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they are already hear Billy it was on the news about a month ago think it was in Gloucestershire
This article in today's Daily Mail refers to Vespa Velutina:-
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3821495/Giant-Asian-hornets...
I keep a tube of Antistan cream. Really reduces the itching from bites & stings
got bitten by a caterpillar two weeks ago -- i presume actually it wasnt a bite but its toxic hairs causing a reaction on my skin
bugger fell down neck of my shirt - landed at base of back and then boom -- massive pain - was far stronger than a bee/wasp sting and really worried me
so much so i spent a while finding the culprit and photographing him - the pain dulled but lasted seven days and caused some minor swelling for that time
im guessing we will find far more dangers devolping with climate issues
but then septicemia appears to be killing more gardeners than spiders or creepy crawlers so far
not sure how far behind toxic plants are on the ratings table -- i remember the thirty year old guy who died a year or so ago from a mysterious aconitum encounter - how many of those are in most gardens
This is, I think, an Hawk Moth caterpillar. It's about 4 inches long. Speedy too.
Not sure if it's poisonous at all so a little off topic, maybe.
I got bitten by something on the back of my ankle at the end of last year. The bite became infected, and resisted 3 courses of antibiotics. On 31st December my doctor rang me to say he'd reviewed the photos of the infected area (by now, a circle about 1.5in across) and had booked me in for an op to "scrape it out". On 1st January. Happy New Year. So in I go at 12 hours notice, and they take a lump out of my leg. Two months of lying on the sofa with my leg up, daytime TV, and visits to the hospital 3 times a week for agonising prodding and redressing later, still not healed. Something about the back of the ankle being the worst place to have an injury because of terrible blood flow, apparently. So back to hospital for another scrape, biopsies and some burning of flesh. Don't ask. Another 2 months on the sofa. Finally it heals, and back to work. It would have been nice to have been warned at the start that I might have to take 4 months off, but it didn't seem to occur to anyone to tell me that. I am grateful, however, that it happened in the winter, and that it only took 4 months. According to one doctor, injuries like that can take up to 3 years to heal properly. And if I ever find out what bit me, I will hunt it down and make it watch 4 months of daytime TV. Killing it would be letting it off lightly.