Queen Wasp!!!!
26 July 2004, 11:43 PM
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Queen Wasp!!!!
As I got in after a few beers, something caught my eye as it vanished beneath the fridge 
I thought it might be a grasshopper, so I got the torch to take a look. This was no grasshopper, but a monster sized wasp!!
Anyway, I vacated the house and turned off the lights, to collect my thoughts and return a few minutes later to spot the monster in the open. I got a pint glass and trapped the bu**er. It went mental!!! I have some piccys to post when this is over.
Anyway, how to deal with the monster.
I can't just release it like a harmless spider. What I've done is spread loads of Nippon on some card and slide it beneath the glass (risky in itself IMO) The fiend is currently writhing and stinging imagined enemies, and coated in white powder, and I'm genuinely freaked out!!!
Hope it dies soon.....
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I thought it might be a grasshopper, so I got the torch to take a look. This was no grasshopper, but a monster sized wasp!!
Anyway, I vacated the house and turned off the lights, to collect my thoughts and return a few minutes later to spot the monster in the open.
I got a pint glass and trapped the bu**er. It went mental!!! I have some piccys to post when this is over.Anyway, how to deal with the monster.
I can't just release it like a harmless spider. What I've done is spread loads of Nippon on some card and slide it beneath the glass (risky in itself IMO) The fiend is currently writhing and stinging imagined enemies, and coated in white powder, and I'm genuinely freaked out!!!Hope it dies soon.....
UB
26 July 2004, 11:58 PM
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Originally Posted by imlach
Why didn't you just release it outside??? Surely the best option for all concerned?
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27 July 2004, 12:03 AM
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Originally Posted by unclebuck
What, so it will create a big wasp nest somewhere in the vacinity?? That's the worst option, surely?
Wasps serve little purpose....at least bees do...
http://www.ento.csiro.au/insect_id/w...pean_wasp.html
27 July 2004, 12:15 AM
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It's fecked... The Nippon did the business. Jeez, I could have done without this.
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27 July 2004, 06:49 AM
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Originally Posted by imlach
Wasps serve little purpose....at least bees do...
27 July 2004, 07:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Alas
How did you know it was a queen, Did it have makeup on?
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Sorry, I'll get my coat!
27 July 2004, 08:17 AM
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27 July 2004, 09:27 AM
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If you put a *** but in the glass with the wasp it'll be fooocked in about 30 seconds!!
Smoke just hammers them.
I don't smoke, a mate showed me in a beer garden. It was crazy!!
Smoke just hammers them.
I don't smoke, a mate showed me in a beer garden. It was crazy!!
27 July 2004, 11:17 AM
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Originally Posted by ajm
Come on Uncle Suck 
, the public demand pics!!!!
, the public demand pics!!!!UB
27 July 2004, 12:43 PM
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i found a queen wasp in the back door sill of my old nova, still alive considering that since i bought the car this was teh first time i opened them. it was absolutely HUGE, i basically near **** my pants:
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27 July 2004, 01:25 PM
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I hope there is something in the pictures to identify scale. Just thinking about it, it must surely be too late for queen wasps to be looking for a nest site and too early to be looking for somewhere to hibernate so either:
a) It has been confused by the crappy weather
b) It is a refugee from another nest caused by some lunatic with a can of Optimax!
c) It isn't really a queen (meaning UB *is* the queen, a drama queen! )
d) It's not a wasp its a hornet
a) It has been confused by the crappy weather
b) It is a refugee from another nest caused by some lunatic with a can of Optimax!
c) It isn't really a queen (meaning UB *is* the queen, a drama queen!
)d) It's not a wasp its a hornet
27 July 2004, 01:41 PM
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b) It is a refugee from another nest caused by some lunatic with a can of Optimax!
And it was BP Regular unleaded, not Optimax
Wonder why are there so many nests this year?
27 July 2004, 02:06 PM
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Ant powder is all you need, and some means of getting it into the nest without being stung to death!
For example fill up the end of a 1/2" tube with powder, stick it into the nest and blow as hard as you can on the other end. Then peg it. Assuming you get a good dose into the nest they will all be dead within 2-3 hours.
For example fill up the end of a 1/2" tube with powder, stick it into the nest and blow as hard as you can on the other end. Then peg it. Assuming you get a good dose into the nest they will all be dead within 2-3 hours.
