Wasps

Just found the evil little yellow shed-stripping fuckers have a nest in my loft. Should I let them be, in the hope they will benefit local health by chasing porky ice-cream munching kids into burning a calorie or two, or will they make my house fall down?

May be worth asking if it's bad for your house, I can't find anything that says it can damage anything. But a pest company may say yes and kill them all even if it's not cos of work ;)

It may just be there this year, unless the queen returns and builds a new nest in the loft (they don't re-use them) so depends on how much you mind the little stripy stingers of inconvenience.

Had one land on my hand earlier, asked it to leave, it left.

Well done.
I, as well have been stung by wasps a lot when I was young (in Italy's countryside they are present all summer in huge amount) but never had reaction from them apart the classic itchiness that lasted max one day.
Once tho (I was 22 yo) I've been stung on my middle finger by a hornet as I accidentally touched one while I was moving a chair in the living room.
Pain was mental (it didn't stop me to crush the fucker and transforming it into hornet jam) and finger became pretty big after a couple of hours.
It was in the morning, the pain was fading so I didn't worry much for the whole day.
Later that night I went to bed and woke up at 3am and I literally couldn't breath, the feeling was like my trachea was the size of a needle.
I ran to the toilet assuming I was about to puke but nothing.
My ex-gf woke up and drove me to the ER where they injected me something (not cortisone as I have diabetes type 1) and I began breathing regularly after few minutes.

One of the scariest nights of my life as I thought it was my last one alive.

Doctors told me that the hornet sting would probably make me allergic to any other bee/wasp/hornet sting in the future.

Ever since I steer away from wasps and hornets, and if possible I kill them with huge violence and satisfaction.

Hornets are a whole different ball game to wasps. I was once stung in the neck by one stood on a beach in Turkey, it flew straight in off the sea, then crashed into my neck and stung it.

Very very painful but I didn't have any scary breathing problems or anything else later on.

Yes, I wouldn't mind a wasp sting once in a while, but after that hornet I need to be really careful as it has triggered multiple allergies on me that I didn't have before.

I got a wasp sting on the knee Thursday, by Friday my knee was so swollen I couldn't bend it so had to use public transport for work. Wasn't until Sunday that I could bend my knee enough to cycle again. I will kill any and all wasps that I can.

etc.

http://viz.co.uk/make-selling-wasps/

I used to cycle, then I took a wasp sting to the knee.

^ #IMissRep

Had a companion over lunch with the correct branding hovering around.

Pilots goggle eyes gave it away for what it was tho.

So no swatting here.

Many moons ago my youngest woke me up in the early hours saying that the bathroom was buzzing. It transpired it was because the light had been left on overnight with a window open and a fuckload of wasps were all over the light fitting. I discovered that they were resident in the loft in a nest the size of a basket ball. I dealt with it myself but I didn't like it much. I can't think of any benefit for you in keeping them.

They make lovely pets. Loyal, low maintenance and they don't live long enough for the kids to get upset when they die. Naming them all can be a bugger.

Surely you can benefit by threatened unwanted people at the door by "setting the wasps on them" (keep a spray with sticky lemonade ready) :p

They make pretty patterns in wooden fence panels and roof trusses where they have a bit of a chew but they're all called Jasper aren't they?

lol

Next door have a wasp nest in their eaves. They tried to kill it with the foam spray but that has not worked.

Given that I am hyperallergic to the cunts I am more than a little anxious. Yesterday we had two visitors, one flew back out of the house, the other was a queen wasp.

What do I have to do to get our neighbours to have their nest exterminated?

speak to the council, otherwise I hear setting up a shop vac with some water in the bottom works well. You pop it by the entereance, angry bastards attack, sucked in, drown, next chap comes out to see what the fuss is and gets sucked in and so on.

I found two started, but now empty nests in one of my sheds: Wasp nests VS massive donotwant spiders in my shed: 0-1

I have a small nest in the compost bin, no aggro and far enough from the door luckily. They were offered a banana as a peace offer, but didn't want it. Fussy wasps!

Why have i never seen this thread before :)

Spotter 10/10 for the anti-wasp suit :)

Shooting dosen't work very well and Spotters hoover is safer than fire :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im_UM-Yb_Ek

Good thread, this.

I got stung on the back of my neck on yesterday's ride; I was struggling to get up Theydon Mount at the time and the flying thing stingy intervention was not at all welcomed.

Didn't see it but assume it was wasp.

#guiltyuntilproveninnocent

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-37271010

^ Not bad.

I hope those never get around to using us. Brrr..