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Come to think of it my Granny ate a wasp........well almost. She put a handfull of sugar puffs into her mouth and there was a wasp in them and it stung her on the tongue. My Mum made her wash her mouth out with vinegar.

Several of my cats have been stung on the paw, believe it or not.
When one of my daughers lived in Eindhoven, they found a lot of wasps in one of their children's bedroom.Turned out the little b*****s where in the cavity walls.Really scary!!!
We need a lot of wasp-eaters, something like Ghost-Busters.Come back Dan Ackroyd, all is forgiven....WAS Dan A. in Ghost Busters?

anteaters eat ants Ann but what eats wasps??............I would gladly buy a wasp eater........lol. The cat makes a swipe at them. He will swipe at anything that moves

anteaters eat ants!!!

I had a wasps nest in the cavity wall of my house this year - would have left it cos they weren't really bothering me but had to buy some wasp nest destroyer as tomorrow I am having the cavity walls insulated and thought they might attack the workmen

They were out in force our way on Friday.

That's about the only good thing the rain does.................

keeps them away

xx

Aren't we a lot of vicious creaures, where wasps are concerned. I admit to getting satisfaction from killing the b*****s too.Yes, I know they are all God's creatures, but they seem to go out of their way to sting us, even when we are not interfering with them in any way. Up until now, I have had a nest in my attic, one in the pear tree which is close to the house, one in the shed (enormous!!).I called in a man to get rid of the one in the tree, the others I saw to myself.Have also had several nests of ground bees, but left them alone.At the moment, lots of pears are rotting, don't know why, but suspect my 'little evil friends' of eating them.Now lots have fallen to the ground, making an easy meal for the striped vandals, thus causing even more problems when I am in the garden.GGRRR! Because of the nest in the attic, I daren't open the window up there anymore, so it is like a Turkish bath.
Why oh why were these wicked, seemingly useless creatures placed on this earth?

get a large empty coke bottle (make sure you have the lid). Get some black tape and wrap it round the bottle from the bottom upwards to say just over 3 quarters of the way to the top. Then using a stanley knife, make a hole about 3 inches from the bottom (just bif enuf so a wasp can get in). Add some sugary liqued to the bottle (I use a tsp of jam and cola) and place the bottle nearby where your wasps are lingering.
The idea is they get in, try to head towards the light ie where there is no tape, get disorientated and finally drop/get attracted to the liqued but cant find their way back out. I got rid of loads year before last.

Good luck.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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???

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

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...

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

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

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