Wasps nest

We had a wasps' nest right next to our back door a couple of years ago. It was there right through to October. No-one got stung. They seemed more intent on just getting in and out of the nest. If you don't swat at them they'll ignore you. They don't come back to the same nest the following year.
 
JonJon said:
We had a wasps' nest right next to our back door a couple of years ago. It was there right through to October. No-one got stung. They seemed more intent on just getting in and out of the nest. If you don't swat at them they'll ignore you. They don't come back to the same nest the following year.
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I wasn’t swatting them and I got stung, it charged me £5 for a goose gog. 🤣🤣🤣
 
Alan_Breck said:
People get stung because they try to swat them instead of just leaving them. If they settle on your arm, they'll buzz off after a few seconds as they don't like our smell or taste
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My mam used to tell us that as kids. I don’t believe it though. I’ve only been stung by wasps twice in my life, both times I didn’t even know the little sod was there until it had stung me.
 
sherlock1969 said:
My mam used to tell us that as kids. I don’t believe it though. I’ve only been stung by wasps twice in my life, both times I didn’t even know the little sod was there until it had stung me.
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Three times I’ve been stung and I also didn’t know they were there. Once walking home from school and wasp flew out of a bush and straight down my shirt, once in France off an hornet on my hand whilst taking my back pack off, it was on the strap and today picking goose gogs.
 
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Mowing the lawn today and noticed a lot of wasps around the goose gog bush again. Had a look in and there was another nest.

Went to the kitchen and got a colander and a cricket bat out of the cupboard and it certainly worked. Hopefully, they won't be back.

I've also hacked hell out of the gooseberry bush and it is half the size it use to be.
 
I can relate. I remember in the early 80s a mate and i found a wasps nest at our school. We went back that night and thought it would be a 'good idea' to ram a broom handle into it.

It was like a cartoon. A massive swarm chasing us both. Unfortunately I was a bit of a chunker back in the day. My 100m weren't great lmao. So got stung everywhere.

I'm not exaggerating. My mum had to take me to the doctors. He stopped counting at 15 stings on my head. Apparently looked like the elephant man .

I guess I should be greatful than we had a Doctors then. I'd have been told 'see you in 5-7 days' now 😂

I was meant to go to Alton Towers the next day with the youth club. I couldn't attend due to pain. So I've had a hatred of wasps since lol
 
Norman_Conquest said:
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Mowing the lawn today and noticed a lot of wasps around the goose gog bush again. Had a look in and there was another nest.

Went to the kitchen and got a colander and a cricket bat out of the cupboard and it certainly worked. Hopefully, they won't be back.

I've also hacked hell out of the gooseberry bush and it is half the size it use to be.
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Any possibility you can get yourself down to Lords tomorrow Norman and do the same to the Aussies?
 
Not sure how but once I put on a clean pair of underpants from my underwear drawer that contained a surprise wasp. Thankfully (for both parties) it was asleep on the back section of the garment and not the front (although I guess I could've used the "doctor, can you do something about the pain, but leave the swelling" for real then).
 
Currently got a colony of buff-tailed bumblebees under the eaves. Just leaving them to do their thing, they are not aggressive and very rarely sting. Love to see them wandering round the garden. Apparently the colony will only last about six weeks and then they move on.

Found what could only be politely described as two bees making sweet sweet lurve on the drive, a large bee with another one apparently amorously engaged atop. Just left them to it...
 
They'll go back to the nest in the evening and be quite dormant, hairspray and a lighter will do the trick 🙂 should be easy to bag up as an alternative, they'll die fast
 
S7DiscoDown said:
I can relate. I remember in the early 80s a mate and i found a wasps nest at our school. We went back that night and thought it would be a 'good idea' to ram a broom handle into it.

It was like a cartoon. A massive swarm chasing us both. Unfortunately I was a bit of a chunker back in the day. My 100m weren't great lmao. So got stung everywhere.

I'm not exaggerating. My mum had to take me to the doctors. He stopped counting at 15 stings on my head. Apparently looked like the elephant man .

I guess I should be greatful than we had a Doctors then. I'd have been told 'see you in 5-7 days' now 😂

I was meant to go to Alton Towers the next day with the youth club. I couldn't attend due to pain. So I've had a hatred of wasps since lol
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Funny you mention Alton Towers on a wasp related thread. I started choking as a teenager at Alton Towers, I thought it was a rogue bit of Cadburys chocolate but a woman who witnessed the event told me and my older sister a wasp flew into my mouth and I choked on that!

I have still no idea if it was a wasp or not but that’s the working theory, I doubt the lady had a reason to lie about it but if she’s fiercely anti wasp I suppose it could resemble a propaganda campaign.
 
joeydiaz said:
Funny you mention Alton Towers on a wasp related thread. I started choking as a teenager at Alton Towers, I thought it was a rogue bit of Cadburys chocolate but a woman who witnessed the event told me and my older sister a wasp flew into my mouth and I choked on that!

I have still no idea if it was a wasp or not but that’s the working theory, I doubt the lady had a reason to lie about it but if she’s fiercely anti wasp I suppose it could resemble a propaganda campaign.
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The funny thing is that it was over 30 years ago. My mums 79 and my dad's 84. Yet everytime a wasp comes in through a window etc when I'm home they tell the story 😂
 
Once spent a pleasant afternoon 'working' at my desk watching the aftermath of a gardener who had unknowingly cut through a huge wasps nest with one of those chainsaw on a pole contraptions. I was speechless and crying too much to call my colleagues in to witness the scene by the point where said unfortunate gardener was able to stop running and jumping enough to first communicate and then convince his workmate (who hadn't seen what had happened and just thought the lad had gone bats**t crazy in the sun) to hit him in the knackers with the palm of his hand until he had dislodged a couple of the more determined little yellow f**ckers from his no doubt tenderised manhood. They approached the scene of the crime a while later with all the caution of an army entering enemy territory with me an avid onlooker. Unfortunately the wasps had departed so they recovered the saw on a pole without further incident.
 
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