Set the wasp free?

[EvianBaby]

There's a wasp frantically trying to escape from a spiders next on my window.

Shall I set it free or leave it and let the spider have a meal?

I'm in an actual dilemma here.

[tommy-h]

Is it the wet weather this summer but I`ve got huge spiders coming in to my home every few days.Usually trap and release but if one of the really big ones comes too close I`ll usually despatch it with newspaper.They don`t half make a mess.Funnily enough hardly any flies or bees this year.

[cupid04]

I once shook out a bath towel on the landing and a spider fell out and it started running up the stairs at a rate of knots and the only thing I could find to eliminate the terror was a bottle of bleach. Didn't do the stair carpet much good but it got rid of the spider. I suppose I'm going to be told off for being cruel now!

[ummmm]

I like spiders. I don't understand why they cause so much terror.

[cupid04]

Perhaps its instilled in us when we are growing up Ummmm, my mum was afraid and so I followed suite!

[tonyav]

Spiders are great, they won't hurt you. well unless it's one from the tropics maybe.

[ladybirder]

Spiders and wasps - both our friends but I prefer the spider. I have rescued a butterfly from a spider's web but don't think I'd do it for a wasp because they don't half hurt when they sting.

[wiltsman]

I'm with you ummmm. I like spiders - a few years ago I would watch television in the evening and regularly a spider would appear a few feet from the set and stay there for some time, so we'd watch telly together! Can't remember now which was its favourite programme.

I suppose today it would be watching telly on the web!

[EvianBaby]

He's still trying :(

I'm getting braver with spiders. I don't know why I don't like them but I'm ok with them as long as I can see where they are.

[tonyav]

wiltsman, you have got me in a web of intrigue now !

[tonyav]

Can you see the spider, Evian ?

[Prudie]

The bottom line is I don't understand why they cause so much terror and I doubt my fellow 'sufferers' do either. It's not a logical conscious decision. I'd love to like them.

[EvianBaby]

No. And I've just realised there are lots of tiny flies in the web so maybe the spider moved house :/

[Bazile]

This is like these wild live programmes that you see where a camera crew are filming a antelope being hunted by a pack of lions .

The people filming could easily fire off a shot to scare the lions away , because they feel sorry for the antelope .

They dont , because that is the way it is - that's the working of nature and the food chain .

[EvianBaby]

Actually Bazile, you make a good point. I don't agree with people doing what you say in your first example so I don't suppose it should be any different with smaller species.

[ladybirder]

So the wasp's died for nothing then! Oh No! How tragic. We should set up a memorial fund. Boo hoo.

[tonyav]

A state funeral may be in order I think, ladybirder.

[EvianBaby]

This is the countryside, hopefully there will be another hungry spider along for the free meal.

[albaqwerty]

give me a buzz when the funeral is

[tonyav]

Ohhhh, groan @ ar wench.