How long do wasps nest for?
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keybored
Well done. You remember cat good.
I've been stung twice this month (on the back of my wrist last week and on my right ear today) and it was nothing to do with my behaviour, it was just wasps behaving like total dicks as usual. The one last week got away but I'm pleased to tell you I killed today's wasp 5 times over with my work boot.
Mation
real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
Until you think they're done, however long that is.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
the thought of a wasp stinging my sack will now haunt me. Yes its anaphylactic shock regardless here, but the balls? The fucking balls?
they have no honour
they have no honour
Exactly, they respect nothing
keybored
Well done. You remember cat good.
imagine this in your pants, around your balls FFS
That darker coloured spike which looks like a vicious sting isn't really a sting, it's a tube used to plant eggs. As any gushing wasp fan will point out.
What they don't mention is that the yellow shorter bit is still a fucking sting, and obviously these Wood Wasps will not only sting you but they will impregnate you with their evil spawn at the same time.
Horrible. Nuke it from orbit.
Yeah, well my still puffy and achy arm can testify to that but killing them for defending their offspring - no, not for this fearful, but peaceable gardener. I don't do snails either...although shamefully, I have less tolerance for hateful vine-weevils which do me no harm whatsoever but batter my auriculas to fuck (I set nematodes on 'em).
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
they respect the Code of the Wasp which seems to run like this
1) thou shalt harrass the fuck out of people trying to have a picnic
2) thou shalt reduce children to tears of fear because you are a cunt
3)Thou shalt not die immediately when sprayed but rather get angrier and more stingy
4) Thou shalt get pissed on rotten apples the act EVEN MORE like the begbie of the insect world
5)Thou shalt hide in cans like a cunt
6) Thou shall not give a fuck about ones own survival so long as you get you sting in
fucking bastards, I hate them so badly. Its not just my allergy thing. Its the agression. Bees are safe, ladybirds are safe. Even cockroaches are sort of ok but you can live elswhere mates, not here. But wasps are actively vile
We have wood wasps too...and absolutely fucking vicious woodants which bite and spray a burning formic acid - the grief also lasts for hours (this I know having got one in my pants) - there are entire areas of the wood where I will not set foot (but at several woodpeckers hang about in apparent ecstasy). My daughter's beehives (also in the wood - have I come a long way with my phobia?) was mauled by wasps last year...but even so, killing does not sit well with me unless I was actively defending a beloved plant (aphids, begone, lily beetles - crushed)...and my daughter certainly filled multiple wasp traps.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Killing sits perfectly well with me when it comes to the little buzzing bastards.
Bees make honey. Bees are cool.
Wasps make misery. Fuck 'em.
Bees make honey. Bees are cool.
Wasps make misery. Fuck 'em.
Wasps prey on flies, midges, mosquitoes and even spiders. They have a place in the cycle of existence. Being terrified, I actively avoid them and have not been stung by a wasp...ever! Bees are tricky for me had to have a long immuno-therapy treatment after testing positive to bee sting allergens but killing them is unthinkable...although last year, I was stung 3times by bees.
The hornet, which truly was my worst nightmare made flesh, will, I hope, be a one-off occurrence because I will be on the lookout and not stabbing pitchforks blithely into woodpiles. I am always circumspect at the allotment after seeing a neighbour chased off the site by ground-dwelling bees lurking in his broccoli.
The hornet, which truly was my worst nightmare made flesh, will, I hope, be a one-off occurrence because I will be on the lookout and not stabbing pitchforks blithely into woodpiles. I am always circumspect at the allotment after seeing a neighbour chased off the site by ground-dwelling bees lurking in his broccoli.
8ball
World is a fuck
They have their own laws
But there are no wasp police. There should be
8ball
World is a fuck
Would the wasp police side with the police or with the wasps?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
basically fascism then.
8ball
World is a fuck
More like nihilism. But with a little more integrity than the teenage posturing kind.
BigMoaner
Some Might Say
post of the month imo.
BigMoaner
Some Might Say
just last summer a friend of mine, a six foot 2 scaffolder from peckham, was chased screaming across a field in kent after disturbing some wasps. they got him, twice. when will this end?
BigMoaner
Some Might Say
Ffs get it out of your pants, it'll go for your balls next.
I got a whole row of mosquito bites right across my pubes at the w/e - at least 20 bright red spots, itchy as hell.
I was in a car ( 2CV) when a wasp flew in through the canvas roof. Panicking and flapping, the wasp evaded my flailing arms by seeking sanctuary up the shorts leg of my driver - we were careering down one of those scary Alps switchbacks in the Dolomites. Poor chap had a swollen bollock the size of a grapefruit and sulked so badly I ditched the car during a drunken row and hitched through Yugoslavia (as it still was back then - 1979).
I was in a car ( 2CV) when a wasp flew in through the canvas roof. Panicking and flapping, the wasp evaded my flailing arms by seeking sanctuary up the shorts leg of my driver - we were careering down one of those scary Alps switchbacks in the Dolomites. Poor chap had a swollen bollock the size of a grapefruit and sulked so badly I ditched the car during a drunken row and hitched through Yugoslavia (as it still was back then - 1979).
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Aww - look at this lovely wasp. 
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I see Tito's iron grip didn't extend to controlling the wasps then.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
oh yes. I know the sound. But it isn't the rich gentle buzzle of a bumble bee. It sharper, like a diving Stuka
Bees have good PR. And we drink their piss.
Wasps are Millwall. They don't care.
Wasps are Millwall. They don't care.
antimata
neck chops
you got stung ha ha ha ha......boo fucking who.
it paid with its life, you are still posting who won?
keybored
Well done. You remember cat good.
Who's Boo?
kabbes
First intersubjective, then internalised
Wasps are great. We would be overrun with flies if it wasn't for wasps.
I've never been stung by a wasp, either. Got stung by a bee once. But no wasp ever.
I've had a wasps' nest under our bedroom window and just left it alone. Got a bastard load of wasps buzzing about and coming in the bedroom, but still no stings. The next year, I had the same thing just outside the living room. This year, though, no wasps. They use their nest for a year and then move on.
Live and let live with your wasp friends!
I've never been stung by a wasp, either. Got stung by a bee once. But no wasp ever.
I've had a wasps' nest under our bedroom window and just left it alone. Got a bastard load of wasps buzzing about and coming in the bedroom, but still no stings. The next year, I had the same thing just outside the living room. This year, though, no wasps. They use their nest for a year and then move on.
Live and let live with your wasp friends!
