Wasp Plague

archer22 · 18-08-2019 5:48pm

I can't understand why so much hatred of Wasp's...Horse flies and midges are far worse, they really do come after you with ill intent.

And the worst of all the Mosquitoes seem to be increasing as well

Wasps on the other hand just check you out.

McDermotX · 18-08-2019 5:54pm

archer22 wrote: »

I can't understand why so much hatred of Wasp's...Horse flies and midges are far worse, they really do come after you with ill intent.

And the worst of all the Mosquitoes seem to be increasing as well

Wasps on the other hand just check you out.

The wasp doesn't need your understanding, if it wants to f*ck with you, you just need to accept it -

18-08-2019 6:03pm

https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/animals/wasps.shtml

I'm shocked at the amount of people going out of their way to kill wasps. Scummy behaviour really.

Yes, Wasps are very important for pollinating.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 18-08-2019 6:14pm

Deleted User wrote: »

https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/animals/wasps.shtml

I'm shocked at the amount of people going out of their way to kill wasps. Scummy behaviour really.

Yes, Wasps are very important for pollinating.

Okay and correct to a point.

Pollenating work is now complete. Predatory action against aphids etc is now complete. These particular wasps are going to die with the first severe frosts. Their role in producing the next generation of wasps is complete.

Bobblehats · 18-08-2019 7:06pm

victor8600 wrote: »

Just so people know and be suitably afraid, here is a picture

That’s a really big thumb.

petes · 18-08-2019 7:09pm

victor8600 wrote: »

Just so people know and be suitably afraid, here is a picture

How big is that thumb though!!

Bobblehats · 18-08-2019 7:11pm

petes wrote: »

How big is that thumb though!!

That’s a good question. Could be bilbo baggins’ thumb for all I know. In which case how big is the wasp

Galwayguy35 · 18-08-2019 7:15pm

I don't mind seeing wasps around the place, they kill flies which is a good thing.

I find if they are left alone they just go about their business and cause no hassle.

Limpy · 18-08-2019 7:21pm

Haha op I feel your pain.

mr_edge_to_you · 18-08-2019 8:02pm

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

I don't mind seeing wasps around the place, they kill flies which is a good thing.

I find if they are left alone they just go about their business and cause no hassle.

They're nasty, evil violent ****ers. They've put me in hospital twice, in intensive care on one occasion. They cost me €150 a year in prescriptions and adrenaline auto-injectors. I take enormous pleasure in watching them die. I find the spray killer is good for a slow painful death.

Galwayguy35 · 18-08-2019 8:09pm

mr_edge_to_you wrote: »

They're nasty, evil violent ****ers. They've put me in hospital twice, in intensive care on one occasion. They cost me €150 a year in prescriptions and adrenaline auto-injectors. I take enormous pleasure in watching them die. I find the spray killer is good for a slow painful death.

You sound like a seriel killer.

JupiterKid · 18-08-2019 8:15pm

Bees are grand little fellas and do great - and critically important - work pollinating plants and crops and won’t bother you if you leave them alone.

Wasps, on the other hand, are horrible little feckers who make it their business to harass and annoy you and IMO the only good wasp is a dead wasp.

shesty · 18-08-2019 8:25pm

Wasps are EVERYWHERE at the moment!!!
Good, it's not just me.

Graces7 · 19-08-2019 7:00am

shesty wrote: »

Wasps are EVERYWHERE at the moment!!!
Good, it's not just me.

wasp free here!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 19-08-2019 8:55am

shesty wrote: »

Wasps are EVERYWHERE at the moment!!!
Good, it's not just me.

Yes, as expected following the weather last summer, which suited wasps but not bumble bees - although the bumble bee seems to have come back somewhat this.
Wasps are countrywide in numbers this year and close to pest levels in some areas.

19-08-2019 9:02am

Bobblehats wrote: »

That’s a really big thumb.

Wasps don't have thumbs, silly!

Tammy! · 19-08-2019 9:16am

Akabusi wrote: »

I don't get peoples reaction when a wasp comes near them, the sting is quite mild, maybe 1 level up from a nettle

Is it not that sore?

I've never been stung by a bee or a wasp before. A friend of mine got stung on her lip before. I'd say that was sore. Her bottom lip was like a balloon!

De Bellem · 19-08-2019 11:01am

After posting earlier on this thread, A wasp climbed up the armchair and stung me in the elbow.
I thought I had just scratched myself too hard while watching a game but I didnt know what had really happened
It was only when he was coming back, climbing the chair again for a second time
that I realised I had been stung by the same wasp earlier. its painful but
the worst thing is that itch which follows in the next day or two and that almighty urge to sctatch it .

Graces7 · 19-08-2019 11:02am

Tammy! wrote: »

Is it not that sore?

I've never been stung by a bee or a wasp before. A friend of mine got stung on her lip before. I'd say that was sore. Her bottom lip was like a balloon!

OUCH! The sting on my head was very very sore..

archer22 · 19-08-2019 5:06pm

Had an encounter with one today while having my lunch outside at work, he landed on the coffee cup I was holding, walked around the rim then had a peak into the cup, came back out and walked up my arm almost to the elbow before turning around and flying off.

And this is what people are so terrified of :rolleyes:

dom40 · 19-08-2019 5:30pm

i was back in donegal last week and the wasps were everywhere,as soon as you opened a door or a window they pounced,we walked down the street and they just kept annoying us thankfully none of us got stung,everywhere we went there was a bloody wasp,the only time we got left alone was when it rained which was very often,back in the south east of england and i have only seen a couple of wasps in a week and thats with my doors and windows open all day long.

corner of hells · 19-08-2019 5:30pm

archer22 wrote: »

Had an encounter with one today while having my lunch outside at work, he landed on the coffee cup I was holding, walked around the rim then had a peak into the cup, came back out and walked up my arm almost to the elbow before turning around and flying off.

And this is what people are so terrified of :rolleyes:

He probably didn't like the look of the piss that you pass off as coffee and fecked off.

corner of hells · 19-08-2019 5:34pm

JupiterKid wrote: »

Bees are grand little fellas and do great - and critically important - work pollinating plants and crops and won’t bother you if you leave them alone.

Wasps, on the other hand, are horrible little feckers who make it their business to harass and annoy you and IMO the only good wasp is a dead wasp.

They certainly are.
My youngest noticed that there seems to be loads of different types of bees in our garden .He googled it and apparently there are over a 100 types.

One of the bees has a red patch on the end of his body.He's known as red arse.

archer22 · 19-08-2019 5:35pm

corner of hells wrote: »

He probably didn't like the look of the piss that you pass off as coffee and fecked off.

Well it was Lidl coffee so maybe

GHOST MGG · 19-08-2019 5:38pm

Having got up to pee at 4am this morning to find 5 wasps in my bathroom(window was left open and light on for the kids)
Excruciating Pain i tell you trying to kill the little feckers with a rolled up paper while the other 4 are dive bombing the **** outta you
And all during this time your trying your best not to piss yourself as your bladder is turning purple....

Strumms · 19-08-2019 5:42pm

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

I find if they are left alone they just go about their business and cause no hassle.

Do they fûck... I was stung for the first time last year around this time, I was sitting under a tree in the park, minding my own business and got it in the neck...painful, little prick..:mad:

Bobblehats · 19-08-2019 6:12pm

Strumms wrote: »

Do they fûck...

Yeah here they’re not bumble bees.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 19-08-2019 6:22pm

Bad as some people may find a wasp sting, bumblebee stings are much worse.

Bobblehats · 19-08-2019 6:28pm

Alan Fancy Abacus wrote: »

Bad as some people may find a wasp sting, bumblebee stings are much worse.

That’s what you get for provoking one. I stroke their furry backs and put them in a state of calm

scarepanda · 19-08-2019 6:29pm

Aw man, the little ****ers are driving us around the bloody twist for the last couple of weeks, they don't seem to be as bad the last 2/3 days though. But last Thursday morning we woke up to an invasion of the little bastard's in the kitchen/playroom ( like idiots we forgot about the Wasps going to bed and we left the window open for the cat to go out). We squished 23 and hoovered up another 15 or so in the playroom as soon as we got up and we got another few during the day, all in all around about 50 of them met their demise in our house Thursday.

We haven't been able to open a window or door in the house and even letting the dogs in and out is a managed operation to make sure the door is open for as short of a time as possible.

We've never had such a problem with Wasps before.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 19-08-2019 6:31pm

Bobblehats wrote: »

That’s what you get for provoking one. I stroke their furry backs and put them in a state of calm

I have picked up and handled hundreds of bumble bees and gave courses on them but have accentually squashed one while weeding a couple of times.

murphyebass · 19-08-2019 6:36pm

Alan Fancy Abacus wrote: »

Bad as some people may find a wasp sting, bumblebee stings are much worse.

Ah here what the hell are ya doing to get a sting from a bee.

You can literally view them from millimeters away and they just go about their business!

Wasps on the other hand are the work of the devil.

Once it hits this time of year I don’t bother bbq’ing or sitting outside for food/drink. Just too much hassle.

Redneck Reject · 19-08-2019 6:42pm

Was fixing fencing at a Equestrian centre in Limerick and ran across a underground hive of wasps. I was stung so many times that my speech was slurred so was sent home. Now despite the golf ball size stings, I am enjoying my Jameson and a Cuban from Cahill's.

ltd440 · 19-08-2019 6:51pm

My oh friend cycles every where and yesterday got stung 3 times on her eyelid, Jesus h christ I don't think I'd ever cycle again

dragona · 19-08-2019 6:54pm

I'm in Mullingar and killing 20/30 of the little fukcers a day.

But I read somewhere that if you kill one they send a message to the others and then they come after you even more. I'm still going to kill the little bastards.

Virgil° · 19-08-2019 6:59pm

Have to laugh at the people who suggest a live and let live approach to wasps.
They're crawling on my burger and abseiling down the neck of my beer ffs!

As someone who's deathly allergic to them what do you suggest I do? Set another table for the fcukers as a peace offering?

No, death is the only answer! :mad:

gozunda · 19-08-2019 7:03pm

2 large hives of wasp already this summer - one in the architrave above the sitting room window and another in a feed bin. And their were hundreds in each one. Vicious cnuts too. You couldnt go within 5 feet of the them tbh. Both removed as posed safety risk.

Galwayguy35 · 19-08-2019 7:26pm

Alan Fancy Abacus wrote: »

Bad as some people may find a wasp sting, bumblebee stings are much worse.

I don't know how painful a wasp sting is but I was stung by a bumble bee when I was about 10 and it certainly did hurt.

Bobby Baccala · 19-08-2019 7:41pm

If you go to electric picnic you pretty much become immune to wasps, it's their last big session before the end of the summer they swarm the kip

EmmetSpiceland · 19-08-2019 8:04pm

dragona wrote: »

I'm in Mullingar and killing 20/30 of the little fukcers a day.

But I read somewhere that if you kill one they send a message to the others and then they come after you even more. I'm still going to kill the little bastards.

I’ve heard that as well, D.

Supposedly they have a “scent” in their body that is released when you squash one and it “sticks” to you.

Then when another wasp gets a whiff they just go for you.

No idea whether it’s true or not.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 19-08-2019 8:10pm

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

I’ve heard that as well, D.

Supposedly they have a “scent” in their body that is released when you squash one and it “sticks” to you.

Then when another wasp gets a whiff they just go for you.

No idea whether it’s true or not.

A dying wasp emits a chemical that tells other wasps to be on the look-out. You don't carry the scent on you. If you're going to kill one do it quickly.

archer22 · 19-08-2019 8:44pm

Jeez I hope with global warming Mosquitoes don't start really thriving here, or there will be some crying and whinging, judging by those threads

If they do you will see what a real hellish creature is and how harmless wasps really are!.

You will certainly appreciate wasps after you have met the Mossies

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 19-08-2019 8:49pm

archer22 wrote: »

Jeez I hope with global warming Mosquitoes don't start really thriving here, or there will be some crying and whinging, judging by those threads

If they do you will see what a real hellish creature is and how harmless wasps really are!.

You will certainly appreciate wasps after you have met the Mossies

We already have twenty species of mosquito thriving in Ireland.

archer22 · 19-08-2019 8:52pm

Alan Fancy Abacus wrote: »

We already have twenty species of mosquito thriving in Ireland.

I would not class them as "thriving" there are only tiny populations here compared to other places.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 19-08-2019 9:12pm

archer22 wrote: »

I would not class them as "thriving" there are only tiny populations here compared to other places.

And as far as I am aware the Aedes Mosquito has not yet arrived here.

I have to disagree. I studied them. Culex pipiens for instance are abundant near water or marshy areas throughout the country. Anopheles plumbeus, which can transmit malaria were record in Dublin, Shannon, Cork, Waterford and Limerick in a limited survey of 2017. No records yet of Aedes species, which has been linked to the Zika virus.
But, to reiterate, we have plenty of species of mosquito and they are certainly thriving.

archer22 · 19-08-2019 9:52pm

Alan Fancy Abacus wrote: »

I have to disagree. I studied them. Culex pipiens for instance are abundant near water or marshy areas throughout the country. Anopheles plumbeus, which can transmit malaria were record in Dublin, Shannon, Cork, Waterford and Limerick in a limited survey of 2017. No records yet of Aedes species, which has been linked to the Zika virus.
But, to reiterate, we have plenty of species of mosquito and they are certainly thriving.

Aedes though is the real plague species, I believe they have reached Europe.

In some countries along the tropics there are literally hordes of them spreading many diseases including Malaria, Dengue, Chikungunya and Zika.

And apart from all that they are active day and night...in places like south East Asia you are lucky if you can go a day without being bitten numerous times.
And you rarely see them attacking you and never feel the bite until after they have departed as they inject some kind of natural anesthetic when they bite.

dennyk · 23-08-2019 7:18pm

Mosquitoes definitely suck. I'm one of those people they *really* like, as well. Back in Atlanta the bastards used to literally camp outside my door just waiting for me to come out. My next-door neighbour would be sitting out there with no shirt on for hours and they wouldn't give him a glance, but I'd pop out for thirty seconds to get the mail from the box and ten minutes later I'd have a dozen new welts swelling up on every inch of exposed skin.

dragona · 23-08-2019 7:22pm

Only killed 13 today yay. Bring on the cold so the little fukcers DIE. I'm doing my best to hurry them along to the hell where they belong.Wasp hell.

23-08-2019 7:32pm

dennyk wrote: »

Mosquitoes definitely suck.

:pac:

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 23-08-2019 7:33pm

dragona wrote: »

Only killed 13 today yay. Bring on the cold so the little fukcers DIE. I'm doing my best to hurry them along to the hell where they belong.Wasp hell.

Over two hundred in traps since yesterday.

Wasp Plague

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