General Chat

Last summer I was getting the mail (mailbox out the front, at the end of the driveway) when a wasp stung me.

I yelped........... and the dog next door came over... she sniffed all round the mailbox and she yelped! I had a red hand, and she had a sore nose.

Neighbour came over with an aerosol spray & a lighter, and frazzled the wasps & their nest.

I wouldn't like to try that method myself, but it worked for him.

:-)

I shall have to see if I can get some of those there woollen cotton buddy thingies

ooh a moat - now that would be posh.

I could call it...




Errol's Moat

Can you get woollen cotton buds to get in all the little important places?


I suppose you have to sit there until some children come with their bucket and spade sets and make you a moat?

Don't I know it!

well I hope you're wearing something - that sand gets in every nook and cranny ;-)

I am half buried Persephone - some big sheep did it and ran away.

I can't even swat the wasps away now.

I am not revealing what I am wearing under the sand.

Are you sunbathing au naturel Errol.?

Or are you referring to the General board?

Are wasp stings that bad?

I'll check tomorrow for signs of life :-D

Take them to the tenants tribunal, if they haven't gone after two weeks notice..

Perse

I hate wasps. I got stung for the first time years ago and went clammy, faint and was breathing fast. It only stung the end of my little finger and it swelled up so much and my arm ached all the way up for about 24 hours. I avoid them like the plague now. :-(

Waspintor is a total load of poo, I tried two they made no diffrence whatever even when left up the next year so it was there from the start of the season!

I hate wasps, if I ever get a turn at being God like the Jim Carrey in "Bruce Almighty" they will be first on my extingtion list!

Oh I know they prey on garden pests ya di ya di ya, but so do lots of other things that don't try and climb into your coke can, I've hated them since one few into my shirt while riding a motorbike (me that is not the wasp don't think he could have operated the kick start) :-P :-P

I've found both the spray and powder from Renokil work well, but for the spray to work you need to be able to saturate the nest from outside if its just a hole the powder is best.

Mayfield

My poor ickle dog was stung this afternoon in a very delicate area....he now has his tail inbetween his legs, his ears right back, sad brown eyes and his delicate area is now full of sudacrem *advice from the vet* :-0 :-0

Ann keep blasting !!! nasty creatures :-| :-|

Amazon sell a waspinator ...an artificial wasp nest for £10+ you hang it up and the wasps think its real and go elsewhere...or so they say :-D

I only said yesterday I have just seen one wasp this year...........I have just been stung by the second one :-S :-S

such helpful friends I have on here ;-)

Maybe if you turned the roadsigns round the other way or removed them altogether, a bit like they did in WWII, that'll do the trick

somebody i know covers the nest at night in petrol
and sets them on fire

sounds cruel to me :-( :-(