Jacqui

Saw a chap on a bicycle this morning a little way ahead of my car, he started wobbling and thrashing his arms about, then turned around and peddled madly back the way he had come. As I drove past the spot I saw what had troubled him, a swarm of bees! And there we all are, worrying about the odd tinsy-winsy spider! I do hope that poor chap was ok. A few weeks back, the kids living over the road told us they had a beehive in their postbox. I always put my hand in the postbox carefully when collecting the mail, you never know what might be lurking in there!

At school last year, a wasp entered my daughter's classroom. The class had to evacuate and a number of other teachers arrived to deal with "the situation". The Ozzies seem to panic more about wasps and bees than the Brits. Or is there something I haven't been told yet, like some deadly mega-bee or wasp variety? I believe the statistics show that more people are killed here each year by wasps/bees than snakes/spiders.

Loopy

Spider alert here today too. Apparently lots of red backs got a bit hot today at at least two of our local schools & started crawling out of gutters & off the roof. One school called in pest control and one had the deputy head running round with a can of bug spray!

Loopy

PeteY

Not sure why, but when i picture that in my mind i get the Benny Hill music playing over

On a more serious note....might have to do a bit of research ! I did'nt know aus even had stinging bees. The native australian bees don't have a sting, so they must be an import i guess. Sound nasty whatever they are :scared:

CHnJ

European wasps hitched a ride to Aus and found a land with no predators and no nasty winter!

tiredwithtwins

Sounds like a fab storyline to the next hollywood hit horror film!!
seriously tho, are they really european wasps??

:scared:

CHnJ

Uh huh. See previous posts on collossal nests growing in attic spaces and dropping through your bedroom ceiling when the joists fail while you snooze below.

Best sleep with the doona over your head : }