{"id":20393,"date":"2019-08-26T09:55:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T08:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20393"},"modified":"2019-08-26T09:55:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T08:55:32","slug":"stingers-in-the-garden-get-me-nettled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/stingers-in-the-garden-get-me-nettled\/","title":{"rendered":"Stingers in the Garden Get Me Nettled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20394\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Brennnessel_1-1024x834.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Brennnessel_1-1024x834.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Brennnessel_1-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Brennnessel_1-768x625.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Brennnessel_1.jpg 1474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was picking the Czar plums to make more jam when a wasp was disturbed from eating it&#8217;s lunch. Wasps go for my plums just as they are at their sweetest best. My problem was I couldn&#8217;t see which plums had a wasp in the fruit if they were above head height or facing away from my hand. The resulting sting set me on the trail of other stingers in the garden.<\/p>\n<h3>Plants Stingers<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"ILfuVd NA6bn\"><span class=\"e24Kjd\">\u00c2\u00a0Who has not been stung by a common nettle or the stinging nettle\u00c2\u00a0 a herbaceous perennial aka <\/span><\/span><span class=\"ILfuVd NA6bn\"><span class=\"e24Kjd\">Urtica dioica. More likely to be stung walking on country paths or unkempt areas not in your garden I am sure!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"ILfuVd NA6bn\"><span class=\"e24Kjd\">The nettle family are stinging plants with\u00c2\u00a0 hairs on\u00c2\u00a0 leaves or stems that are capable of injecting formic acid that cause pain or irritation. Brushing bare skin against the leaves causes <\/span><\/span><span class=\"ILfuVd NA6bn\"><span class=\"e24Kjd\">initial pain with the potential for more effects caused by histamine, acetylcholine and other chemicals that are also present.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"ILfuVd NA6bn\"><span class=\"e24Kjd\">Giant hogweed\u00c2\u00a0 contains a corrosive sap that causes severe rashes,\u00c2\u00a0 burns and even serious eye damage if you get the photosensitive chemicals\u00c2\u00a0 in your eyes . aka <\/span><\/span><span class=\"ILfuVd NA6bn\"><span class=\"e24Kjd\">Heracleum mantegazzianum.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Poison ivy &amp; its cousin, poison oakone is a noted rash-maker. It&#8217;s toxin, urushiol oil, is in the sap of the plant and present in minuscule quantities in some other food stuff.<\/li>\n<li>Other plants, often those with hairs or irritating sap, can cause irritation and allergic reactions. I suffer with some verbascum Optunia cacti and euphorbia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-20397\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/fruit-eating-wasp-1024x856.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/fruit-eating-wasp-1024x856.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/fruit-eating-wasp-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/fruit-eating-wasp-768x642.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was picking the Czar plums to make more jam when a wasp was disturbed from eating it&#8217;s lunch. Wasps go for my plums just as they are at their sweetest best. My problem was I couldn&#8217;t see which plums had a wasp in the fruit if they were above head height or facing away from my hand. The resulting sting set me on the trail of other stingers in the garden. Plants Stingers \u00c2\u00a0Who has not been stung by&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/stingers-in-the-garden-get-me-nettled\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-pests-problems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20393"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20399,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20393\/revisions\/20399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}