to want the biggest wasp I've ever seen in the house killed asap

[NorthernLurker]

BIG wasp in the bathroom today. I vacated the premises sharpish (huge fear of wasps) and requested DH (who was working at home) to come and kill it! He said he would 'shortly' - I go out to school etc - come back 2 hours later - say 'did you execute that vile flying striped thing?' - he says 'oh no not yet' - seeing my clenched teeth he then goes up to bathroom and guess what - cannot find wasp! Window and door was shut so its still in there somewhere. DH thinks it will have died - I think it is lurking, waiting to pounce and sting me and/or the girls when we are most vulnerable! Why couldn't he have killed it when I knew where it was???? And don't say I should have killed it myself - I can't stay in the same space as them, let alone have the nerve to despatch them.

Buy yourself a can of spray killer and do it yourself. Doesn't require staying in the same space nor getting near them.

Bbbrrrrrrrrr....wasps send shivers of disgust down my back. Kill it quickly and without remorse. Spray the killer into the air and then shut the door behind you. And then RUN LIKE THE WIND

No Buddhists amongst us today then??

Iam fine with wasps and it's usually me that has to get rid of them, but if there's a spider bigger than one of those spindly ones that hang around in corners you don't see me for dust! Totally irrational because once I've left the room it really isn't going to come after me but all the same......

Had one in the bathroom the other night, wearing Doc Martens and sporting body piercings!

Perhaps I should get some spray - but on the other hand I wouldn't need it if dh had done as asked! Re spiders - I'm not great with them either - but I have a fab spider catcher device now so the huge furry ones had better watch out!

Chuckling slightly at the 'run like the wind comment' as if I did that from our bathroom I would plummet down the stairs. And that would be something else to set against wasps

Ooooh NorthernLurker, know how you feel, I am the same with butterflies and moths, I cant saty in the house if I see one there!!

We have had 2 monstrous ones this week, thought they were hornets (we've had a few of these too)at first - now thinking queen wasps?

First one DH killed in porch - I shut him in there till he'd dipatched it!! The next one I flapped at and it flew straight out the window, I was petrified!

Maybe its a queen looking for somewhere to hide during the winter. Or is that bees ?

I wasn't being flippant BTW, I'm terrified of wasps too. I manage to look at them long enough to check they're not bees, can of Raid in hand, then spray the b*stards. I think you need to locate the corpse though as they can still sting (only female wasps sting BTW, I found that out from DS2(6) this year. Not that I plan on hanging around to check their credentials)

If they're a bee, I swallow my rising terror and get them out of the house somehow.

The corpse can still sting!!!!!!!!!! EEEEEEEEEEWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK.
This thread is really helping me At least I know I'm not alone - it's me, the huge wasp (which I'm SURE was a queen) and x thousand terrified mumsnetters

Ok nobody panic but I wnet up to the bathroom for B's bath AND IT WAS BACK! DH out - OF COURSE so got tile mop - flat head, long handle, went back up - it had moved to window sill so was a sitting, well, wasp and WHACKED it (standing in doorway, thus able to fall down stairs at slightest hint of it making a move towards me) 1 blow appeared to eliminate it but mindful of Basic Instinct etc I WHACKED it some more. Pretty sure its dead now
Am shaking though[blush}

That should be went and of course - excuse me I've just faced one of my deepest fears......

Donm't you feel good though? You vanquished the b*stard.

I got stung by a big wasp/bee yesterday. A really big one . AND IT HURT LIKE F*.

THank goodness I had some waspeze. My finger swelled up like a huge big balloon. Was horrid.

So you did the right thing. The vicious bastards.

I've always been careful about killing wasps after I heard somthing about wasps are more likely to sting if they can smell a dead wasp

I catch them and put them outside.

I didn't see it - it had craftily hidden on my scarf (it was lying in wait, obviously) and when I picked the scarf up, I must have grabbed it grrrrrr

sounds painful foxinsocks. I had a boyfriend who once drink from a can containing a wasp - his mouth swelled up.

I hate wasps too. What is the point of them?

We have had a mini plague of wasps over teh last couple of months.

And 2 huomungous bees got into the house yesterday.

oooooooooh that's nasty - even if you're not allergic, I think it can be quite dangerous to have them sting you there.

when we were kids, one of my siblings had a wasp on her mouth and we spent about 10 minutes trying to make her laugh so that she'd open it.

I can now see, looking back, that it was a bit cruel .

could it be a hornet?

What are the wasps you get in Greece? Remember in my salad days running screaming onto balcony starkers as large helicopter disguised as a wasp buzzed round the room. It was HUGE.

Now, fear I would cower in corner if wasp invaded room as no longer have the body of a pre children 22 year old

fetawasps

I was being attacked by a giant wasp last saturday while I was playing hockey, it kept looking at me then diving round beind me and I could hear it buzzing behind my ear. I was terrified it would get into my helmet and I had to concentrate on the game too. I had to suffer 30 mins of it!

Fetawasp? Would that be like a metaxawasp?

don't know

have lost my sense of houmous

Even further back before the Greece experience, I had a hairstyle that involved a lot of hairspary, bleach and backcombing (OK, it was the 80's.....) Anyway a wasp got stuck in that lot, and couldn't get back out. I could hear it buzzing, and it was moving my hair (remember it was a solid hairsprayed lump) sort of rocking it backwards and forwards.

My erstwhile friends were pissing themselves, and I was screaming in terror