Wasps what's the point?

[just jim]

They're the cats of the insect world.

 

[andrew-the-tortoise]

Do wasps ask "what's the point of humans?"

Quite possibly, thats why one stung me earlier.

Or it just saw my black and yellow hi-viz and thought I was a big rival wasp so went into pugilistic attack mode.

 

[ColinJ]

The point of a wasp is the sharp thing at the end of the bulbous black and yellow striped bit - it's called a sting and you want to avoid it!

 

[PaulB]

I got stang off a wasp coming down a very steep hill at over 70 kph. It smarted a bit but probably no more than a woman feels giving birth. Obviously, I was going too fast to stop for a few moments and it allowed the bugger to push out its sack and inject away. It itched after that but the fuss people make about them is laughable. You get grown men sat outside pubs flapping away like four-year old girlies because a wasp landed on their glass. Grow up you daft tarts.

 

[andrew-the-tortoise]

You get grown men sat outside pubs flapping away like four-year old girlies because a wasp landed on their glass. Grow up you daft tarts.

+1

 

[Lisa21]

I was driving my car the other day topless

Wolf, Are you sure it was a wasp and not a bee??? Just incase youv still got a sting in your foot??

 

[Wolf04]

Wolf, Are you sure it was a wasp and not a bee??? Just incase youv still got a sting in your foot??

No it was a wasp, now an ex wasp. The pain has subsided a lot now thanks. Well either that or I'm out of my tree on drugs.

 

[Lisa21]

Well as long as its working

 

[Rob S]

As Attenborough said on Radio 5 when asked this, the point of wasps is to continue to exist.

 

[Wolf04]

As Attenborough said on Radio 5 when asked this, the point of wasps is to continue to exist.

They would survive a lot longer by not stinging me.

 

[Fnaar]

Just got stung by one of the little feckers while answering the door to the postie... it was inside my shirt... nasty little eejits.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Just got stung by one of the little feckers while answering the door to the postie... it was inside my shirt... nasty little eejits.

That's a bit mean - I'm sure not all posties are nasty little eejits!

 

[Panter]

Apparently Wasps are really beneficial and only ever cause a proble in the late Summer when they run out of their natural foodsource.

Still hate the buggers though........

 

[Andy in Sig]

When I was having my end of ride ice cream in Ravensburg on Sunday I reached for the sugar thing to put some in my Milchkaffee (latte to you metropolitan tarts) and out of the tube came a wasp, pushed by the flow of sugar into the froth on my coffee. I laughed out loud (which got me a couple of odd looks as the incident was too small for people to realise what was going on). Anyway the little git flew away and I hope it took him hours to get all the stickiness off his wings and legs etc.

 

[MacB]

A few years ago I hear the kitchen door being slammed and my wife came rushing in say there was a giant wasp in there. Old macho me makes light of it, it's only a wasp, don't make a fuss, I'll sort it out. So, rolled newspaper in hand, I advance down hallway with Jane creeping along behind me. Open kitchen door and promptly back pedal, crashing into Jane and thankfully getting door closed again in process. Wasp, I say to her, that's a bloody hornet and a big one. As I'd opened the door it just happened to be heading towards it at eye level, looked like a zeppelin to me! So you've now got two adults crouched in the hallway wondering how they're going to reclaim their kitchen, sad I know.

Re hornets, I've seen them in action, they can devastate a wasps or bees nest in a day no problem. They actually snip them in half in mid air, it's quite fascinating, if you're not too close.