Wasps

Squeamish people by all means click this link:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/05/wasps-stung-me-in-the-testicles-but-i-love-them-anyway

No, he misses the point. By the time they are crazy drunk and aggressive in September, the job of creating the queens for the next year is done. They are no longer pollinating and the aphids are no longer larvae for them to eat and cleanse our plants. By September the only useful thing a wasp can do is drown in a well made beer trap.

job of creating the queens for the next year is done
no longer pollinating
the only useful thing a wasp can do is drown in a well made beer trap

A bit like you in your retirement, then. :)

I have every intention of giving that a jolly good attempt.

A couple of months back I knelt on a tarpaulin covering some floor tiles out the back of my workshop, I felt something go squish and then was engulfed by angry wasps. Not very angry though as they didn't sting me.

A couple of hours later they'd managed to fix most of the cracks.

I've been assured they'll leave come winter but at the moment they seem very happy there and it seems to be increasing in size every week :D

Are they paper wasps? They may not have seen you as the source of a threat. Their nest cracking was probably too abstract for them.

While I think wasps and their nests are totally awesome, you want to be careful with nests in your home. It may start with only one, but more can be started in the vicinity.

Wasp casually stung me on the ear lobe the other day as I was cycling to the post office.
It was an experience as I hadn't been stung since I was about 7. The only thing that let me know it was a wasp was the horrendous thunder of buzzong next to my ear then a very sharp pain. Wasn't as bad as I remembered though. Probably because I'm tougher than I was when I was 7 but not by much.
A few days later my lobe was the size of a walnut as the stinger was still stuck in my ear and had become infected. Cheers!

No idea what wasps they are but the nest is now touching the wall and the box behind, hopefully they'll all vanish come winter and I'll be a little more clued up about looking for new nests come spring.

This summers yield of targeted wasp kills by me is a staggering 112! 2 weeks stuck on a farm in Billericay, I got pretty bored after breakfast. Just kept finished jam jars open, when there's about 10 wasp in there I close the lid and shake the jar, empty the unconscious wasps on the table and squash them, leaving the open jar for the next set.

I'm going to hell.

#rep

Torch the bastard.

@husy not barleylands? I grew up on the estate next to there.

That's the one! Was camping not too far from the massive pond.

@ jones you say you they'll vanish come winter, what if they are thinking the same thing about you ?

This was on Jeremy Vine the other day and the guest expert, who happened to be a director of a pest control company, advised to call a professional pest control company. #csb

I had a wasp queen in my house last year, I put her in a container with hole and a a lid as I didn't fancy a nest in my house or garden.

But she didn't hibernate, it was too warm, so I released her. What became of her, I don't know.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-34190922 well if they can move bee nests...

They're starting to get bored of feeding the young and interested in attacking innocent ice cream eaters.

Time to start the cull.

Not gone into aggro mode here. I expect everything's looking for a fight in Chingford ;-)

Mine ( I don't actually own them ) still seem happy enough just munching on the fence. The occasional one making it into the shed, where the spiders ( possibly mine ) seem to take care of them.

I noticed a few hanging around my plastic composting bin.

Not queens I'd say but workers. I did try to house two queens but they couldn't hibernate as it was too warm and had to let them out*

*to grow an army for world domination obv.

Vindictive little striped thundercunt stung me on the back of the neck, just along from the spine. Bastard, I was TTing to my aged grandparents, along a country road, the asshole didn't leave immediately either, til I smacked it off.

Speed dropped from an average 22 down to 17 mph. Hydrocortisone was welcomed.ride back was less enjoyable with the stinging sensation on my sunkissedburnt neck.

I got attacked on the neck the other day as well! First time I've ever been stung, it wasn't as bad as I was expecting, still a bit itchy though. Maybe I got off lightly.

I've not had a stang off of a wasp for years now - only seen two this summer - weird

I think mine was waspkarma for being accessory to murder of a whole community at a friend's in Poland. We torched the village and buried alive the young. Those that escaped looked daunted by the task to rebuild.

I'm not proud of what I did, but I can't believe a pro-EU wasp would have acted alone, they know my routes through Wiltshire too well.