Wasps!!

[apbremer]

Once again I start my annual tedious battle against these pests. Killed five this am already. Where do they come from as windows still closed? Some are already dying before I give 'em the coup de grace. Have they over wintered inside?

[steveo]

There's a nest in the roof probably. I see them in my place at all times of the year and they are invariably big and sluggish.

They aren't really pests; they don't seem to have the energy to fly or sting. I chuck them out usually.

I was stung quite badly as a kid but that was because I was throwing stones into their nest and deserved it. I've grown to quite like wasps now except when they're after your ice cream. Their paper nests are rather beautiful

[Jules-and-Boo]

if you get a wasp sting, vinegar relieves it amazingly well.

[Saffron]

The sting is an oily prorein. Never tried vinegar, but washing up liquid works. xx

[Alan Medic]

I noticed that a wasp seemed to have set up home in the brickwork outside our front door. I presume he/she isn't on their own. As I too considered them to be pests I decided to look up what purpose they serve, if any. This made interesting reading.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2748653/Why-learn-love-WASPS-They-ve-vanished-summer-But-s-shouldn-t-celebrate-writes-STEVE-BACKSHALL.html

[dirac]

Alan Medic Wrote:

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> I noticed that a wasp seemed to have set up home

> in the brickwork outside our front door. I presume

> he/she isn't on their own. As I too considered

> them to be pests I decided to look up what purpose

> they serve, if any. This made interesting

> reading.

>

> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-274

> 8653/Why-learn-love-WASPS-They-ve-vanished-summer-

> But-s-shouldn-t-celebrate-writes-STEVE-BACKSHALL.h

> tml

Decent read, thanks. Never had a problem with them really, but didn't know the bit about aphids/blackfly. Will look even more fondly on them when my runner beans are infested with blackfly ha.