Not again! Stripey pointy little f**kers!

[badkitty]

Hey Waspyfecker.... I've killed 7 of your family so far today, and I doubt that will be the last of it.
Everyday, there are at least 5 wasps in my house.Have searched the place, and the loft looking for a nest...damned if I can find it. So I keep squashing them.
Anyone know how many there are in an average nest?


Oh..theres another one...

*squish*

so that's 8 today.

and another. 9.

 

[vernon]

theclaud, you live to far south for your own good. Move up here, the little blighters disappeared about 2 months ago.

Really?

I found a queen wasp settled on the driver's door hinge of my car last week. I despatched her with a bit of wood. That's one wasp's nest less for next year.

I was buzzed by a couple of wasps just this afternoon in Bradford. So it's still not safe was wasp-o-phobes.

 

[ComedyPilot]

Really?

I found a queen wasp settled on the driver's door hinge of my car last week. I despatched her with a bit of wood. That's one wasp's nest less for next year.

I was buzzed by a couple of wasps just this afternoon in Bradford. So it's still not safe was wasp-o-phobes.

You're still further south than me.


[looks up on googlemaps - realises there may be only a few hundred metres in it and shuffls off quietly]

 

[PaulB]

All the wasps up here in Lancs have drowned or died of cold.

Not quite, Mr. Bond. I was putting the bins out this morning and five or six of them flew out when I opened the lid.

 

[snapper_37]

Hey Waspyfecker.... I've killed 7 of your family so far today, and I doubt that will be the last of it.
Everyday, there are at least 5 wasps in my house.Have searched the place, and the loft looking for a nest...damned if I can find it. So I keep squashing them.
Anyone know how many there are in an average nest?


Oh..theres another one...

*squish*

so that's 8 today.

and another. 9.

It's your honey, honey

 

[snapper_37]

Not quite, Mr. Bond. I was putting the bins out this morning and five or six of them flew out when I opened the lid.

They are just being really verocious Mr PB.

I'm telling you, they are all getting lazy and trying to find the poshest places to get for the winter.

That's why there's nowt in the north Midlands.

They obviously like you.

 

[jpembroke]

Having been stung by a wasp earlier this year whilst out on the MTB (that'll learn me) I was stung by a bee whilst descending a steep hill on the road bike last weekend. Man, that was a different level of pain to the wasp sting. It flew in to me and got wedged between helmet strap and my jaw. ******* Arrrggghhhh.

 

[wafflycat]

You'll be pleased to know, theclaud, that there is a queen wasp dying in my living room as I type this. One fewer nest next year!

 

[waspyfecker]

Mother!



you're sick you lot.

 

[theclaud]

You'll be pleased to know, theclaud, that there is a queen wasp dying in my living room as I type this. One fewer nest next year!

My disgruntlement with the verocious blighter in question has subsided (wish I could say the same about my fat right forearm), and I have made a mental note to avoid loose sleeves and low necklines on the bike in late Summer and Autumn, such encounters being mutually disadvantageous. I was obliged to remove a queen in the early stages of nest-building from my allotment toolbox a couple of months ago, and felt very mean about it. In my previous house we lived with a nest very close by and I noticed that the wasps were generally rather nonchalant and unwaspish as they went to and fro about their business - not at all pesky and persistent in the beer-garden mode.

 

[jonesy]

You'll be pleased to know, theclaud, that there is a queen wasp dying in my living room as I type this. One fewer nest next year!

And loads more caterpillars and other garden pests next year! Someone's got to speak up for wasps!

 

[jonesy]

... and I have made a mental note to avoid loose sleeves and low necklines on the bike in late Summer and Autumn, such encounters being mutually disadvantageous....

... and in Llangollen, for the same reason.

 

[Crackle]

..... and I have made a mental note to avoid loose sleeves and low necklines on the bike in late Summer and Autumn, such encounters being mutually disadvantageous.......

So long as you didn't loosen your bustle.

 

[661-Pete]

And loads more caterpillars and other garden pests next year! Someone's got to speak up for wasps!

Hear Hear! Kill the (moribund) workers at this time of year, if you must. Not the queens (unless it looks like they're nesting in a very inconvenient place). Wasps cause little nuisance in the spring when they're rearing young, and do a lot of good.

Had some very big hornets nosing around the decaying plums under our fruit trees, in France last week. One of them may well have been a queen, it was that big. Now, if they choose to build a nest in our garden next year, could be - ah - interesting.

 

[Fnaar]

Had some very big hornets nosing around the decaying plums under our fruit trees, in France last week. One of them may well have been a queen, it was that big. Now, if they choose to build a nest in our garden next year, could be - ah - interesting.

I've got some of those too