Tiggs

if this pic turns out to be just one fat normal wasp then UB is in credability melt down!

Redkop

Access to the nest, doing what you suggest is impossible. Waiting for local garden centre to get in a foam, that you can spray at the nest from a long distance.

ajm

For all the non believers I have actually used the tube strategy to good effect without getting a mouthful of either wasp or ant powder!

I have also employed a modified design using a pump-up garden sprayer pumped up with air only to propel the deadly payload from a tube into the midst of the enemy!

The wasps may have the advantage of manoevreability and numbers, but we have the brains and the better weaponry! There is no excuse for a adult homo sapiens to be outwitted by lowly vespa vulgaris!

unclebuck

Oh yee of little faith!! Actually, I must admit it looked smaller dead this morning than it did last night thrashing around in an upturned pint glass whilst I was wearing my beer goggles, and shining a 400,000 candle power torch on the thing.

I just hope these pictures come out OK.

UB

ajm

LOL!

Must be due to fluid loss as the corpse dried out!

Wurzel

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Lynne attack it with a CO2 fire extinguisher the Dry ice will freeze the little Bstards and the lack of oxygen in the vapour cloud will suffocate any that do escape during the attack.

CO2 are the black one with the big horn ooo eeeerrr missus

Jerome

I'm disappointed you didn't take the opportunity to torture/annoy the thing for a few hours.


And, at the risk of going off thread...

Used to be the black one. EU Law dictates that all fire exstinguishers are red with the type written on the side. Another great law to come out of the EU...

Oh, if you do use a CO2 exstinguisher, don't hold the cone, because your hand will freeze to it.

mplaczek

I know exactly how you feel!!!
A number of years ago I used to get the odd wasp in my bathroom during the summer. I hate wasps it you try and swat one they come right at you!!
One summer there were tens in my bathroom on a daily basis. Bloody scary I'll tell you. I sealed all holes I could find in the room, I had no idea where they were coming from, but it did not do the trick. This happened the following year in the summer too, but luckily I was away on holiday for quite a while. When I returned there were dead wasps everywhere... but from that day, only perhaps one or two wasps every now and then, and a week after that nothing. I was so happy it was over for another year. Then a few days later, there was a huge wasp sitting there in the bathroom! I wish I had a camera!! I assumed it was the queen (although no crown or makeup or anything). I had no idea what to do, so I grabbed a nearby magazine and squashed it. It made quite a mess!!!
After that point no wasps ever again. It was not until a few years later that building works meant the ceiling had to be ripped out that I found a HUGE wasp nest. Freaky!!

Mog

There are some nasty wasps from Japan over here this year and can grow up to 3" in length.....be afraid.

Mog

POC

I was working a few days ago and a sodding hornet flew out of a bush, right past my face, turned around and landed on my bare chest this fecking thing was about 2.5in long with a stinger longer than my thumb nail

Oh how my work mates chuckled as I lept down from the 6ft high wall I was standing on and proceeded to sprint down the road ........... they wernt laughing as much when the sodding over sized stinging ****** decided to dive bomb them forcing them to follow me down the road

God knows what the clients thought when their 3 landscape gardeners returned from down the road, knackered, bright red and all out of breath

Was PMSL after but jesus it was a scary looking thing!

What would happen if one of these big b4stards stung you?

hoskib

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i fooookin hate wasps (got stung on the tongue as a nipper and it swelled up and i couldn't breath )

any of them get indoors i shoot them with my air pistol (just the air, no pelet) blows them to pieces very theraputic(?)

make my day punk

ajm

It would hurt!

We discussed this a while back, but bee venom is actually more toxic gram for gram than hornet venom. Hornet venom can hurt more though because it contains more acetylcholine which stimulates the pain receptors.

dharbige

A friend at work used the Dyson method of emptying a wasp nest...

It doesn't kill them straight away, and the dual vortex is good for a few laughs apparently!

John Catlin

Eat It !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SyHightower

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mnnnnn http://www.cybercandy.co.uk/aaasmt/i...112/stc_1#1093

lol

stevencotton

That is grim.

SyHightower

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not quite as minging as the toffie scorpian iewww

mart360

I see no piccys!!!!!!

unclebuck

Here we go....



A tad too much light. Most have the detail completely washed out. This is the best one

Note that it is inside an upturned PINT glass.

UB

ajm

LOL! And there I was looking forward to a nice clear shot of the wasp's clypeus for a nice straight forward species identification!

unclebuck

From a 1.3 mega pixel camera - I don't think so!! In my defence it *is* fore shortened in that shot, but you can see the size of the head and the length of it's legs. If it was a hornet, it was a big one. I estimate at least 1.5 inches in length - enough to make my skin crawl looking just at the picture.... I was there!!!

UB

Buckrogers

Is that it??

I was expecting a large wasp maybe even a queen wasp....all we got was an ant painted yellow and black....

ALi-B

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Somehow I doubt that photo entry into the "animals and insects" theme of the photo competetion will win any prizes

unclebuck

Hey, good idea. It could be the 'wildcard' entry.

"It captures the full horror of confronting a scary insect at night when mildly intoxicated."

UB

minor_threat

You seem to know a lot about stinging buzzers and their venom.

Wurzel

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BAck in the early 90s when I was based in Cyprus with the army we had our barrack block toilets closed as there was a hornets nest in every single cystern tank, they had crawled up the overflow pipes and made camp.

I lifted off the lid of one cystern and it was full of dopey looking hornets not sure why they were all asleep or lathargic maybe the time of year but as I lifted the lid off and looked under neath, my fingers mere milimetres away from a load that were clinging to the underside.

Not a pleasent experience.

ajm

Small but harmful creatures is a bit of a passion of mine

In the case of "stinging buzzers" I turned amatuer entomologist after being stung in the throat by a bee. What started as a fairly unpleasant experience and a neck that looked like I had swallowed a cricket ball ended in a voyage of discovery on insect behaviour, venom and the body's reaction to it! It always pays to know the enemy!

minor_threat

LOL! It definitely pays to know the enemy.

Graz

Well I got stung by one of the little yellow and black gits at the weekend. I have no sympathy for them anymore, kill them all

The last two times I've been stung it has been completely unprovoked. Last weekend I was sat in the beer garden and just felt a sharp pain on my hand, looked down and there it was sat on my hand stinging me. The previous occasion I was sat in my parents caravan (okay I deserved it ), it flew in the window, landed on my leg, stung me, and flew out again.

StickyMicky

doesnt look that big lmao

i was sitting inthe police staion about 1 hour ago and i was next to the window and this wasp was just flying around trying to get through the glass, i challenged myself not to move, reasoning that if i didnt both the wasp it wouldnt bother me

kept going next to my ears

i was ready to bottle it and run, when it must have sensed my feelings towards it and just landed and had a little kip or sumthing