"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

"The Reid" wrote in message
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Following up to Ophelia

We had one last week.

for dinner?

Not too bad marinaded in a little basil and garlic

*SWAT* cheeky)

O

"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

"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

"Michael Saunby" wrote in message
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"Drakanthus" wrote in message
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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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

"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

"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

"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/

"Malcolm" wrote in message
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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.