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Where have all the wasps gone?(not missed!)

  • 13-07-2013 12:05AM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    I haven't seen a single wasp all year, have they all been extinct?(hopefully)

    I've sunbathed quite a bit this week in the garden and yet not one has attempted to attack me or flown by.

    Have seen a few hard working bees(fair play) but anyone know what's happened to the wasps?

    For the record way back in the year 2001, I must have slaughtered about 100 wasps that summer, thank me later :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,629 ✭✭✭Archeron


    BUUURRP. Excuse me....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,506 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Come to think of it, I've yet to be attacked by a wasp yet either

    Fecking midgets midges would kill you though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 734 ✭✭✭Tom_Cruise


    Most of them have migrated to Oz and the few that remained are pollinating and making nests.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 855 ✭✭✭Evolution1


    It's great they are gone . I've only seen the odd small one and they didn't make it. On the plus side the bumble bees are increasing in numbers


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 740 ✭✭✭Aka Ishur


    Its august when ye start seeing them lads...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 855 ✭✭✭Evolution1


    Aka Ishur wrote: »
    Its august when ye start seeing them lads...


    Usually here in may . Always had a nest to spray .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Building me an underground lair and doing my bidding!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    Aka Ishur wrote: »
    Its august when ye start seeing them lads...

    Where can I commit genocide on the nests of the scum of the insect world? (pre-emptive action against IMD..insects of mass destruction)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,711 ✭✭✭C.K Dexter Haven


    gurramok wrote: »
    For the record way back in the year 2001, I must have slaughtered about 100 wasps that summer, thank me later :D

    So, you're the one responsible for the increase in butterflies in my garden:mad:


    Oh, sorry. Thanks :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭holystungun9


    I so prefer when people call them waps. Takes the sting out of their image.


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  • Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Gone the same way as the bees, buzzed off, feckin agricultural insecticides!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭jprboy


    Bumble bee arrived in our office d'other day.

    Struggled desperately against lowest pane of glass to get back out.

    Got plastic cup, piece of cardboard, executed capture and released almost immediately.

    Pollinate my pretty, pollinate :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,711 ✭✭✭C.K Dexter Haven


    jprboy wrote: »
    Bumble bee arrived in our office d'other day.

    Stuggled desperately against lowest pane of glass to get back out.

    Got plastic cup, piece of cardboard, executed capture and released almost immediately.

    Pollinate my pretty, pollinate :)

    Knight this person please, someone :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 474 ✭✭Candy_Girl


    I always thought it was around the end of August start of September that they came out in force?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 855 ✭✭✭Evolution1


    Bumble bees are fine :) leave them be


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭MurdyWurdy


    We had a giant one in the house the other day. Husband tried to remove him using a saucepan and place mat for ages before finally succeeding.

    It would have been very amusing to watch if I hadn't wanted the fecking thing out of the house ASAP - hate wasps :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,005 ✭✭✭Ann22


    I haven't seen any either. Flies are driving me nuts though, the dogs go barmy when I'm trying to swat them. When I leave the back door open they all buzz in and head straight for the utility room where the dog bowls are, I hate the thoughts of them laying maggoty eggs in them. I hung one of those sticky things on the ceiling and when one landed on it I felt so sorry for it, struggling desperately to escape:(.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,691 ✭✭✭michellie


    One flew into my house today and then started bouncing off the patio door to get back out, looked like he had muscles on his legs. Frightened the life out of me!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 328 ✭✭becost


    Where ever they've gone, I think ladybirds have followed. Haven't seen one of those in about 20 years.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    I'd take wasps over flies any day! Hate fucking flies, wasps don't bother me in the slightest bit


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  • Subscribers Posts: 16,777 ✭✭✭✭copacetic


    Ruubot2 wrote: »
    Building me an underground lair and doing my bidding!

    Wow, Ruu! *waves* I'm probably way late, but great to see you back...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,482 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    destroyed a nest they were busy building in the shed a few weeks back so they haven't gone anywhere


  • Posts: 25,909 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    becost wrote: »
    Where ever they've gone, I think ladybirds have followed. Haven't seen one of those in about 20 years.
    There was one on my beer can on the beach last week. Oddest thing was that we were about 100m from the nearest visible plant.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,928 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    As bad as they are, they are very very needed. Im trying to remember who said if the population of bees and wasps were to decline sufficiently, the ecosystem would collapse (Einstein?)
    Anyway I hope theyre wrong because wasps are few and far between and bees are nearly as bad. The pollen on biofuel plants is poisonous to them as far as I know but stand to be corrected on this.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    Evolution1 wrote: »
    Bumble bees are fine :) leave them be

    Bumble bees are like the socially awkward, obese kid with glasses that means no harm to anyone.

    They're ridiculously shite at flying to the point where rocks nearly have a better chance of staying in the air, but every time you see them you can't help but go nawwwww! :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    I have not read this thread but in my experience wasps don't turn up until later and then they hang around bins waiting to sting the **** out of you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭EoghanIRL


    It m should be where are all the hairy mollies gone . There used to be loads of them . I haven't seen one in ages.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,359 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    gurramok wrote: »
    I haven't seen a single wasp all year, have they all been extinct?(hopefully)

    I've sunbathed quite a bit this week in the garden and yet not one has attempted to attack me or flown by.

    Have seen a few hard working bees(fair play) but anyone know what's happened to the wasps?

    For the record way back in the year 2001, I must have slaughtered about 100 wasps that summer, thank me later :D

    A lot of them have been blown off course from their normal migratory path this year because of the position of the jet stream,northern Spain is the breeding ground for most of the wasps we see here in the summer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 757 ✭✭✭Laneyh


    gurramok wrote: »
    I haven't seen a single wasp all year, have they all been extinct?(hopefully)

    I've sunbathed quite a bit this week in the garden and yet not one has attempted to attack me or flown by.

    Have seen a few hard working bees(fair play) but anyone know what's happened to the wasps?

    For the record way back in the year 2001, I must have slaughtered about 100 wasps that summer, thank me later :D[/QUOTE

    I've seen a small amount. They're more prevalent around August time so give it a few weeks


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭FanadMan


    gurramok wrote: »
    I haven't seen a single wasp all year, have they all been extinct?(hopefully)

    I've sunbathed quite a bit this week in the garden and yet not one has attempted to attack me or flown by.

    Have seen a few hard working bees(fair play) but anyone know what's happened to the wasps?

    For the record way back in the year 2001, I must have slaughtered about 100 wasps that summer, thank me later :D

    You're lucky OP! About 5 hours ago I saw one (in my panicked view) about twice the size of a bumble bee in my neighbours conservatory. I ran and barely stopped to type this. Hate the damn things! They should be wiped from the face of the earth as soon as possible!


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