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Posted: 21-08-2009 16:23 Post subject:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/8213887.stm

Posted: 21-08-2009 20:58 Post subject:

Where I walk my dogs, we have to squeeze through a gap in a fence where, I'm often told, there's a humungous wappy nest.
Everyone swears they'll never go that way again because of it. I still use the gap because I've not seen a single wasp there, though. Strange.

Posted: 21-08-2009 22:03 Post subject:

Maybe they're hearing just the buzzing...

mooks out

Posted: 01-09-2009 22:54 Post subject:

Update. Wasps and Bees are healthy and active in Nottinghamshire. They are thriving and some of the buggers are very big.

Posted: 03-09-2009 15:12 Post subject:

We have more wasps this year than we have had in recent years. (Hemel Hempstead) They seem to be smaller though, and far more persistant.

A few months ago one made a special journey up my shirt sleeve just to sting me. I am afraid i killed it whilst flailing around in pain.

Our local garden centre was selling fake wasps nests - a cloth bag about the size & colour of a real one, that you stuff with old carrier bags and hang prominently wherever you do not want wasps. The idea is that they will stay away for fear of straying on another colonies' manor.
Don't know how effective it is but they seemed to have sold loads. Might try one but £9.99 seemed a lot for what it was.

Posted: 07-09-2009 05:45 Post subject:

A local restaurant has a number of clear plastic baggies full of water (as you would use to take a pet goldfish home) hanging from the eaves over the front door and surrounding area. Each has 4 or 5 copper pennies in them. The waitress said they frighten off wasps, but darned if I can remember how they are supposed to work.

Posted: 07-09-2009 05:56 Post subject:

Posted: 07-09-2009 12:01 Post subject:

They're in space now -
WASP-17 is the first planet to be found orbiting the wrong way.
Laughing

Posted: 08-09-2009 03:45 Post subject:

The wasp activity here has ramped up in the last three years or so. They're unusually aggressive, too.

Posted: 08-09-2009 08:56 Post subject:

I like wasps. Apart from the fact they are quite beautiful the sight of creatures thousands of times their bodyweight flapping histrionically in classrooms and pub gardens has caused me hours of amusement - especially since I found out that they are apparently attracted to rapid movement.

I've never been stung picking wasps up in order to put them outside and out of harms way - which I do quite regularly - and a couple of years ago I shared the room my computer is in with a wasps nest that had been built inside the window surround. I was only stung once, when I leant on one, after which the patch of psoriasis I'd had for years on my left elbow completely disappeared and has never returned. Maybe they are more useful than we think.

Posted: 08-09-2009 23:40 Post subject:

After only seeing 1 or 2 wasps over the whole summer, I found about a dozen of them crawling on my car a couple of weeks ago. I suppose they might have liked the colour (it's red)-still weird though. They all seemed 'end of summer dozy', I tried to shoo as many off as possible but one hardy soul ended up falling foul of the windscreen wipers as he (or she I guess) just wouldn't move.

Posted: 19-09-2009 11:53 Post subject:

we have loads of them in the shop I work at

Posted: 19-09-2009 13:03 Post subject:

Posted: 19-09-2009 18:46 Post subject:

I had a wasp in the helmet this morning,
fnar!!!

riding along and suddenly ride through a huge crowd of them all hanging about under this tree and one went into the vent in my helmet and I could feel it buzzing around, all very nasty. Confused