I was just looking at the excellent 'mother site' to refresh my memory on the life-cycle of the wasp. I was rather hoping that, it being October, and what with...
Hi Roz, Yes, it is "singing in the rain" time here in Surrey and Sussex - and we have got a drought problem with a hosepipe ban which is ironic! The wasps are...
..and just when I thought we could start to relax a little! "sigh" My son's school had two nests removed last week. The headteacher said that they are on...
Don't know about the Balearics but when I went to Gibraltar I did a bit of research and it would seem there are no wasps there either, certainly didn't see...
Hi Roz, Will look into Balearics ... bit warmer than Iceland .. Can confirm they have wasps on Corsica - HUGE ones - as my son got stung by one. For once...
To be quite honest, I haven't seen many wasps around all summer anyway, even the plum tree at the bottom of our garden (which I tend to avoid during Aug /...
Hey Ya'll ... Even with our drought conditions, the wasps seem to love it here! The past few weeks we've been getting some cooler temps in between the above...
Oh Robin they love you because you're SO sweet! I'm glad your reaction wasn't worse!!!!!!! Maintainance WORKS! Y E A H ! ! ! You got your shot the morning...
I don't miss the snow! Every once in a blue moon we do get some...but its usually gone in a day or two! I've been hunting for a 2007 wall calendar, no luck...
I am not sure if we have have daylight saving time but our clocks go back one hour in the autumn so that the mornings are brighter and the evenings darker....
Just to say that there is a special tea at the Cafe Royal in London on the 18th November in aid of The Anaphylaxis Campaign here in the UK with lots of UK...
Hi, Here in the UK we have British Summer Time which means that at the end of March we turn the clocks on 1 hour from GMT and in Ocober we turn them back to...
David How wonderful! You will do great! What will be your topic? Awareness is SO important! I am particulary concerned about how the emergency rooms here do...
Thank you for the encouragement Diane. Yes you can forgive the general public for their ignorance but the medical profession continue to stagger me as to their...
How cool!!! Though we can't be there in person, we will be with ya'll in spirit! I will put that on my calendar, and make sure I drink a cup of tea in ya'lls...
Hi, For those in the UK wasps seem to like flowering ivy - the type that goes over walls. We have some growing over our wall and I thought it could do with a...
Hi Maggie, I walk my dog past a very fragrant (jasmine?) shrub that climbs over the walls near here and that too is teeming with wasps even at this time of...
Hi Roz, It definitely makes you walk faster doesn't it? Its a dangerous time now as you start to relax a bit .... Maggie ... over the walls near here and that...
Just had a look at the adverts on the Home Page .... and there is one from Ebay saying "Buy wasp stings" .... followed the link. Sadly none for sale today. ...
... I was sitting on my backporch yesterday afternoon, just minding my own business.....and I felt something in my hair! Yep, a paper wasp had landed on...
Alas not relaxed in deepest Sussex!! Just yesterday we had one in the kitchen and another buzzing around the back door. Apparently (according to a newspaper...
Yes can confirm that miles west of Roz the wasps are still out here in Haslemere too. I went for a run today and there were lots around so epipens came...
Something similar happened to me recently too... I was out cycling in North Wales (the location of "the big one" a couple of years ago) last week, when I...
I would have made an ungainly exit had one got in my helmet {{shudder}} - obviously not going fast enough Chris! Can't think of anything worse than them in...
... times infact i remember getting one caught in my hair when i was a kid just getting on the school bus to go home and the sucker kept stinging me in the...
Ouch - that looks like it hurt! I know its illegal here in the UK to use a mobile phone in a car but does the same apply to a cyclist? Thanks for the pic! ...
Hello-- I joined this group because I recently got stung 4 times and went into shock. I am an ecologist and was out in a remote location at the time. After...
Hi, I can't comment on the shots for immunotherapy but I did go thru 6 months of having bloods taken very regularly and found that if I looked away and...
... continue getting your shots once you are at the top dose you should be fully protected at that point your odds of having an allergic reaction is less than...
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