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The Face of Evil....dont look if easily scared. And no it's not Danny Dyer.
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Posted 2 years ago #
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Maybe its because I've never been stung (as far as I remember), but I don't find wasps at all scary. Just flick em.
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Jasper
Stamp on the ****
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Stamp on the ****
Bit much innit?
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yeah, no need to curse, just stamp on it.
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Get a deodrant can and a lighter, singe it's wings and torture it.
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Its only a wasp. What if it was a Hornet?
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I don't know why people have such a downer on wasps, and like to torture them and beat them away if they come close. It's a useful insect, and there's a very slight risk it might sting you...
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a risk which is made slighter if it's nowhere near you or in fact dead. hope that helps.
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Hornets - evil little ****, kill them all I say.
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Get a deodrant can and a lighter, singe it's wings and torture it
been reading too much Iain Banks me thinks!
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Hornets - evil little ****, kill them all I say.
Vicious little b@st@rds! They really do just look for reasons to sting you. Wasps I don't like being near me, but I wouldn't try and kill them.
We had a nest growing in our garden last summer, though they never troubled us. One day I looked at a small tree in the corner near the house, and found a rugby-ball sized nest built into the branch. Never even noticed
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Maybe its because I've never been stung (as far as I remember)
Thats exactly the reason I'm terrified of them, even if I'm in the middle of town if one flies next to me I'll start doing some crazy brake-dance like moves to get away from it!
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Had several encounters with wasps, bees and hornets. Never been stung except when I rode into a bee at 35mph in the Alps and it went down my top.
Used to work with swarms of wasps around me all summer.
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simon, how is a wasp useful?
other than if you want someone to get stung, that is?Posted 2 years ago # -
how is a wasp useful?
Pollination which is quite importantThat links from US (just the first from a google search) dunno how much pollination british wasps do but no pollination = no flora = no food for fauna = no food for us.
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Why do we call them jaspers? I thought it was just something my mates and I used to call them.
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Heh, that was the first thing I thought of too DudleyPoyson.
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Woah! lads lads lads, it was already dead when I got there. I never kill them, catch and release is always my motto. They are scary to look at though...
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As Craig Ferguson said during his Bing Hitler stand-up days. "Wasps are the skinheads of the insect world."
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I've been stung by wasps loads of times. I will admit though that they do usually co-operate when I want to get rid of them, but sometimes when you are trying to have a picnic they just don't know when to quit.
That's what badminton racquets are really for.
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Surely sfb you can't argue the point that wasps have rights too? Or were you being ironic?
I tried to leave them be and ignore them but last summer they were just pests at our local pub garden. When I tried to ignore one it tried to fly into my mouth ffs!
Having previously been stung on the lip, eating an apple outdoors, I have a personal vendetta against them. Now I just remember to take an ultimate frisbee disc to the pub too, makes for a hell of a swat!
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I don't mind a bit of F-ing and blindin, but that DudleyPoyson pic is a bit pointless isn't it?
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I work in a cloud of the b'stards all vintage in the winery. I ignore them & they don't sting me.
Others that do kill them usually get stung.Posted 2 years ago # -
I ignore them & they don't sting me.
When I ignore them they tend to fly over for a closer look, ending up in my ear, up my nose or down my collar. Where they sting me.
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Danny Dyer face of Laughter
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My parents have a sort of double-strung tennis racquet with metal strings which electrify when you press a button.
Think its meant for small flies - by god does it make a bang when you hit a wasp - they usually sail across the room on fire!
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pardon my ignorance, who is Danny Dyer?
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rOcKeTdOg - Member
pardon my ignorance, who is Danny Dyer?
Well, you did ask.
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ugh - feel sick now
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I'm not to fussed by wasps, I try and stay calm when they're about
I was on holiday in Finland as a kid dangling my feet in the water and I found a dragonfly with wasp marking sitting on my hip. I was petrified!
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[quote]"but sometimes when you are trying to have a picnic they just don't know when to quit"[quote]
When picnicing take dregs of a jar of jam or honey (or a beer can with a little left in it). The wasps smell the the jam/honey/booze and go and get stick/drowned in it, allowing you to consume your sandwiches peace.
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For that to work you'd have to make sure there was MORE jam/honey/pop/beer elsewhere than there was in your picnic. So that's basically two picnics, one for you and one for the jaspers...
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wasps do pollinate http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/wasps.shtml
however they also try to steal my sandwiches, drink my beer and sting me when I am riding my bike. My revenge is to kill them (but no torture)Posted 2 years ago #
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