Wasps are Evil!

I remember being stopped by a woman with a charity pot collecting for the bee trust.

I asked if they were saving them or killing them. She said saving so I just shook my head and carried on my way.
 
inogen said:
Yes, they eat pests and pollinate stuff. Very useful indeed.

But they're basically drunk (on rotten fruit alcohol), white turkeying junkies (not getting their sugar hit from the queen anymore) with stings come August and September. The rest of the year, they're fine.
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Indeed. Though not sure on "the rest of the year they're fine", they're still more aggressive than bees, by a long shot.

Bumblebees are the best. They're awesome.
 
new boy said:
I remember being stopped by a woman with a charity pot collecting for the bee trust.

I asked if they were saving them or killing them. She said saving so I just shook my head and carried on my way.
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Nothing wrong with bees. In fact i don't think I have ever been bothered or harassed by a bee. They just tend to stick to flowers.

Wasps on the other hand are *****
 
Tigers are more aggressive than lions. Don't really feel like stroking a Lion though lol.

Lions are also kinda cute, though probably not as cute as tigers.
 
Even with my phobia of them I know that Bees are nowhere near as bad as Wasps. If a Bee comes near me I don't really panic any more, I just move away from it a bit and be done with it. When a Wasp comes near me I feel my body tense up a bit ready to try to swat it away if I have to.

Simply put, a Bee won't sting you unless you basically give it no choice. A Wasp will sting you for the fun of it, then come back for more. Evil *****.
 
That they are, got stung on the eye lid by one on Saturday.
If you land on my eye lid, I'll blink automatically. Don't get pee'd off with me and sting me for it. At least I killed it in revenge.
 
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Glaucus said:
That they are, go stung on the eye lid by one on Saturday.
If you land in my eye lid, I'll blink automatically. Don't get pee'd off with me and sting me for it. At least I killed it in revenge.
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Ouch, sounds painful! As scared as I am of Wasps, if one ever stung me I know I wouldn't rest until it was a smeared mess somewhere. Then I'd run before others came to help it.
 
inogen said:
Yes, they eat pests and pollinate stuff. Very useful indeed.

But they're basically drunk (on rotten fruit alcohol), white turkeying junkies (not getting their sugar hit from the queen anymore) with stings.
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This, wasps are basically the chav of the insect world, ****ed up on cheap cider and trying to pick a fight with everyone!

Davey_Pitch said:
Simply put, a Bee won't sting you unless you basically give it no choice. A Wasp will sting you for the fun of it, then come back for more. Evil *****.
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Agreed! I'll always try to save an injured bee, but if i see a wasp I'll kill it and then hunt down it's family :p
 
cHk4 said:
We have literally hundreds of Wasps on our plum or pear tree, you can hardly see any green there are so many... One fell in a bucket of water the other day and couldn't get out... I actually helped it out and let it live. Good deed done for the day.
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You done what?:eek:

Haggisman said:
Agreed! I'll always try to save an injured bee, but if i see a wasp I'll kill it and then hunt down it's family :p
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Before it hunts you down :p And poo's through your letterbox..
 
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My phobia started when a bee / wasp thing landed on my face when I was about 6 or so.

I was alone in my grans garden, I just stood there crapping myself waiting for it to go, but it got trapped on my little blonde "pre moustache" hair somehow! I could see it trying to escape but it was tangled up.

I crushed it between my fingers (I can still remember the crunching sound it made) threw it away and ran back into the house balling my eyes out :(

About the same age, I was looking in a full length dressing mirror at my grans again, and watched what I remember to be a huge spider absail down from the ceiling and land on my head!

My grans got a lot to answer for!
 
new boy said:
My phobia started when a bee / wasp thing landed on my face when I was about 6 or so.

I was alone in my grans garden, I just stood there crapping myself waiting for it to go, but it got trapped on my little blonde "pre moustache" hair somehow! I could see it trying to escape but it was tangled up.

I crushed it between my fingers (I can still remember the crunching sound it made) threw it away and ran back into the house balling my eyes out :(

About the same age, I was looking in a full length dressing mirror at my grans again, and watched what I remember to be a huge spider absail down from the ceiling and land on my head!

My grans got a lot to answer for!
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Glad I'm not you.. those are the type of events that scar you for life :(
 
gothic_hobbit said:
I have noticed in recent years that there seems to be less wasps.
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Where is Dickyb0b when you need him, they just appear out of no where from another dimension :D

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:

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Wow, I just read up about their sting:

arantula hawk wasps are relatively docile and rarely sting without provocation. However, the sting—particularly that of P. grossa—is among the most painful of any insect, though the intense pain only lasts about three minutes.[5] One researcher described the pain as "…immediate, excruciating pain that simply shuts down one's ability to do anything, except, perhaps, scream. Mental discipline simply does not work in these situations."[3] In terms of scale, the wasp's sting is rated near the top of the Schmidt sting pain index, second only to that of the bullet ant, and is described by Schmidt as "blinding, fierce [and] shockingly electric".[6] Because of their extremely large stingers, very few animals are able to eat them; one of the few animals that can is the roadrunner. Many predatory animals avoid these wasps
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Definitely wouldn't want one of these on you.

Davey_Pitch said:
Even with my phobia of them I know that Bees are nowhere near as bad as Wasps. If a Bee comes near me I don't really panic any more, I just move away from it a bit and be done with it. When a Wasp comes near me I feel my body tense up a bit ready to try to swat it away if I have to.

Simply put, a Bee won't sting you unless you basically give it no choice. A Wasp will sting you for the fun of it, then come back for more. Evil *****.
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Yeah Bee's aren't too bad, I was sitting in the pub garden on Friday and one landed right next to me on a flower, doing it's duty etc, didn't bother me at all, I was quite mesmerized looking at it to be honest and how they polinate flowers etc... I was half drunk as well so you can imagine the look!

Bee's also obviously die when stinging you as it rips off their abdomen and stinging sack, so I don't think they go around doing it willy nilly.
 
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new boy said:
My phobia started when a bee / wasp thing landed on my face when I was about 6 or so.

I was alone in my grans garden, I just stood there crapping myself waiting for it to go, but it got trapped on my little blonde "pre moustache" hair somehow! I could see it trying to escape but it was tangled up.

I crushed it between my fingers (I can still remember the crunching sound it made) threw it away and ran back into the house balling my eyes out :(

About the same age, I was looking in a full length dressing mirror at my grans again, and watched what I remember to be a huge spider absail down from the ceiling and land on my head!

My grans got a lot to answer for!
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I never remember what caused my phobia, but I can remember very clearly the moment I first overcame my phobia and stood up to a wasp. I was on holiday with my parents in Wales, when I was about 12 years old, and a wasp was attacking my mum and wouldn't leave her alone. I got really angry and backhanded it, sending it flying away. It was at that exact moment I realised that I actually had some control over my fear, and it's gotten better year on year since then. I still get scared sometimes, but I don't run away like I used to.
 
new boy said:
Tigers are more aggressive than lions. Don't really feel like stroking a Lion though lol.

Lions are also kinda cute, though probably not as cute as tigers.
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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 :o
 
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