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Honey Buzzards are here in France apparently, I’ve never knowingly seen one.

You can get a test to find out, I’m super allergic to bees, less so to wasps.

Allergic like you get a bad reaction or allergic like you die?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane_toads_in_Australia

Cane toads I believe.

Exactly, clickbait.

I think the terminology and nomenclature used in the article and all references to this insect are comical Murder hornets ffs! Slaughter phase! Loads of people die from bee stings all over the world. I mean you don’t want it, that’s for sure but they act like it’s an interstellar threat.

With the Asian hornet (an invasive species here) it’s not the size, it’s smaller than our European hornet, its the aggression to us and the different way it attacks bee hives, which the bees can’t defend, apparently.

I was dismantling it, but due to the nest the client agreed to a fell even though there was some collateral (a rhododendron iirc) What was weird is that it wasn’t the hornets nest that caught my eye initially, there was a wood pigeon’s nest not 3ft from it up there. I looked at the pigeon...

Sorry, missed this. He turned up with ladders and a pole with an insecticide bomb thing at the end. As it turned out he couldn’t safely reach it, so the lads and client sat in the vans with the windows shut, I dropped the tree and ran to the van, he walked up to the fallen tree in full gear and...

Had a close thing with those Asians last summer, got right up a spruce before seeing the active nest, came back down very carefully before calling the exterminator. Guy near me very nearly killed by them, spent a long time in hospital, went blind for a while.