Of course, the phrase went round the university like a disturbed swarm of bullying wasps.
Imagine someone trying to leave internet comments while fending off a swarm of wasps.
The rock paintings, more of which are being discovered yearly, are under threat from constant wildfires, from feral animals that rub against the cave walls and from wasps whose nests dislodge the ephemeral ochre paints.
Wasps were at fault for an air tragedy 20 years earlier in the Dominican Republic.
"One of my doctors thinks it's nanotechnology"; "I was attacked by a swarm of some type of tiny wasps that seemed to inject parts of their bodies under my skin"; "They have bugs on public transport.
A Boeing 757 carrying 189 people crashed five minutes after taking off in February 1996 because the pitot tube – which measures the speed of an aeroplane – had become blocked by a wasps nest.
Match pointers Gloucester have lost four home games in a row … Wasps have not won away since beating Worcester last October.
Wasps replace Joe Launchbury with James Haskell.
In other words, the volatiles from an infested plant attract wasps and repel aphids.Crucially, the team got the same result in the case of uninfested plants that had been in uninterrupted hyphal contact with the infested one, but had had root contact blocked.
Added to that, spraying tall trees is a much more complicated and unhealthy business than treating low-growing fruit and vegetables.Agricultural scientists have also looked at controlling fruit flies with parasitic wasps.
Provided, of course, that the apple comes in liquid form with wasps floating in it.
