queen wasps

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Hate the stripey little b*stards with a passion - only been stung twice in my life, but it stays with you.

The first time I ever got stung, I was 9 and stood on a dead one on the floor at my nan's and she had to pick the sting out. Typical that I suffered at the hands of something that was dead! :P

Second time, in Turkey in 2010. They had LOADS around the hotel, they had to fumigate daily. I'd gone for a kip one afternoon, then woke up to go and join the family...went on to the balcony, put my vest on, and then when I got to the pool-side, I felt a searing pain in my armpit. One of the little cretins was in my vest, and rather than fly away, it did the Waspish thing and stung me, before leaving.

Check this clip from Johnny Vegas' "Sex Lives of the Potato Men" - now THAT is a bloke who fears wasps.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnXlnOMfPLA[/youtube]
Thanks for the warning OP.

 

[laserblue]

are you sure it wasnt a hornet

hornets are the size of a large wasp (they're actually a species of wasp) but they have brown rather than black stripes and the queens are a good 2 inches long which is bigger than a queen wasp. it's still too early for this season's brood of hornets (or wasps) to be out and about. what i saw were definitely queen wasps.

 

[paphos-mcfc]

Get these over here.

And these.

Wouldn't like to get stung by either.

 

[nelsons willie]

couldnt you just put a sign in your window saying no wasps allowed.it seemed to work for travellers in the pubs around manchester

 

[daveduke67]

I got stung by a bee today :-(
































Three fuckin quid for a jar of honey.

 

[AlgarveBlu]

For all you queen wasp/bee fetishests there is an 'African queen bee' programme tobight at 8 on BBC 2 i think...

 

[glen quagmire]

Get these over here.

And these.

Wouldn't like to get stung by either.

Erm, erm i can't come over tonight, i am erm going away for a while!

I hate the lot of them!

 

[paphos-mcfc]

Get these over here.

And these.

Wouldn't like to get stung by either.

Erm, erm i can't come over tonight, i am erm going away for a while!

I hate the lot of them!

I can post you some Glen, you could breed them. The daubers could be trained eventually to build you a nice luxurious mudhut, which you could sell to some Amazonian tribesmen and make a small profit.

 

[lloydie]

depends if we have a cold snap between now and the summer, I doubt it as it's already practically April, I think many things should have a good year.

Not seen the forecast then.

 

[BertTrautmann'sParachute]

couldnt you just put a sign in your window saying no wasps allowed.it seemed to work for travellers in the pubs around manchester

I remember going in a pub around the Openshaw area a good few years back called The Travellers Inn. There was a sign on the door that said "No Travellers Allowed"!