wasps

[mrspirite]

has anyone else noticed,or is it just in the area where i live,but i havn't seen one wasp all spring/summer.i find this very strange.

[RATTER15]

It is still a little early for a lot wasps, wasp nests are still small but the numbers will be growing rapidly now.

As a pest Controller for 13 years, I have been stung hundreds of times by the blighters and bees, but wasps are a bugger, they hurt like a bitch and itch for days after!!, I hate them!!!

[RATTER15]

I must state that I am not currently a Pest Control officer, I gave it up 6 years ago when I sold the Company.

[lardhelmet]

At work our poor little pest contractor has been run off his feet for the past several weeks - however, half the time when he gets there they turn out to bees & NOT wasps

[RATTER15]

Lardhelmet, that is soo common, you would never guess how many people would be insulted when I suggest that the problem sounds more like bees, "I know the difference between a wasp and a bee, I ain't bloody stupid mate" would usually be the response, but rest assured, it was always bees when I arrived and they were still charged £45.00 for the call out!!

[Mick-Talbot]

Craft leave the wasps alone.

There's nothing funnier than the site of a dog chewing a wasp .

[lardhelmet]

Oh yes, same as our place Ratters - if they've got it wrong - the fee is definitely NON-refundable

[bigfoot3000]

They may've all been eaten by this fellow!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPiK_071rmg

WOW!

[lardhelmet]

Errr - uggerlie!

[RATTER15]

The Hornets are in many ways harmless, they really are gentle giants, Ive only ever known one person to be stung by a hornet, he nearly died after going into anaphylactic shock. but generally leave them alone and they will leave you alone, one of my employees would destroy a hornet nest without any protection with hornets walking all over him, he never got stung once, he was braver than me!!!

[bigfoot3000]

Where do live ratter?

[bigfoot3000]

You^^

[RATTER15]

Bigfoot, I live in Devon.

[woofgang]

I relocated a wasp nest this year, it was in the bottom of a tub of dead plants, when I turned out the tub, there was the nest. I moved it to a corner of the garden and put a couple of bits of broken pot over it for weather protection. Its lovely, when you go over there you can hear them humming.

[carlton23]

I was watching CBBC yesterday and it showed that wasps are the biggest predator in nature for it`s size, killing all sorts of pests to feed the young in their nest. In future I shan`t kill them, but be thankful for them.

[RATTER15]

Woofgang, your wasps nest sounds to me a little more like cuckoo bees, nesting in rotten vegetation (very typical) also if you disturbed wasps like that you would have been badly stung!

[B00]

I know they serve a purpose, yada yada yada, but I still hate the buggers- sorry!

[LoftyLottie]

Gee thanks for posting that giant hornet clip Bigfoot. I daren't go outside now!!

LL (from Norfolk)

[woofgang]

it looked like a wasp nest and they mended/reconstructed it after I moved it. I am one of those people who don't tend to get stung although i have been.

[RATTER15]

Woof, if you mess with a wasp nest, you will get stung, they really are nasty little buggers especially when you mess with their nest!!!