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Fucking massive wasp. What do I do?

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Labourious · 02/09/2022 00:43

I’m going to sound insane. DH is away from home with work. I’m here with my 3yo DS and DD who is only 6 weeks! I heard something downstairs moving about. I thought it was a burglar. So I made noise and turned lights on and off in the hallway. I then ventured downstairs with my phone ready to call the police, absolutely terrified. There’s the biggest wasp I’ve ever seen. I thought it was a bird! It’s easily 10cm long! I’m not squeamish, I lived in Costa Rica with some massive bugs, I killed a false widow earlier today. But I just went straight back upstairs. I can still hear it hitting the walls, bouncing around downstairs. What do I do?!

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RockAndRollerskate · 02/09/2022 04:46

Y’all need to calm down. It’s far more likely to be the hornet imitation hoverfly.

massive but harmless.

https://www.buglife.org.uk/bugs/bug-directory/hornet-hoverfly/

stillvicarinatutu · 02/09/2022 04:51

Awwww I like hover flies- they always seem very placid .

And I love the image of the wasps in a dorm 😂. You forgot the one who else been on the fallen apples whose a bit pissed on cider 😂. He'll be asleep in his stripy suit that he forgot how to take off and mrs wobby will be furious in the morning, she'll hid his dark glasses and start banging about at 6am .....😂

ClumpingBambooIsALie · 02/09/2022 05:01

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 02/09/2022 04:37

I have visions of a dormitory with rows of little beds, each with a wasp in it. A couple of them snoring, the occasional cough, and maybe one reading a tiny kindle with a light on.

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If only 😒 I once had a wasp fly in the bathroom window at 3am while I was naked in the bath. I had to scream for wasp-phobic DP (who had previously broken an entire double bed in an attempt to escape one of them) to come and rescue me. Bless him, he came to my aid and Raided the fucker into oblivion.

Northernsoullover · 02/09/2022 05:34

I was in Spain last week and my son said (as I was lounging on a sunbed) 'I don't wish to alarm you but there is a wasp on your toe. Don't move' What followed then was the longest 3 minutes of my life. It just sat there. It was one of those weird looking ones too with the dangly bits. I began worrying it had sat on my toe for its siesta.

blisstwins · 02/09/2022 05:51

IdiotCreatures · 02/09/2022 01:13

Leave the window open with an outside light on. It will leave it doesn't want to be in your house.
Just avoid downstairs for the night and keep doors to the bedroom shut.
It will almost definitely leave by morning.

I would do this. If a hornet it doesn’t want to attack you but will if provoked. Just try to give it a chance to get out without confrontation.

bettbburg · 02/09/2022 06:00

Labourious · 02/09/2022 01:29

I think it’s gone!! I couldn’t see it.

It definitely wasn’t a bat. Bats a small and fluffy and adorable. I grew up with loads living in the tree in our garden and they pretty regularly came into the house. I wouldn’t mind one coming in. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a locust in real life but I’m so sure it was wasp like in its colouring and it had different legs, they weren’t the jumpy legs. I obviously can’t double check now but I’m certainly not complaining about that.

Thanks for the support. I’m going to sleep!

It'll be back.....

Stichintimesavesstapling · 02/09/2022 06:04

Check...your...curtains

catwomando · 02/09/2022 06:06

It. Ishtar be a hawshead moth. They are huge buggers and totally harmless.

ProperVexed · 02/09/2022 06:16

I though it might be a moth...lots of humming bird hawk moths about this year... or perhaps a dragon fly as they buzz loudly and crash about.

Richielogic · 02/09/2022 06:23

Open Windows wide and hope it finds them and flys back out the way it came in

Questionaboutjoboffer · 02/09/2022 06:31

www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife/how-identify/have-you-found-hornet

This also says to report - if you scroll to the bottom.

DobbyTheHouseElk · 02/09/2022 06:42

….spays venom in eyes?????…….WTF?

ItsAlwaysThere · 02/09/2022 06:47

What a horrid thread to read! I am not truly fearful of any bugs but hornets make my blood run cold and I freeze. I don't know what caused it, I hadn't even experienced them until a few years back when a neighbour had a nest. These new types sound horrific.

Scalottia · 02/09/2022 06:57

Jacopo · 02/09/2022 00:56

Can’t stand the helpless female act fgs.

Me either. I also hate all of the stupid responses that inevitably come, like burn the house down, move, etc.

LadyHalesBroach · 02/09/2022 06:59

Same thing happened here two nights ago. What on earth is that noise upstairs? Bloody wasp the size of a thumb bouncing off the walls. DH screamed like a little girl.

cue running round shutting all doors and windows to DC rooms, leaving one room and one window open and then retreated downstairs for an hour.

kent, btw.

WonderingWanda · 02/09/2022 07:00

We get hornets, I just catch them in a tupperware and put them out. They are a bit dopey to be honest, not at all angry like wasps.

It could be pine wasp if you have logs stored in your lounge, they look scary but are harmless.

puddlesofmothers · 02/09/2022 07:01

I was with my ex in a department store looking at cushions. We noticed a cushion with a huge light green coloured fly type creature on it. We both said what a weird thing to have on a cushion and then the bloody thing took off! We couldn't believe it, it slowly very slowly raised up into the air making this industrial sounding buzzing noise. We guess it was about 4 inches by 3 inches across, we really regret not taking a photo at the time as it was so unbelievably big.

Dannexe · 02/09/2022 07:01

In all seriousness I would be checking curtains etc very carefully if you genuinely think it was an Asian hornet.

It could also have been a large golden dragonfly if you just glanced at it and ran. Our house is on a lake and we have bifold doors in the kitchen. I get one inside most days and then they fly up to the roof lantern and get stuck. Some are enormous and they do make a racket flying about crashing into the glass.

GrabbyGabby · 02/09/2022 07:05

It will not be an asian hornet it will be native and of all the wasp family, hornets are the most docile and least likely to sting, and none of them spray venom ffs. Maybe read up a bit about them a bit. And yes the helpless female act and ignorant posts are tiresome.

Itwasntright · 02/09/2022 07:06

Why did you kill the poor spider? Glass and a piece of cardboard and stick it outside.

pinheadlarry · 02/09/2022 07:10

You need a can of raid and empty the whole can on that fckr, shut the door on it run back upstairs

FrecklesMalone · 02/09/2022 07:15

I've been stung by a Horner. Not an Asian one but a European one. I was fast asleep and the not so little bastard stung my back.

DorchaAndLouis · 02/09/2022 07:21

I'm amazed to read this as had similar experience 3 days ago, except the Thing had a very loud buzz.

Was shutting downstairs windows before going to bed and heard very loud buzzing and the sound of something banging into things in the kitchen, went in and a large flying thing headed straight for me. Got out quick and closed door.

I was once attacked by loads of wasps and badly stung, and this seemed to be in similar attack mode. I dressed up in hoodie, gloves ex covid visor etc, waited for a lull in the noises and dashed through kitchen and opened back door. The Thing started buzzing again and flying towards my face as soon as I went into kitchen.

I could hear it all over the house, then it went quiet, so ventured into kitchen and closed the back door thinking it had gone.
But it hadn't!! Started buzzing and flying towards me, I got out. Found some Raid opened door slightly and sprayed copious amounts.

It must have worked, all quiet in the morning, I know it's somewhere in my kitchen as doors and windows were closed. Probably on top of the cabinets. I feel braver today so will have a good look and post a photo if I find it. Really interested to know what it was.

doingitalllagain · 02/09/2022 07:25

Around a decade ago I was at work and had my hair plonked on top of my head in a big messy bun (as was the style back then!) and I felt something hit my head and then I felt a sting. I ran to the bathroom but could hear the wasp buzzing, it stung me repeatedly all over my scalp and once on my hands as I desperately tried to get it out. I was hyperventilating in the bathroom and had to walk out in tears telling my boss what happened. I felt traumatised but they didn't care and was just expected to get back to work. I've been petrified of the things and refused to put my hair in a messy bun ever since.

doingitalllagain · 02/09/2022 07:27

It was only so frenzied as it was stuck, but doesn't make it better for me! If I saw a hornet I think I'd implode.