Wasps

[glazzy]

I bloody hate them, and run like a spaz whenever they are near.

lol so do i, a wasp attacked me last summer, i was stood at the back door with a brew in my hand and it flew at me...my reaction was to throw my hands over my head and run into the house :$ , good job my cup of tea wasn't too hot or i would have been in the hospital, i was covered in tea...lol...waste of a good brew :$

a few years ago the council would get rid of wasp nest for free but because there was a massive amount of wasps last year they started charging!!

jayne x

 

[blue jammer]

I was going to start a new thread 'hornets & other beasties' as they are just as bad (if not worse) than wasps.

But thought I'd tag it onto this.

Elsewhere, this was being discussed...

Hoverflies.

If you plant marigolds in the same pots as your tomatoes, or keep them with your tomato plants, it encourages the hoverflies to come along and dispose of any greenfly which might be attracted to your tomato plants.

They look nice, too.

Which prompted someone to post this piccy

Hoverflies must be strong. That ones carrying a finger. Imagine what a hornet could carry, probably a cow.



*rubs eyes*

The things people will do to be photographed...

nggggggg GET IT OFF, GET IT OFF she should be screaming

 

[doolz]

death to all flying nasty waspy things

 

[Northern Star]

yeh kill um all!

 

[S-J]

Sorry to bring this post back round again but Muvva Fcuk!

Hi All,

So sorry to bring this post back round again but Muvva Fcuk! I just have to share my pain with you.....

Today I was sat nicely having my break basking in the lovely sunshine... Minding my own business as you do...

When I felt this sharp pain on the inside of my arm... Looked down and this huge Mo Fo MuVva Truckin phat arse wasp had attached itself to the inside of my arm...

I dealt with the Ouch factor... But for the rest of the day Ive felt disabled, due to my whole arm having a bad as nasty reaction to it's sting!! Ive had to had the sting proded and poked and forcefully removed as it had gone in dead bad far.... and still now it hurts like a Biiiiiiiatch!!!

Please can somebody make me feel better by letting me know that wasps actaully have some sort of useful purpose??

Thanx for the rant!!

S-J x

 

[ilovepiano]

Sorry to hear that you got stung. Hurts like fekk doesn't it?

I always thought that wasps were useless, but apparently they do a bit of good...

Biological Information
"Nests are started by a single fertilised Queen who mated the previous year and has overwintered in the shelter of holes in natural or man made structures. When the warmth of Spring arrives she builds a small cluster of cells (or comb) by collecting dry wood from logs and/or fences which she mixes with saliva to form the paper like structure. Having completed her cluster, she lays her eggs and then protects and feeds the lava until they are grown. These new wasps will then take over building more and more clusters and coating the nest with a paper covering. At the same time they will have the task of foraging for food and feeding the new lava. The Queen does not leave the nest again, her function now is to lay eggs. The lava are fed with masticated flies and caterpillars, other fresh meat and sugars.

Late in the year the workers will build larger clusters for new queens and their mates. These lava are given extra food. The resultant offspring will be the founders of next year’s colonies of wasps and will mate before overwintering. The rest of the colony of wasps will die when winter comes.

Most wasps, it appears, are not aggressive unless threatened. When under threat, to defend themselves, they will send out an army of wasps to attack with their stings. These are female wasps as males cannot sting, they can only mate. Wasps are very much part of the food chain as they are eaten by other creatures while themselves eating the lava of insects from the garden and farmers fields. They are useful in this respect and they are pollinators of plants."

And some more....

Ecology
"Wasps are highly important to ecosystems. Sawflies consume vegetation and so limit plant growth. Most other wasps are either parasitic or predaceous and therefore play a vital role in limiting the populations of thousands of other insect species. All wasps are eaten by other species, thereby providing many links in the food web. Many parasitic wasps have been cultured and used in the biological control of agricultural pests. Although a few of the stinging wasps are considered nuisances, they also provide benefits. Yellow jackets and paper wasps, for example, prey on caterpillars and other larvae that can destroy crops. Wasps feed on flower nectar and play a role in pollination."

Stings
"All female stinging wasps can defend themselves and their nests by using their ovipositor to inject venom. Males do not have a stinger. No species will attack a human except in defense. If the colonies of some yellow-jacket and hornet species are disturbed, they may respond by releasing more than 100 defending wasps, each capable of delivering several stings. The nests of these species should be left alone or removed professionally if they are considered a nuisance. Wasp venom contains factors that release histamine, which dissolves red blood cells. Most people can survive many stings, responding with only temporary pain and swelling, but to hyperallergic individuals-about 1 percent of the population-a wasp sting can be fatal."

But even so, they should all be killed!

 

[S-J]

Awww Fanx for that chuck!

My arm still hurts like fcuk tho!! Proper dead bad swelled up!! Grimm!! LoL

Hmmmm really not grasping why they have to sting humans like? as for not stinging, only when thretend... Well today... Ha!!! what a load of B*llox!! It took it upon itself to sneak up quietly and lodge itself to me!!?? I were sat down as Ive said just having a lovely sunshine fag break?? So Wtf?? LoL it must have had a shitty case of PMT!!!! LoL

Thanks again for your troubles hun!!

S-J x

 

[Sully]

Please can somebody make me feel better by letting me know that wasps actaully have some sort of useful purpose??

maybe i'm gettin confused with bee's here but don't they pollinate plants etc - ie spread the seeds of a plant to other areas....?!?!?

got some sympathy with bee's cos once they sting it rips all their arse out so they die soon after, so you've gotta piss it off some to get a bee sting.... Wasps however can sting as many times as its little retractable stingy thing can operate - nasty pieces of work....

 

[Super Freak]

The wasp aint been too bad this year, the last couple of years mum has had a couple of nest's, there was a nest in the shed the size of a football. This year its bee's we had problems with the conservatory at mums is like a bee morge, they keep flying and carnt find there way out aigian. its like evry time ya go in the conservatory theres another 3 or 4 dead bee's at the bottom of the window.

 

[turpieaj]

wasps

feckin hate em.

 

[dj_jam]

they are pointless and they're twatness

 

[Shooms]

No place on gods green earth for wasps... agressive lil fukkers....

They're like the chav of the insect world... all hammered on wasp equivalent of white lighting wearing wasp style fake burberry caps n looking for agro...

I too run like a spaz around wasps - I cant help it :$ :$ I think I am more scared of being stung than the sting itself would hurt

PS LMAO @ BJs pic of that lass with a big fook off wasp on her face... :S what on earth was she thinking of ???

 

[el-presidente]

i fekkin hate wasps

when i was about 7 or 8 a load of us kids were in some woods messing about as u do when some older kids came an started lobbin bricks down this rabbit hole - BIG MISTAKE !!! it was a WASPS NEST

loads of the fekkers swarmed out and went mental

i got 7 stuck in back of me head and four stuck inside me mouth - had to go to hospital - really painful - bastards !

FUCKIN WASPS - I HATE 'EM !!!

 

[Super Freak]

i fekkin hate wasps

when i was about 7 or 8 a load of us kids were in some woods messing about as u do when some older kids came an started lobbin bricks down this rabbit hole - BIG MISTAKE !!! it was a WASPS NEST

loads of the fekkers swarmed out and went mental

i got 7 stuck in back of me head and four stuck inside me mouth - had to go to hospital - really painful - bastards !

FUCKIN WASPS - I HATE 'EM !!!

Every time I swat one of the little bleeders form now on I'll say "here take that. Thats for el-persidente"

 

[northern minx]

My arm still hurts like fcuk tho!! Proper dead bad swelled up!! Grimm!! LoL

wot u need is APIS - homeopathic tablets
a defo must for any wasp or bee sting, it will sort it right out
if u get stuck i cud send u some
also u can rub calendula cream on it, will take all the pain away i promise

i actually think wasps and bees are quite beautiful to look at.. they are such feared/hated creatures i always feel sorry for them. best thing to do is to be totally still when they are flying about, they dont get stressed then and so dont sting.
but they always sting the person who is afraid and jumping round like a nutter in a panic waving arms and hands everywhere!

be still

 

[Shooms]

i actually think wasps and bees are quite beautiful to look at.. they are such feared/hated creatures i always feel sorry for them. best thing to do is to be totally still when they are flying about, they dont get stressed then and so dont sting.
but they always sting the person who is afraid and jumping round like a nutter in a panic waving arms and hands everywhere!

be still

tried that when I was a nipper with wasps... fucker still stung me I have no issue with bees - I too think they are beautiful n worthwhile (love honey ) creatures but wasps are just insect chavs with attitude...

 

[S-J]

wot u need is APIS - homeopathic tablets
a defo must for any wasp or bee sting, it will sort it right out
if u get stuck i cud send u some
also u can rub calendula cream on it, will take all the pain away i promise

i actually think wasps and bees are quite beautiful to look at.. they are such feared/hated creatures i always feel sorry for them. best thing to do is to be totally still when they are flying about, they dont get stressed then and so dont sting.
but they always sting the person who is afraid and jumping round like a nutter in a panic waving arms and hands everywhere!

be still

Awww FankQ Minxxy Love,

My mum fixed me last night babe.... Ive got a little brusing where it got me, but the pain has gone today! I shall keep this bit of info and should it ever happen again... You'll be the first one that I'll call!!

I too have to agree that I always run away like a spaz... But that wasp was having me yesterday and it stealth like krept up on me and I never heard a thing!

Little bugger!! I really hope it died after getting me!!

Thanx Guys!

S-J x

 

[RiskyLady]

Its like we've been invaded by wasps this year thier bloody every where. And i agree they have never been as big the little shits will sting you for the sake of it.

 

[cam]

When I was a kid i set up the nextdoor neigbour a treat

WAFC will vouch for this one as well.

My next door neigbour had a Grifter bike, big heavey bastard thing, I had a BMX Turbo, equally as fucking bad but quicker off the mark.

Near where we live is a wood called little wood and in it theres a BMX track, anyway cause my bike was a BMX his wasnt you can imagine I shot round that track twice as fast as him, at the end of the track was a wasps nest it had made its nest out of a dead cows skull and there were a lot of wasps, anyway I blasted round this track with kev pumping his hardest to keep up and got to the end, straight over ( at lightening speed) this wasps nest, shattering its home \ skull to tiny bits, however I was not expecting what happened next to the extent.

When I stopped and looked round I could no longer see the wood, just a black cloud of very pissed wasps, this nest must have really gone deep in the ground like !!!!

Kev on his grifter saw this rise of black cloud but by the time he realised what it was, on his grifter had no fucking chance of stopping, BANG right into the cloud which followed him !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He came flying off his bike down an embankment and into the river which he must have thought bliss as the swam carred straight on following his bike stinging it !!!!!!!!!

Anyway, he ended up in hospital and had to soak on calamile lotion for about 4 hours a day for 2 weeks, he learned his lesson though, he got a different bike after that

 

[GemGem]

When I was a kid i set up the nextdoor neigbour a treat

WAFC will vouch for this one as well.

My next door neigbour had a Grifter bike, big heavey bastard thing, I had a BMX Turbo, equally as fucking bad but quicker off the mark.

Near where we live is a wood called little wood and in it theres a BMX track, anyway cause my bike was a BMX his wasnt you can imagine I shot round that track twice as fast as him, at the end of the track was a wasps nest it had made its nest out of a dead cows skull and there were a lot of wasps, anyway I blasted round this track with kev pumping his hardest to keep up and got to the end, straight over ( at lightening speed) this wasps nest, shattering its home \ skull to tiny bits, however I was not expecting what happened next to the extent.

When I stopped and looked round I could no longer see the wood, just a black cloud of very pissed wasps, this nest must have really gone deep in the ground like !!!!

Kev on his grifter saw this rise of black cloud but by the time he realised what it was, on his grifter had no fucking chance of stopping, BANG right into the cloud which followed him !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He came flying off his bike down an embankment and into the river which he must have thought bliss as the swam carred straight on following his bike stinging it !!!!!!!!!

Anyway, he ended up in hospital and had to soak on calamile lotion for about 4 hours a day for 2 weeks, he learned his lesson though, he got a different bike after that

all i can say about that is OUCH