Wasp's - love em or hate em!

[djbobbins]

How can you love a wasp? They are evil little sods with no purpose in life other than to sting! I stood on a nest as a youngster, got stung a few times and really hate them. Last summer I saw a few flying in and out of my coal bunker, lifted the lid and peeked in only to find a nest about 6" diameter directly in front of my nose. Dropped the lid and legged it, paid the £25 quid for someone to come out with protective gear on and spray it. They were swarming all over him when he was spraying, it was some of the wisest spent money I've ever podded out I reckon!

[Big Bolt]

had 4 days work on a heathland site this week and between 4 chaps we have had 6 nests and 34 stings the most bieng 12 on 1 chap oh and 6 little fires only 5 weeks to go

[alex_m]

I hate the bar stewards! Yes I am the workmate button1803 was with. 6 stings. A couple are still painful. I was stung 6 times last summer aswell In my experience, they hate old diesel poured on the nest. I'm all for wasp genocides!

[geoff]

They give me a nasty reaction,have to use the epipen & get help after,bless em!

[Pat Ferrett]

Bee's make honey and wasp's make sugar according to Johnny Vegas

[JS1]

HATE EM!

 

A few weeks ago I was driving with the window open and felt something hit me on the side of the face! I thought someone had thrown something at me!!! It stung me right on that pressure point just under my ear! I managed to knock it onto the dash and by luck I had a size 10 chainsaw boot at hand! There was a traffic jam on the other side of the road, I must of looked a tad odd!

[felixthelogchopper]

Bee's make honey and wasp's make sugar according to Johnny Vegas

 

But do earwigs make chutney?

[raker]

I hate them and i havent been stung in years untill recently.I was cutting some ivy from a long dead fallen tree so i could ring it up and got stung on the forearm.

I went and had a brew to see if anything would come of it, but it didnt, so i went to carry on, by which time there was about thirty wasps buzzing around the log.

It wasnt that painfull but it took a long time to heal, and at one point it had a red ring around it which apparently is a sign of deep infection.Theres still a small scar there now.

 

A mate got badly stung strimmering a paddock.He stood on a nest and they went up his trouser legs.Over thirty stings on his legs, the landowner turned a hose on him while he stripped off to get the wasps off him.

[miker]

inadvertently stuck a prong into a nest, 11 stings around my eyes,lucky for me, i was working for a retired doctor and he dosed me up with anti histamine,but other occasions when working with a saw, got stung on the fore arm, popeye by evening and the pain, felt like something was gnawing into my bones,i guess different people re-act in different ways

[aob9]

Dropped the lid and legged it, paid the £25 quid for someone to come out with protective gear on and spray it. They were swarming all over him when he was spraying, it was some of the wisest spent money I've ever podded out I reckon!

 

£25???? You would want to be fairly busy to make a living at that rate!!!!