"Dave Liquorice" wrote in message
ll.net...
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:04:32 GMT, geoff wrote:

What more of a full story are you after ?

Sitting talking to my brother across a bench table in the back garden,
suddenly felt the bugger sting me

More information on where it stung you? As you are obviously avoiding that
I suspect it became inadvertantly trapped between you and something else
and was about to be crushed.

That's what happened when I got stung by a wasp, it got up a loose T shirt
sleeve when my arm was raised. When I lowered my arm it was trapped in the
edge of my arm pit, it stung in self defence to avoid being squidged. It
worked I lfted my arm and it flew away...

That's the usual reason for being stung 'for no reason'. Another is emitting
whjat the wasp senses as a threatening pheromone - chemical messenger. That
might be a dye in clothing or something which seems pleasing to us such as
scent, after-shave etc - or just our own body smell even if we're not aware
of it.

Wasps communicate partly through scent, they have a far greater sense than
humans.

Mary

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Cheers
Dave.