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"Mark Allison" wrote in message ... The wasps have tried to dig through the blu-tack with success once, I have now reapplied the blu-tack a bit thicker now and they can't get through it. They'll probably go next door... I see.... another NIMBY *grin* O |
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"The Reid" wrote in message ... Following up to Ophelia We had one last week. for dinner? Not too bad marinaded in a little basil and garlic:) *SWAT* cheeky:)) O |
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"Simon Avery" wrote in message I killed a Queen yesterday. They're starting to come out of hibernation and are hunting around for nesting sites. If you see one, get the bugger quick before it turns itself into a nest! Oooer missus... how will it do that? Can it turn into chairs and tables too:))))) O |
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"Stephen Howard" wrote in message It was a bloody wasp, it had crawled down my neck and stung my back - I just didn't hear or feel the thing coming. I sat on one of the wee $£%&^ once. It got me on my inner thigh. I thought I had sat on a needle and it had gone all the way in:( That was the most painful sting I had ever had. I don't muck about with them anymore. O |
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"Michael Saunby" wrote in message ... "Drakanthus" wrote in message ... I personally wouldn't have put the "even" in front of the hornets. They don't occur where I live now, but when we lived further south we had them in the garden. They're much more docile and less aggressive than wasps - big stripey pussycats, in fact :-) Malcolm That's how I think of bumble bees. My wife runs a mile, but I think they are sort of "cute". I can be dead heading plants and they land in a flower next to my hand - they never seem the slightest bit interested in me so I leave them to it. Live and let live. Wasps on the other hand - its open warfare! Bumble bees I remove from the house by closing my hand around them - since they rarely sting and it doesn't hurt much if they do. Wasps I'll admit I tend to flick with a fingernail and then flick them out the window - some live, some don't. Hornets I remove using a glass and a piece of paper. The same for honey bees, though often they can be directed with a hand wave or too. For those that want to try the experimental method of working out what you have by how much the sting hurts - wasp stings hurt a little (rather more than a nettle) and a bee sting hurts like hell and the sting is left behind with the venom sack still pumping. Not sure what a hornet sting is like, probably like a wasp. Hmmm the wasp that stung me left its sting in my leg! O |
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On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 14:22:07 +0100, The Reid
wrote: sounds like a queen looking for a nest site. Yes, I think that's the most likely explanation. Luckily, she must have decided she didn't really want to share my bed! -- Serena Sometimes I sits and thinks ... and sometimes I just sits. (Punch cartoon) |
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On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 13:21:32 +0100, "geoff"
wrote: Wasps will bite off bits of wood from posts and fallen trees to turn into paper mache for their combs . . . but a BED POST??!! Not even a bed post! It was a blue cotton hanging, which I have as a bed head. I did have images of her building a very tastefully furnished nest from it, but I'm pretty sure she wasn't munching any. Just admiring it. -- Serena Sometimes I sits and thinks ... and sometimes I just sits. (Punch cartoon) |
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On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 18:55:57 +0100, "Ophelia"
wrote: Oooer missus... how will it do that? Can it turn into chairs and tables too:))))) No, but it can turn your chairs and tables into a nest... -- Serena Sometimes I sits and thinks ... and sometimes I just sits. (Punch cartoon) |
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Following up to swroot
Besides which I think I'm developing an allergy to the stings :-(( [1] About six so far this year, but who's counting? My wifes grandmother almost died when she swallowed one in her beer and it stung the inside of her throat. -- Mike Reid "Art is the lie that reveals the truth" P.Picasso London & the British hills "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" Spain, food and walking "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" (see web for email) |
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Following up to Serena Blanchflower
sounds like a queen looking for a nest site. Yes, I think that's the most likely explanation. Luckily, she must have decided she didn't really want to share my bed! I thought of several replies, then thought better of all of them! :-) -- Mike Reid "Art is the lie that reveals the truth" P.Picasso London & the British hills "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" Spain, food and walking "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" (see web for email) |
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On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 19:53:20 +0100, The Reid
wrote: I thought of several replies, then thought better of all of them! :-) Whew! That's a relief :) -- Serena Sometimes I sits and thinks ... and sometimes I just sits. (Punch cartoon) |
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"The Reid" wrote in message ... Following up to Serena Blanchflower sounds like a queen looking for a nest site. Yes, I think that's the most likely explanation. Luckily, she must have decided she didn't really want to share my bed! I thought of several replies, then thought better of all of them! :-) Just as well, what me keeping an eye on you an all:) O |
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"Serena Blanchflower" wrote in message ... On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 18:55:57 +0100, "Ophelia" wrote: Oooer missus... how will it do that? Can it turn into chairs and tables too:))))) No, but it can turn your chairs and tables into a nest... hehehe nice one:) O |
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"The Devil's Advocate" wrote:
Hello The (Erroneous top-quote fixed) sA : I killed a Queen yesterday. They're starting to come out sA : hibernation and are hunting around for nesting sites. sA : If you see one, get the bugger quick before it turns sA itself into a nest! TDsA No they do so much good I don't care if they distribute food aid to third world countries, they started our little war and although it's unlikely, I'm doing my best to win it. Doing quite well so far. (BTW, if anyone wants to know how to kill a ground-level wasps nest without setting fire to it, just ask.) -- Simon Avery, Dartmoor, UK Ý http://www.digdilem.org/ |
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"Malcolm" wrote in message ... I personally wouldn't have put the "even" in front of the hornets. They don't occur where I live now, but when we lived further south we had them in the garden. They're much more docile and less aggressive than wasps - big stripey pussycats, in fact :-) Also they seem to be much better endowed with common sense than most wasps. You can gently usher a hornet to the open window and it will go there, whereas a wasp will keep turning back to the pane it was bashing itself on (or else dive off into the middle of the room), and get itself all lathered up. |
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