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!

Oh cripes. This thread has got me worried, the invasion is on its way...

There was a HUGE wasp in the bathroom last night when DD was in the bath. I am pant shitting terrified of them and screamed so much my DH thought I had gone into prem labour (am 30 wks pg). DD of course joined in with the scream fest, was complete chaos.

DH flushed it down the loo, I am now petrified it will come back and am doing the 'public toilet hover' every time I use the loo should I need to make a speedy exit. Brilliant.

We got a wasp swatter this summer. It's like a tennis racket and the netty bit has an electric charge that runs through it, so you electrocute the wasp when you hit them. Very effective. I don't really like killing things, but dh was refusing to eat outside because he and the children were so bugged. I quite enjoy trapping them under glasses myself and find all the flapping irritating.

We have 14 fruit trees so its not too surprising that we have wasps really. Also yellow jackets which have a nastier sting I hear. I would kill a queen though, and have zapped a few nests in my time.

I dreamed about wasps thanks to this thread.

I knew I shouldn't have checked this thread at 3am.

I had to check my bed

We have a real wasp problem - every year we get at least one nest on the house, the fuckers. Come early spring, I usually find a queen or three boldly sauntering across the bedroom carpet ready to make a nest.

And let's not mention the wasp that was lurking in the loo at a holiday cottage I rented. I lifted the seat and it flew out - how the fuck it got there I have no idea but I did not shit for an entire week afterwards.

Get an electric bug bat and zap its arse!!!

Very sorry to have disturbed everyone by starting this thread

I had to sleep on the sofa last night because i'd sprayed so much wasp killer on the top floor and it stank! (as does the murder implement of last night)

Worse, I kept hearing sporadic dying buzzes upstairs after I sprayed. I conclude therefore that our houses in winter are FULL of hibernating wasps.

I have had a mouse I was trying to rescue from the cats run up my sleeve and down my back inside my clothes, it was hard to remain calm but I managed too.

However when I notice that the hot morning bath I was sitting in a few weeks ago had what appeared to be the remains of a wasp in it, a few wings and body segments, I was nearly sick and had to get out straight away. (Solution was to put a pop sock over the faucet until the corpse had passed BTW).

I'm frankly terrified now.

If there are that many about at the moment I'm guessing it's down to the mild weather. If we don't get a cold snap then does that mean the wasp population will be even bigger come summer?