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Location: North Wiltshire
Car type: 1927 Chummy, 1926 Top Hat 1938 Big Seven 1/2 a Trials Chummy
That would be a queen wasp Steve. At this time of year, they start to wake up from their winter sleep and look for places to set up a nest. The queen will fly until May or June, after which she becomes nest bound and lets her workers do the honours. Once she dies in late August or September there are no more eggs to tend and no more sugar solution given out by the grubs so the workers go out looking for fallen fruit, getting very drunk in the process of sating their desire for sugar, a perfect recipe for stings to humans!
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Location: Monmouthshire
Oh dear, should I have encouraged her to nestle down somewhere inside the car, rather than take her chance on surviving any further frosts and snow. I am not sure that there is a shortage of wasps in Wales.
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Location: Deepest Frogland 30960
Car type: 1933 RP Standard Saloon
As they say in Yorkshire "That'll do!"
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Location: Auckland, NZ
Hi RF
Do you have a giant lathe to turn the crank handle shaft or did you use some sort of internal fly cutter?
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Location: Deepest darkest Kent
Hello BC,
in fact I have two giant lathes and a boys lathe, plus a 1912 Drummond round bed treadle.
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Location: Scotchland
Reckless’ post in nearing a million views, nice work sir!
