rhino wrote on Apr 11
th, 2021 at 11:09pm:
Jovial Monk wrote on Apr 11
th, 2021 at 10:38pm:
Native Australian bees? Stingless?
Oh Ive been stung all right. where I live
its a constant battle against wasps, bees and possums. Bloody possums eat our mangoes, bees try to create hives all over the place and the wasps build their nests literally everywhere. I get stung regularly a few times a year,. Theres native animals all over the place, animals I have encountered in my backyard, dugites, blue tongue and bobtail lizards, monitor lizards, wasps, bees, enormous amount of frogs, thats what draws the snakes and lizards.
Sounds like Paradise. . .not!
Unusual to have such numbers of frogs?
European wasps? Trust me, we have had them wasps in the droves here for a good 30 years! Every summer!
My son was following the slashed part of property after his dad went through with a tractor, only to disturb a wasps nest which my son then, 9 years of age, was attacked by a swarm!
He has his helmet and long sleeve mx top on and got stung a few times on his neck, he threw off his helmet at them and had them in his hair, luckily his dad saw it and rushed to him to bring him inside, and was squashing and killing wasps along the way, and getting a few stings himself also, because unlike bees that only sting once, and die, the EU wasps keep on stinging!
We took son to hospital and he was administer anti histamine.
It was lucky he didn’t have a bad reaction luge swollen throat.
Now, we have these weird little ugly nests all around the house, which I do not clear away once I found out it’s our Australian paper wasp. I had heard once, that they are a natural enemy to the EU wasp.
I think it’s true, because... I havn’t seen many wasps in the last few years, although I see their nests in between the bricks, or behind seats etc. we just scrape it out.