Comments on: Wasps

By: Diana

Diana — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 03:41:23 +0000

I live in Scotland and its rather cold in the winter. We have had a series of wasps appearing in December and January – all killed by husband after my terrified yells. We must have a nest but had no problem during the summer with wasps so why are they appearing in the house – large ones – mid-winter? Any ideas??

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 03:49:01 +0000

Buck up you big jessie

By: James

James — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 02:34:34 +0000

I can’t stnd this anymore. I live out in New England so i know not to keep the window open at night…over here thats suicide…i dont no how anyone cood keep a window open at night, buy a fan or an air conditioner…now i no y u people have wasps but anyways ya i have a lot of wasps in my area and it is november and just when i thot it was safe from wasps..they come right through the crevices of my shut window…i have a phobia of hornets so im afraid to kill them…

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 04:34:30 +0000

Perhaps they’re trying to sting the window? The fools!

By: netty

netty — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 20:45:23 +0000

Every morning for the past 2 weeks there have been wasps on my kitchen windows (when I have switched the light on). I assume that they are attracted to the light, but they are secretiong some sort of fluid onto my windows. Does anyone have any idea what this might be?

By: Kay

Kay — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 19:36:38 +0000

I have no idea if they’re wasps outside my window, but I keep books on my window cill and for three nights now, I’ve had the occasional two on my light bulb – that doesn’t bug me. And after the 4th one today, my mum decided to take a look at the window – and viola – 13 dead wasps… I have no idea where they’re coming from, but they rarely wander over into my room, just always on the window cill – i have NO IDEA what to do – or where they’re coming from – any suggestions – i’m TERRIFIED OF INSECTS – ESPECIALLY ONES THAT STING!!!!

By: pixeldiva

pixeldiva — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 01:06:36 +0000

13 of the buzzy bastards? *shudder*

Given the levels of adrenaline that I had killing just one of them this morning, I’d probably have been as high as a kite after killing that many.

Or I’d have screamed like a girlie, run from the room and refused to go back in there until there was someone else in the house that could kill them all.

Just because I have an epi-pen, doesn’t mean I’m in any hurry to use it.

By: Ezron

Ezron — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 11:00:07 +0000

Wasps, the devils workers!! I hate wasps, I detest them, every one of them little black n yellow belly monsters. Evil, pure evil. I hate the little whizzy things. I stay up at night, quite content on my own tapping away.. but oh no, sumone else wants to join me, and maybe he will bring a few of his friends.

Buzz buzz buzz, right this second I can hear him, I cant find him. My problem? I just cant kill them, I’m a good lad I dont kill things, Ok so I may spend a good hour trying to trap the little buggar in my “just cheese” sandwich container, and if it fails sleep in the car… but since I have lived here I have had nothing but trouble with them, there must be a nest.

WELL my little winged friends, this time I win. Tomorrow, I move house :p (and your not invited)

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 04:03:40 +0000

Lat September I sat on a wasp on the beach – an inch from you know where. Ouch. This year April made a smoothie and drank a wasp which stung inside her mouth. Called NHS Direct, went through long dialogue about our post code being incorrect by which time it was clear that there wouldn’t be an adverse reaction. Even so, the GP suggesed piriton and after three days she was back to normal. My Mom used to kill wasps with her thumb – brave lady – obviously not a Buddhist though.

By: Marco

Marco — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:55:54 +0000

OMG you see a wasp you kill it, who cares. BUDDIST……tehehe.you make my laugh and cry at ur craziness

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 09:19:36 +0000

No wasps at all tonight. I think I must have caught them in transit.

Phew!

By: brendadada

brendadada — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 06:37:11 +0000

Netting is a great idea. You could use an old bit of net curtain. Genius.

By: Marv

Marv — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 02:41:22 +0000

one of those little handheld hoovers is quite a good way to deal with wasps

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 02:08:43 +0000

Only two wasps last night, both before midnight. The second was a bit surley but two isn’t that unusual. Maybe the thirteen were swarming off to somewhere else and got distracted by my light wuth the rest of them are currently messing with someone else’s eaves ? I can but hope.

Netting is a keen idea. I’ve been thinking along those lines for a while.

And I’ve not been stung once, but then I don’t get stung unless I deserve it. Just not stinkey that way.

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 00:36:40 +0000

I have a mnemonic for that: “Bee (B) for bicarb means vinegar for wasp”

So, you’re right.

Definitely sounds like nest is nearby. I recommend getting a length of fabric netting (get it from a fabric shop or John Lewiss, it’s about a quid a metre) and pinning it around your window so you can leave it open and the bugs can’t get in… and call pest control to sort the wasps out for you!

By: Dave C

Dave C — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 23:54:06 +0000

Vinegar on a wasp sting.
Bicarbinate of Soda on a bee sting.
(or is it the other way around?)

By: Rog.

Rog. — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 21:44:01 +0000

Freezer spray (used to cool electronic components) does the job quite nicely – can be used on smallish nests too. RS part number 497-274 if you don’t have any to hand.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:55:29 +0000

Wasps are the psychotic cousins of bees. Bees will, pretty much, leave you alone once they figure out you are not a flower. I’ve worked in the garden whilst swarms of bees buzzed to and fro along the flower bed I was weeding.

Wasps will sting you on the way past just for kicks. They are like that school bully who would slap you round the head as he walked past. No warning, no reason.

Wasps must die. I feel a URL purchase coming on…

By: brendadada

brendadada — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 19:53:49 +0000

There must be a nest nearby. This time of year they swarm. A new queen wasp from an old colony clears off with a whole gang and tries to establish another one somewhere. They are dead dodgy when they’re swarming, stingy-mad, when normally they leave you be if you leave them alone. And it’s very hard to catch a swarm, until they’ve settled down and start nest building.

The council will only deal with wasp swarms and nests on private property if they pose a threat to public safety, like they’re near a bus stop or a school playground or something like that. The Neighbourhood Office keeps a list of private firms that will do this sort of thing, or there’s the local version of Rentokill (but don’t use them).

A very drunken Irishman in his late 60s came and removed a wasps nest from under the eaves right outside my bedroom window. Same kind of aggressive wasp behaviour as yours, and I’d already been stung twice. This plucky fellow borrowed a ladder, prodded and poked the nest down with a stick, then blasted it and all the stragglers, with a big blowtorch. Crude, effective, and approx 20quid.

Calamine cream is good if the little bastards do get you, and an antihistamine pill. Good luck! :)

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 18:32:05 +0000

Wasps are the chavs (or neds as we call them up here ) of the insect world. They have no obvious purpose in life apart from intimidating normal people reading their Gaurdians and eating their continental style sandwiches. They wear unsightly naff yellow and black stripes (insect ‘burberry’) and will inflict injury upon anyone they take the slightest dislike to.
They travel around in gangs and like to drown themselves in lager. Your lager.
I mean, case closed, ya?

But it doesn’t mean you have to kill them. What about trapping it under a tumbler and releasing it in a florist or greengrocers (near the mangos)?