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22-04-2019, 09:05 AM
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Re: Wasps!

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Hi

No sign of wasps yet, but a huge hornet in the conservatory.

I do not like hornets.
They may be bigger, but they are said to be less aggressive.
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22-04-2019, 09:07 AM
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Re: Wasps!

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You are braver than me, I don't think I could do that.
No problem. Bumblebees are surprisingly very tame.
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22-04-2019, 09:09 AM
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Re: Wasps!

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You are braver than me, I don't think I could do that.
Nor me.

I used to just kill them quickly, but the other day I caught one in a cup in the conservatory and let it out.

I thought, at the time, that the poor thing can't help being a wasp. God created it as a wasp and it had no say in the matter. It probably thought to itself "oh if only I could have been a nice butterfly".

I must be going soft in my old age.
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22-04-2019, 09:33 AM
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Re: Wasps!

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Nor me.

I used to just kill them quickly, but the other day I caught one in a cup in the conservatory and let it out.

I thought, at the time, that the poor thing can't help being a wasp. God created it as a wasp and it had no say in the matter. It probably thought to itself "oh if only I could have been a nice butterfly".

I must be going soft in my old age.
My Nan would simply squash them with her bare hands.
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22-04-2019, 09:33 AM
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Re: Wasps!

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No problem. Bumblebees are surprisingly very tame.
I much prefer bees but still don't think I would pick one up.
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22-04-2019, 09:38 AM
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Re: Wasps!

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No problem. Bumblebees are surprisingly very tame.
Bumblebees are really friendly - they like being stroked.
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22-04-2019, 09:41 AM
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Re: Wasps!

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My Nan would simply squash them with her bare hands.
Eww! Messy.
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22-04-2019, 09:43 AM
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Eww! Messy.
Yep! Put me off burger sauce for years.
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22-04-2019, 09:43 AM
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Re: Wasps!

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I much prefer bees but still don't think I would pick one up.


Same here, I prefer bees too, and won't kill them.

I bought melself one of these last year, and I'd be lost without it now. I use it for spiders, wasps, bees, and flys - brill.


https://www.lakeland.co.uk/20455/Spi...Insect-Catcher
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22-04-2019, 10:02 AM
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Re: Wasps!

I hate wasps, they are evil and nasty and sting you for nothing! Yesterday morning at 6am my husband woke me to tell me my phone was making a buzzing noise but it wasn't my phone it was a humongous wasp in the damn bedroom, I think it was a hornet as it was so big. The buzzing was very loud. I've never moved as quick out of bed and ran out shutting the bedroom door behind me leaving my husband in there, he was like, oh thats right, leave me in here with the monster LOL.

He managed to get it out of the window. Last night my bedroom window was firmly SHUT.

I was never scared of wasps until I once got stung on my neck and it flipping well hurt, now I'm petrified of them.

Bees don't worry me.
 
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