alcazar

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Following on from last week's thread, I've just killed my THIRD queen in our house today............or rather, I thought I had!

It was walking/buzzing up the window, so I slapped it, and picked it up by one wing. Taking it out of the house, blow me if it didn't come back to life, and start twisting round to sting me

A quick nip between thumb and forefinger soon put paid to THAT idea

Don't get me wrong, I won't normally kill wasps, but no way do I want 'em nesting IN our house, thanks

Alcazar

stevebt

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You want to worry about bumping into these bad boys

YouTube - Hornets vs. Bees

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There are loads about this year. Of the six that have flown in I have killed 4, 2 got away flying off with a face full of Raid ! Cost me £40 to get the nest dealt with last year that we had in the loft.

dpb

Been bitten by a hornet ..! ill take one of these any day of the week over swarming wasps ...!

Sonic'

Just got back from my Sisters, and the cat was trying to eat one, it was much bigger than the one I posted last week, so her fella picked it up by its wing and lobbed it over into next doors garden

Nick_Cat

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Found a queen wasp in the early stage of building a nest in the children's play house yesterday. It was the size of a golf ball and she was going back and forth, I'd imagine with wood pulp, to build it up ready to lay the first eggs. Got the wasp nest killer and gave it a quick blast. Few seconds later the queen shot out covered in white foam .

Just before this the wife, who was cutting the lawn, came dashing towards me in a state of panic because a bee was caught in her hair. It was rather difficult trying to free the bee while she was fretting and as can be expected it stung her. Pair of tweezers, spray treatment and sore head followed.

Nick

Abdabz

Wasps are evil. I have a bad wasp phobia which totally affects me in August - I cant even eat at bbq's in late summer etc... This is bad news indeed...
Waspinators are the way forward for my garden...

Stephb1986

i hate bees and wasps i freak out big time! seen loads of big massive bees around lately but not seen any wasps thank god

I hope they aint nesting in your house!

Steph xx

M444GY

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i havent seen any wasps but when i do , god help them . hate the *******s

jpor

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Your lucky, we have had 2 nests in a spate of a couple of years. One in the corner of the loft, Only realised it was there after putting hte loft light on and noticing a load of wasps flying around it a few minute later. The other just outside the loft a couple of meters away from the last one. Don;t know if you knew this, but wasps never use the same nest twice.

New_scooby_04

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The amazing thing is watching the bees kill a scout hornet before it can direct the others to the bees nest. It looks like they're stinging it to death or trying to suffocate it, but actually evolution has shown the bees that they can tolerate slightly higher rises in core temperature than hornets, so they smother it and beat their wings furiously to heat it up. It expires before any of them do! Amazing!


YouTube - Smothered to death: Hornets asphyxiated by honeybees

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