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Stupid bastard cunting WASPS!!!

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gluteustothemaximus · 19/04/2019 15:15

I've been so looking forward to a break of some description.

Bugs/viruses back to back for ages, weather crap, working way too much. Just wanted a little garden break with the kids for Easter.

But the wasps are out in force, and they are huge buggers too.

I know you're supposed to stand still and they should go away, but they don't. We've got no food out, no juice, even taken the water out the the pool (as they were after the water), sprayed the garden with peppermint oil over the fences etc, and still they come.

I've never known them this early? I love Spring because the wasps aren't there. Every Spring we have picnics and garden time, and come August it's wasp time. But they're here now Sad

Anyone got any ideas to get rid of them? DH wants a wasp trap, but I'm not keen on attracting them, I want to repel them.

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Ronsters · 19/04/2019 17:52

Try getting one of those fake wasps nests, apparently wasps wont come near if they think a nest already exists.

I agree with a pp about wasps being important pollinators, they pollinate fruit trees.

ineedaknittedhat · 19/04/2019 17:54

Wasps are pollinators and are also food for other creatures so they are part of the eco system.

I don't mind them and will give them jam out in the garden so they don't bother coming into the house.

I shared some cake with a couple last year whilst sitting outdoors at a cafe. They ate some icing sugar off a saucer and were quite happy. The people at a neighbouring table were having hysterics because they were being bothered by some other wasps.

If you just sit still they go away. I had a queen inspecting me and the cat earlier on. Last year we had a nest under the shed.

FurrySlipperBoots · 19/04/2019 18:04

I guess it's global warming, why we're seeing them so early in the year. We've had them here too, massive big ones. We had a real plague of them last autumn/winter even when the days of open windows were long past.

I could never bring myself to kill them, but then I don't kill anything. I nearly cried when I accidentally washed a spider down the sink this morning! I have never been stung though so I suppose that helps with the leniency.

Bees have trebled in size too, have you noticed? I love bees but it's rather daunting rescuing them when they look too big to even fit in the blooming glass!

FurrySlipperBoots · 19/04/2019 18:05

Out of interest, and because I' too lazy to Google, what eats wasps? And how do they avoid being stung?

IAmNotPatientOrPregnant · 19/04/2019 18:07

You know what I hate more than wasps?

The people who tell you to stay still and not panic. Fuck off they sting because they want to!

Bees I can cope with, they're a little more docile. Wasps just need to go extinct.

IAmNotPatientOrPregnant · 19/04/2019 18:07

And I feel like they're grown in size this year?!

AlunWynsKnee · 19/04/2019 18:10

I'm allergic. The stripey bastards sting me when I'm still not when I'm screaming and running away.

longwayoff · 19/04/2019 18:24

Had a HUGE wasp in kitchen today, spent 2 hours cowering and hoping it would leave. Never kill them in case I dont do it properly and leave them with enough energy to get me back. Urgh. It's gone now, wafted out on a current of air. Phew.

Greeborising · 19/04/2019 18:33

While in holiday in Cyprus we encountered some HUGE wasps, seriously big bastards.
We met up with some friends for lunch, the wife was Cypriot.
She warned us not swat them because if you piss them off they go and fetch their mates 😳
She also said that several people who had been stung had been hospitalised
Couldn’t get home quick enough!

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gluteustothemaximus · 19/04/2019 18:48

You know what I hate more than wasps?

The people who tell you to stay still and not panic

Yes, my SIL is one of those. She also 'loves' wasps Hmm

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starzig · 19/04/2019 18:49

I love wasps. But If you spray a light floral body spray round the window, they will find their own way out.

SoupDragon · 19/04/2019 18:55

What is there to love about wasps?? I can just about understand not being bothered by them but loving them...?

ReSistingPink · 19/04/2019 19:01

To everyone saying kill them.

STOP.

We need pollinators.

MrsBertBibby · 19/04/2019 19:02

Every summer, wasps kill 14 million kg of other insects and larvae in the UK.

No wasps would mean an awful lot of bugs out there, and a lot less edible crops for us to eat.

OhYouBadBadKitten · 19/04/2019 19:04

We have a giant pterodactyl sized one in our loft at the moment. Trying to start a nest. I knocked one down yesterday. I get stung at least once a year and always swell up massively with a localised allergic reaction.

Sitting still does not work.

How can I stop her from making her nest?

flitwit99 · 19/04/2019 19:07

My neighbour hangs up a clear plastic bag filled with water with some coins in it as a wasp scarer. No idea how that works. You have to put in a certain colour of coin though,I can't remember if it's brown or silver. I will ask her next time I see her. She swears it works.

CaptainBrickbeard · 19/04/2019 21:10

I have a Waspinator but I have a feeling this summer is going to be a bad one wasp-wise. I think we will have a lot, each one as dickheaded as all the others and picnics in the garden will be ruined. I will grudgingly accept their usefulness as pollinators and predators of pests but I wish they didn’t have to be such total bastards.

Greensleeves · 19/04/2019 21:14

I got stung by a gigantic black wasp in my bedroom a couple of nights ago. I was just drifting off to sleep and it felt like sombody had put a lit cigarette on my arm. It's a huge swollen weeping crater now. Evil, vicious, foul creatures. Angry

Foxmuffin · 19/04/2019 21:17

I’ve killed four enormous ones in the house in 24 hours!

LazyFace · 19/04/2019 22:02

I have a spray if they come in.
I tried just letting one out when I was young. Opened the window it was buzzing by - the horrid creature flied at me, stung and then flied out the window.
I have part of my garden that I keep bee friendly in the summer and they're my preferred pollinators. I hate wasps.

Absofrigginlootly · 19/04/2019 22:13

They’re such dickheads. Do wasps actually serve a useful purpose? I feel so worried for bees but also that I would quite happily applaud wasp extinction.

Like other posters have said they are also very important pollinators and predators. Unfortunately as they are annoying AF.

Ticks on the other hand are just proper little bastards and I would be quite happy if they disappeared off the face of the earth. Nasty little blood suckers Angry

OhYouBadBadKitten · 19/04/2019 22:17

I used to have wasp repellant from boots. It was ace. No idea what happened to it.

7Days · 19/04/2019 22:40

Ticks are total bastards. We bought a big massively overgrown garden a few months ago. I'm a big conservationist- in theory. We're in a Lyme disease hotspot though so I can't really have long grass

Serin · 19/04/2019 22:43

I hate them. They attacked our little dog last year when he disturbed their nest, he whimpered for days.
They also stung DS's repeatedly when they tried to rescue the dog.
Why is it a good thing that they kill caterpillars? I love the moths and butterflies that they turn into. I dont mind sharing my veg crop with them.
Worst of all though are the giant horse flies that they get in the Scottish highlands. I didn't know that such horrors existed. The poor horse I was riding freaked at the mere sight of one.

Doggydoggydoggy · 19/04/2019 22:49

What a depressing thread.

All creatures, even the annoying ones do important jobs.

Wasps are important pollinators and predators who control the numbers of pest insects.

If they were gone humanity would be in crisis.

FFS stop trying to control/kill other beings on the grounds they are scary, dirty, stingy, whatever and just live and let live!