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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: IPAndrews on November 21, 2006, 02:12:55 pm
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[rant]Can someome please do me a favour and kill every frickin' wasp on the planet. I just got stung by one of the bad tempered little critters for absolutely no reason whatsoever. Eddie Izzard was right about wasps. Kill the [beep]ers. They contribute nothing to the world except a bad attitude.[/rant]
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meh. the venom gives such a nice high and all.
also, almost every pest insect species has a wasp species that is predator or parasite upon it.
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I hate the damn things too. Like you side kill them all.
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I got hurt by a hornet... I had an allergic reaction and everything... :sigh:
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Wasps are like Bees with skinheads and safetypins through their noses.....
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Correction: Wasps are like bees with laser beams attached to their heads.
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That reminded me of a cartoon I used to watch... Can't really say which... It involved giant bees with laser stings... :wtf:
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It involved giant bees with laser stings... :wtf:
(http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/7/77/235px-Buck_Bumble_box.jpg)
:D
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:wtf:
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*shrugs*
It's a fun game... :p
And you get to kill wasps, so what's not to like?
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Hate wasps? Hate this...
(http://waynesword.palomar.edu/images/tarhaw3.jpg)
The Tarantula Hawk Wasp. Guess what it kills...
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:eek:
Man killer? How big is it (though size does not matter)?
I heard that Hornets (not wasps) spray acid on the cut after injecting their poison... Is that true. :nervous:
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It's about two inches long.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula_hawk
Check it out, it has more than enough information. I'm just glad they're not to be found where I live!
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Yeah, nasty little devils, I already knew they had one of the most painful stings known to man, though I didn't know the actual poison was less fatal than a Honey Bee. Wierd.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_Sting_Pain_Index
Ah... so much free time.
Anyone had the brilliant idea of testing this scale? :D
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_Sting_Pain_Index
Ah... so much free time.
Anyone had the brilliant idea of testing this scale? :D
:lol: Count me in!
I've been stung by a wasp, I think, twice or so when I was maybe like 5 years old (and in the neck, none the less). After that I've had a terrible phobia against the damn things. :shaking:
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If you can name a wasp/relative to them, and it's native to North America, I've probably been stung by it.
I had a real bad phobia of the bastards when I watched my grandmother almost die from an allergic reaction, when I was six or something. I've been stung quite a few times since then though, and now, meh, don't really care. :p Last time I was stung by a wasp I was four-wheeling, bastard got me right below the Adams Apple, I feel lucky.
I'd really like to know what is their natural predator/parasite, if they have any.
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Who needs a predator? I've got an arsenal of rocket-propelled Raid-on-Crack in my basement for the little buggers.
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Well I recently learnt that hornets ****ing go to town on honey bees.
There's a video floating around MySpace or YouTube or something of about 10 hornets attacking an entire hive of honey bees. The bees get wiped out.
As for what attacks hornets? Not much I don't think.
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Here is the aforementioned clip (http://youtube.com/watch?v=mseXCMfBlYI) about Hornets vs. honeybees. Very well made film, I saw it in television once and it was rather freaky.
:nervous:
Where do you think the creators of the "Alien" franchise got their innovation from? :shaking:
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I too hate hornets. In the past three months, my house has been infested (luckily, twice in the shed, once just outside the house). The f***ing little buggers don't go away, even when you spray the ENTIRE FRIGGIN' NEST with wasp killer!!!
Also, the nastiest wasp I know of is the Tarantula Wasp, which injects the Tarantula with eggs. When the eggs hatch, the little wasps eat the Tarantula from the inside out. :ick:
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As for what attacks hornets? Not much I don't think.
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I do... :nervous:
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I got hurt by a hornet... I had an allergic reaction and everything... :sigh:
did you think about dropping countermeasures and afterburn+turn?
:P
sorry...really bad and obvious joke, but it had to be made...
i personally have never been stung by a wasp, or a bee.
somehow they sit on me and do not sting. dunno why :)
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Mozzies must die.
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I saw we lock all the Mozzies, Wasps and Hornets into one room, let them fight it out, and then go in there with Flamethrowers, just to prove that Humanity pwns them all ;)
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With our luck, they will probably evolve into one super-insectoid species and we'll just get an excellent scene combining Hallfight, "Alien" and "The Fly"... :shaking:
We could try an alternate plot. Natural enemies of hornets and wasps. Like, dragonflies and such. But anyway - I actually find mosquitoes and especially blackflies to be far, far worse than wasps, or even hornets. Anyone who claims anything to the contrary has never encountered a proper swarm of mosquitos or blackflys.
Here's a teaser of what's it like when you simply have to spend time in a mosquito-infested area and you cannot escape... (http://users.tkk.fi/~lmiettun/voice/saaski_vol+.ogg) It is not a pleasant feeling at all. :ick:
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Yeah, I hate Mosquitoes more than anything. If you hold still long enough, they fly around your ears and you can hear them.
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(http://www.x-entertainment.com/archive/quickies/06/insani1.gif)
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Indeed.
(http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/3/36/Starship-Troopers---rico.jpg?)
Kill them, kill them all!
:lol:
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The really annoying thing about hornets is that they're smart enough to realize what direction the water's coming from when you smack their nest down with the garden hose. Wasps don't do that. Bees don't either.
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we had this hornet/wasp killer spray thingy...hosed them down with some sort of poisonous foam.
they got trapped in it and sat there writhing in mortal agony...twas quite fun
and im surprised no one noticed the hornet missile joke on the previous page
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The really annoying thing about hornets is that they're smart enough to realize what direction the water's coming from when you smack their nest down with the garden hose. Wasps don't do that. Bees don't either.
That's because you don't use water on a hornet's nest. You use pure cleansing napalm.
(http://www.danshistory.com/napalm.jpg)
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we had this hornet/wasp killer spray thingy...hosed them down with some sort of poisonous foam.
they got trapped in it and sat there writhing in mortal agony...twas quite fun
and im surprised no one noticed the hornet missile joke on the previous page
Did the same thing with the aforementioned shed. The problem is that if you don't get all of them, one little wasp goes out and finds more wasps to make yet another nest. That's why I had 3 consecutive nests in 3 months....
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That's because you don't use water on a hornet's nest. You use pure cleansing napalm.
I would, but they wouldn't give the AD-1 to deploy it.
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mini-autoturrets programmed to take down flying insects in general.
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That's because you don't use water on a hornet's nest. You use pure cleansing napalm.
(http://www.danshistory.com/napalm.jpg)
After watching that video from the previous page, I can so imagine the last surviving Honey Bee flying that.
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I saw we lock all the Mozzies, Wasps and Hornets into one room, let them fight it out, and then go in there with Flamethrowers, just to prove that Humanity pwns them all ;)
Oh! The Humanity! :P
You know, people who react whenever they get around wasps and bees and stuff, they're more likely to get stung than those who move away from it, or slowly avoid it's flightpath. Just be cool, and they probably won't even notice you.
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mini-autoturrets programmed to take down flying insects in general.
I've imagined that before....
If I were to say I "like" any of the bugs in this general area, I would say I like YellowJackets. They don't have the temper of the others and they seem to be somewhat intelligent. Except when they get caught in those ingenious traps.
(http://www.aces.edu/dept/extcomm/npa/newspaper/graphics/yellow-jacket-trap.jpg)
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Yellowjackets are the ones that I've gotten stung by. :p Each time it's hurt less, though.
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Yessssssss, death to the stupid, evil, vile, creatures, use enough gasoline to turn them into a pile of goo. :hopping:
I can of wasp killer is truly your best freind. :p :yes:
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Once one of the little (censored) umm, lands on you, and stings you, it can track you down. I know this because I got stung by one nasty ground hornet on my hand behind the garage and ran to the house which is 75 feet from the garage and one of the buggers landed on the same hand and stung me again next to the first sting. Gaaaaa... Its like they got built in radar. :nervous:
I aradicated them with a dirt devil, put it over there hole and left it running... The bag on the dirt devil was filled with a lot of yellow and black fragments.. :lol:
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:lol:
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I remember hearing once that wasps give off a pheramone when swatted that make other wasps more likely to sting you.
Kinda sums up what bastards they are really.
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one of the buggers landed on the same hand and stung me again next to the first sting. Gaaaaa... Its like they got built in radar. :nervous:
And yet they can't find their way out of an open window to peacefully leave a room and instead just repeatedly bang their heads against the glass. That's what happens when you have 95% of an already small brain devoted to pointless aggression and only 5% to navigation. Unless as already stated the navigation is linked to pointless aggression in which case it's covered by the 95% and they are exceedingly good at it.
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Here is the aforementioned clip (http://youtube.com/watch?v=mseXCMfBlYI) about Hornets vs. honeybees. Very well made film, I saw it in television once and it was rather freaky.
:nervous:
Where do you think the creators of the "Alien" franchise got their innovation from? :shaking:
Actually it was propably a deep sea creature, small parasitoid copepod or something. And wasps and lizards and stuff too.
As for what attacks hornets? Not much I don't think.
Several birds at least, and bears and badgers, and of course parasites. Parasites!
The clip is actually about Japanese Giant Hornet attacking European Honeybee nest. Eur. HBs have no defence against the big fellas, native Japanese bees do. They overheat the hornets en masse.
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These (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_fly) can give you a nasty bite too! A friend of mine was once bitten on her forehead, an egg sized lump appeared before it eventually scabbed over about two weeks later, after another two weeks she was left with a nasty scar were she had been bitten.
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Hate wasps? Hate this...
(http://waynesword.palomar.edu/images/tarhaw3.jpg)
The Tarantula Hawk Wasp. Guess what it kills...
duh... of course
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(http://icons.wunderground.com/data/wximagenew/m/mentalnomad/62.jpg)
These evil-minded f**kers are what we have to deal with in south Texas. Last time I got stung, I was trying to kill the nest they had made in my attic. I couldn't find the actual nest, but I'd figured out where they were getting in, so I was seriously hosing that area with a lasting poison. One of them tried to return to the nest, realized what I was doing, and went straight for me. I ran for it, but the blighter chased me all the way around the house and managed to get into my hair. I couldn't shake him off, so I finally gave in and swatted him off with my hand. Naturally, he stung that instead, but fortunately that was all he did. Flew off, I guess. It hurt like hell.
A few hours later, it looked like my flesh was rotting in the area he stung me. It didn't blister or puff up, it shriveled up. Hurt for days afterwards. We eventually had to fog-bomb the attic. That finally killed off the nest. We never did actually find it.
Next time, I'm going after them with an aerosol can and a lighter. Death's too good for them.
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Wow, they actually have a parasite....
http://www.strepsiptera.uni-rostock.de/e/strepsiptera.html
Picture:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/55824
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Wow, they actually have a parasite....
http://www.strepsiptera.uni-rostock.de/e/strepsiptera.html
Picture:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/55824
Everything has a parasite. And parasites have parasites too, sometimes even up to fourth level (parasite of a parasite of a parasite of a parasite).
I want to be a parasite.
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These (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_fly) can give you a nasty bite too! A friend of mine was once bitten on her forehead, an egg sized lump appeared before it eventually scabbed over about two weeks later, after another two weeks she was left with a nasty scar were she had been bitten.
ah, yeah, but it's usually instant death for the ones who get a chance to bite (humans). last time a wasp stung me I didn't realize until 20 minutes later. sure, I felt a sting at first too, but that could've been anything. as for mosquitoes, there are places here in sweden that has the worst mangrove swamps beat by a factor ten. and yes, people actually live there. worse than the common mosquito is the black fly, of course, but even worse is the god damn invisible biting midges. they itch a ****ing lot and you don't hear them coming.
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Wow, they actually have a parasite....
http://www.strepsiptera.uni-rostock.de/e/strepsiptera.html
Picture:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/55824
Everything has a parasite. And parasites have parasites too, sometimes even up to fourth level (parasite of a parasite of a parasite of a parasite).
I want to be a parasite.
You're human. You're already the ultimate parasite.
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Wow, they actually have a parasite....
http://www.strepsiptera.uni-rostock.de/e/strepsiptera.html
Picture:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/55824
Everything has a parasite. And parasites have parasites too, sometimes even up to fourth level (parasite of a parasite of a parasite of a parasite).
I want to be a parasite.
You're human. You're already the ultimate parasite.
i don't live inside another organism so my life is kinda ruined in a good way
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Where do you think the creators of the "Alien" franchise got their innovation from? :shaking:
Lots and lots of pictures of genitals. Ever listened to H.R. Giger on the subject. Man's a frigging perv!
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I meant aliens as a concept of parasitic killer species, not their physical manifestation...
I don't actually want to know what made Giger make them look what they like... :shaking:
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Where do you think the creators of the "Alien" franchise got their innovation from? :shaking:
Lots and lots of pictures of genitals. Ever listened to H.R. Giger on the subject. Man's a frigging perv!
but a bloody genius as well.