old man Posted June 4 Report Share Posted June 4 Any out by you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old'un Posted June 4 Report Share Posted June 4 Is that .22 Hornet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinj Posted June 4 Report Share Posted June 4 We have been working on pens in the woods and have not noticed any yet, we see more in mid to late summer - look out for Asian hornets : bloody things give me the heeby jeebies! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted June 4 Report Share Posted June 4 Asian Hornets are believed to have over wintered in the UK for the first time last winter. Not good news on a variety of fronts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnfromUK Posted June 4 Report Share Posted June 4 I have seen one (European) hornet so far this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windswept Posted June 4 Report Share Posted June 4 We normally get the native hornets nesting about our place and this spring I've seen several queens hunting in the garden. Never had much problem with them apart from the odd loss of a honey bee or two. Thankfully, no sign of the invasives round here yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dougy Posted June 4 Report Share Posted June 4 I was out a couple of weeks ago and was nearly knocked out of my highseat by one. Bloody huge thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nublue 22 Posted June 4 Report Share Posted June 4 (edited) I lived abroad and one of the nest boxes I'd put up had Great tits in it, any way they stopped going in, so I looked in side and there was about five or six very large hornets in there lava, the bird dead inside, you can work out what happened next. Horrible things. I don't think there from this world. Edited June 4 by Nublue 22 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12gauge82 Posted June 4 Report Share Posted June 4 Ive seen one European hornet so far this year, it was flying around the house like a chinook 😬 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dougy Posted June 4 Report Share Posted June 4 10 minutes ago, 12gauge82 said: Ive seen one European hornet so far this year, it was flying around the house like a chinook 😬 I'm guessing you've never had a stag beetle try to fly through your face then. 😝 Night fishing and it seriously got me touching cloth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12gauge82 Posted June 4 Report Share Posted June 4 47 minutes ago, Dougy said: I'm guessing you've never had a stag beetle try to fly through your face then. 😝 Night fishing and it seriously got me touching cloth. To be fair, no I haven't. They look monsterous 🤬🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minky Posted June 4 Report Share Posted June 4 The other week we had a hornet (unidentified type) in the living room but immediately it flew out through an open window before it could be contained and identified. A few years ago a woman who lives local to me was down in the woods with three dogs when one of the dogs disturbed a hornets nest. She told me that the response of the hornets was terrifying. The whole swarm went into full attack mode and her and the dogs were chased running right up through the wood and out into a field. She had three stings and all three dogs had stings as well. The dogs were taken to the vets for treatment and the woman was taken to the doctors and had injections . She said that the pain of the stings was far greater than any wasp stings that she had had. After a few days I went with care to have a look at the nest which was in a rotten tree stump. All I can say is that it was really active and you wouldn't want to disturb it at all. This was several years ago before there was a public notice of hornet nests and I didn't even know anything about hornets or different types. As an aside there was a wild honey bee nest up in afork of a large tree in the middle of the orchards and that was destroyed. The bees used that tree every year but since it was distroyed they've never come back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London Best Posted June 6 Report Share Posted June 6 On 04/06/2024 at 20:43, Dougy said: I'm guessing you've never had a stag beetle try to fly through your face then. 😝 Night fishing and it seriously got me touching cloth. I was transporting a dinghy which had been stood a week or two on a West Highland beach. The boat was upside down on the roof bars of my Land Rover. It was a hot day and I opened the sun roof to allow some air in. After a mile or three at cruising speed (towing a caravan) something dropped from inside the dinghy and fell on my neck. The ten year old girl In the seat behind me screamed, “argh! It’s on your neck, it’s on your neck!” I tapped whatever it was away and it flew round the vehicle until, thankfully, the Jack Russel on the back seat did what Jack Russels do and killed it. When I could stop a post mortem identified the offender as a Devil’s Coachman beetle. No harm done, but definitely not what you need at 60mph on a dual carriageway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penelope Posted June 6 Report Share Posted June 6 On 04/06/2024 at 23:00, Minky said: The other week we had a hornet (unidentified type) in the living room but immediately it flew out through an open window before it could be contained and identified. A few years ago a woman who lives local to me was down in the woods with three dogs when one of the dogs disturbed a hornets nest. She told me that the response of the hornets was terrifying. The whole swarm went into full attack mode and her and the dogs were chased running right up through the wood and out into a field. She had three stings and all three dogs had stings as well. The dogs were taken to the vets for treatment and the woman was taken to the doctors and had injections . She said that the pain of the stings was far greater than any wasp stings that she had had. After a few days I went with care to have a look at the nest which was in a rotten tree stump. All I can say is that it was really active and you wouldn't want to disturb it at all. This was several years ago before there was a public notice of hornet nests and I didn't even know anything about hornets or different types. As an aside there was a wild honey bee nest up in afork of a large tree in the middle of the orchards and that was destroyed. The bees used that tree every year but since it was distroyed they've never come back. A very, very painful sting. Got stung on the lower shin (one crawled up my leg whilst out pigeon shooting) in the summer of 2016 (?) and can still see the effects to this day. The area below the site of the sting went all 'veiny' and when pressed the tissue stayed depressed for a long time. It still does to a lesser degree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mossy835 Posted June 6 Report Share Posted June 6 not seen any down here yet, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rim Fire Posted June 6 Report Share Posted June 6 Seen a few at night when foxing you can see them with the the thermal spotter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minky Posted June 6 Report Share Posted June 6 2 hours ago, Rim Fire said: Seen a few at night when foxing you can see them with the the thermal spotter How do you see them at night.? I thought that they would have been inside of the nest. Like wasps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnfromUK Posted June 6 Report Share Posted June 6 22 minutes ago, Minky said: I thought that they would have been inside of the nest. Hornets are active at night and are attracted to light, like many insects. They will fly into rooms at night attracted by the light. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minky Posted June 6 Report Share Posted June 6 How far away can you see them.? Would it be possible to track the blighters back to their base nest with the thermal.?0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rim Fire Posted June 6 Report Share Posted June 6 48 minutes ago, Minky said: How do you see them at night.? I thought that they would have been inside of the nest. Like wasps. Hornets hunt at night they are quite a big insect never tried to follow one infact went the other way 🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oowee Posted June 6 Report Share Posted June 6 There are plenty by my house in Somerset. I had them in a tree below a high seat one year. That kept me awake 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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