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Title: Wasps in San Stefanos
Post by: katie on August 12, 2009, 01:58:09 PM: I've been reading on another site about the number of wasps in Corfu in September. Are they a problem in San Stefanos?
Some years ago when we were in Thassos they were such a nuisance and we had to eat inside a lot of the time.

Katie
Title: Re: Wasps in San Stefanos
Post by: laurenandsam on August 12, 2009, 02:09:01 PM: Hi Katie

We went last September and the wasps were really bad, but we came back last Friday and hardly saw a wasp, so hopefully you will be lucky.
Title: Re: Wasps in San Stefanos
Post by: Jules on August 13, 2009, 01:05:03 AM: We always go beginning September and there are always wasps about. I even got stung by one a couple of years ago.
Title: Re: Wasps in San Stefanos
Post by: don on August 13, 2009, 02:30:25 AM: I remember Thassos as a waiter in the Thomas Bay but wasps never seemed a problem. The effect he had on all the females was though!
Title: Re: Wasps in San Stefanos
Post by: katie on August 13, 2009, 10:59:13 AM: Can you eat outside without getting pestered by them all the time?

Katie
Title: Re: Wasps in San Stefanos
Post by: afroditi on August 13, 2009, 11:13:59 AM: We go to SS every September and the wasps are a nuisance. It might sound ridiculous :-[ but we use insect repellent on ourselves and spray the sunbeds or the ground around us with Raid this certainly helps keep the wasps away. :)
Title: Re: Wasps in San Stefanos
Post by: Jules on August 13, 2009, 04:39:35 PM: Katie they are active in September but not to the extent that they will spoil your meal times outdoors.
Title: Re: Wasps in San Stefanos
Post by: Bristle Boy on August 13, 2009, 11:00:49 PM: Loads of the little blighters, at this time of the year in the Med and surrounding areas. Bad enough here in August/Sept.
Title: Re: Wasps in San Stefanos
Post by: don on August 13, 2009, 11:51:55 PM: Will have to walk round with a jam jar and catch the blighters like I did when I was a kid!
Title: Re: Wasps in San Stefanos
Post by: tonyco1 on August 14, 2009, 07:39:05 PM: The type of wasp in S S is not very aggressive, so just gently wave them away or ignore them, they only get excited if you jump around waving your arms about like your'e having a fit, or like Don trying to get his wallet out!!
Title: Re: Wasps in San Stefanos
Post by: katie on August 15, 2009, 12:25:09 PM: Thank you all for your replies about the wasps. We have always gone to Greece in June and apart from the one year in Thassos we have never been bothered by wasps. I'm glad it will still be Ok to eat outside but I think we will take some repellent to use on the balcony or sunbeds in case they become a nuisance.

Katie
Title: Re: Wasps in San Stefanos
Post by: tonyco1 on August 15, 2009, 09:24:57 PM: Katie - just don't spray your food! LOL!!
Title: Re: Wasps in San Stefanos
Post by: Clare Davies on August 15, 2009, 10:32:36 PM: Hi Katie
Don't worry about the wasps they really don't give you any cause for concern, we have stayed in SS in spring, summer and in October. We have never been bothered by any insects there, I'm not sure why could have been my perfume!!!

Yamas
Clare
Title: Re: Wasps in San Stefanos
Post by: tonyco1 on August 15, 2009, 11:13:55 PM: Claire - what is the perfume - you could make millions selling it there!!! LOL
Title: Re: Wasps in San Stefanos
Post by: Clare Davies on August 16, 2009, 12:03:45 AM: Tony maybe it's the splash of Brut LOL .....
Yamas
Clare
Title: Re: Wasps in San Stefanos
Post by: tonyco1 on August 16, 2009, 10:11:35 AM: O M G!! I remember that stuff - I am ashamed to admit I thought it was nice once - how times change!! LOL
Title: Re: Wasps in San Stefanos
Post by: afroditi on September 27, 2009, 07:18:17 PM: Just returned from San Stef on 25th Sept from a 14 day stay. The wasps were not a problem at the pool or in restaurants. The only place they bothered us was at the beach where they pestered us a lot early morning, then dwindled until about 4.00pm when they vanished. I have a phobia about wasps. Terrified of them but as long as you don't bother them they don't bother you. They did not succeed in spoiling our days at the beautiful beach!
Title: Re: Wasps in San Stefanos
Post by: Jules on September 27, 2009, 07:22:35 PM: There didn't seem to be anywhere near as many wasps as previous years in September this year.
Title: Re: Wasps in San Stefanos
Post by: tonyco1 on September 28, 2009, 12:10:17 AM: We hardly saw any this year!
Title: Re: Wasps in San Stefanos
Post by: don on October 04, 2009, 11:57:29 PM: That was because they liked to drown in Sandra's beer, Sandra's orange juice and Sandra's wine! Now see what happens when I part with money? ............ God sends down a pestilence followed by thunder, lightning and floods of biblical proportions!
Title: Re: Wasps in San Stefanos
Post by: Jules on October 05, 2009, 01:07:04 AM: Quote from: don on October 04, 2009, 11:57:29 PM
That was because they liked to rown in Sandra's beer, Sandra's orange juice and Sandra's wine! Now see what happens when I part with money? ............ God sends down a pestilence followed by thunder, lightning and floods of biblical proportions!
Typo alert - unless its a Midlands thing lol!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Wasps in San Stefanos
Post by: don on October 05, 2009, 02:39:55 AM: Quote from: JULES T on October 05, 2009, 01:07:04 AM
Typo alert - unless its a Midlands thing lol!!!!!!!

WOW.... Jules can spell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Harry Potter to the rescue LOL
Title: Re: Wasps in San Stefanos
Post by: tonyco1 on October 06, 2009, 03:30:13 AM: No she can't!! She mis-spelt it and accidently made it right!! (good old Jules - please don't change!!) LOL
Title: Re: Wasps in San Stefanos
Post by: Jules on October 06, 2009, 10:11:51 AM: If I changed you would have to find someone else with all my Typos skill
Title: Re: Wasps in San Stefanos
Post by: angeleyes on October 06, 2009, 04:24:38 PM: Just got back, wasps a real pain on the beach and when eating but only during the day, not at night.
Title: Re: Wasps in San Stefanos
Post by: tonyco1 on October 06, 2009, 05:10:51 PM: Must be your brand of perfume Angeleyes!! LOL
or maybe they like the end part of the season best!!