BCM Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyrex Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 *waits patiently for inevitable joke about the other kind of WASPS* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baph Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 Well, it is England. Alternately: throw a petrol bomb at it. :insert distasteful IRA joke here: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted August 2, 2010 Author Share Posted August 2, 2010 also, what's your wasp catching technique? mine involves a pint glass, a DVD case and some pretty fancy footwork. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCONES TO DIE FOR Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyrex Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 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* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted August 2, 2010 Author Share Posted August 2, 2010 wasps: serious business Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AcrossCanyons Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted August 2, 2010 Author Share Posted August 2, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ansgaria Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 I like Wisp(s). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adamovich Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 I believe you remember my sad story about wasps. If anyone doesn't I was about to choke one of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest idrn Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vertsk8er419 Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beerwolf Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted August 2, 2010 Author Share Posted August 2, 2010 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vertsk8er419 Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 i love all forms of life even radioactive wild boars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adamovich Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted August 2, 2010 Author Share Posted August 2, 2010 spiders love to catch roach and eat him alive, you should be more reliable to spiders really brilliant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vertsk8er419 Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest idrn Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vertsk8er419 Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 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* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted August 2, 2010 Author Share Posted August 2, 2010 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyrex Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soloman Tump Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 Wasps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adamovich Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 It really depends in what part of the world you live in... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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