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Hi
Just had a tiny conversation on here about wasps and the danger they pose to society at large. That's why I want to ask you to share your ideas on how to deal with these bringers of fear and in a minority of cases, pain as blind people.
I'll be interested to see the answers, if any, that come up on this topic. I'm downright phobic of things like wasps, and bees. More than once I've been paralyzed in fear because one has gotten into the house, and I don't know how to kill it. So yes, fellow blind people, if you have ideas, I'd love to hear them!
Get what I had to get. A bug zapper! I sware them things do wonders! That is unless them things get in your house or something and then I aint sure what the hell to tell you! And for someone that has kean hearing likeI do, that can hear even what we call skeeters here in Mississippi, maskeetos everywhere elce, I tell you 1 thing it's scarey as hell if your in a car or truck or something at night during the summertime and you hear a swarm of them in the damn thing and you know them damn buggers are headed straight for you and you can't do a cotton pickin thing about it! not even opening up windows will help, that just let's more in!
Hi,
We had wasps last year, some got in the house. Honestly, shooing them out the door was
the only thing I could think of doing once they were inside. However, for the dozen or so
that were around our place, nesting somewhere nearby, the answer was this hanging
plastic object that appears to them as a rival's wasp nest. It somehow causes them to
relocate to an area further away. I do not know the name of this object, but it was less
than $10 at the local Home Depot type of store. I'm sure asking the staff will get you an
answer but I will check in again the next time I am at the hardware store and post the
name if I can.
Fly spray should work. Spray it in the direction of the wasp. The wasp may go crazy. If so, spray some more but retreat from the room and wait for it to die.
Yeah, you better run like there is no tomorrow because again them jokers will
come after you! I can remember years ago when we used to have a double wide
trailer, in this 1 room which was my old one, they were so bad that in the
summer time they somehow got in through the windows or something and
there would be swarms of them everywhere inside that 1 room. My mom tried
to spray them to kill them and when she did she had to run like hell and slam
the door because they were heading strait to attack! Very scarey if you ask me
I've been stung by them before, so now I have no fear accept for the pain.
Normally if you let them alone they let you alone.
Smoke bombs to stun them, then a high pressure hose with scalding hot water.
I got stung under the arm once by 1. boy that didn't feel good at all. when I
was 6, I stept on a bumble bea, bare foot. that hurt like the dickens
I'm not sure what the spray is called, but there's a spray for wasps and yellow jackets that literally stops them in their tracks. I just spray the stuff in their general direction for about two seconds and run like hell. After about two hours they're all dead.
Oh yes, do this at night when they are all in the nest, otherwise you have to deal with the stragglers.
Bob
I've only ever been stung by a bee once. Got me on the pad of my thumb. It's said that the most painful insect sting in the world comes from the bullet ant. Lasts up to 24 hours. There's a video on youtube of a tribe in Brazil that uses intentional bullet ant stings as an initiation rite for boys. The ants are woven into gloves stinger facing inward, and the boys put the gloves on and they have to keep them on for ten minutes.
Yes, I've used that spray, but not to protect myself. They had built a nest on my house, so it was the best way to deal with it.
After I sprayed, I could pick up the nest and toss it in the trash. Pretty neat stuff.
Apparently regular water in a sprey can works to ground them, then you come on with the vacume cleaner and make them die die die die die!!!!!
Not sure I want wasps in my vacuum. Dead or alive.
Bob
I saw this vid on youtube once where some exterminator guy got called to get rid of a bea hive that was over 7 foot tall. this was somewhere in florida. When he started to do it boy did them beas ever get pist off! He had a protective sute on, but the damn thing got pinatrated. They were going all over the camera as well. Millions of beas. I wouldn't wanna be that guy, not at all!
I guess I've been stung by every nonlethal beasty that crawls. And they all hurt, but you survive.
When I was a kid I climbed this "poll" (turned out to be a tv antenna) that went up my grandparents house. At the top was an overhanging roof and a wasps nest.
I knocked the nest down, which pissed the inhabitants immensely--so much so that six of them stung my left hand. Worst pain I've ever felt.
Bob
Check it out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGIZ-zUvotM&feature=related
Omg, fucking wasps! They are very very sneaky! I was stung by one back in August or so for the first and last time in my life on the side of my head. The worst pain ever!
Seeing the suggestions here are great. Now I know what to do when I'm living alone.
Forgive me if this is a dumb question: Do they buzz?
Yes, they do buzz.
Doesn't help much. When you notice it it is usually when you are just about to get stung.
Also, making sure your windows have good screens will keep this problem to a small problem.
Good screens will keep them out, so you might never need to worry about it inside.
Yes, they are very sneaky.
As an aside, Canadian geese have been known to eat wasps and bees. Alive. How that happens, not sure, but it happens.
Hmm maybe they have some way of scraping the stinger off like the bee eaters.
interesting topic and some good suggestions have been mentioned and I remember when I was younger and there was a wasp nest on the ground and my brother kicked a ball into it and that sure did make them angry and came after us but as they took off, I just stood there as of not being able to see and I got stung in my hair by 7 of them, that sure did hurt like hell.
I don't like the sound of them or bees either but what I usually do is open a window and let them go out on there own cause if you don't bother them they won't bother you.
If you lower the pitch by an octave, it will sound like propeller planes. Haha.
Let's all buy Canadian Geese!
So, solution to problem of wasps, a canadian goose in your room.
You know, I've heard you can buy these dipped in chocolate. They say it's great protein.
Pound for pound, insect protein is supposed to be more nutritious than mammalian or avian protein.
lol all of you.
garlic works around a nest. had a nest in an old stump on my property and they soon vacated.
Oh wow. How'd you get the garlic in without getting bit though?
good question I'd be interested to hear the answer to that one too, smiles.
I'll tell you, those Canadian geese are bastards in their own rite. They might eat wasps - and realy that should tell you something - but You piss one of those off and it "will" come after you. We have them all over the place on the island where I live.
Hmm never heard of those. I've read that the Asian giant hornets have totally huge stingers and they'll come after you for no apparent reason.