Wasps - wretched things

[RogerS]

I have a sinking feeling that this is going to be a bumper year for them. Never known so many this time of year. Already had/got two nests in the fabric of the house.

One was behind a false timber wall which meant that the inside of the nest was directly against the inside wall of the bathroom. Took a certain childish but perverse pleasure in beating a tattoo with my fists against the wall when they'd all gone to bed and then watching their storm-troopers come haring out, ready for a fight, and then hurling themselves against the bathroom window trying to get to me. Made up for all those summer lunches spoiled by the pesky things. Wait until they go back into the nest. Repeat. :twisted:

 

[matt]

One was behind a false timber wall which meant that the inside of the nest was directly against the inside wall of the bathroom. Took a certain childish but perverse pleasure in beating a tattoo with my fists against the wall when they'd all gone to bed and then watching their storm-troopers come haring out, ready for a fight, and then hurling themselves against the bathroom window trying to get to me.

Do you live in my house? I have almost the same problem. My bathroom is in the eaves and the wasp nest is under a tile next to a Velux window. I can hear them through the bathroom ceiling/wall. I too tried banging on the wall to see if the noise stopped.

 

[kityuser]

hate them hate them hate them


This year I have had 4 of the buggers trying to make a nest in the workshop.

I even caught one with a few larv in a nice little house about the size of a golf ball.

bloody things, wasp nest spray soon sorts them out.


Steve

 

[BMac]

What are wasps for anyway?

Brendan

 

[matt]

What are wasps for anyway?

Brendan

You could say the same about humans... Particularly as some are more of of a pest and objectionable than wasps. :lol:

 

[kityuser]

What are wasps for anyway?

Brendan

bloody good for the garden apparently, p**s me off though

Steve

 

[matt]

What are wasps for anyway?

Brendan

bloody good for the garden apparently, p**s me off though

Steve

Do they pollinate? I almost said the same but can't recall ever seeing a wasp visiting flowers.

I do, however, remember one hiding in the washing on my washing line and objecting to me taking the garment off the line. Little sod! (Apparently this is quite common - they drink the moisture).

 

[gandy]

i remeber when i was working we rented a 40ft container with a small-ish nest in the end

a can of lighter fluid and a laighter sorted it out, and blacked part of the contaier,

btw, not something id say is a good way to deal with them if there in your house

 

[Loz_S]

The Wasp is your friend! Don´t kill them!

They kill all sorts of flies and insects that would otherwise nibble all of our garden plants, damage trees and destroy crops. If you can put up with the noise from the nest they will move house after the summer is over!

Killing wasps is very short sighted, leave them alone unless they are swarming inside your house.

 

[matt]

When I was a child my parents left a nest alone that was outside my bedroom window. The window was a sash so not the best fit.

It was a lovely sunny Saturday morning when I woke to a wasp batting it's head against my bedroom window. I thought I would open the window and let it out. It was looking a bit pissed off so I kept my eye on it as I pulled back the covers and got out of bed...

...I've no idea how many stings I got on my foot from the swarm that were on the floor. It was very swollen.

Rare, I know. But I'm less tolerant of nests near openings to my house these days.

 

[gandy]

my mother came very close to death after being stung alot by wasps, so its pay back as far as i care, plus the container was for food stuffs, so having wasps around is a bad idea

 

[MIGNAL]

You guys need a waspinator.

 

[mailee]

I swear these monsters are put on this earth ju to p*ss us off. I hate them. :evil:

 

[brianhabby]

If you've just got a few to deal with, try this:

Take a large plastic drinks bottle, cut the top third off, invert it and put it back into the bottom of the bottle. now pour some sticky sweet liquid into the device and hang up near where the wasps are.

They can get in to get the sweet stuff but have a hell of a job getting out again :lol:

regards

Brian

 

[Ironballs]

I hate the bloody things and they're vindictive swine. I particulalry hate the way they attack you in waves like little stukas when you're trying to enjoy a pint of Landlord outside the pub.

This is when you need a smoker, get smoker to light up, entice wasp onto table with piece of lemon, wasp lands on lemon, empty pint glass goes over wasp, smoker takes a long drag, smoker blows plume of smoke under the pint glass you've tilted over, wasp snuffs it pretty quickly after being smoked to do death. Problem gone, smoker thinks bloody hell that killed a wasp pretty quickly :shock:

Apparently never squish a wasp as it releases a chemical that causes other wasps to come to its defence, which in reality probably means leaving the people alone they were hassling at the next table

 

[Night Train]

I don't like killing things unless it is really necessary.

I have been stripping and reroofing my house and on lifting some felt near the eves I found a wasps nest, about the size of a grape fruit. Because I had damaged their nest by lifting the felt they were not happy. My mate who was helping also has a phobia of them so it was getting interesting on the scaffold.

To get rid of them I had to let them calm down a bit so we went inside for tea.

I had a root round to find something useful and came across some fly and wasp killer and some spray adhesive.

I sprayed the area around the nest with the fly killer and then sprayed the nest with spray adhesive. Any wasps that came out were stuck to the spary adhesive and drowsey from the fly spray. I then inverted a plastic bag over the nest and scooped it all in the bag like collecting dog poo. It went straight in the bin with it being bin day.

The spray adhesive was genius even though I do say so myself as wasps always seem to have a walk around before they take off.

 

[miles_hot]

Not sure if this will work however in my "funnies" file I have the text of a thread which I bumped into on a Lotus Elise forum which makes me smile:

Poor me (Crappy airvents & sore nipple content)

Well there was me on the M6 heading to Holmes Chapel around midday. Cruising along in the sun minding my own business and a big hairy wasp comes into the car bum end first through the far right hand airvent
He goes backwards, hits my chin and then goes straight down my top
God knows what the people in the Coach next to me thought as I started to frantically punch myself in the chest trying to kill him. They must have thought I was a looper
Anyway, the envitable happened, the [Censored] little thing stung me about 1cm away from my lovely pink nipple
F**k me it killed, which was incidentally what happended to the wasp before he got a chance to have a second pop at me.
He had to stay squashed to my chest for over 2 hours until I returned to base for a shower

I once put a transit van through a hedge and into a field because an enormous bee flew in my open window. I'm slightly allergic to bee stings so panic set in and I completely forgot I was driving.

I can't beat that but I think I can match it. Many many moons ago I was at McDonalds in the Scirocco with a mate eating some greasy crap.
My mate is petrified of wasps. It was a hot summers day and we both had our windows down a bit. I saw a wasp lurking near his window and was afraid it might come in the car and get me. I calmly start to pack up my uneaten food when the wasp came in and hovered infront of my mate.
He [Censored] himself! If you've not seen someone try to get out of a car at great speed because they're scared stiff with a takeaway on their lap and their seatbelt still on I can assure you it's mighty funny
I couldn't stop laughing for a few minutes and wasn't even that arsed that all of his lunch was *everywhere* inside the car.

The only comparable incident I can recall is driving in my mate's Nissan Bluebird on a hot summer day with all the windows down. Pheasant flew in front and entered the car through the passenger window. We all shat ourselves as this, somewhat alarmed, bird went on a flapping frenzy in the car, [Censored] ting everywhere in the process. Fortunately, my mate managed to retain his composure and pull the car over to let the petrified creature out.

LOL, my wife had a similar one the other day. She was following a colleague to an appointment. Looks to her side and spots a (and I quote) "massive" spider on the centre console. Lisa is truly terrified of spiders so swerves slightly to avoid it!! luckily noone alongside. Then sweeps it off into the footwell with her bag and continues hyper ventilating. All the time following colleague as she doesn't know the way to where they are going. Also, at present they're on the motorway and she realises that stopping due to spider might not be justifiable. An amazing bit of sense there. Luckily they pull off at the next junction and on the road they turn into there is a huge layby. She swings the car in slams the brakes on, opens the door and runs away from it. Door wide open, engine running. Looks up to see the seven coppers who were setting up an ANPR sting opposite running over to see if she is OK thinking the car must be on fire or something . A bit of eye rolling from the coppers when they find out whats up but 3 of them descended on the car for a couple of minutes to find the miscreant arachnid while the sargeant looked after Lisa. Good grief.

She'll never hear the end of that. Other Lisa related Spider classics include demanding on the phone that I come and get a spider from the bathroom as she was in the main bedroom and getting out required walking past the open bathroom door where she might see the spider. I was in Bristol at the time and we live in Cheshire. I had to talk her past the door

I got a bee up the front of my crash helmet once whilst riding at speed. Cue big sting on cheek - it hurt lots, but somehow I didn't crash.

I got a wasp in my crash helmet while on a moped in Corfu in the summer, the little [Censored] flew right down the side and stung my Ear, myear lobe was huge and red for about a week. It looked very odd and hurt like [Censored] !!

when I was about 16 I was in the back of the car on a hot summers day when a wasp flew in and went up the leg of my bermuda shorts......the little fecker stung me just a few cm's from the family jewels, and to make things worse, before it stung me I was furiously punching myself in the nuts to kill it!!! Double pain!

Drove into a carwash once. Only after rolling up the windows and the water & brushes had started did I find there was a wasp in the car.
It wasn't happy for some reason.
I spent the next 5 minutes, trapped in the car, duelling with a [Censored] ed off wasp and fending it off with an old atlas.