Students hospitalised after wasp attack at school in Melbourne’s west

Three students were hospitalised yesterday after a swarm of wasps descended on a school in Melbourne’s west.

The Herald Sun reports Featherbrook College in Point Cook was sent into lockdown and paramedics were called to assess 32 students.

Senior curator of entomology at Museums Victoria, Dr Ken Walker, says the only thing that can be done when an European wasp nest is disturbed is to seek shelter indoors.

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“Unfortunately the European wasp puts an alarm pheromone on the person who disturbed the nest, or particularly if you have swatted a wasp that’s on you, and then they all come and get you,” he told Ross and Russel.

Dr Walker says there can be up to 100,000 wasps in an European wasp nest in Australia, because higher temperatures mean they can survive the Australian winter.

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