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Article: Get a real buzz from wasp day.
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- Midhurst and Petworth Observer (Midhurst, England)
- Article date:
- August 14, 2007
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Wasps make for fascinating study, according to Sussex Wildlife Trust which is holding a wasp day at Stedham on Saturday, August 18.
Often dismissed as the unfriendly stingers of the insect world, common wasps and hornets are social insects forming annual colonies of up to 10,000 workers. With distinct markings, their yellow and black stripes are a warning pattern to prospective predators that they are venomous and best left alone.
During a morning's theory session at Stedham memorial hall, there will be an opportunity to find out more about their ecology and identify some dead social wasps ...