I find on consulting the meteorological record of those days that they were overcast and chilly with local showers, which may perhaps account for this intermission.

Then on the fourth day came blue sky and brilliant sunshine and such an outburst of wasps as the world had surely never seen before.
How many big wasps came out that day it is impossible to guess.

There are at least fifty accounts of their apparition.

There was one victim, a grocer, who discovered one of these monsters in a sugar-cask and very rashly attacked it with a spade as it rose.

He struck it to the ground for a moment, and it stung him through the boot as he struck at it again and cut its body in half.