Wasps are Evil!

Hiijinx · 10 Aug 2015 at 15:53

Had to find this old photo of my Grandad dealing with a hornets nest.

Yes, thats a vacuum cleaner he is casually using to suck up the 100+ nasties before drowning them in a water trough. I am still trying to find the after photos to show the vast amount - the noise was something that would put a dozen Subaru engines to shame!

new boy · 10 Aug 2015 at 15:54

new numa hey said:
Now you're being silly. One is aggressive and the other isn't.
Not one is MORE aggressive than the other.

But hey you're using an example of big cats when the discussion is about insects

What's life without some silliness thrown in?

new boy · 10 Aug 2015 at 15:55

Hiijinx said:
Had to find this old photo of my Grandad dealing with a hornets nest.

Yes, thats a vacuum cleaner he is casually using to suck up the 100+ nasties before drowning them in a water trough. I am still trying to find the after photos to show the vast amount - the noise was something that would put a dozen Subaru engines to shame!

LOL! What a badass

new numa hey · 10 Aug 2015 at 15:56

new boy said:
What's life without some silliness thrown in?

Life without some silliness thrown in.

new boy · 10 Aug 2015 at 16:01

new numa hey said:
Life without some silliness thrown in.

That's not a world I wanna live in

dacads · 10 Aug 2015 at 16:03

Hiijinx said:
Had to find this old photo of my Grandad dealing with a hornets nest.

Yes, thats a vacuum cleaner he is casually using to suck up the 100+ nasties before drowning them in a water trough. I am still trying to find the after photos to show the vast amount - the noise was something that would put a dozen Subaru engines to shame!

That is an awesome photo. Must have been quite a sight with them all drowned..

Oh Ed not again. · 10 Aug 2015 at 16:15

Steampunk said:
Those ones are dead (hence the blacker colour) but the yellow one is alive.

The Tarantula Hawk is bigger, but the Giant Asian Hornet is more aggressive, bad tempered, and hurts more. Most people stung by hornets in Japan and China go into anaphylactic shock.

These are the buggers that fight tarantulas, sting them to paralyse them, then lay their eggs to hatch and eat the spider:

That's not a wasp, that a cazadore from Fallout New Vegas.

uncle_rufus · 10 Aug 2015 at 16:15

+1 for "hooray for bees, boo to wasps!!"

Been watching a leaf-cutter bee in our bug box the last week or so... carefully coming back and forth with little cutout discs of leaf and then sitting and carefully chewing it up and using it to form a little plug in front of the hole where it laid its egg...

Quite a big bee but totally harmless

Jono · 10 Aug 2015 at 16:15

Those weed burner things are awesome vs flying hell beasts.

Mat · 10 Aug 2015 at 16:22

Found this bee flaked out on the kitchen floor not long ago. Gave it sugar solution, which it lapped up greedily, and then took it outside where it went on it's merry bee way.

Yaayuh! · 10 Aug 2015 at 16:41

Mat said:
Found this bee flaked out on the kitchen floor not long ago. Gave it sugar solution, which it lapped up greedily, and then took it outside where it went on it's merry bee way.

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I did the same a couple of months ago, but used coca cola, same trick :)

Tefal · 10 Aug 2015 at 16:52

Look at its little tongue ^_^

Tom0 · 10 Aug 2015 at 17:10

This thread... jeez.

*shudders*

mccarf · 10 Aug 2015 at 17:11

Steampunk said:
Hornets are worse

PREPARE THE NUKES :eek:

Arsonist · 10 Aug 2015 at 18:23

I was in a drinking establishment about a year ago with a group of 12+ close acquaintances and a wasp decided to aggravate our close-knit group. After some complaining from said acquaintances , I promptly stood up, declared that the wasp would die, and then swung my best right fist towards the heathen.

My clenched knuckles met the beast in a fashion that Ali himself would be proud of, I clobbered that wasp with such fury and might that it dropped to the floor dead, to many shouts of delight and praise from my beverage associates. Oh what a day of days that was!

TLDR; I swung a right hook at a wasp in the pub and killed it in one.

Breeze · 10 Aug 2015 at 19:02

Steampunk said:

hahaha superb. First laugh I've had today!

SonniLombardi · 10 Aug 2015 at 19:11

Arsonist said:
I was in a drinking establishment about a year ago with a group of 12+ close acquaintances and a wasp decided to aggravate our close-knit group. After some complaining from said acquaintances , I promptly stood up, declared that the wasp would die, and then swung my best right fist towards the heathen.

My clenched knuckles met the beast in a fashion that Ali himself would be proud of, I clobbered that wasp with such fury and might that it dropped to the floor dead, to many shouts of delight and praise from my beverage associates. Oh what a day of days that was!

TLDR; I swung a right hook at a wasp in the pub and killed it in one.

Bet you felt like a king after that accomplishment, especially while beered up

Brian18741 · 10 Aug 2015 at 19:15

mccarf said:
PREPARE THE NUKES

nope nope nope nope nope nope :eek:

Radec · 10 Aug 2015 at 19:30

Bees are cool. never been troubled by one. They just fly away.

But I know if I ignore a wasp, it will sting me if it lands.

Curio · 10 Aug 2015 at 19:34

I love big old bumblebees. I actually like to stroke them! They just carry on with their business.