Anyone else hate wasps?

Irish Guitarist · 22-04-2011 12:01PM

They don't bother me really. The only time I've ever been stung was when I stupidly tried to grab a wasp by the wings when I was a child.

I saw a dying wasp in the hall yesterday. I felt sorry for the little guy. I didn't know whether to put him out his misery or not. In the end I just left him there. Then last night I saw about fifty ants carrying the corpse away.

Hasmunch · 22-04-2011 12:12PM

Don't you just hate pants!

Babooshka · 22-04-2011 12:53PM

They are the skangers of the insect world, hanging around bus stops at all the sweet packets, throwing shapes and lunging at you before the bus comes, intimidating you and generally being a pain in the hole. If they wore clothes I am sure they'd wear shiny tracksuits.

KnifeWRENCH · 22-04-2011 01:17PM

Wasps are terrifying. They seem to sense fear; they will ALWAYS fly directly at me, even if there are several other people around. Was stung by one as a kid but I don't remember it. I'm guessing that's where the fear stems from though.

Normally I despise cruelty to animals, but any wasp that comes near me will find itself on the wrong end of a rolled-up newspaper.

theboat · 22-04-2011 01:20PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88PFP3wtGzY

Degag · 22-04-2011 01:21PM

I've never been stung (yet) but is the pain that bad? I reckon we probably think it's alot worse than it actually is.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 22-04-2011 01:26PM

i got out of the shower yesterday and decided to just freewheel it with the skylights open as it was so warm and nice and when I got to my desk a wasp lept up from my bookshelf and flew right at me. I grabbed a book from the couch and hit him a good slap, sent him flying acros the apartment in the direction of my bedroom. but he just got up and started hovering in the air between me and my room. So i was standing bollock naked with a book in hand just staring at it floating there waiting for it to make it's move so I could get dressed. He finally decided to make his move and attacked. ****er took 3 full on whacks of a book before he stayed down but by then I was too nervous not to get dressed in case he had friends. kinda ruined my morning.

Spudmonkey · 22-04-2011 01:28PM

sollar wrote: »

If your at the stage where your defending insects... how will you survive when you may end up drowning a fly as you wash lettuce etc for your vegetarian feasts

Wasps tormented me as a child :mad: i still seek revenge on them to this day.

I'm not so bad, but I do believe that all these things do have a purpose, however meaning-less it may seem to us.

Sunnyisland · 22-04-2011 01:31PM

Must say getting a buzz out of this thread.

superelliptic · 22-04-2011 07:39PM

Yes! Hate them! They're like bees, only from the evil alternate dimension:eek:

superelliptic · 22-04-2011 07:39PM

realies wrote: »

Must say getting a buzz out of this thread.

Q snare drum:pac:

22-04-2011 07:42PM

Spare a thought for the poor folks in Texas. Apparently 200 people killed by killer bees.( Dont know how recent) , but last weekend they killed an elderly cou[le and their son.

Link taken from RSOE EDIS.

massive swarm of killer bees attacked several towns in Southern Texas, killing over two hundred people. The first incident happened last Friday. A swarm of bees attacked an elderly couple at their South Texas ranch, killing both and injuring their son, officials said. Tommy Morton, 76, was spraying insecticide on a bees' nest when the bees attacked him, his 66-year-old wife, Shelly Morton, and their daughter Maggie, according to Jim Hogg County sheriff's deputies. Tommy Morton was spraying to kill bees that had built a hive in his attic when and they attacked him, and then went after his family The Morton family was pronounced dead at the scene after each having been stung over 500 times. The bees, who seem to have orderly battalions, are attacking citizens throughout the county. "It was horrifying, you couldn't even seen the sky there was so many of them," said Sally Jenkins. "It was like a storm was moving in. We all just ran to get inside, but if you had a window or door open, they came in. I lost three friends." Sheriff Ramon Espinoza has his Deputies out trying to kill the killer bees with everything they have: "We are getting stung, but we all got anti-killer bee injections, which were provided by the State. It works. So far." The bees were thought to be heading toward Oklahoma, but now seemed to be heading northeast. "Looks like they're heading up to Washington DC," said Caleb Boozman. "That's be a good place for them to go."

Run_to_da_hills · 22-04-2011 07:46PM

superelliptic wrote: »

Yes! Hate them! They're like bees, only from the evil alternate dimension:eek:

Bees are useful and generally don't bother you if you leave them alone, wasps on the other hand can be aggressive and sting you for no reason.

Bees sting once and die as their sting rips their guts apart so they are hardly going to sting without a good reason. Wasps on the other hand can sting several times. I hate wasps and just killed one this morning by throwing my phone at it.

Wasps are attracted to alcohol and can give you a nasty sting in the mouth if they fall into a glass of wine, bees won't do that.

Cybercubed · 22-04-2011 07:48PM

I think they're rather cute.

22-04-2011 07:50PM

Degag wrote: »

I've never been stung (yet) but is the pain that bad? I reckon we probably think it's alot worse than it actually is.

Yes it is that bad

coylemj · 22-04-2011 07:52PM

Wasps have their place in the natural order of things. For one they eat fruit flies and because of a couple of wet summers which were bad for wasps, we have had a major infestation for the last couple of years of fruit flies.These are the tiny little fcukers who fly around slowly and as their name suggests they eat fruit. Leave an orange or banana skin hanging around the kitchen of an evening and next morning it will be covered in the little bastards.

A wasp flew into my house yesterday but I got rid of it easily, I think at this time of year what you see are queen wasps. They hatch early, lay their eggs and then die. Their offspring are the ones that bother us in the later summer when we're having a BBQ - they are attracted to the smell of beer.

Oh_Noes · 22-04-2011 07:52PM

Don't really mind them at all and I've been stung a fair few times.

It's the eejits that insist on running/dancing around a room freaking out because of a wasp that I hate more.

Teyla Emmagan · 22-04-2011 07:56PM

They don't bother me, I just keep away from them. Have been stung a few times, but only out in the garden as a kid, probably when I stood on one of them or something.

And they do have a function, they're predators that have long been used as natural bug killers.

I don't mind them, what I do mind is people who start screaming and acting mental when a poor innocent bee or wasp flies past (and these are not generally people with fatal sting allergies, just hysterical idiots).

Cú Giobach · 22-04-2011 07:58PM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

, wasps on the other hand can be aggressive and sting you for no reason

No they don't.

I'm smiling at the thought of wasps flying around, stinging every random animal they come across, they only sting in self defence.
Of course that idiotic human habit of thrashing about with arms flailing at the sight of a wasp, is an invitation to attack.

22-04-2011 08:00PM

A wasp followed me up from the kitchen to my bedroom without me noticing until I thought "what IS that feeling on my arm" and looked, then he stung me and flew off
bastard

22-04-2011 08:02PM

I don't have many fears but wasps are one of them.

Brenireland · 22-04-2011 08:03PM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Bees are useful and generally don't bother you if you leave them alone, wasps on the other hand can be aggressive and sting you for no reason.

Bees sting once and die as their sting rips their guts apart so they are hardly going to sting without a good reason. Wasps on the other hand can sting several times. I hate wasps and just killed one this morning by throwing my phone at it.

Wasps are attracted to alcohol and can give you a nasty sting in the mouth if they fall into a glass of wine, bees won't do that.

I don't care I shall still down my Bee-r,wasps or no wasps/Bees or no beers,I mean Bees.

Run_to_da_hills · 22-04-2011 08:22PM

People that kill bees should not eat honey.

Bobos · 22-04-2011 08:27PM

What I hate about them is they way they are...

COMPLETELY SILENT*hover*

mattjack · 22-04-2011 08:46PM

hal9000 wrote: »

hmm i think to really freak people out we need to create a spider-wasp!

or a mouse-wasp for the ladies

Jackasaurus rex · 22-04-2011 09:37PM

there was a shop near me that always had loads of the dead bastards in the window. one day there was a buttered roll in the window full of the things with a little sign saying 'have your revenge, eat the wasps'

Kevin Duffy · 22-04-2011 10:05PM

Bloke walks into a shop and says "I'd like a wasp please"

Shopkeeper says "Sorry, we don't sell wasps"

Bloke says "But you have one in the window" :pac:

I'm highly allergic to wasp and bee stings and was lucky not to be killed by one on the back of the neck a few years ago, but still don't hate them, they're just doing what they do and I will just have to use my bigger brain to avoid them.

Jackasaurus rex · 22-04-2011 10:25PM

one of them landed on my leg while I was blowing down the m50 on the oul vespa. just as I looked down and him and screamed you bastard! the little ****er stung me. the little ****

W.Shakes-Beer · 22-04-2011 10:39PM

Hate wasps, not to worried about bees.

Although one time I was with some friends in a Renault Clio, I was sitting in back, we were driving along happily until I heard a weird sound right behind me.

Looked over my shoulder and a bumble bee the size of a golf ball was trying to get out the rear window. He must have been in the car for a while.

I did nearly shít myself and we more or less drove off the road into a field and galloped out of the car.

Scary shít.

gurramok · 22-04-2011 10:49PM

coylemj wrote: »

A wasp flew into my house yesterday but I got rid of it easily, I think at this time of year what you see are queen wasps. They hatch early, lay their eggs and then die. Their offspring are the ones that bother us in the later summer when we're having a BBQ - they are attracted to the smell of beer.

Death becomes of who touches my beer.;) Are they alco's??

Anyone else hate wasps?

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