I got a local chap to come and exterminate a wasp nest this morning.
The wasps had built a nest in the ground, but you couldn't see the
entrance as they had tunnelled down through the undergrowth (which I
can't cut away till they're gone).

The chap donned a bee suit, got a very long lance on a pressure
sprayer and puffed loads of white powder into the tunnel. He reckoned
they'd all be gone by later today, or tommorow at the latest.

What about the stragglers? They were out foraging when he was spraying
the nest. Some are returning. What happens? Do they enter the tunnel,
take a bite of some of the powder, and die? Or what?

He said if they haven't gone by Monday, give him a call and he'll come
and do it again. But I really want to cut back the undergrowth so that
I see the actual entrance. Yesterday I tried rapidly raking back the
long grass around where they fly in and out, but that made 'em really
angry and I got stung once on the wrist, despite wearing gloves and a
thick jacket. (Should have put the sleeves inside the gloves and
secured with a rubber band.) That wasp sting was RUDDY painful and the
pain lasted all day, easily 12 hours. It's subsided now though.

MM

On Sat, 03 Oct 2015 13:27:05 +0100, Chris Hogg wrote:

On Sat, 03 Oct 2015 12:48:54 +0100, MM wrote:

I got a local chap to come and exterminate a wasp nest this morning.
The wasps had built a nest in the ground, but you couldn't see the
entrance as they had tunnelled down through the undergrowth (which I
can't cut away till they're gone).

The chap donned a bee suit, got a very long lance on a pressure
sprayer and puffed loads of white powder into the tunnel. He reckoned
they'd all be gone by later today, or tommorow at the latest.

What about the stragglers? They were out foraging when he was spraying
the nest. Some are returning. What happens? Do they enter the tunnel,
take a bite of some of the powder, and die? Or what?

They will tramp through the powder in the entrance and get coated and
die. Most wasps return to their nest overnight, so by the next day
there should be very few stragglers.

I'm astonished. One hour later and there's NO sign of any activity
around the entrance "tunnel" through the undergrowth. Normally, for
the past few months, there's been a constant stream of wasps in and
out. The chap was right when he said they'll all be gone by today. But
I'll wait till tommorow morning till I start hacking away at that
undergrowth. That's £45 well spent! Another company locally wanted
£79. The council hasn't provided pest control since 2004.

MM

"MM" wrote in message
...
I got a local chap to come and exterminate a wasp nest this morning.


You should have left it alone. The nest would have been dead in a few weeks
due to nature.

--
Adam

On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 13:50:16 +0100, "ARW"
wrote:

"MM" wrote in message
.. .
I got a local chap to come and exterminate a wasp nest this morning.


You should have left it alone. The nest would have been dead in a few weeks
due to nature.

Ridiculous suggestion. You couldn't go into the garden without wasps
everywhere.

MM

On 03/10/2015 14:39, MM wrote:
On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 13:50:16 +0100, "ARW"
wrote:

"MM" wrote in message
...
I got a local chap to come and exterminate a wasp nest this morning.


You should have left it alone. The nest would have been dead in a few weeks
due to nature.

Ridiculous suggestion. You couldn't go into the garden without wasps
everywhere.

MM



Might have something to do with ****.

On 03/10/2015 13:44, MM wrote:
On Sat, 03 Oct 2015 13:27:05 +0100, Chris Hogg wrote:

On Sat, 03 Oct 2015 12:48:54 +0100, MM wrote:

I got a local chap to come and exterminate a wasp nest this morning.
The wasps had built a nest in the ground, but you couldn't see the
entrance as they had tunnelled down through the undergrowth (which I
can't cut away till they're gone).

The chap donned a bee suit, got a very long lance on a pressure
sprayer and puffed loads of white powder into the tunnel. He reckoned
they'd all be gone by later today, or tommorow at the latest.

What about the stragglers? They were out foraging when he was spraying
the nest. Some are returning. What happens? Do they enter the tunnel,
take a bite of some of the powder, and die? Or what?

They will tramp through the powder in the entrance and get coated and
die. Most wasps return to their nest overnight, so by the next day
there should be very few stragglers.

I'm astonished. One hour later and there's NO sign of any activity
around the entrance "tunnel" through the undergrowth. Normally, for
the past few months, there's been a constant stream of wasps in and
out. The chap was right when he said they'll all be gone by today. But
I'll wait till tommorow morning till I start hacking away at that
undergrowth. That's £45 well spent! Another company locally wanted
£79. The council hasn't provided pest control since 2004.

MM



Good week then. first the bath tub full of oil, then the sainsburys
ticket, and now wasps.

Awesome.

In message , ARW
writes
"MM" wrote in message
.. .
I got a local chap to come and exterminate a wasp nest this morning.


You should have left it alone. The nest would have been dead in a few
weeks due to nature.

Yes but all those queens would be hibernating and ready to start again
next year.

There is no shortage of Wasps here despite my efforts in the Spring.


--
Tim Lamb

"MM" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 13:50:16 +0100, "ARW"
wrote:

"MM" wrote in message
. ..
I got a local chap to come and exterminate a wasp nest this morning.


You should have left it alone. The nest would have been dead in a few
weeks
due to nature.

Ridiculous suggestion. You couldn't go into the garden without wasps
everywhere.


And?




--
Adam

The Todal wrote:
On 03/10/2015 14:39, MM wrote:
On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 13:50:16 +0100, "ARW"
wrote:

"MM" wrote in message
...
I got a local chap to come and exterminate a wasp nest this morning.


You should have left it alone. The nest would have been dead in a few
weeks
due to nature.

Ridiculous suggestion. You couldn't go into the garden without wasps
everywhere.


So what, I do it all the time, wasps sole purpose is not to attack every
human, left to go about their business they will leave you alone.
the only time I would worry is if you are allergic just in case the
extremely rare instance occurs.



MM



Might have something to do with ****.

On Sun, 04 Oct 2015 12:50:03 +1000, F Murtz
wrote:

The Todal wrote:
On 03/10/2015 14:39, MM wrote:
On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 13:50:16 +0100, "ARW"
wrote:

"MM" wrote in message
...
I got a local chap to come and exterminate a wasp nest this morning.


You should have left it alone. The nest would have been dead in a few
weeks
due to nature.

Ridiculous suggestion. You couldn't go into the garden without wasps
everywhere.


So what, I do it all the time

Then YOU do it, okay?

What YOU do doesn't really interest me, okay?

MM

On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 18:23:54 +0100, Tim Lamb
wrote:

In message , ARW
writes
"MM" wrote in message
. ..
I got a local chap to come and exterminate a wasp nest this morning.


You should have left it alone. The nest would have been dead in a few
weeks due to nature.

Yes but all those queens would be hibernating and ready to start again
next year.

There is no shortage of Wasps here despite my efforts in the Spring.

It is ludicrous for people to say we should keep an active wasp nest
in the garden just yards from where children are playing or neighbours
are relaxing. I couldn't give a flying f**k about nature, I just
wanted the venomous little critters destroyed with ultimate prejudice,
especially after having been stung, the severe pain of which lasted
ALL day.

And that seems to have happened! I am very, very thankful for
chemicals, and many thanks to men with lances.

MM

In message , MM
writes
On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 18:23:54 +0100, Tim Lamb
wrote:

In message , ARW
writes
"MM" wrote in message
...
I got a local chap to come and exterminate a wasp nest this morning.


You should have left it alone. The nest would have been dead in a few
weeks due to nature.

Yes but all those queens would be hibernating and ready to start again
next year.

There is no shortage of Wasps here despite my efforts in the Spring.

It is ludicrous for people to say we should keep an active wasp nest
in the garden just yards from where children are playing or neighbours
are relaxing. I couldn't give a flying f**k about nature, I just
wanted the venomous little critters destroyed with ultimate prejudice,
especially after having been stung, the severe pain of which lasted
ALL day.

And that seems to have happened! I am very, very thankful for
chemicals, and many thanks to men with lances.

I come from a long line of soft fruit growers and have a built in
prejudice:-)

However, if they are not an inconvenience, I'm inclined to leave them
alone. Without such predators we would be feet deep in Greenfly each
year.

--
Tim Lamb

ARW wrote:
"MM" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 13:50:16 +0100, "ARW"
wrote:

"MM" wrote in message
...
I got a local chap to come and exterminate a wasp nest this morning.


You should have left it alone. The nest would have been dead in a few
weeks
due to nature.

Ridiculous suggestion. You couldn't go into the garden without wasps
everywhere.


And?




Exactly.

MM wrote:
I got a local chap to come and exterminate a wasp nest this morning.
The wasps had built a nest in the ground, but you couldn't see the
entrance as they had tunnelled down through the undergrowth (which I
can't cut away till they're gone).

The chap donned a bee suit, got a very long lance on a pressure
sprayer and puffed loads of white powder into the tunnel. He reckoned
they'd all be gone by later today, or tommorow at the latest.

What about the stragglers? They were out foraging when he was spraying
the nest. Some are returning. What happens? Do they enter the tunnel,
take a bite of some of the powder, and die? Or what?

He said if they haven't gone by Monday, give him a call and he'll come
and do it again. But I really want to cut back the undergrowth so that
I see the actual entrance. Yesterday I tried rapidly raking back the
long grass around where they fly in and out, but that made 'em really
angry and I got stung once on the wrist, despite wearing gloves and a
thick jacket. (Should have put the sleeves inside the gloves and
secured with a rubber band.) That wasp sting was RUDDY painful and the
pain lasted all day, easily 12 hours. It's subsided now though.

MM

No sympathy,if you left them alone they would not have stung you, it is
your own fault.

On 04/10/2015 13:25, Bod wrote:
On 04/10/2015 12:58, MM wrote:
On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 12:26:49 +0100, Bod wrote:

On 04/10/2015 12:07, David Lang wrote:
On 04/10/2015 09:29, F Murtz wrote:
MM wrote:
I got a local chap to come and exterminate a wasp nest this morning.
The wasps had built a nest in the ground, but you couldn't see the
entrance as they had tunnelled down through the undergrowth (which I
can't cut away till they're gone).

The chap donned a bee suit, got a very long lance on a pressure
sprayer and puffed loads of white powder into the tunnel. He reckoned
they'd all be gone by later today, or tommorow at the latest.

What about the stragglers? They were out foraging when he was
spraying
the nest. Some are returning. What happens? Do they enter the tunnel,
take a bite of some of the powder, and die? Or what?

He said if they haven't gone by Monday, give him a call and he'll
come
and do it again. But I really want to cut back the undergrowth so
that
I see the actual entrance. Yesterday I tried rapidly raking back the
long grass around where they fly in and out, but that made 'em really
angry and I got stung once on the wrist, despite wearing gloves and a
thick jacket. (Should have put the sleeves inside the gloves and
secured with a rubber band.) That wasp sting was RUDDY painful and
the
pain lasted all day, easily 12 hours. It's subsided now though.

MM

No sympathy,if you left them alone they would not have stung you,
it is
your own fault.

Yes they would. Wasps are evil gits.

Our garden is always full of wasps and bees due to my wife planting
loads of flowers. They never bother us and in the 12 years we've lived
here we have never been stung.

But do you have a WASP NEST?

MM


2 years ago we had an underground wasp nest about 4ft from our front
door. The wasps were only interested in going in and out of their nest.


You don't have a house full of ****. Wasp's like **** and crap gives
them somewhere to live.

On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 08:16:29 +0100, Tim Lamb
wrote:

In message , MM
writes
On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 18:23:54 +0100, Tim Lamb
wrote:

In message , ARW
writes
"MM" wrote in message
m...
I got a local chap to come and exterminate a wasp nest this morning.


You should have left it alone. The nest would have been dead in a few
weeks due to nature.

Yes but all those queens would be hibernating and ready to start again
next year.

There is no shortage of Wasps here despite my efforts in the Spring.

It is ludicrous for people to say we should keep an active wasp nest
in the garden just yards from where children are playing or neighbours
are relaxing. I couldn't give a flying f**k about nature, I just
wanted the venomous little critters destroyed with ultimate prejudice,
especially after having been stung, the severe pain of which lasted
ALL day.

And that seems to have happened! I am very, very thankful for
chemicals, and many thanks to men with lances.

I come from a long line of soft fruit growers and have a built in
prejudice:-)

However, if they are not an inconvenience, I'm inclined to leave them
alone. Without such predators we would be feet deep in Greenfly each
year.

If I lived on a 3-acre smallholding like the one I grew up on in Kent,
provided the wasp nest was a safe distance from human habitation,
sure, they could stay. But these things were buzzing all over the back
lawn. They had to go.

MM

On Sun, 04 Oct 2015 18:25:00 +1000, F Murtz
wrote:

ARW wrote:
"MM" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 13:50:16 +0100, "ARW"
wrote:

"MM" wrote in message
...
I got a local chap to come and exterminate a wasp nest this morning.


You should have left it alone. The nest would have been dead in a few
weeks
due to nature.

Ridiculous suggestion. You couldn't go into the garden without wasps
everywhere.


And?




Exactly.

You don't mind getting stung, then? What about your kids? What about
the neighbours? These were not just a couple of random wasps visiting
the neighbourhood. These were hundreds of the buggers flying in and
out of a nest not 6 feet from my kitchen window. Should I never open
that window again? Would that suit?

MM

On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 18:43:25 +0100, "ARW"
wrote:

"MM" wrote in message
.. .
On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 13:50:16 +0100, "ARW"
wrote:

"MM" wrote in message
...
I got a local chap to come and exterminate a wasp nest this morning.


You should have left it alone. The nest would have been dead in a few
weeks
due to nature.

Ridiculous suggestion. You couldn't go into the garden without wasps
everywhere.


And?

Duh!

(No further follow-up response necessary.)

MM

On 04/10/2015 03:50, F Murtz wrote:
The Todal wrote:
On 03/10/2015 14:39, MM wrote:
On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 13:50:16 +0100, "ARW"
wrote:

"MM" wrote in message
...
I got a local chap to come and exterminate a wasp nest this morning.


You should have left it alone. The nest would have been dead in a few
weeks
due to nature.

Ridiculous suggestion. You couldn't go into the garden without wasps
everywhere.


So what, I do it all the time, wasps sole purpose is not to attack every
human,

Yes it is. Wasps are evil gits.

On Sun, 04 Oct 2015 18:29:01 +1000, F Murtz
wrote:

MM wrote:
I got a local chap to come and exterminate a wasp nest this morning.
The wasps had built a nest in the ground, but you couldn't see the
entrance as they had tunnelled down through the undergrowth (which I
can't cut away till they're gone).

The chap donned a bee suit, got a very long lance on a pressure
sprayer and puffed loads of white powder into the tunnel. He reckoned
they'd all be gone by later today, or tommorow at the latest.

What about the stragglers? They were out foraging when he was spraying
the nest. Some are returning. What happens? Do they enter the tunnel,
take a bite of some of the powder, and die? Or what?

He said if they haven't gone by Monday, give him a call and he'll come
and do it again. But I really want to cut back the undergrowth so that
I see the actual entrance. Yesterday I tried rapidly raking back the
long grass around where they fly in and out, but that made 'em really
angry and I got stung once on the wrist, despite wearing gloves and a
thick jacket. (Should have put the sleeves inside the gloves and
secured with a rubber band.) That wasp sting was RUDDY painful and the
pain lasted all day, easily 12 hours. It's subsided now though.

MM

No sympathy,if you left them alone they would not have stung you, it is
your own fault.

Sorry, but I simply cannot work in the garden cutting back the weeds
if by doing so I disturb a wasp nest from which hordes of angry wasps
exit and go on the attack.

Tell you what, if there's a next time, I'll get YOU to clear away the
weeds and stuff, okay? But you'll chicken out, won't you?

Maybe you'd like me to buy a bee suit to do the gardening in?

MM

On 04/10/2015 09:29, F Murtz wrote:
MM wrote:
I got a local chap to come and exterminate a wasp nest this morning.
The wasps had built a nest in the ground, but you couldn't see the
entrance as they had tunnelled down through the undergrowth (which I
can't cut away till they're gone).

The chap donned a bee suit, got a very long lance on a pressure
sprayer and puffed loads of white powder into the tunnel. He reckoned
they'd all be gone by later today, or tommorow at the latest.

What about the stragglers? They were out foraging when he was spraying
the nest. Some are returning. What happens? Do they enter the tunnel,
take a bite of some of the powder, and die? Or what?

He said if they haven't gone by Monday, give him a call and he'll come
and do it again. But I really want to cut back the undergrowth so that
I see the actual entrance. Yesterday I tried rapidly raking back the
long grass around where they fly in and out, but that made 'em really
angry and I got stung once on the wrist, despite wearing gloves and a
thick jacket. (Should have put the sleeves inside the gloves and
secured with a rubber band.) That wasp sting was RUDDY painful and the
pain lasted all day, easily 12 hours. It's subsided now though.

MM

No sympathy,if you left them alone they would not have stung you, it is
your own fault.

Yes they would. Wasps are evil gits.

"MM" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 18:43:25 +0100, "ARW"
wrote:

"MM" wrote in message
. ..
On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 13:50:16 +0100, "ARW"
wrote:

"MM" wrote in message
m...
I got a local chap to come and exterminate a wasp nest this morning.


You should have left it alone. The nest would have been dead in a few
weeks
due to nature.

Ridiculous suggestion. You couldn't go into the garden without wasps
everywhere.


And?

Duh!

(No further follow-up response necessary.)


Not even one to call you a knob head?

--
Adam

"David Lang" wrote in message
...
On 04/10/2015 03:50, F Murtz wrote:
The Todal wrote:
On 03/10/2015 14:39, MM wrote:
On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 13:50:16 +0100, "ARW"
wrote:

"MM" wrote in message
...
I got a local chap to come and exterminate a wasp nest this morning.


You should have left it alone. The nest would have been dead in a few
weeks
due to nature.

Ridiculous suggestion. You couldn't go into the garden without wasps
everywhere.


So what, I do it all the time, wasps sole purpose is not to attack every
human,

Yes it is. Wasps are evil gits.


When did one last sting you? And did you cry like a 10 year old girl?

Wasps do not attack humans.

--
Adam

You normally need to wait a couple of days, as some may not have taken the
poison as yet. I have no issue with them if they are well out of my way, but
as you found out, if they take up residence where you need to do work, they
are very territorial and are not phased by your size.

I had one under the bathroom floor and as you can imagine, a naked person in
that room is rather vulnerable. The other problem is that my next door
neighbour as a small hole in the wall under the floor and they were all
coming up in their bathroom as well.
The guy had to don protection and cut a floorboard to shove the poison in,
then he shut the bathroom off so I had to pee in a bottle for a few hours.
However two days later, just a few lost wasps were seen looking lost. We
put a narrow mesh over all the air bricks the next day.
Brian

--
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Remember, if you don't like where I post
or what I say, you don't have to
read my posts! :-)
"MM" wrote in message
...
I got a local chap to come and exterminate a wasp nest this morning.
The wasps had built a nest in the ground, but you couldn't see the
entrance as they had tunnelled down through the undergrowth (which I
can't cut away till they're gone).

The chap donned a bee suit, got a very long lance on a pressure
sprayer and puffed loads of white powder into the tunnel. He reckoned
they'd all be gone by later today, or tommorow at the latest.

What about the stragglers? They were out foraging when he was spraying
the nest. Some are returning. What happens? Do they enter the tunnel,
take a bite of some of the powder, and die? Or what?

He said if they haven't gone by Monday, give him a call and he'll come
and do it again. But I really want to cut back the undergrowth so that
I see the actual entrance. Yesterday I tried rapidly raking back the
long grass around where they fly in and out, but that made 'em really
angry and I got stung once on the wrist, despite wearing gloves and a
thick jacket. (Should have put the sleeves inside the gloves and
secured with a rubber band.) That wasp sting was RUDDY painful and the
pain lasted all day, easily 12 hours. It's subsided now though.

MM

Wasps get very drowsy toward their end of season. Where do you think they
overwinter? This is the time they sting as they really don't know what they
are doing at all.
As long as the little grubs are killed next year you won't get them there
again. However if its a ground based nest, please do not sow food crops
there as the toxic powder is also toxic to us.
Brian

--
From the Sofa of Brian Gaff Reply address is active
Remember, if you don't like where I post
or what I say, you don't have to
read my posts! :-)
"David Lang" wrote in message
news
On 04/10/2015 09:29, F Murtz wrote:
MM wrote:
I got a local chap to come and exterminate a wasp nest this morning.
The wasps had built a nest in the ground, but you couldn't see the
entrance as they had tunnelled down through the undergrowth (which I
can't cut away till they're gone).

The chap donned a bee suit, got a very long lance on a pressure
sprayer and puffed loads of white powder into the tunnel. He reckoned
they'd all be gone by later today, or tommorow at the latest.

What about the stragglers? They were out foraging when he was spraying
the nest. Some are returning. What happens? Do they enter the tunnel,
take a bite of some of the powder, and die? Or what?

He said if they haven't gone by Monday, give him a call and he'll come
and do it again. But I really want to cut back the undergrowth so that
I see the actual entrance. Yesterday I tried rapidly raking back the
long grass around where they fly in and out, but that made 'em really
angry and I got stung once on the wrist, despite wearing gloves and a
thick jacket. (Should have put the sleeves inside the gloves and
secured with a rubber band.) That wasp sting was RUDDY painful and the
pain lasted all day, easily 12 hours. It's subsided now though.

MM

No sympathy,if you left them alone they would not have stung you, it is
your own fault.

Yes they would. Wasps are evil gits.

On 04/10/2015 12:07, David Lang wrote:
On 04/10/2015 09:29, F Murtz wrote:
MM wrote:
I got a local chap to come and exterminate a wasp nest this morning.
The wasps had built a nest in the ground, but you couldn't see the
entrance as they had tunnelled down through the undergrowth (which I
can't cut away till they're gone).

The chap donned a bee suit, got a very long lance on a pressure
sprayer and puffed loads of white powder into the tunnel. He reckoned
they'd all be gone by later today, or tommorow at the latest.

What about the stragglers? They were out foraging when he was spraying
the nest. Some are returning. What happens? Do they enter the tunnel,
take a bite of some of the powder, and die? Or what?

He said if they haven't gone by Monday, give him a call and he'll come
and do it again. But I really want to cut back the undergrowth so that
I see the actual entrance. Yesterday I tried rapidly raking back the
long grass around where they fly in and out, but that made 'em really
angry and I got stung once on the wrist, despite wearing gloves and a
thick jacket. (Should have put the sleeves inside the gloves and
secured with a rubber band.) That wasp sting was RUDDY painful and the
pain lasted all day, easily 12 hours. It's subsided now though.

MM

No sympathy,if you left them alone they would not have stung you, it is
your own fault.

Yes they would. Wasps are evil gits.

Our garden is always full of wasps and bees due to my wife planting
loads of flowers. They never bother us and in the 12 years we've lived
here we have never been stung.

On 04/10/2015 12:17, ARW wrote:
"David Lang" wrote in message
...
On 04/10/2015 03:50, F Murtz wrote:
The Todal wrote:
On 03/10/2015 14:39, MM wrote:
On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 13:50:16 +0100, "ARW"
wrote:

"MM" wrote in message
...
I got a local chap to come and exterminate a wasp nest this morning.


You should have left it alone. The nest would have been dead in a few
weeks
due to nature.

Ridiculous suggestion. You couldn't go into the garden without wasps
everywhere.


So what, I do it all the time, wasps sole purpose is not to attack every
human,

Yes it is. Wasps are evil gits.


When did one last sting you? And did you cry like a 10 year old girl?

Wasps do not attack humans.

Only if you annoy them and even then they are only defending themselves.

On 04/10/2015 12:05, David Lang wrote:
On 04/10/2015 03:50, F Murtz wrote:
The Todal wrote:
On 03/10/2015 14:39, MM wrote:
On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 13:50:16 +0100, "ARW"
wrote:

"MM" wrote in message
...
I got a local chap to come and exterminate a wasp nest this morning.


You should have left it alone. The nest would have been dead in a few
weeks
due to nature.

Ridiculous suggestion. You couldn't go into the garden without wasps
everywhere.


So what, I do it all the time, wasps sole purpose is not to attack every
human,

Yes it is. Wasps are evil gits.

You're a drama queen.

"Bod" wrote in message
...
On 04/10/2015 12:05, David Lang wrote:
On 04/10/2015 03:50, F Murtz wrote:
The Todal wrote:
On 03/10/2015 14:39, MM wrote:
On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 13:50:16 +0100, "ARW"
wrote:

"MM" wrote in message
...
I got a local chap to come and exterminate a wasp nest this morning.


You should have left it alone. The nest would have been dead in a few
weeks
due to nature.

Ridiculous suggestion. You couldn't go into the garden without wasps
everywhere.


So what, I do it all the time, wasps sole purpose is not to attack every
human,

Yes it is. Wasps are evil gits.

You're a drama queen.

Does he wear a big fancy wig and a ball gown too? ;-)



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On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 08:16:29 +0100, Tim Lamb
wrote:

In message , MM
writes
On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 18:23:54 +0100, Tim Lamb
wrote:

In message , ARW
writes
"MM" wrote in message
m...
I got a local chap to come and exterminate a wasp nest this morning.


You should have left it alone. The nest would have been dead in a few
weeks due to nature.

Yes but all those queens would be hibernating and ready to start again
next year.

There is no shortage of Wasps here despite my efforts in the Spring.

It is ludicrous for people to say we should keep an active wasp nest
in the garden just yards from where children are playing or neighbours
are relaxing. I couldn't give a flying f**k about nature, I just
wanted the venomous little critters destroyed with ultimate prejudice,
especially after having been stung, the severe pain of which lasted
ALL day.

And that seems to have happened! I am very, very thankful for
chemicals, and many thanks to men with lances.

I come from a long line of soft fruit growers and have a built in
prejudice:-)

However, if they are not an inconvenience, I'm inclined to leave them
alone. Without such predators we would be feet deep in Greenfly each
year.

THEY HAVEN'T ALL DIED!!! I just went out there with the long-handled
garden shears and started cutting away and quite a few suddenly flew
out! I rang the chappie again and he's coming tomorrow to give them
another blast. Ruddy good job I put on thick gloves, thick jacket with
elastic bands around the sleeves, plus a brimmed hat with net curtain
material draped over and tightly stuffed inside the jacket. I didn't
get stung this time.

He said, can you see the entrance hole any better? And I have to say,
no, not yet. That's why I wanted to cut the long grass around the spot
where they fly in to reveal the entrance clearly.

Dunno what else to do. I thought, maybe set up the rotary mower, wait
till dusk, put my rudimentary "bee suit" back on and mow over the area
a couple of times. But I fear that's going to really set them off
again. Plus, the grass catcher would be full of dying wasps and maybe
some really lively ones.

**** nature!!

MM

On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 12:17:11 +0100, "ARW"
wrote:

Wasps do not attack humans.

Ah, well now I know you're an idiot.

Please STOP with the unhelpful comments, okay?

MM

On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 12:26:49 +0100, Bod wrote:

On 04/10/2015 12:07, David Lang wrote:
On 04/10/2015 09:29, F Murtz wrote:
MM wrote:
I got a local chap to come and exterminate a wasp nest this morning.
The wasps had built a nest in the ground, but you couldn't see the
entrance as they had tunnelled down through the undergrowth (which I
can't cut away till they're gone).

The chap donned a bee suit, got a very long lance on a pressure
sprayer and puffed loads of white powder into the tunnel. He reckoned
they'd all be gone by later today, or tommorow at the latest.

What about the stragglers? They were out foraging when he was spraying
the nest. Some are returning. What happens? Do they enter the tunnel,
take a bite of some of the powder, and die? Or what?

He said if they haven't gone by Monday, give him a call and he'll come
and do it again. But I really want to cut back the undergrowth so that
I see the actual entrance. Yesterday I tried rapidly raking back the
long grass around where they fly in and out, but that made 'em really
angry and I got stung once on the wrist, despite wearing gloves and a
thick jacket. (Should have put the sleeves inside the gloves and
secured with a rubber band.) That wasp sting was RUDDY painful and the
pain lasted all day, easily 12 hours. It's subsided now though.

MM

No sympathy,if you left them alone they would not have stung you, it is
your own fault.

Yes they would. Wasps are evil gits.

Our garden is always full of wasps and bees due to my wife planting
loads of flowers. They never bother us and in the 12 years we've lived
here we have never been stung.

But do you have a WASP NEST?

MM

On Sun, 04 Oct 2015 12:50:51 +0100, Chris Hogg wrote:

On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 12:26:49 +0100, Bod wrote:

Our garden is always full of wasps and bees due to my wife planting
loads of flowers. They never bother us and in the 12 years we've lived
here we have never been stung.

The flowers are irrelevant as far as wasps are concerned. Wasps don't
visit flowers. Wasp larvae are carnivorous. Wasps keep the garden free
of pests like greenfly and caterpillars.

Sorry, I'd far rather keep the greenfly and caterpillars. They've
never done me any harm. I can happily co-exist with them. But NOT with
the wasps. Even if I have to buy a friggin' bee suit myself and a
gallon of petrol, They.Are.Gonna.Die!

I don't mind a stray wasp, but there are hundreds in the back garden.
Well, not as many since yesterday's blast with the poison dust, but
still far too many for comfort.

MM

On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 12:18:35 +0100, "Brian-Gaff"
wrote:

You normally need to wait a couple of days, as some may not have taken the
poison as yet. I have no issue with them if they are well out of my way, but
as you found out, if they take up residence where you need to do work, they
are very territorial and are not phased by your size.

I had one under the bathroom floor and as you can imagine, a naked person in
that room is rather vulnerable. The other problem is that my next door
neighbour as a small hole in the wall under the floor and they were all
coming up in their bathroom as well.
The guy had to don protection and cut a floorboard to shove the poison in,
then he shut the bathroom off so I had to pee in a bottle for a few hours.
However two days later, just a few lost wasps were seen looking lost. We
put a narrow mesh over all the air bricks the next day.
Brian

So some of the little *******s still managed to survive for 48
hours!!!

I thought "my" nest was utterly dead, but I reckon they have a tactic.
They sense that most have died, so the survivors "play dead" by
ceasing all flying activity. Meanwhile down in the nest they're
f**king each other senseless to produce new ones as fast as possible.

MM

On 04/10/2015 12:38, Ophelia wrote:


"Bod" wrote in message
...
On 04/10/2015 12:05, David Lang wrote:
On 04/10/2015 03:50, F Murtz wrote:
The Todal wrote:
On 03/10/2015 14:39, MM wrote:
On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 13:50:16 +0100, "ARW"
wrote:

"MM" wrote in message
...
I got a local chap to come and exterminate a wasp nest this
morning.


You should have left it alone. The nest would have been dead in a
few
weeks
due to nature.

Ridiculous suggestion. You couldn't go into the garden without wasps
everywhere.


So what, I do it all the time, wasps sole purpose is not to attack
every
human,

Yes it is. Wasps are evil gits.

You're a drama queen.

Does he wear a big fancy wig and a ball gown too? ;-)



Not sure, but his boyfriend might :-)

On 04/10/2015 12:50, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 12:26:49 +0100, Bod wrote:

Our garden is always full of wasps and bees due to my wife planting
loads of flowers. They never bother us and in the 12 years we've lived
here we have never been stung.

The flowers are irrelevant as far as wasps are concerned. Wasps don't
visit flowers. Wasp larvae are carnivorous. Wasps keep the garden free
of pests like greenfly and caterpillars.

I'm afraid you are wrong, Chris.

Do Wasps Pollinate Flowers?

Quite simply, YES!

http://www.buzzaboutbees.net/do-wasps-pollinate.html

On 04/10/2015 12:58, MM wrote:
On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 12:26:49 +0100, Bod wrote:

On 04/10/2015 12:07, David Lang wrote:
On 04/10/2015 09:29, F Murtz wrote:
MM wrote:
I got a local chap to come and exterminate a wasp nest this morning.
The wasps had built a nest in the ground, but you couldn't see the
entrance as they had tunnelled down through the undergrowth (which I
can't cut away till they're gone).

The chap donned a bee suit, got a very long lance on a pressure
sprayer and puffed loads of white powder into the tunnel. He reckoned
they'd all be gone by later today, or tommorow at the latest.

What about the stragglers? They were out foraging when he was spraying
the nest. Some are returning. What happens? Do they enter the tunnel,
take a bite of some of the powder, and die? Or what?

He said if they haven't gone by Monday, give him a call and he'll come
and do it again. But I really want to cut back the undergrowth so that
I see the actual entrance. Yesterday I tried rapidly raking back the
long grass around where they fly in and out, but that made 'em really
angry and I got stung once on the wrist, despite wearing gloves and a
thick jacket. (Should have put the sleeves inside the gloves and
secured with a rubber band.) That wasp sting was RUDDY painful and the
pain lasted all day, easily 12 hours. It's subsided now though.

MM

No sympathy,if you left them alone they would not have stung you, it is
your own fault.

Yes they would. Wasps are evil gits.

Our garden is always full of wasps and bees due to my wife planting
loads of flowers. They never bother us and in the 12 years we've lived
here we have never been stung.

But do you have a WASP NEST?

MM


2 years ago we had an underground wasp nest about 4ft from our front
door. The wasps were only interested in going in and out of their nest.

On 04/10/2015 12:18, Brian-Gaff wrote:


We have just been in Corsica. Several of the hotels we stayed at had
outside dining tables for breakfast and in two cases dinner.

The hotels had something to put on the tables that burnt to distract the
wasps which always came.

I found that given a choice, the wasps preferred ham or bacon to jam, so
I put a sample on the table as far from us as practical.


--
Michael Chare

On 03/10/2015 12:48, MM wrote:
I got a local chap to come and exterminate a wasp nest this morning.
The wasps had built a nest in the ground, but you couldn't see the
entrance as they had tunnelled down through the undergrowth (which I
can't cut away till they're gone).

It is a bit late in the season to bother killing wasps nests and only
really necessary if you want to install/replace a fence post or dig
exactly where they have chosen to build their nest. Happened to me once.
Spade in followed by loads of angry buzzing and run like hell.

Had to get a bloke in to zap it. Apparently the wasp grubs are very much
favoured by anglers.

The chap donned a bee suit, got a very long lance on a pressure
sprayer and puffed loads of white powder into the tunnel. He reckoned
they'd all be gone by later today, or tommorow at the latest.

Waste of money - they will be all dead in a months time anyway and it is
already too cold now to sit out. Live and let live. They will only sting
you if you try to squash them or attack their nest.

What about the stragglers? They were out foraging when he was spraying
the nest. Some are returning. What happens? Do they enter the tunnel,
take a bite of some of the powder, and die? Or what?

There will be live grubs in the nest for ages but any that come into
direct contact with the insecticide will expire pretty quickly.

He said if they haven't gone by Monday, give him a call and he'll come
and do it again. But I really want to cut back the undergrowth so that
I see the actual entrance. Yesterday I tried rapidly raking back the
long grass around where they fly in and out, but that made 'em really
angry and I got stung once on the wrist, despite wearing gloves and a
thick jacket. (Should have put the sleeves inside the gloves and
secured with a rubber band.) That wasp sting was RUDDY painful and the
pain lasted all day, easily 12 hours. It's subsided now though.

MM

Leave well alone for several days until the poison has had time to act.

--
Regards,
Martin Brown

On 04/10/2015 12:58, MM wrote:
On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 12:26:49 +0100, Bod wrote:

On 04/10/2015 12:07, David Lang wrote:

Yes they would. Wasps are evil gits.

Our garden is always full of wasps and bees due to my wife planting
loads of flowers. They never bother us and in the 12 years we've lived
here we have never been stung.

But do you have a WASP NEST?

Not this year. But in the past have had them in various sheds etc. Leave
them alone and they will leave you alone. The nests are very intricately
made from reconstituted wood fibre making a paper structure.

I draw the line at having them in the house or cavity wall but in the
garden they eat caterpillars and pollinate plants.

I have once put a spade through an unknown wasps nest up against a
rotting fence post. Only thing I could do was run like hell and get
indoors. I didn't actually get stung but the spade stayed put.

Pest control did see it off with the white powder. Back then DDT?

--
Regards,
Martin Brown