Re: Wasps

by Nightjar Sun Jun 18, 2023 4:11 pm

It looked a lot like this (with the very narrow thorax).

Wasps - Page 3 Paper-wasp

A red paper wasp.

by Nightjar Sun Jun 18, 2023 4:22 pm

I was all like this...

Wasps - Page 3 GjWKQIc

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sun Jun 18, 2023 4:37 pm

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sun Jun 18, 2023 4:38 pm

by Fangirl Three Wed Aug 09, 2023 1:43 pm

There are wasps in the guttering of my parents' house! llama

Outside my teenage bedroom window! siren

I've had to relocate to the small guest room at the back! dontpanic

Which was also my bedroom during an even earlier era! hot hot hot

by cosmictanya Wed Aug 09, 2023 1:48 pm

I spare no mercy for wasps. Last week there were three! having a fight in a lampshade. One longish spray of some highly lethal but pleasantly scented aerosol was all it took.

by Fangirl Three Thu Apr 25, 2024 1:33 pm

A huge wasp suddenly appeared in my room! It must have flown in when I had the window open earlier.

I sprayed it with anti-fungal spray, which was all I had to hand, and scooped it out of the window.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Apr 25, 2024 2:53 pm

You've now created a super-wasp with mega-fungal resistance. scared

by Fangirl Three Thu Apr 25, 2024 4:06 pm

Precisely why I hurried out to Home Bargains and bought some proper insecticide. I need better weapons to fight it if it returns.

by cosmictanya Thu Apr 25, 2024 7:02 pm

Funny you should say that. The largest bee I’ve ever seen was in my living room last week. I opened the window as wide as possible but it must’ve been in a panic so it wouldn’t leave. I had to make a tent with the curtains and a roll of sellotape so it couldn’t back into the room, then twist the voile the opposite way round, standing on a chair to stop it from keeping flying/climbing into the twist at the top.

My aim was to get it to stop panicking long enough to calm down and notice the way out was right there. Finally it did, my efforts worked, and it flew out and off into the afternoon.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:08 pm

by Nightjar Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:11 pm

See, Countess, no need to panic and murder our little bewinged pals.

Just some patience and a calm head...

I disapprove of killing insects (other than wool moths).

by Fangirl Three Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:40 am

I have never killed a bee in my life. Wasps are a different matter. box

by Butterfield Sat Apr 27, 2024 12:43 am

cosmictanya wrote:then twist the voile

AKA net curtain. aristojar

by cosmictanya Sun Apr 28, 2024 2:52 am

Butterfield wrote:
cosmictanya wrote:then twist the voile

AKA net curtain.

How dare you. I got my voile from the warrant holder to QEII. The very same stuff hangs at Buckingham Palace. Not everywhere supplies the lengths required for my ceiling to floor height but they did. It was only meant to be a stopgap after the white muslin that had been up tore in the wash, but it’s been quite a few years now. It withstands discolouring better than the muslin, so it requires less frequent laundering. The only thing I don’t like is the sheen in the sun.

by Nightjar Sun Apr 28, 2024 9:52 am

cosmictanya wrote:
Butterfield wrote:
cosmictanya wrote:then twist the voile

AKA net curtain.

white muslin

AKA old bedsheet. aristojar

by Butterfield Mon Apr 29, 2024 1:26 am

cosmictanya wrote:white muslin

by cosmictanya Wed May 01, 2024 9:35 am

I used to see her everywhere.

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