Wasps Nests

[plumber0808]

My old man used to keep bees and we collected the swarms as they appeared each year. just follow the cloud of bees till they land, let them form a cluster and just pop a box under them, hit the branch they are on and they fall in the box and all you do is towel over the top and leave 5 mins for the stragglers to catch up and then in the car and back home to an empty hive, and let them walk up a plank into the hive, easy!

That sounds to easy put a box under them and knock em in.

they would turn on me. :56:

 

[Guest123]

When a bee stings it dies and really only stings in self defence. A wasp can sting multiple times and just for the hell of it.

 

[lame plumber]

workers in a swarm are protecting the queen so are to busy supporting her to bother stinging you. However, if you really **** them off they will attack and as said sting you which as its barbed sticks in you and they disembowel themselves as they fly off. the sting stays and carries on pumping poison into you! and the pheremones from the sting poison attracts the other bees to do the same so life can become unpleasant if you stick around!

 

[Guest123]

workers in a swarm are protecting the queen

Sounds a bit like the UK establishment.

 

[lame plumber]

Sounds a bit like the UK establishment.

get off and enjoy your punk fest, I miss Maggie already 🙂

 

[DirksPlumbing]

I do like bees too even though they are not doing all that well at the moment. But wasps is a differnt thing these just seem to sting for leasure.
In my old place we had plenty of them coming and going.
Hornets too but not that often.

Been stung by plenty of wasps it seems as if the recent stings do not seem to do much anymore.
The last one got me in the neck. Swelling only lasted for minutes. Literally no pain.
But the first ones were indeed unpleasant. My dad always told me to leave them alone and they would not do anything. Got stung several times for no reason. Only when he got stung then as well he decided that I must have been right and done away with the nest.

Workmate of us was great for that. We have been completely safe when he was with us. They would not look at us at all. Went straight for him.

Expanding foam guns and a tea break was the usual solution to work safely if there was a small to medium nest.

Seen twice a nest of over a meter. They do not look anymore like the dangling balls anymore. Amazing structures. But both were dead. Would have struggled for so much foam. And possibly balls too.

 

[aplombier]

Had to sort wasp nest out to do job once. and bright spark as i was when younger decided to pour boiling water on the nest to kill them off first and the next few minutes scared the crap out of me. They came out of that nest so fast I decided to leg it, I must have run 2 streets away before they stopped chasing me, it was like something out of a cartoon, never again do that, call pest control in future ! ! !