by Holly » Fri Apr 20, 2018 10:59 am
Trapper John wrote:Holly wrote:Trapper John wrote:I have a phobia of wasps and hornets. I can tolerate anything else from the biggest spider to the smallest ant I have no fear of any other insect or pretty much anything else, except fucking wasps and hornets.
You would have loooved what happened to me just before summer. I went to the guest loo which we only use sporadically, but I was in a hurry...anyway, the window was open and the blinds were up half way... and there it was...a half finished wasp nest hanging from the blinds and 3 busy wasps hanging around....shudder.... I ran for the insect spray and emptied the whole can
It actually really freaked me out.
I had one in my loft once the size of a couple of footballs, the only time I've ever had to get an expert come out and deal with one. Usually I catch them early enough to take them down myself. I actually go looking for them in the spring because the queens have normally over-wintered close by an old nest.
I also remember sitting for four hours or more in my bedroom with a rolled up newspaper and the door closed, windows open waiting for a hornet to show itself. I just couldn't stand the thought of leaving it, not knowing if it found it's way out or was waiting to attack me the first chance it got.
I managed to shoo it out the window after frantically, some might say manically attacking it with my newspaper.
OMG, ewwww, at least my wasp nest was still small enough, I could vacuum it away.
It's a fact, wasps will attack you if you piss them off, also, if you kill one, they excrete a scent that alerts other wasps ( or something like that ) and they come and investigate. I know because we get a lot of wasps in my area. Every time I kill one, 2 or 3 more are coming.
[quote="Trapper John"][quote="Holly"][quote="Trapper John"]I have a phobia of wasps and hornets. I can tolerate anything else from the biggest spider to the smallest ant I have no fear of any other insect or pretty much anything else, except fucking wasps and hornets.[/quote]
You would have loooved what happened to me just before summer. I went to the guest loo which we only use sporadically, but I was in a hurry...anyway, the window was open and the blinds were up half way... and there it was...a half finished wasp nest hanging from the blinds and 3 busy wasps hanging around....shudder.... I ran for the insect spray and emptied the whole can :gigglesnshit: It actually really freaked me out.[/quote]
[size=150]I had one in my loft once the size of a couple of footballs[/size], the only time I've ever had to get an expert come out and deal with one. Usually I catch them early enough to take them down myself. I actually go looking for them in the spring because the queens have normally over-wintered close by an old nest.
I also remember sitting for four hours or more in my bedroom with a rolled up newspaper and the door closed, windows open waiting for a hornet to show itself. I just couldn't stand the thought of leaving it, not knowing if it found it's way out or was waiting to attack me the first chance it got.
I managed to shoo it out the window after frantically, some might say manically attacking it with my newspaper.[/quote]
OMG, ewwww, at least my wasp nest was still small enough, I could vacuum it away.
It's a fact, wasps will attack you if you piss them off, also, if you kill one, they excrete a scent that alerts other wasps ( or something like that ) and they come and investigate. I know because we get a lot of wasps in my area. Every time I kill one, 2 or 3 more are coming.