CRAZY FRIDAY - The Aussies advise the Brits to be alert around "jobless" wasps !!

Posted: 05/09/2013

Another CRAZY FRIDAY is hours away.

In Australia, BRITS are being warned to be alert, but not alarmed, about record numbers of drunk, "jobless" wasps which are more likely to attack because they have nothing better to do.

With their queens fully supplied with all the nectar they need, worker wasps now have nothing to do but laze around getting drunk on fermenting fruit, according to environmental authorities, The Independent, a leading Australian newspaper, reports.

Joe Mulligan, head of first aid at the Red Cross, said: “It’s hilarious that, now worker wasps have finished their life's work, all they are doing now is feasting on fermented fruit and getting ‘drunk’.

“The danger for humans of course is that they may get a bit bold and attack us while we .. are  innocently going our merry way.”

He advised people eating outside to keep a credit card to hand.  “When an insect sting is visible on the skin, a credit card can be used to scrape it away.

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