Drunk Angry Wasps Terrorizing UK Beer Gardens

It’s been a tough season for beer drinkers in Europe and the UK, what with CO₂ shortages leading to beer rationing…snakes in bar coolers, and bottle shortages in Germany. But no one was ready for swarms of drunk, angry wasps are wreaking havoc on some of the United Kingdom’s most popular beer gardens!

Here’s the deal…

It turns out that Europe’s brutal heatwave has not only threatened the continent’s barley crops it’s also destroyed the wasps traditional food source larvae from hive queens. And to compensate for that loss, wasp swarms have turned to fruit drying (and fermenting) in the summer heat, resulting in drunken behavior.

And, not surprisingly, UK wasps are angry drunks.

According to Thrillist they’ve taken to dive-bombing beer gardens in the United Kingdom, and that’s a ‘buzzkill’ that stings.

Ridtek Pest Control’s Shane Jones of told Metro that it’s been a busy summer marked by drunken wasps with bad attitudes who are finding their way to British beer gardens…

“Wasps have built absolutely massive nests and, now that all the larvae have grown up and the queen has stopped laying eggs, the colonies have a workforce with nothing to do — and nothing to eat.”

Now, Jones says, the wasps “go down to the pub, obviously.”

And in addition to being attracted to ‘jam sandwiches, (but who isn’t?) the wasps are also drawn to pints of beer.

And Shane Jones sees the wasp’s love of beer as part of the problem he’s been dealing with this summer…

“Wasps can’t handle their booze, so they get tanked-up and fighty — like lager louts”

And even though we’re not exactly sure what a “lager lout” is, it doesn’t sound great and probably should be avoided along with the Great Britain’s booze-crazed wasps.