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I just killed a wasp, should I feel bad?

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  • #32
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    MadsL wrote: »
    http://i.imgur.com/AV92pQA.jpg
    Yep, these are my local wasps...I just shoot at the feckers and hope for the best :D

    That looks like a double-dragon-fly.
    You have killer bees over there i heard, well they are moving up from the very south toward the north as so is said because of the warmer climate affecting the north of America ?. But when they show killer bees in America, they look like wasps we have here in Ireland. Bees are big fat things like the bumble bee, so why are wasps called bees in America ?

    Is it the other way around over in the far west of the ole US of A ? Killer wasps i'm sure.


  • #33
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Anyone here work in a pub as a young lad and had to sort the empties in the yard on a sunny day? :(

    You and a couple hundred empty bottles of 7up and orange, they'll be swarming ya!


  • #34
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Anyone here work in a pub as a young lad and had to sort the empties in the yard on a sunny day? :(

    You and a couple hundred empty bottles of 7up and orange, they'll be swarming ya!

    I remember drinking in a beer garden and every time i was going to take a sup of beer i could see 3 or more fruit-flies swimming in my beer, i thought that was more of a hassle than the wasps.


  • #35
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    zenno wrote: »
    That looks like a double-dragon-fly.
    You have killer bees over there i heard, well they are moving up from the very south toward the north as so is said because of the warmer climate affecting the north of America ?. But when they show killer bees in America, they look like wasps we have here in Ireland. Bees are big fat things like the bumble bee, so why are wasps called bees in America ?

    Is it the other way around over in the far west of the ole US of A ? Killer wasps i'm sure.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula_hawk


  • #36
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,614 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    DColeman wrote: »
    Believe it nor not there was a wasp lying in my bedroom, around a pile of clothes. Heard this buzzing noise, thought it was a bluebottle, until I saw the yellow markings. It looked angry.

    I got out the sanmex fly and wasp spray, and did the business. Carried its body out of the house where it lay to rest. uI feel really bad about it. Maybe its happily in the afterlife now.

    I am such a silly pacifist, couldn't hurt anything. But could I get away with killing a wasp?

    Don't think the spray actually kills them just paralysis.
    You'dbe as well to stamp on it otherwise it could live for days.


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  • #37
    danniemcq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    zenno wrote: »
    The reason why people hate wasps is because they don't know how to react when one comes close to them. Most people will wave their arms and slap at them and they see this as aggression and can sting you, but never wave about your arms and they will suss you out for a few seconds and off they go.

    The waving of the arms also creates horrible air currents for them to negotiate and also puls them closer to you in the wash left behind by your arm. So yeah waving is a terrible idea


  • #38
    Hownowcow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭Hownowcow


    Just to be clear OP, you killed one of them black and yellow stingy things not a white anglo saxon protestant?


  • #39
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,614 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Hownowcow wrote: »
    Just to be clear OP, you killed one of them black and yellow stingy things not a white anglo saxon protestant?

    Difference?


  • #40
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    Say three Hail Mary's and an Our Father and God might forgive you.


  • #41
    Oink
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 2,163 Mod ✭✭✭✭Oink


    MadsL wrote: »
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula_hawk


    "hunts tarantulas"

    Holy %$£%. Tough mofo.


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  • #42
    sebastianlieken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭sebastianlieken


    On tarantuala hawks....

    "it creates a small hole in the spider's abdomen, then enters and feeds voraciously, avoiding vital organs for as long as possible to keep the spider alive. After several weeks, the larva pupates."

    :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:


  • #43
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    I try to avoid killing spiders, flies, moths, even snails. If they are in my way I will move them, set them free.

    But I will straight up murder the shit out of wasps!


  • #44
    lahalane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    DColeman wrote: »
    Believe it nor not there was a wasp lying in my bedroom, around a pile of clothes. Heard this buzzing noise, thought it was a bluebottle, until I saw the yellow markings. It looked angry.

    I got out the sanmex fly and wasp spray, and did the business. Carried its body out of the house where it lay to rest. I feel really bad about it. Maybe its happily in the afterlife now.

    I am such a silly pacifist, couldn't hurt anything. But could I get away with killing a wasp?

    Made me laugh :D


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