Global warming

[Bobby G]

Carbon footprints, melting polar ice-caps, fossil fuels running out, depletion of the ozone layer, scarcity of natural resources, ever-increasing populations, major ocean currents changing course, ever-more frequent freak weather, el nino, tsunamis, hurricanes.

All of these things I can cope with, but right now there's a bloody wasp in my bedroom 😱

Cheers, Bob

 

[mfox]

last summer we had a wasps nest in the eves right outside our 2 year old sons bedroom..he wasn't well and was sleeping with us fortunately, when i iwent in the morning there must have be at least 200 of the things in there..retokill man said we were very lucky..

 

[Linky Lee]

We had a hornets nest in our shed at the back of our garden last summer....


... needless to say I spent many an hour inside playing my saxes! I've noticed a severe decrease in my saxophone practise and an increase in my sun burn since they were exterminated.

So in conclusion, if you want to be the best, get yourself a hornets nest.

 

[RedBottom]

Takes me back to something that happened to a colleague a few years ago. He'd taken his two year old along to his new allotment to 'help' with the digging. They managed to disturb a huge underground wasps' nest, and before they knew it the little one was covered in the things.

Having somehow managed to get her clear of the wasps and sustaining quite a few stings himself, he rushed her to A & E. After a very thorough examination, the child was released the same day with nothing more than a couple of stings. The doctors reckoned the reason she wasn't stung more was because, being too young to see any danger, she'd just stood there and let them settle on her.

 

[Bobby G]

I guess these stories put my wasp-in-the-bedroom tale into some kind of perspective, but really, a wasp, first eek in April???

Is there any more pointless creature than a wasp?

Cheers, Bob

 

[Pete Thomas]

After 7 days in Texas i can vouch forn the pointlessness of the fire ant

 

[RedBottom]

Bobby G wrote:Is there any more pointless creature than a wasp?

I think the cranefly would be a good contender. They can't fly very well (which is why they fly into your face, apparently), and all they do is destroy turf and have sex on my workroom window.

 

[Linky Lee]

Hi, Pete nice to see you back, hope it was a good trip!

Bob, I had two yesterday 😱

Needless to say I immediately dived for cover whilst my fearless friend managed to bravely release it.

I like a good old fat bumble bee, they're lovely little things, but wasps.. yuck! No qualms about exterminating that race, I think wasp and mosquitoes have to be high up on the pointless animals list.

 

[jambo]

I agree with Linky There!

 

[Rogerb]

Wasps are generally regarded as a friend of the gardener:
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Wasps usually eat insects, which are mainly garden or household pests. They also feed on dustbin waste and animal carcasses.

So there *is* a point to wasps 😀

 

[Bobby G]

Thanks for that Roger. I just wonder why, with quite a big garden full of no doubt tasy and juicy wasp-fodder right outside my bedroom window the wasp needed to worm it's way (nice mixed metaphor, I think you'll agree) into the barren waste in terms of wasp sustenance that is my bedroom.

I like crane flies, though!

Cheers, Bob

 

[Bobby G]

Double post oops

 

[mfox]

i actually like the things.. we have pear and plum trees so the are part of the package..
incidently i've never been stung by a bee or wasp in all my life.

 

[Pete Thomas]

Linky_Lee wrote:
Hi, Pete nice to see you back, hope it was a good trip!

I'm still in Texas, back home in the sun on Thursday