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Offline An4ximandros

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 There was a wasp in the house today! :shaking: :shaking: :shaking:

 
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There was a wasp in the house today! :shaking: :shaking: :shaking:

Bees, I will try to leave alone / relocate.  Same for spiders.

But wasps... they die, evil little buggers.  I was stung by one when I was a young'un and that has left a hate of the things that will never leave me.  They look evil and they attack wooden structures.

When inside I usually give them a squirt with this stuff.  Unlike regular flyspray it doesn't linger nearly as long so you need a good aim but it doesn't stink nearly as much and the fumes are probably a notch or two below flyspray on the 'don't inhale' scale.

I hate wasps but I have a little mercy towards them, Isopropyl alcohol seems to kill the little sods a lot faster than flyspray does.  :drevil:

As an added bonus you can use the stuff for cleaning things  :D
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Oh, you foreigners and your deadly dangerous spiders... so cute. :p
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There was a wasp in the house today! :shaking: :shaking: :shaking:

Bees, I will try to leave alone / relocate.  Same for spiders.

But wasps... they die, evil little buggers.  I was stung by one when I was a young'un and that has left a hate of the things that will never leave me.  They look evil and they attack wooden structures.

When inside I usually give them a squirt with this stuff.  Unlike regular flyspray it doesn't linger nearly as long so you need a good aim but it doesn't stink nearly as much and the fumes are probably a notch or two below flyspray on the 'don't inhale' scale.

I hate wasps but I have a little mercy towards them, Isopropyl alcohol seems to kill the little sods a lot faster than flyspray does.  :drevil:

As an added bonus you can use the stuff for cleaning things  :D

So one wasp stings you so you kill every wasp.

If one dog bites you, will you kill every dog?

 

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Wasps in general are trouble. They once nested in my garden. When we blew them up with carbide, they moved into the wooden wall of the house. It took a construction team and a very strong bug spray to get rid of them. They're a pest, really, killing bees, chewing through the woodwork and stinging people.

 

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i come from a part of the world where almost nothing is poisonous. around here things just eat you. everything from grizzly bears to bloodsucking helicopters.
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Offline Lorric

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Wasps in general are trouble. They once nested in my garden. When we blew them up with carbide, they moved into the wooden wall of the house. It took a construction team and a very strong bug spray to get rid of them. They're a pest, really, killing bees, chewing through the woodwork and stinging people.

They still pollinate plants though. And they kill other pest insects. They are pest controllers. Wiping them out I'm sure would be more detrimental than having them stay. If they nest on your doorstep though, I'm not going to tell you to leave them alone.

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http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/bugs/wasp/

"Despite the fear they sometimes evoke, wasps are extremely beneficial to humans. Nearly every pest insect on Earth is preyed upon by a wasp species, either for food or as a host for its parasitic larvae. Wasps are so adept at controlling pest populations that the agriculture industry now regularly deploys them to protect crops."
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Offline MP-Ryan

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Oh, you foreigners and your deadly dangerous spiders... so cute. :p

Black Wolf wins.

It seems that virtually every interesting creature I read about native to Australia is poisonous.  Like Nuke, I live in a part of the world where (in my case) very few things are poisonous, but a lot of said things will eat you.  Or kick/trample/gore you to death.

That said, I can see moose coming at me.  Some of the deadliest spiders in the world that hide in footwear give me the heebie jeebies.
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Re: Dead, is the Beast!
Wasps in general are trouble. They once nested in my garden. When we blew them up with carbide, they moved into the wooden wall of the house. It took a construction team and a very strong bug spray to get rid of them. They're a pest, really, killing bees, chewing through the woodwork and stinging people.

They still pollinate plants though. And they kill other pest insects. They are pest controllers. Wiping them out I'm sure would be more detrimental than having them stay. If they nest on your doorstep though, I'm not going to tell you to leave them alone.

EDIT:

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/bugs/wasp/

"Despite the fear they sometimes evoke, wasps are extremely beneficial to humans. Nearly every pest insect on Earth is preyed upon by a wasp species, either for food or as a host for its parasitic larvae. Wasps are so adept at controlling pest populations that the agriculture industry now regularly deploys them to protect crops."

Depends on the species of wasp.  The lesser-aggressive species are beneficial, if a nuisance.  Some of the more aggressive species are damaging to threatened insects and pose a danger to humans.
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They make good neighbours.
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Offline Lorric

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They make good neighbours.

Wasps? To us?

 
Re: Dead, is the Beast!
I was stung by one when I was a young'un and that has left a hate of the things that will never leave me.

So one wasp stings you so you kill every wasp.

If one dog bites you, will you kill every dog?
I was Six at the time.  The event has left me in the situation that I either have to leave the room or remove the wasp and I don't care how I do it cause if I don't I won't be able to do anything else as I won't be able to break eye contact with the bloody thing.  Its become a psychological thing with me.

As for the dogs, bad example.  The average (sub)urban wasp looks pretty much like the next one in my experience.  On the other hand there are so many different types of dog that it is perfectly reasonable to be scared witless of rottweilers while adoring westies.
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Offline Lorric

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I was stung by one when I was a young'un and that has left a hate of the things that will never leave me.

So one wasp stings you so you kill every wasp.

If one dog bites you, will you kill every dog?
I was Six at the time.  The event has left me in the situation that I either have to leave the room or remove the wasp and I don't care how I do it cause if I don't I won't be able to do anything else as I won't be able to break eye contact with the bloody thing.  Its become a psychological thing with me.

As for the dogs, bad example.  The average (sub)urban wasp looks pretty much like the next one in my experience.  On the other hand there are so many different types of dog that it is perfectly reasonable to be scared witless of rottweilers while adoring westies.

Well, I guess that's not so bad. Have you tried capturing one before? It might help you. Catch the next wasp in something you can see inside. Once it has been rendered harmless see how you feel.

I have bug phobia, and the catcher has really helped me over the years. The fear is but a mere fraction of what it used to be today, it used to be something similar to what you described with all bugs to varying degrees depending on the type. Now in some cases I can behave as normal even with certain bugs in the same room. It's funny how much smaller bugs seem once they've been caught! I bet if you capture a wasp, it will seem as if it has shrunk in size very much :)

I've captured wasps with the catcher, but have never been stung. I wonder how I'd feel if I did get stung. I don't want to find out. I hope one day the fear will be gone entirely. I'm actually quite confident now when I go about catching something, when initially, all the creature had to do was move to make me jump, now, I can get close to them and wait calmly for the right moment to catch them.

Face your fear, or it will own you.

Yes, that's good reasoning about the dogs. I need to pick something else if there's a next time, and it's quite tricky to think of something appropriate.

 

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Wasps deserve no mercy. You kindness will bring doom upon us all, fool!
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Offline Lorric

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Wasps deserve no mercy. You kindness will bring doom upon us all, fool!

Just trying to be funny, Karajorma? Or do you hate the wasps? Did they sting ya?  :)

 

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They all assumed I spoke in jest.....


...until they too were carted away to work in the honey mines.
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Offline Lorric

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They all assumed I spoke in jest.....


...until they too were carted away to work in the honey mines.

Oh well, look on the bright side, it's better than being used as a vessel for their eggs.

 

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They will take us and they'll make us
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Offline Lorric

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Well, after all the wasps have done for us, and you people go around demonising them and blowing apart their homes and murdering them in their millions, what did you expect, that they'd just carry on just taking it? You'll only have yourself to blame when you're a wasp-slave, or when they're stinging you to death and laying their eggs in your remains.

Just be nice to the wasps like me. They've never given me any trouble at all. Live and let live :)

 

Offline An4ximandros

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 There was another wasp in the house this morning. Not in the mood to go running up stairs to get the fly swatter, and it being near the door, I opened it and it just went merrily on it's way. Haven't seen it since and I avoided killing it.