Dissuading hornets?

[oldwoodcutter]

I wouldn't have believed this had I not seen it with my own eyes , but Wednesday I felled a reasonable spruce and what wouldn't chip, my lads loaded onto my tandem axle trailer and sitting on top of the loaded cord was a big hornet eating the spruce sap.

15 miles later and after doing up to 60 on a dual carriageway, they spotted the hornet back at my main yard still sitting on top there.

They shood him away to unload in disbelief.

[Mick Dempsey]

http://www.charentelibre.fr/2017/10/04/un-elagueur-pique-100-fois-en-cinq-minutes-par-des-frelons-asiatiques-a-ruelle,3143792.php

 

Here is a incident that happened near me.

 

Utilty tree guy in a cherry picker, 12 mètres up, stung over a hundred times by Asiatic hornets, the guy operating it on the ground was stung as well and ran away! The guy in the bucket was a climber (luckily!) so jumped out of the bucket and managed to get down, the bandages on his forearms are from sliding down the trunk.

 

Lucky to be alive.

Edited October 8, 2017 by Mick Dempsey

[Rough Hewn]

Nasty bee eating bar stewards.

[tree-fancier123]

2 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

the bandages on his forearms are from sliding down the trunk.

no need for a rope to descend! yes, lucky to be alive, expect  a google search would reveal quite a few deaths in the news from hornet stings

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/man-killed-horrific-hornet-attack-6783940

sorry about linking The Mirror

Edited October 8, 2017 by tree-fancier123

[Beardie]

On 08/10/2017 at 09:34, tree-fancier123 said:

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/man-killed-horrific-hornet-attack-6783940

sorry about linking The Mirror

Yes, apart from anything else, that's a remarkably sloppy piece of journalism which conflates three entirely different species of hornet. It's the Asian hornet, not the Asian Giant hornet, which has been found in Britain. Neither is the same as the hornets which caused the death in the article, which would have been an American species.

[Fozzie]

I managed to get stung by one whilst in the office doing some paper work and ended up in A&E for about 7 hours. Turned out that I came up in all sorts of hives and rashes that depleted the volume of blood in my system, hence every time I tried to stand up, I passed out, including some 6 hours later in A&E when they wanted to do a standing blood pressure test. I said "this is not a good idea" and then the next thing I knew the room was full of people that I had never seen before, pulling Oxygen out of the ceiling... Nasty things: I now have an epi-pen, and a number of other Tree Surgeons I know also have them due to severe allergic reactions to the buggers. 

[Mick Dempsey]

Just now, Fozzie said:

I managed to get stung by one whilst in the office doing some paper work and ended up in A&E for about 7 hours. Turned out that I came up in all sorts of hives and rashes that depleted the volume of blood in my system, hence every time I tried to stand up, I passed out, including some 6 hours later in A&E when they wanted to do a standing blood pressure test. I said "this is not a good idea" and then the next thing I knew the room was full of people that I had never seen before, pulling Oxygen out of the ceiling... Nasty things: I now have an epi-pen, and a number of other Tree Surgeons I know also have them due to severe allergic reactions to the buggers. 

I’ve been meaning to talk about this on here.

 

I’ve had two multiple sting incidents by bees this summer, in itself not too painful, but resulting in, as you say, a need to get an epi pen to avoid a anaphylactic shock incident.