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Munich is plagued by plagues: Wasps cost nerves - at the lake, cercariae dig into human skin

2020-08-09T05:10:33.019Z


The super summer with changeable conditions is good for nature. However, this also applies to unpleasant animals that do not stop in front of people in search of food.


The super summer with changeable conditions is good for nature. However, this also applies to unpleasant animals that do not stop in front of people in search of food.

  • The summer of 2020 has a wide variety of meteorological events in Munich .
  • This not only pleases many people, but also unpopular animals .
  • There are harbingers of a wasp plague in the city's restaurants and beer gardens .
  • At the Feringasee in the northeast, other creatures are a burden for bathers.

Munich - This sweet summer - how wonderful! A cool glass of soda on the terrace, a relaxed look at the steel-blue sky: that's all you need to enjoy ... Except ... Yes: Unless something black and yellow appears in the field of vision. Because the wasps are also flying on the super summer that we are experiencing these days . And they especially like what we like to treat ourselves to. Limo, or for a change, a sprizz on the sunny Tambosi terrace in Munich-Schwabing. “The wasps are getting more and more every day,” says Tambosi boss Ugo Crocamo. Not bad yet - but the wasp season is only just beginning ... The buzzing is already in the air next door in Schumann's Bar in the Hofgarten. The first harbingers, say experts.

Wasp plague in Munich: Why is it - and what can be done about it

Munich * is very wepsert - and the forest management in Großhesselohe already is! “It was particularly bad on Thursday,” says managing director Erhard Schneider. But you can do something. Intellect versus insect: just put something that stinks to the Weps. In the WaWi, for example, they swear by clove-riddled lemons .

Others rely on attractants: Then the wasps come here, but are at least concentrated in one place - for example with the soda glasses, which host Ricky Steinberg from the Hofbräukeller strategically places in the beer garden. He'll have to do that again this year. Because: Because the winter was mild, the restaurateur is preparing for a possible wasp summer like 2018 *. “We'll have to wait,” he says.

Exterminator Tobias kaufl from the Munich wasp service (www.wespendienst.de) is in any case prepared. "We are facing a plague similar to 2018," says the expert. In addition to the mild winter, the warm spring is also to blame. The wasp service specialists are currently on duty around the clock. Each technician removes ten to twelve nests - a day. Wepsert, the people.

You can find out which home remedies are most effective at keeping wasps away:

Cercaria at Lake Feringa: situation "worsens year after year"

But wasps are not the only thing in Munich summer . There is a different problem towards the surrounding area: Marion W. (75) can tell a thing or two about it - the pensioner from Munich complains of a rash after visiting Lake Feringa . The reason: Flickworm larvae - so-called cercaria - swim in the water and can cause itching and inflammation. The suction worm eggs get into the lake with bird droppings. Then cercariae can dig into the skin of humans in search of a host.

Marion W., who is plagued by rashes in several places, says: “The problems at Feringasee have been around for around ten years, and it's getting worse from year to year. There are currently at least 50 to 70 geese populating it. "

Feringasee: Do not feed any geese - otherwise cercaria will eat their way into the skin

According to the rules of the authorities, you bathe here at your own risk. Christina Walzner the District Office is basically the responsibility of recreation seekers: "The most important and effective measure to allow further accumulation around the bird density is: Please no birds feed!" For it is true: "The more food, the more droppings - and hence more cercaria . "

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Uncomfortable cycle: the more geese are fed, the greater the risk of cercariae.

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Warning signs are to be put up again shortly to make bathers aware of cercariae . The authorities also advise avoiding long stays in shallow water, preferring instead to swim in deeper or lightly flowing areas.

The scent of freshly mown meadows, sweet ice cream slowly dripping from the waffle and crisp cherries behind the ear - it's finally summer in the city! Ten bodies of water that hardly anyone knows *.

Lisa-Marie Birnbeck, Salina Krings, Patrick Freiwah

* tz.de is an offer from the nationwide Ippen Digital Network

Source: merkur

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