What the hell??!!

[speccy1]

I got up this morning, went to attend to the usual call of nature and found a huge wasp floating dead in the toilet!!

Where the hell did that come from??

 

[Tin Pot]

It's global warming

 

[vernon]

Probably a queen wasp that's emerged from hibernation.

 

[DCLane]

Just be thankful it was dead

 

[speccy1]

Probably a queen wasp that's emerged from hibernation.

From where?

I had no windows open!

 

[speccy1]

[QUOTE 3624849, member: 76"]It could be a terrorist sleeper cell, hit it with a newspaper.[/QUOTE]
Tried that but got a bit wet...........................

 

[Profpointy]

Well if we're on wasp stories, found a wasps' nest in the attic some years back, so mentioned to the Mrs that I was off to B&Q for the spray wasp killer stuff, only to be told in no uncertain terms that I wasn't to touch it, and she would phone the council pest control people. A day later, was informed she'd phoned the council and the council lady had said ", why don't you just get a can of that spray stuff from B&Q", so back to my plan A it was.

Since wasps in large numbers are quite intimidating, I'd ensured a clear exit down from the attic, with all doors open so I could run down the ladder, down the stairs and out into the garden, with no trip-hazards on the way. Went as close as I dared, spray - at which point the nest disintegrated so I dropped the can and scarpered PDQ, all the way out into the garden. After 10 minutes, carefully started into the house - no buzzing, upstairs - nothing, up the ladder, nothing.
No wasps, disintegrated nest, no corpses - no-one home basically.

I subsequently learned that wasps, unlike bees, abandon their nests in the winter, so it was just an empty shell. All that adrenaline for nothing.

 

[speccy1]

Well if we're on wasp stories, found a wasps' nest in the attic some years back, so mentioned to the Mrs that I was off to B&Q for the spray wasp killer stuff, only to be told in no uncertain terms that I wasn't to touch it, and she would phone the council pest control people. A day later, was informed she'd phoned the council and the council lady had said ", why don't you just get a can of that spray stuff from B&Q", so back to my plan A it was.

Since wasps in large numbers are quite intimidating, I'd ensured a clear exit down from the attic, with all doors open so I could run down the ladder, down the stairs and out into the garden, with no trip-hazards on the way. Went as close as I dared, spray - at which point the nest disintegrated so I dropped the can and scarpered PDQ, all the way out into the garden. After 10 minutes, carefully started into the house - no buzzing, upstairs - nothing, up the ladder, nothing.
No wasps, disintegrated nest, no corpses - no-one home basically.

I subsequently learned that wasps, unlike bees, abandon their nests in the winter, so it was just an empty shell. All that adrenaline for nothing.

Haha I can just picture it!!

We do have trouble every year with wasps in a sycamore tree across the road, just wondering if there is a connection now?

 

[snorri]

From where?
I had no windows open!

Some of these b****** can swim, and the really deadly ones can swim underwater, against the current.

 

[Profpointy]

Haha I can just picture it!!

We do have trouble every year with wasps in a sycamore tree across the road, just wondering if there is a connection now?

So long as they're outside, then live and let live, but I don't want them in the house

 

[speccy1]

Some of these b****** can swim, and the really deadly ones can swim underwater, against the current.

That`s ok I can sit down and make it very clear what I think of any swimming wasps!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I don't know whether I give off a really nasty odour (careful you lot!!), but Wasps and Bees never bother me, in fact, I see them making the effort to fly around me!!

Seriously though, I have only been stung 3 times in my life, one by a bee, and two by wasps..... But they were all my own fault!!

I could live in the middle of a wasps nest and be ok!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

That`s ok I can sit down and make it very clear what I think of any swimming wasps!

Until they fly up and sting yer bum!!

 

[Profpointy]

I don't know whether I give off a really nasty odour (careful you lot!!), but Wasps and Bees never bother me, in fact, I see them making the effort to fly around me!!

Seriously though, I have only been stung 3 times in my life, one by a bee, and two by wasps..... But they were all my own fault!!

I could live in the middle of a wasps nest and be ok!

basically, you don't bother them, they don't bother you. I've been wasp-stung twice (over 50 years), so hardly a major worry. Stir up a nest though, and you need to think it through, as that very much does break the "you don't bother them" part of the deal

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Seriously though, even at school, I would let wasps land on me, and they never once stung me. I used to impress the other kids with it!!