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Post by Chuckles on Nov 16, 2006 15:49:33 GMT
Look what I found this afternoon hiding in some rotten bits of wood I was taking to the bonfire,  , think it's a hornet it was about 3.5cm in length.   |
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Post by Plocket on Nov 16, 2006 16:07:16 GMT
OMG! What are you going to do about it? Thank goodness it was just the one!!! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2006 16:10:23 GMT
A hibernating hornet queen no doubt - I hope you burned it  |
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Post by Chuckles on Nov 16, 2006 16:13:54 GMT
I accidentally dropped a piece of wood on it, what a shame. I thought it was dead when I first saw it, but after getting it out of the hole it had made I could see it was alive |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2006 16:19:13 GMT
I thought it was dead when I first saw it, but after getting it out of the hole it had made I could see it was alive Oh no |
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Post by Chuckles on Nov 16, 2006 16:30:18 GMT
Just been checking it out and it says.......They can be up to 3.5cm long and are chestnut brown and yellow. Also newly-mated queens hibernate during the winter, at least she died happy ;D ;D
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Post by sweetleaf on Nov 20, 2006 17:10:48 GMT
Just been checking it out and it says.......They can be up to 3.5cm long and are chestnut brown and yellow. Also newly-mated queens hibernate during the winter, at least she died happy ;D ;D  I would have done the same! |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2006 14:24:50 GMT
I've heard about these hornets.....we don't seem to be plagued by them up North....thankful for something at least as they sound dreadful.
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Post by Chuckles on Dec 10, 2006 15:26:43 GMT
I found one once in one of OH's T shirts. Must have been in it when I fetched it off the clothes line, I'd folded it up and was putting it a way a few day later and felt a lump. It was dead but had chewed a hole trying to get out |
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Post by Dutchy on Dec 10, 2006 16:12:18 GMT
Yikes. Do they behave just like wasps or are they aggressive? Wasps are not aggressive by nature only when you corner them.
;D I just thought of your OH face when he was to find out about it.
There is a hole in my Teeshirt, my Teeshirt, my Teeshirt
etc.etc.
Dutchy
p.s. will be double checking my firewood now although I have never seen any around here.
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Post by Chuckles on Dec 10, 2006 16:39:24 GMT
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, think it's a hornet it was about 3.5cm in length.
