Wasps

i, i don't remembah :S

wasps ...flew into my mouth...i suddenly stopped...problems breathing... dam' inconvenient...trouble... in a hospital... i usually kept my mouth shut while running...

Where are you now Oliver? Eh? Eh?! Brutality.

Today I cycled past a dead deer that someone had pushed half into a hedge so it's neck was lolling out onto the pavement. I thought for a second about whether it would make for good eating since it looked pristine but then I decided it would be weird and besides I didn't have any panniers.

^ sling it around your neck and use a toe strap to bind the legs together. ah well, next time!

I *hate *wasps.

When I was about 10 or so, I was sitting down minding my own business in the garden, when a wasp landed on my head. My brother thought it'd be funny to piss it off by pouring water on it, which he proceeded to do.

The wasp didn't like this, stung me right on the head, then kind of collapsed dead in a watery grave.

Turned out I was allergic (not fatally obviously) to the buggers, and had to go to hospital. Anyway, I've now got a 2mm square-ish bald patch where I was stung, which I still get teased about to this very day...

that ^^ ... or smack the fucker right between the eyes!

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Ha! Classic

:)

Hornets are fathers, bees are mothers and wasps are their children. Fact.

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-%26-technology/bees-dying-out-not-really-a-big-deal-201001212399/[http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-%26-technology/bees-dying-out-not-really-a-big-deal-201001212399/](http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-%26-technology/bees-dying-out-not-really-a-big-deal-201001212399/)

Tip for keeping wasps at bay: burn some ground coffee near to you. Smells ok to people but the little blighters can't stand it.

I don't mind wasps particularly, but really hate it when they're all over my dinner and in my face. Every bite's a hazard.

Every bite? What are you, Macaulay Culkin?

How crows roll:

I have the same problem in my garden - like the crow one, but with chavs.

chavs keeping riding you??!?!?!!

Ace story.

+1, well told.

Crows have a fascination with eyes. They like to peck them.

Nah that's magpies. Magpies love anything shiny and sparkly.

Magpie fact: Magpies are one of the only animals that can recognise itself in a mirror.

Hornets are cunts:
YouTube- Japanese Hornets

Bloody hell!!!!
They are literally ripping the bees apart. That is one massive bee massacre.

Hornets are cunts:
YouTube- Japanese Hornets

Without some additional information, this is simply ill-informed and over-emotionalised rubbish. Of course, hornets, just like most other wasps, are predators on other insects. However, the reason why European honey bee colonies are so vulnerable to them is because they have no evolutionary adaption to Asian hornets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_giant_hornet#Predation

Beekeepers in Japan attempted to introduce the European honeybee in order to increase productivity. European honeybees, however, have no defense against the hornet and the colonies are rapidly destroyed by these formidable insects.

Japanese bees do:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_giant_hornet#Native_honey_bees

There's a hornet in that ball, and it's had it.

The reason why this video is so distressing is because of the intimation of total injustice--the European honeybees have no defence at all. However, without our interference, this wouldn't have happened. Animal predation on other animals is cruel and often awful to watch, but it doesn't normally reach the extremes shown. This is just another example where we've upset the natural order. I don't mean to champion the natural order or predation, it's just that it's normally more balanced and doesn't permit this sort of thing.

It may well be that this information is contained somewhere in the original video, but it wasn't in this edit, and the implied sensationalism leads me to believe that the video-makers wouldn't have wanted to let on that we are to blame for introducing an alien species. But I'm happy to stand corrected if they did mention that.