General Chat

OMG............They're everywhere. I can't open my windows or doors. Hate the buggers. They are aggressive, sneaky and they sting.

What's the purpose of them. I mean where do they come in the food chain?? Spiders eat flies and flies eat s**t. I don't like spiders either but I can see their purpose. Birds eat spiders and flies. Cats eat birds. What eats wasps ??

Wasps also eat other insects. We also have a lot of them this year!!

Ails x

we appear to have hornets again this year - have seen 3 or 4 - if not then they are flaming big wasps!

OH hates wasps, he looks like a windmill when one comes within 20 feet of him...lol

Sue xx

I've never seen them so bad. Last year there were hardly any. This year they are making up for it.
I didn't know they ate other insec ts Ails. They always seem to want my fruit.

PMSL Sue. I'm the very same

Heard on the radio that there will be far more wasps this year than other years, due to the mild spring.I hate them too, especially at this time of the year, when they just sting you without reason, i.e, waving your arms around to swat them.Love bees though, I can watch them for ages, the sound they make reminds me so much of summer days as a child.Where one of my daughters used to live, they had enormous swarms of those monster-sized Hornets.Now THEY scared the c..p out of all of us.Very difficult to kill too.

Eileen xx

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Wev'e no wasps but loads of ants
and the flying ones horrible things ......

I have a couple of traps. yellow plastic thing's looks like a honey pot. You put in water,sugar and a drop of washing up liquid. They go in and dont get out..end of wasp,well some of them.


Marion

we had a wasps nest on our balcony when my ellis was 3 days old... we moved out for a week and oh and his bm came up in loads of protect gear and poured burning water over the whole thing, they videoed it and around a 1000 wasps flew at them took about a week to clean the dead away.... it was horrible...

http://www.eartheasy.com/live_natwasp_control.htm

I love bees too Claddagh and never kill one. I fact I have fed bees honey when I have found them out of fuel. They are so clever and they make honey. They have a purpose.

I hate ants too Hazel. Some years ago, when I had a carpet, I was sitting late at night watching TV when I thought I say the carpet move under a chair in the corner of the room. I went to investigate to find at least 100 ants flapping their wings. I screamed so loud that OH jumped out of bed and came running. He wasn't impressed. I spend the next hour with the vacum cleaner as some of them started flying about when I disturbed them. Yuuuck

Still don't know ...........what eats ants???

Oooooh Charley..........That's horrible

i know... and to what eat ants, the sole of my shoes and the majority of the worlds shoes lol.....

Marion............Thanks for that website. Very interesting especially the bit about squashing the buggers.....always gives me great pleasure to do that but I may think in future before doing so.

Oh Heather:-)
Their Gods Creatures:-))
I rescue them often from being drowned in my Fountain,they appreciate it so much,yesterday one stung me;-)lol

Heather, if you love bees, as I do, you would love the enormous black ones you see in the mediterranean countries.They are such peace-loving creatures, don't sting, at least, the males don't.The females only do when REALLY provoked.The evil hornets in Burgandy, where my daughter used to live, were like something out of a horror movie.When it started to get dark, they were drawn to the lights outside their house, and even managed to get inside.The noise they make is incredible!Now they live in Brittany, so have no more probs. with these 'nasties'.

Eileen x

Sorry Roxanne.......but I can't see why God would have made such creatures. I think they are in league with the devil

Wasp = skinhead thug of insect world and I'm absolutely petrified and I mean petrified of them