personal best in 100td dash. In flip flops.

[vash]

a gopro vid of a wasp attack would be pretty funny.

no thanks. i was kinda scared. wasps scar me..they are like Spiders that fly!!

the night time attack thing..would have been good to know. i went in at noon!

[M.D. Holloway]

I hate hate hate spiders but wasps and bees have never bothered me in the slightest and I have been stung plenty - wasps, yellow jackets, bees...no biggy but a spider of any size allows my manhood to escape!

I maintain that spiders are not of this world...

[hardflex]

I was stung on the right ear lobe by one just a couple days ago in Waco. It hurt at first but was really no big deal.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by KC911

I'm VERY disappointed in ya Vash...I was expecting some GoPro video of a swan dive off the ladder with little girl screams and all you give us is are still pictures ?

Made me laugh.

Wasps are the bane of my existence. I carry a can of the green-can-good-anti-wasp stuff with me everywhere. Better living through chemistry.

[mikester]

[mikester]

You sure that's a wasp nest and not just some bees?

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by mikester

You sure that's a wasp nest and not just some bees?

Don't ask, don't tell

[Tervuren]

Originally Posted by john70t

Yeah, easy for you to say that.
The rest of us aren't protected by 85% scar tissue.

His advice has worked for me pretty well. All the times I've been stung I've unknowingly moved into/onto the critter. Leaned agaisnt a building wall one was sitting on, etc, reaching in bushes to pick berries and not see one taking some shade, etc.

I have had wasps/bee's crawling over me, I remain calm, and haven't gotten stung. I think if you have a specific allergic reaction in the pasts from stings, I can see it being *much* harder to be calm.

I also find when I know there is a bee/wasp in the room, that I get imaginary tingles like one is crawling on my skin. Super super annoying.

[BeeMaster]

Originally Posted by mikester

You sure that's a wasp nest and not just some bees?

Yes that is a wasps nest. Look at the comb it is made out of plant based product, wood trees. Honeybees use wax from their body's.

[BeeMaster]

Here is a piece of bees wax
It is hard to see but it has two sides, the bottom of one side is where the 3 walls of the other side come together. Witch is what makes it so much stronger and being made from wax. Oh and the reason you don't bring a light with you to spray them is if they see a light they fly to it

[Seahawk]

I accidentally chain-sawed part way through a wasps nest many years ago. Thank god it was a pole saw...which was dropped at the same time I began screaming like a wet, slippery fan belt and headed out of Dodge.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

I accidentally chain-sawed part way through a wasps nest many years ago. Thank god it was a pole saw...which was dropped at the same time I began screaming like a wet, slippery fan belt ....

That's worthy of a Vash thread . A couple of years ago, one of those nests was up in a tree at my parents' house...I was about 25' away spraying lighter fluid to start a grill....one took offense and ZAP, right on the forearm....NestNOmo.

ps: Paul, I purchased my first pole saw earlier this year (you may recall the thread)...an 8' Stihl (commercial grade)....got it home and had second doubts about my purchase. Took it back the next morning and got their top-of-the-line 13'er. It's been on hiatus for the past couple of months...injuries, and better suited to cooler weather. I've ran several tanks of gas through it though....how I EVER lived without one is . I wouldn't take a couple of grand for it now (if I couldn't replace it)

[john70t]

Originally Posted by BeeMaster

Oh and the reason you don't bring a light with you to spray them is if they see a light they fly to it

A neat trick for getting birds/insects out of the house is to turn off all the lights, close drapes and other rooms, open a window, and get them flying around.

They fly to the light.

[john70t]

I've only been stung once in the past few decades but didn't think much of it.
If I got stung a couple times away from a hive, yeah I'd probably find the source and destroy it too.
Until then I l leave them alone.
So far so good.

My garden has bumblebees, honeybees, and yellow jackets in the garage.
Never a problem.
If I'm being stalked, I just wave my hand fast like a bigger bug.
Tell them in bug language to buzz off.

Don't swat unless there is an attack happening.
If you get riled up, they smell your adrenaline and take it as a threat.

[vash]

If I didn't need to eff with them I would have left them alone. The ones flying back in went by my head as I was unscrewing the lid. Like I wasn't even there. But that alarm box needed to go.

When I pryed the inner lid open , they rushed out and I was running.