run for cover....

[Nicos]

...just seen our first hornet!!!


well..not quite as big as the Asian Hornet....but it might as well be..it followed us down the road and kept circling us when we went for a little walk/fast walk/ run/legged it!!!!!

http://www.naturenet.net/blogs/media/mandarinia2.jpg

[FionaH]

Hate them! Can not see the point, and am planning on having words with God!

[IgglePiggle]

Looks like a wasp to me

[FionaH]

Did ya not wee the size of it Iggle? they are normous and nasty!

[tootles]

Mr T got hornetted on the ear last year, tres nasty!

[jacob marley]

many years ago i was working tieing the bags on a combine and this bloke was firkling about in the hedge bottom digging wasp nest's out for the grub's for fishing .
Any way he passed us as he ran up the field so the question was whats up mate .
His answer bl**dy hornets nest they got him....jacob

[blue411]

Err is that the real size of one????? ive heard they were nasty but flipinn eck!

[IgglePiggle]

Did ya not wee the size of it Iggle? they are normous and nasty!

Only just notched the size! What the hell are they? Heard of the name but don't think I've ever seen one... What's the difference between them and a wasp

[HayleyB]

Ooh La la, tres horrible, c'est un grand diable