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you can get fined upto €50,0000 in Germany if you kill a hornet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_hornet
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Hornets are big. I thought they were a couple of "inches" from memory. When I have seen them (in Germany) they were less aggressive than wasps too. But maybe that is because it was night.
They are nasty fuckers- don't try to usher them out- gas the bastards and leave the room sharpish.
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Although it may be getting a little cool to fly this late in a cool evening.
I wouldn't handle it as it may be a little pissed with you by now for covering it with dust and trying to suffocate it, wouldn't you be ?
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Wasps are usually just fine, had them nest in the roof and ceiling spaces many times, they never even came in the house.
Hornets on the other hand have a reputation of being protective of their nest sites, and are big enough to back it up, especially en mass, so I would keep a healthy distance from their nests.
Nature rarely instigates aggression, unless provoked to defend itself, you can live in peace with most creatures if you have the will.
Queens of both species are a lot larger than the workers, all they want to do right now is find somewhere safe for the winter, bit like us I guess.
There was a hornets nest near where I used to live, had the upstairs window open last summer, and looked up to see a hornet hovering about a foot in front of me at eye level, stared at each other for about 10 seconds, then it flew out and away. They really are quite stunning close up, oh and quite large. !
A few years back in another house, early spring I think, there was a sound like a B52 bomber coming from the quite small landing, went to investigate, and there in front of me was a queen hornet, about three inches or so long, they are big mofos, especially at close quarters when eye to eye !
I shut all the doors to the bedrooms, walked past it with a little adrenaline flowing by now as it was never more than a couple of feet away from me, and you could feel the air vibrate to it's wing beats. I opened the bathroom window and waited for it to make it's way out, then closed the window behind when it obliged, so it couldn't return to start a nest, and never saw it again.
Quite a privileged experience though, IMO
Still got a black mark. I hope that lad and his mates all die a horrible death. Wasps and Hornets. Bees are sound though.
It won't be long before you're saying to the missus "We have to nuke the house from space - it's the only way to be sure'.
Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."
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Median Wasps are the softest, they always vacate the nest at the end of August at the latest without fail and don't ever hassle you for meat and sugar. I like wasps, they've stripped my front door and saved me sanding it.
None the less, all wasps have had a hard time of late with the exception of this year, so leave the queens alone.
Hornets are great too, wouldn't want to be a moth or a butterfly though. You see them land and dissect their prey in situ and then fly off with the meaty parts. You often see them around trees and shrubs where smaller insects and butterflies are hanging around.
If you see an Asian Hornet though and you're 100% sure it's not a native hornet, which are actually larger, kill it and send the details about where and when you saw it as they prey on bees. Enough god damn French bumblebees here already. But Asian hornets are particularly devastating to native honey bee colonies.
Remember, save the WASP and destroy the Asian hornet.
Yep, that is exactly what DEFRA are advocating. The humanity.
http://fera.co.uk/news/showNews.cfm?id=795
Turns out they're harmless, but it looked like a 2" long wasp...
/Coat.....