Not the Flying Tigers, but......

[Airspeed]

Two weeks back, I decided to smother some wild blackberry using a roll of carpet from the trailer, packed ready for the tip.
I hadn't got far when I started to feel several pains to my arms, neck and head.
Turned out, there was a European wasp nest inside, and they were not amused about being relocated. Black & yellow flyers, but not flying tigers.
For the first week, my right ear was oversize, dark red, and sticking out at a funny angle. The stings to my scalp felt like nails in my head, though they didn't swell like the others where there was flesh. I'm still itchy, but the pain is gone.
Having recovered from the shock, I went back and destroyed the nest, only sustaining one more sting to the back of my left hand in the process.
The End.

[Nigel H-J]

Gawd Mike, you do have some bad luck!! Good to hear that you have now fully recovered.

When driving on the Liquid Sugar Contract I always hated the summer as when arriving at a customers factory the pipe we connected to was always swarming with bees and wasps so there was a need to get rid of them prior to connecting and that was dome by spraying the little blighters with water which they hated.

Got a very bad sting once when a wasp landed on my wrist as I was tightening the discharge pipe and it got trapped between my wrist and glove. Had to go to hospital when I got back for an anti-histamine jab as my hand had swollen to twice the size of my other one.

Regards
Nigel.

[Filonian]

Wow!!!

Graham

[Kevin Farnell]

The summer before I went to University, I had a job at the local supermarket in the 'Damaged Goods' section. This was a building about the size of a large double garage and received any goods that had been damaged in the store or warehouse for which I had to do all of the paperwork regarding returning the goods to the supplier. I worked alone in this small building, but being a very hot summer I was plagued by wasps attracted to all of the sweet sticky things that were damaged. One of the other staff told me to leave a 2L bottle of orange concentrate (orange squash) outside of the building (which had a 'roller' style door), with the lid off. I had no further problems with the wasps coming into the building (and never got stung). But at the end of each day, the bottle of orange concentrate was like a 'wasp porridge' with all of the insects that had drowned in it. I have however had wasp and bee stings on other occasions.

Kevin