wasps

has anyone else got a problem with wasps? in the past few days there's been loads of them - had to capture and release about 8 from my flat...they keep popping up late at night when i least expect it. bastards. i think it might have something to do with the prolonged spell of hot muggy weather in london at the moment - i've checked around the apartment block i live in and can't find a nest or anything. i can see them outside now....they're all congregating around this bush a few yards below my window. might set fire to the bush. throw a petrol bomb at it.

*waits patiently for inevitable joke about the other kind of WASPS*

Well, it is England.

Alternately:

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throw a petrol bomb at it.

:insert distasteful IRA joke here:

also, what's your wasp catching technique? mine involves a pint glass, a DVD case and some pretty fancy footwork.

I've got a bunch of dead wasps in the fluorescent light above my desk. There must be a huge nest up there in the ceiling now. They probably get into the light through a hole in the ballast.

Every now and then I'll see a live one in there pushing the old wasp corpses around. Recently two live ones got out of the enclosure into my office and a coworker's office. I have a terrifying vision of the kind of wasp infestation you'd only see in a movie on the SyFy Channel.

  On 8/2/2010 at 8:37 PM, BCM said:

also, what's your wasp catching technique? mine involves a pint glass, a DVD case and some pretty fancy footwork.

*Genuinely confused about which kind of WASPS being referred to*

wasps: serious business

  On 8/2/2010 at 8:37 PM, BCM said:

also, what's your wasp catching technique? mine involves a pint glass, a DVD case and some pretty fancy footwork.

killing them requires less effort and more satisfaction. fuck insects.

yeah, but i heard that when you kill a wasp it releases some kind of pheromone which attracts other wasps to come and get revenge!

edit: also, i don't like killing things if i can help it - even wasps and flies.

I like Wisp(s).

I believe you remember my sad story about wasps. If anyone doesn't I was about to choke one of them.

yeah, same. it's been weird though, last month i've awoken or come home to find a single dizzy wasp against my window. the other day i got one in a glass but it was going mental, whacking its stinger around willy nilly so i didn't dare release it for fear of being stung. i opened up a gap for it to crawl out and tried to decapitate it but got a wing instead, so it started buzzing around wonkily. i tried it again but this time got the abdomen, which was even worse - there was this pulsating stinger moving up and down, dripping guts and venom, and a mutilated wasp bit buzzing around like crazy, hitting the sides and going 'ping, ping'. eventually i just thought fuckit and crushed the remains with a tissue, but by then the psychological damage was done.

  On 8/2/2010 at 8:40 PM, BCM said:

edit: also, i don't like killing things if i can help it - even wasps and flies.

lol me too. spiders and roaches are the only exceptions, and that's only if i catch them in the house.

but i do have a wasp problem, i've had to knock down 3 nest in the past 2 days, no wasps on them at the time of course.

Yep, there's loads of the critters about, a lot of people are noticing it.

Been stung 4 times in 2 weeks. Not nice. Last time I was stung and I killed the bastard a whole mob of them just started piling out of their nest straight for me. I retreated as fast as I could and they were following me up the road zipping all around me.

Got stung on the tounge once, that wasn't too nice.

  On 8/2/2010 at 8:49 PM, idrn said:

yeah, same. it's been weird though, last month i've awoken or come home to find a single dizzy wasp against my window. the other day i got one in a glass but it was going mental, whacking its stinger around willy nilly so i didn't dare release it for fear of being stung. i opened up a gap for it to crawl out and tried to decapitate it but got a wing instead, so it started buzzing around wonkily. i tried it again but this time got the abdomen, which was even worse - there was this pulsating stinger moving up and down, dripping guts and venom, and a mutilated wasp bit buzzing around like crazy, hitting the sides and going 'ping, ping'. eventually i just thought fuckit and crushed the remains with a tissue, but by then the psychological damage was done.

 

harsh man... i freaked out because i left one trapped overnight and it was dead the next afternoon - my girlfriend said she had seen it trying to eat it's way out (it was trapped in a glass on top of a tattered old book)...poor fucker, i was going to let it go as well...

i love all forms of life even radioactive wild boars

  On 8/2/2010 at 8:49 PM, impotentwhitecapitalist said:

  On 8/2/2010 at 8:40 PM, BCM said:

edit: also, i don't like killing things if i can help it - even wasps and flies.

lol me too. spiders and roaches are the only exceptions, and that's only if i catch them in the house.

 

but i do have a wasp problem, i've had to knock down 3 nest in the past 2 days, no wasps on them at the time of course.

lol spiders love to catch roach and eat him alive, you should be more reliable to spiders really

  On 8/2/2010 at 8:54 PM, Indicator said:

spiders love to catch roach and eat him alive, you should be more reliable to spiders really

brilliant

well i've always had an innate fear for spiders, it's the prospect of a nasty bite that freaks me out the most, not their appearance or anything stupid like that. if i'm not at risk i'll admire that shit all day

  On 8/2/2010 at 8:51 PM, BCM said:

  On 8/2/2010 at 8:49 PM, idrn said:

yeah, same. it's been weird though, last month i've awoken or come home to find a single dizzy wasp against my window. the other day i got one in a glass but it was going mental, whacking its stinger around willy nilly so i didn't dare release it for fear of being stung. i opened up a gap for it to crawl out and tried to decapitate it but got a wing instead, so it started buzzing around wonkily. i tried it again but this time got the abdomen, which was even worse - there was this pulsating stinger moving up and down, dripping guts and venom, and a mutilated wasp bit buzzing around like crazy, hitting the sides and going 'ping, ping'. eventually i just thought fuckit and crushed the remains with a tissue, but by then the psychological damage was done.

 

 

harsh man... i freaked out because i left one trapped overnight and it was dead the next afternoon - my girlfriend said she had seen it trying to eat it's way out (it was trapped in a glass on top of a tattered old book)...poor fucker, i was going to let it go as well...

once a spider attacked me in the night (lying awake at 3am, hear scuttling on the pillow, open eyes to see giant hairy fucker running onto your chest). i left it to die in a pint glass, partly because i was too traumatised to face it, but also to serve as a reminder to other spiders. in retrospect i should've made a gibbet out of matchsticks.

doesn't the average person eat like 4 spiders per year whilst asleep? no nasty bites here, the fuck am i so scared about? but i did have a nasty sore throat a few months back... *freaks the fuck out*

no problems with spiders so far in this flat... generally i quite like spiders - they say that a house is not a home until the spiders move in you know...

Oddly enough I just sprayed the entire perimeter of the house with some new-fangled bug barrier that is supposed to last 12 months. Our biggest problem here is ants - from the mildly annoying sugar ants to the more aggressive fire ants, but they rarely come inside.

Wasps

It really depends in what part of the world you live in...