees don't.

Comments

[sorenr.livejournal.com]

Wasps have a bit more of a temper than bees, but generally they're sweet and harmless as long as you don't disturb them. I remember as a child having a wasp's nest in the crawling space under my bedroom so they'd constantly get into my room! I only got stung once - when a wasps got caught under my duvet... You can imagine why it would have gone into defensive mode.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Well, exactly. As far as this wasp was concerned I was attacking it. We have several wasps' nests on the premises. I'm happy to host them.