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How do you react when there's a wasp in the room with you?
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By *ickshawed OP Couple
over a year ago
Wolverhampton |
There's a wasp in the room with you. Do you ignore it? Try to get it out the window? Kill it at the first available opportunity? Run like hell and cry? And is this different from what you'd do if it was a bee?
There was one in the train carriage with us recently. I was just amazed how some people had massive screaming panics, and then killed it. Seemed a bit of an overreaction to me |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I’ve got a love for a Bee  and would absolutely treat a wasp differently. That evil
Little sh’t is going to remember me as it’s last thing whilst alive. Having suffered more than 40 stings from a swarm when I was younger, I hit back at any opportunity against their offspring. What goes around comes around.
Interestingly (maybe to some) lots of bees don’t sting) |
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By *bi HaiveMan
over a year ago
Forum Mod Cheeseville, Somerset |
"There's a wasp in the room with you. Do you ignore it? Try to get it out the window? Kill it at the first available opportunity? Run like hell and cry? And is this different from what you'd do if it was a bee?
There was one in the train carriage with us recently. I was just amazed how some people had massive screaming panics, and then killed it. Seemed a bit of an overreaction to me "
I work outdoors a lot and I'm a fucking wasp magnet.
I do the 'fuck off you bastard' dance a lot because when I'm trying to concentrate on the task at hand and one or two of the stripey yellow fuckers are flying around my face, then all I'm interested in is them pissing off as quickly as possible and hassling someone else.
If they don't fuck off then yes, I'll be looking for something to bash their little brains in as fast as possible.
Bees are different.
Wasps are just arseholes.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I encourage it towards an open window.
Now if there's a butterfly anywhere near me then I would absolutely freak out with complete irrational fear.
NBVN x |
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By *ornLordMan
over a year ago
Wiltshire and London |
"Put a cup over it, slide card under and then take it out  "
Absolutely this. That's take it out as in let it out the door, not an option if you're on one of those crappy South West trains where everything is bolted shut.
Start panicking and the wasp will sense it. It won't sting unless provoked or cornered. |
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By *ornLordMan
over a year ago
Wiltshire and London |
"Like I’ve just entered a boxing ring with ten bears. Wasps are always out to get me!
Bees however, I hold my hand out to them in the hopes they’ll come say hi. I love bees! "
Well, bees are in fact descendents of wasps. Neither is out to get you, but many people panic and that provokes panic in the insect. Another thing with wasps is that late in the summer their nests begin to run out of food so the hungry, dying wasp heads off to find some, which it usually finds in the form of fermented fruit.
So you have a hungry, dying, pissed wasp to contend with, best left alone. |
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Guide it towards a window or door. If it doesn’t want to budge, a glass over it until calmed down a bit then take it outside.
On a train, I track it but if gets to close I may move position to let it pass.
Outdoors, beer garden I’ll pour it a drink and then normally leaves you alone.
Never swipe at it as just makes them angry. |
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By *izzy.Woman
over a year ago
Stoke area |
I open a window and inform it I would like it to leave. If it takes no notice, I'll guide it out by wafting a magazine or occasionally scoop it up with said magazine and assist it out of the window. It's all calm here. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Evil little shits!
Stung one too many times to have any love for them at all.
Hairspray the lot of them, pull off their wings, then splat them with a shoe.
I know, harsh, but you asked!  |
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By *ornLordMan
over a year ago
Wiltshire and London |
"Evil little shits!
Stung one too many times to have any love for them at all.
Hairspray the lot of them, pull off their wings, then splat them with a shoe.
I know, harsh, but you asked! "
Respect - you have the ability to sting wasps! |
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"There's a wasp in the room with you. Do you ignore it? Try to get it out the window? Kill it at the first available opportunity? Run like hell and cry? And is this different from what you'd do if it was a bee?
There was one in the train carriage with us recently. I was just amazed how some people had massive screaming panics, and then killed it. Seemed a bit of an overreaction to me "
Put some strawberry jam on the back of the person in front of me |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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wasps are evil
tuppaware box and sheet of paper catch against a window.
or gas it tae fuk with a can of lynx africa..
remember at school a mate got stung in the eye.
poor bastard |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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If they’re in a bad mood they sting even if not provoked. Happened to my kid a couple of times now.
When I used to work in town if one got in my carriage on the train. I’d get off and wait for the next one to avoid the embarrassment of me screaming and flapping about.
But I don’t kill many I was always told if you kill em they give off a scent that attracts other wasps so I avoid it if I can. |
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By *ornLordMan
over a year ago
Wiltshire and London |
"If they’re in a bad mood they sting even if not provoked. Happened to my kid a couple of times now.
When I used to work in town if one got in my carriage on the train. I’d get off and wait for the next one to avoid the embarrassment of me screaming and flapping about.
But I don’t kill many I was always told if you kill em they give off a scent that attracts other wasps so I avoid it if I can. "
Read my post above about reasons why wasps might be "in a bad mood". |
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By *ustBoWoman
over a year ago
Somewhere in Co. Down |
I'll open a window usually and let it out. One of the dogs had a tendency to try and catch them so I try and get them out before he gets stung in the mouth again. He never learns. |
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"Wasp (evil) kill it
Bee (essential) make sure it get’s safely outside"
This! I can stay calm around bees as they just bimble around doing their own thing. Wasps are nasty buggers and I definitely feel instant panic. Prefer attacking with spray from a distance.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I have a fear of wasps, mainly because I watched a programme once that explained that its the second time that you get stung that you find out your allergic to them. I've been stung once. I'd run my hands through my hair and got stung by one then.
Generally I run off and squeal. But this weekend I squealed, put my hand over my mouth, god knows why, and sat still for a bit waiting for it to go. But I got up and moved before it did. But that's progress.
I once had a full on panic attack because of a wasp so it's definitely progress.
Bees I react pretty much the same but hate wasps more. I know they can sting repeatedly but bees it's different.
Stupid really over something so small.
I dread to think how I'd react to a hornet being near me. I've seen one once, through a window thankfully.
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I try to get it out a window. And if I can't I then try to clap my hands while the wasp is close
I don't like wasps but I'm afraid of moths. One can hurt you and the other is made of dust
Go figure |
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Depends on who's in the room with me. Alone I'll ignore it and open a window. If hubby's with me I'll have to get rid ASAP, hubby gets shot of spiders for me and I return the favour with wasps. My kids will have already both left the room with haste  |
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