to be a bit teary because there is a huge wasp in my kitchen

[VivAldi]

and I'm here alone until tomorrow evening and have had a really rubbish day.

It's a monster and flying around like a maniac. WHAT DO I DO?? I can't go in there!

I ironed a queen hornet last year - it flew out of a pair of trousers I was pressing and I instinctively ironed it IT DID NOT DIE - so I sprayed it with Raid. I then got DH to chuck it out the back door IT STILL DID NOT DIE - I actually hit it with a brick in the end.

However I have since been told OVEN CLEANER is pretty good at nuking their central nervous systems in extremis.

I'm allergic to oranges and I'd swap tomatoes for a wasp-free world.

I'm sorry Girl, I know it's wrong, but it had to die. My DH is allergic to them so I couldn't have it hanging out in my house.

That's very comforting whomovedmychocolate

Why on earth wouldn't you kill it? A wasp alive in January = queen. No bloody ta.

Kill it!

I'm allergic to wasp stings so I'm afraid I do kill them before they hurt me.

I find a rolled up magazine or newspaper is very good. Wait for it to land on a hard surface then whack it!!

I would happily give up tomatoes and oranges if it meant I could eat the rest of my food outside in summer, in peace, with no wasps swarming.

Wasps make me feel sick.

Or, where I come from, they 'gie me the boke'.

OH MY GOD I just went back in and it was crawling around happily on the floor. I sprayed it right in the face and it didn't mind a bit.

So, I picked up the biggest book I could find (the RSPB's Wildlife of Britain - a wonderful book, apart from all the pages with wasps on) and dropped it on the wasp's head. It might be dead now but can't be sure. Will wait and see if the book starts moving.......

Definitely kill it, I just hate the crunch they make. Could it be a hornet??

Sigh. Fine, fine proceed.

Murdering buggers the lot of you! :o

Also, now, all this talk of wasps is making me feel all itchy and am now checking corners of study for lurking queens.

One crawled out of one of my unused high heeled shoes last year and died on the floor (possibly from my my foot stench - proud emoticon).
It. Was. HUGE.

Blech.

Also, I hate getting stuck on the bus with a wasp, and everyone is all ducking and moving seats and trying not to look bothered when they are all very visibly shiteing themselves.

It is now my mission to kill all wasps.

I won't even kill any slaters I find in the bathroom, nor hideous earwigs.
Wasps get whacked!

I got stung last year, it bloody hurt I tell you, I'm glad you killed it!

However, this happened while we were at the coast and I popped in a chemist for something to take the immense pain away and they sold me some spray, it was six quid, I'm hoping dp gets stung so I can use it again....

If you are allergic - fine. Kill the thing.

Otherwise..... you are not doing the female reputation any favours!

I once tried to rescue a shrew that had hidden in MIL's central heating boiler and the thing ran up my top and hid down the back of my neck in my long hair. Did I scream? Or did I calmly go outside and take off my top so the poor little thing could escape?

Well?

Norks

I got stung three times by the same wasp on the foot s couple of years ago and I swear it was the most painful thing that had ever happened to me. Bastard wasps.

Shrews can't sting.

Oh god, that would be my worst nightmare. I don't even open windows in summer, I am that petrified of the bastard stripy-arsed things.

No tomatoes or oranges? I could live with that :)

I had a wasp (just typing that made me shudder) in the house last summer, no idea how it got in, half a can of Raid later and it was still alive (I nearly wasn't though after all the fumes , I kid you not I had to whack it 6 times with my shoe just to stun it.

I swear, in the event of a nuclear holocaust that wasps would be the only creatures to survive

diabolo it has nothing to do with being female! My brother and DH are also terrified of them, and they have penii.

VivAldi -

Sorry, I know we don't get to choose what we are scared of.

Diabolo - a shrew in your hair! That's brilliant...but I can top that with the time a snake went down my cleavage and I had to haul it out, hand over hand.

I must say, I don't think it's a feminine thing, plenty of blokes don't like wasps and the like, but it's one of the many things I am very grateful to my parents for, that I was brought up not to be scared of creepy crawlies.

It got me the opportunity to hold a snake when everyone else was too frightened to (leading to said cleavage incident) and seeing bird-eating spiders in Brazil - awesome.

However, for anyone allergic or if you have someone allergic in your home - makes total sense to kill the buggers, I'm afraid. I quite shamelessly kill nasty carpet moths which would otherwise chomp their way through my clothes.

the RSPB's Wildlife of Britain - a wonderful book, apart from all the pages with wasps on) and dropped it on the wasp's head.

The RSPW will be after you, mark my words.....

Pah. Wasps are sore stinging? Try Hornets....

Marsh to be fair, it was Boxing Day a couple of years ago and I might have had a few glasses of champagne.

My old teacher, Mr Kemp, had 9 snakes in our classroom (including 2 Indian Pythons called Andrew and Fergie). I was the "snake monitor".

'Er's passed on! This wasp is no more! She has ceased to be! 'Er's expired and gone to meet 'er maker! 'Er's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'er rests in peace! 'Er metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'Er's off the twig! 'Er's kicked the bucket, 'er's shuffled off 'er mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-WASP!!

perhaps the wasp is just READING THE BOOK

and it might tell her she should be hibernating :)

There was a massive one appeared on my cream sitting room rug yesterday.. it dropped there out of nowhere

DH grabbed it with kitchen towel and threw it on the fire.

shrews in the hair, snakes in the cleavage?
I have led a very sheltered life.

I nearly ate a butterfly when it flew into my mouth by mistake at a butterfly farm thingy. I was eating sweets, so maybe it thought I was a yummy fruit dispenser.

But not in the same league