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I looked outside ..[b]no[/b] wasps

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they should be eradicated from existence, with nettles. Why a plant that is so prevalent needs self defence is beyond me.

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they should be eradicated from existence, with nettles.

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Bit harsh, he's not that bad

Not a problem 🙂

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they should be eradicated from existence

Having been stung on the neck yesterday, mid-ride, I'd agree with this. My head still aches. 👿

Agreed, taken a bit of a shine to MrsBouy.

We've been chased by them over the last few days too, can't seem to outpace the buggers.

Pretty much Every insect has a wasp preditor. Get rid of wasps and we would lutterally drown in insects

Yay wasps...

They make any beach visit a nightmare espicially with any women or kids.

We've got millions in the hedge just now, absolutely crawling with them. But they seem really chilled out for some reason, it must be full of waspnip or something. Fascinating to watch, when they're not trying to sting you to bits.

Went to Flamingo Land on Sunday - saw three people being stung, including our little girls' friend. Our Izzi is now really freaked everytime she sees one.

Kill Wasp.

They absolutely decimated all the plums on our tree in the space of about 2 days a few weeks ago. You couldn't get near the tree for the damn things. Just spent 4 days in Vilnius and they saw their way clear to landing on every meal I had and helping themselves to some. Greedy sods

Quins!

We have a large oak tree in our garden, inhabited at this time of year by some kind of insect which produces nectar. This falls on our cars which are parked below. Wasps like this nectar, and typically there will be 40 or 50 wasps on my car. You have to be pretty careful when getting into the car that none of the buggers follow you in. In previous years I've tried killing them, but there seems to be a pretty infinite supply of wasps so it never made much difference.

What we need is a Wasp/Bee cross species (lets say, a 'Wee') , that way we can breed out the inherent problems with Wasps, and end up with freindly little Wee's buzzing around instead!

Ahh!

The one that got inside my jersey yesterday stung me when I brushed at the heart rate monitor strap. I then let it out to die as it had left the sting behind bee-style. Mrs Sandwich ministered to my hurty when I got home and discovered the sting.

last week I was stung between the fingers. that hurt quite a bit 🙂

I know a young man from Dundee
Who got stung on the leg
By a wasp
When asked if it hurt
He said 'no, not a lot and it can do it again if it wants'.

Why a plant that is so prevalent needs self defence is beyond me.

Well.. maybe the self defence just works...

As for wasps - ok, they might keep insect numbers down. What about mosquitos though?

Taking a few photo's of my nephew on a merry-go-round on sunday .. proper town centre location.
See something fly to my arm in the corner of my eye.
Stung a split second later, completely unprovoked.
Shake my arm, swear really loud (unfortunately in front of the kiddies)
get stung again.
shake my arm again .. wasp still on there .. stung again
See sense, flick it off, stamp on it.
Ouch.
Ouch
Ouch.
Then 4 hours later, almost a similar occurance but I was ready for it as it landed this time and swept straight away.

they were everywhere in wallington hall yesterday. my wife and I hate them, but I at least keep it together when Warton junior is around. My wife not so, running around like a woman possessed, now William does the same 😕

The ones in our garden appear to be quite a bit more fragile than usual. Easy to kill with a bit of stiff plastic.

It's not just wasps it's also butterflies - there's loads of the little ****ers at the moment. Why can't the dozy gits fly in a straight line ?

Why can't you?

So far this year I've killed about 40 ... and enjoyed everyone of those.

Yesterday I took off a flipflop, knocked the little bugger out of mid air by throwing it at him, then crushed him with it. Flipflops are great wasp bats!

I got stung by a bee last week, I've not killed any of them and don't plan to - it was trapped and panicked though.

Could be worse:

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Another interesting thing about these big girls, is the battles between them and the local honey bees

I make no apologies for that video 🙂

I have a big wasp nest in my compost heap they are not bothering me even when tipping fresh cuttings on the heap.
Down the garden its OK just 30 yards away but we do have a waspinator hanging where we eat al fresco

Just be thankfull we don't have the Tarantula Hawk Wasp buzzing around our beer gardens..... As its name suggests it kills big spiders for a living 😯

I like it when you have some dead big tough guys who think they're rocking cool, just walking along and then a wasp flies over to them and they're all like EEEK and AAARRRGH and running around like little girls.

And for people who attract wasps.
Wasps like sugar don't they. Don't eat sugar, wasps stop liking you.

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WOW! Tarantula hawk wasp is pretty, but intimidating

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any eating or drinking outside beware!!

Outside? Outside you say?? That's nothing, we've got a nest in the eaves (converted attic so bugger all room in there) and the little shits like to make an appearance in the house. And, of course, the room they choose to use to make an appearance?? The bloody bathroom! Appearing from behind the toilet of all places 😯

There goes my peaceful time 🙁

Everywhere and very persistant this weekend - any eating or drinking outside beware!!

Warning outdoors can be a dangerous place.

They're just wasps leave them alone and they return the favour.

Not in the bloody loo they don't Drac!

legend - get some expanding foam or something. Burn Mozzie coils in there to deter them, or the plug-in ones?

Expanding foam's a bloody great idea! Thanks

Cut a lemon in half and stick a load of cloves into it. Keeps the wasps away.

Had one fly into my helmet last week. It stung my temple. Bastid. Ouch.

What Drac said. I was eating Sunday lunch at a pub outdoors yesterday, I had 4 wasps on/around me. The girl on the table was doing her nut, typical girly around wasps thing. I had to tell her to stop waving her arms around as both she and I would no doubt get stung. She didn't listen, luckily her and her fella buggered off before the wasps or I lost our tempers

It's a lovely idea, but last time I had a nest I got stung for daring to be near my house

Swat a wasp, and it releases a pheromone that attracts other wasps with the clear, unequivocal message: “c'mon, guys, there's an aggressor here, kill it with venom death!” 😀

Had to clear the grape vine, growing up the back of the house, of grapes at the weekend while they were buzzing around. 3 builders buckets of grapes in the bin before they were edible. Wasps were getting drunk and aggressive , so had to do it. Now we have a wasp free zone, especially with the racquet zapper.

The hotel we're staying at in Italy has a few wasps. Every morning they finish off my breakfast by cutting out huge chunks of ham from my plate, relative to their size, and then flying off with them. Quite impressive little things. Bit like me cutting a beer barrel sized chunk of meat and then running off with it.

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Sounds interesting, Mr. 'flaps! Can you get a picture?

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