Wasps! - I could have killed someone!!!!

[OzzyR1]

Triumph Man said:

I've never been stung by a bee or wasp, and frankly I'm terrified that it will be that thing that I'm highly allergic to (because I'm not allergic to anything) and kill me.

Same here, I know it's totally illogical and the odds are stacked against it but I don't want to find out.

This causes me to panic disproportionately when a wasp is in the vicinity.

[marksx]

OzzyR1 said:

Same here, I know it's totally illogical and the odds are stacked against it but I don't want to find out.

This causes me to panic disproportionately when a wasp is in the vicinity.

Me three. Thanks to too many pictures of anaphylactic shock during first aid courses, and never having been stung.

I wouldn't say I panic disproportionately, but if a wasp comes near me, I will expend great effort in chasing down and murdering the banded little bd!

[carreauchompeur]

marksx said:

Me three. Thanks to too many pictures of anaphylactic shock during first aid courses, and never having been stung.

I wouldn't say I panic disproportionately, but if a wasp comes near me, I will expend great effort in chasing down and murdering the banded little bd!

You're part of the problem. We need to build better relationships with our winged breddren.

[Mr GrimNasty]

You are actually much more likely to have an allergic reaction if you HAVE been stung before, without an allergic reaction on prior occasion(s).

[Sump]

Lmao, can't keep his cool in a situation.

[croyde]

I remember drinking in a pub garden where there was a sign that said 'For every 20 wasp bodies you kids bring to the bar, we will give your Daddy a free pint'

I had never seen so many kids so busy and so entertained.

Obviously wouldn't happen now what with Health and Safety.

[Puggit]

Wasps are nice and cuddly. It's the hornets around here you need to worry about!

[Triumph Man]

OzzyR1 said:

Triumph Man said:

I've never been stung by a bee or wasp, and frankly I'm terrified that it will be that thing that I'm highly allergic to (because I'm not allergic to anything) and kill me.

Same here, I know it's totally illogical and the odds are stacked against it but I don't want to find out.

This causes me to panic disproportionately when a wasp is in the vicinity.

You should have seen me when a hornet made its way into my house. Luckily, half a can of lynx later and one dead (but great smelling) hornet.

[Piers_K]

An friend of mine was strimming the banks of the Thames a few springs ago, clearing the paths and swims getting ready for the fishing season. Unbeknown to him hidden in the long grass was a wasps nest, which he cut open with the strimmer, and then he stepped on it...

Cue a swarm of mental wasps, him running, his arms going like a windmill in a gale whilst trying to swat wasps and strip of his clothes at the same time and then finally him jumping into the river.

A rushed trip to hospital later and the nurse had counted 68 stings, 8 of which were on his ball sack.

[944fan]

Hate wasps, worthless annoying fkers.

Why can science do something to get rid of the s.

Out mountain biking once and one flew into my helmet (no not that one). Stung me twice on the nogging. Slammed the breaks on, endo over the front, ripped my helmet off and threw it in the bushes. Head hurt for ages

[Gargamel]

Cute !

[rohrl]

I had a wasps nest in my porch roof a couple of years ago. The little fkers chewed through the ceiling and suddenly the porch was full of wasps. I sprayed two cans of bug spray through the hole, prompting a mass exodus of dying wasps, then emptied a can of expanding foam into the hole. Knowing that I'd exterminated a stload of wasps was one of the most fulfilling experiences of my life so far.

[SpudLink]

blindswelledrat said:

I hate wasps with a passion and they scare me hugely disproportionately to the mild pain of their sting.

I was once riding along on my motorbike with my visor open when one flew into my helmet and seemed to lodge itself between my temple and the helmet.
This was the worst thing that could ever happen to me and although the panic was rising fast, I had to force myself to remain calm as I was on a motorbike on a busy road.
So I casually indicated into a childrens playground, calmly turned in and then once I was through the gate all hell broke lose. I allowed panic to take over, jumped off the motorbike and let it fall to the ground, snatched my helmet off and threw it as far as I could before running in circles slapping away at my head. I must have looked utterly mental to all the mothers in the park, particularly the contrast between my forced calm entrance to the park followed by my loss of control

On the morning of my DAS test a wasp flew inside my visor on the way to the test centre. Like you I fear wasps more than anything, and was on a busy road. Remarkably I stayed calm enough to stop the bike and remove my lid, without being stung. I think the main reason I passed is because I was too traumatised to be nervous.

More recently, one of the little bds was hiding in the bath towel. Stung me right on the arse cheek. Hateful creatures.

[Catatafish]

A wasp would be a good mascot for PH forums - it's angry and attacks randomly.

[matchmaker]

marksx said:

OzzyR1 said:

Same here, I know it's totally illogical and the odds are stacked against it but I don't want to find out.

This causes me to panic disproportionately when a wasp is in the vicinity.

Me three. Thanks to too many pictures of anaphylactic shock during first aid courses, and never having been stung.

I wouldn't say I panic disproportionately, but if a wasp comes near me, I will expend great effort in chasing down and murdering the banded little bd!

Same here. One of the few things that I'm sort of scared of. I should man up and grow a set, I suppose!

[Uncle John]

Another experience of mine with wasps:

We had a nest up in our eaves so we called up a friend who knew a wasp killer.

There was I expecting a Terminator style suited hardman with assorted weaponry, guy turned up in shorts, t-shirt and flip flops with a ladder.

He asked me to hold the bottom of the ladder and said there may be a few irate wasps around soon.....

He went up there and squirted some Nissin Ant Powder into the entrance. Came down and that was that.

So if you have a nest, Nissin Ant Powder is the king, apparently very virulent.

[matchmaker]

Uncle John said:

Another experience of mine with wasps:

We had a nest up in our eaves so we called up a friend who knew a wasp killer.

There was I expecting a Terminator style suited hardman with assorted weaponry, guy turned up in shorts, t-shirt and flip flops with a ladder.

He asked me to hold the bottom of the ladder and said there may be a few irate wasps around soon.....

He went up there and squirted some Nissin Ant Powder into the entrance. Came down and that was that.

So if you have a nest, Nissin Ant Powder is the king, apparently very virulent.

Nippon.

[Davidos]

Triumph Man said:

You should have seen me when a hornet made its way into my house. Luckily, half a can of lynx later and one dead (but great smelling) hornet.

No Sweat

[goneape]

'I heard that and I'm going to wait until you go to sleep, then fly into your house ans sting you on the cock.'

[Hudson]

Otispunkmeyer said:

More wasp ery.... We watched one hovering round our living room window, I thought it had gotten caught in the spiders web. Serves it right I thought. But then unperturbed by the web it simply broke free, and then hovered some more, seemingly deliberately trapping/freeing itelf in the web. Spidey eventually appears to see what he's caught and the wasp engages. After a brief tussle, the wasp actually flew off with the spider!! We were gobsmacked! Its deliberately tricked a spider into coming out of its wigwam thingy and then attacked it, picked it up and flew off with it!

Edited by Otispunkmeyer on Tuesday 4th August 09:23

I flicked one into a spiders web but this time the spider was on top of his game, had the stripy wrapped up like a Christmas present in seconds. Fascinating and kinda morbid at the same time.