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over a year ago
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"If they are so clever to find their nests and hives after flying 100s of metres from them, how come they can't find their way out of the window they just flew in  "
A very valid point - and not one that just confuses the bees/wasps!
I went to buy a wasp at a pet shop last week. The shop assistant looked really confused and said they didn't stock them. Had to lodge a complaint with the manager as they definately had 2 in the window the day before!!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Yeah had a bee fly in the other day, and could it find its way out again, could it hell. Managed to get it back outside with a pint glass and piece of card. If it was a wasp I would have just swatted the Bugger with a newspaper. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"If they are so clever to find their nests and hives after flying 100s of metres from them, how come they can't find their way out of the window they just flew in
A very valid point - and not one that just confuses the bees/wasps!
I went to buy a wasp at a pet shop last week. The shop assistant looked really confused and said they didn't stock them. Had to lodge a complaint with the manager as they definately had 2 in the window the day before!! "
That's so bad it's actually really funny |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Yeah had a bee fly in the other day, and could it find its way out again, could it hell. Managed to get it back outside with a pint glass and piece of card. If it was a wasp I would have just swatted the Bugger with a newspaper. "
I do it the other way round. If you swat a wasp and don't kill it, it gets up and kicks your fookin head in, but if you do that to a bee it just kinda looks at you a bit wierd and say, "What did you do that for? You bloody KNOW I've only got one sting and I wasn't gonna waste it on you, ya twat!"  |
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By *G LanaTV/TS
over a year ago
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Wasps shouldn't be too much of a problem this time of year, their usually far too busy preying on other pesky insects. It at the end of the year once they get at the fermenting apple's that they become erratic but don't we all if we've hit the cider.
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should NEVER kill a bee, wasps are fair game, however.
i think it has to do with thier vision in that they cant recognise the glass element, and think they are flying into an open space.
so its actually labours fault for you having windows. lol |
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By *aucy3Couple
over a year ago
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"should NEVER kill a bee, wasps are fair game, however.
i think it has to do with thier vision in that they cant recognise the glass element, and think they are flying into an open space.
so its actually labours fault for you having windows. lol"
don't worry,the conservatives will soon solve that problem. |
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By *odareyouMan
over a year ago
not far from iceland,,,,,, tescos is nearer though :-) (near leeds) |
I might be wrong isn't it the male bees that forage .. if it is its obvious,,
they won't ask for directions everyone knows that..
Look after the bees , they're in decline , Einstein reckoned that without bees mankind would die out in about a decade .. . Apparently he got it wrong science now thinks its more like 7 years.
Wasps have there place in nature as well, annoying the fek out of my ex... go get her boys.. . |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Look out through your nearest window. Then go outside and stand the same distance away from it and try to look in through it. You should find its much easier to see out than see in. With this, bees/wasps etc tend to fly in through an open window by mistake. But like us they can see out easier than they can see in but do not have superior enough sight like us humans do to see the glass.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"If they are so clever to find their nests and hives after flying 100s of metres from them, how come they can't find their way out of the window they just flew in "
Because they are clever have you seen the inside of their house |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Wasps are very important as they clean things up. Dead insects and other stuff, not technical i know and i hate wasps but evidently they are very important.... |
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Most wasp species are predators. Their function is in the control of many other insect species. They are actually very effective parasitoids, and because of this efficiency they have been used for decades as biological control agents. Many crop pests including horn worms and scale insects which cost millions of pounds in annually controlled by wasps. Without these predators, tomatoes, oranges, tobacco, and many other important crops would be so scarce that the price of them would skyrocket. Their method of efficiency is that they will lay one egg on the back of a caterpillar, through the process of polyembrony, the egg multiplies itself, producing hundreds of larvae. These larvae hatch, kill the caterpillar, and pupate. Once development completed, the newly formed wasps will emerge and go out in search of their own caterpillar to deposit eggs on. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I'm a big fan of wasps and bees, particularly bumble bees, they are so cute, and how do they manage to fly ? Have you seen the shape of them ffs  .
Wasps are ok too, but the little bastards will sting you just because they can. At least bees are a bit more reserved in the stinging department because after they've stung, they die, so they are onto a loser straight way compared with wasps.
I've often found a bumble bee in the late evening just crawling around the floor drowsy like, so what I do is let it crawl onto my hand until it warms up, then it flies away result! one happy bumble bee, one wife cringing and saying, "Bob are you fucking stupid" |
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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago
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"I'm a big fan of wasps and bees, particularly bumble bees, they are so cute, and how do they manage to fly ? Have you seen the shape of them ffs .
Wasps are ok too, but the little bastards will sting you just because they can. At least bees are a bit more reserved in the stinging department because after they've stung, they die, so they are onto a loser straight way compared with wasps.
I've often found a bumble bee in the late evening just crawling around the floor drowsy like, so what I do is let it crawl onto my hand until it warms up, then it flies away result! one happy bumble bee, one wife cringing and saying, "Bob are you fucking stupid" "
i do the same with bees bob its to do with when there cold they cant fly or so i was told by a bee keeper. this was during some aversion therapy after standing in a waspsnest and getting stung over 20 times including 7 times inside my ear (had to have the bugger syringed out) the girl who was behind me running throuh the orchard was stung over 150 times and had to have treatment in a A&E we were both 8yo at the time
i kill every wasp i ever see without fail bees on the ther hand ............ |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I'm a big fan of wasps and bees, particularly bumble bees, they are so cute, and how do they manage to fly ? Have you seen the shape of them ffs .
Wasps are ok too, but the little bastards will sting you just because they can. At least bees are a bit more reserved in the stinging department because after they've stung, they die, so they are onto a loser straight way compared with wasps.
I've often found a bumble bee in the late evening just crawling around the floor drowsy like, so what I do is let it crawl onto my hand until it warms up, then it flies away result! one happy bumble bee, one wife cringing and saying, "Bob are you fucking stupid" i do the same with bees bob its to do with when there cold they cant fly or so i was told by a bee keeper. this was during some aversion therapy after standing in a waspsnest and getting stung over 20 times including 7 times inside my ear (had to have the bugger syringed out) the girl who was behind me running throuh the orchard was stung over 150 times and had to have treatment in a A&E we were both 8yo at the time
i kill every wasp i ever see without fail bees on the ther hand ............"
Wow! no wonder you needed some aversion therapy,that must have been awful! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'm a big fan of wasps and bees, particularly bumble bees, they are so cute, and how do they manage to fly ? Have you seen the shape of them ffs .
Wasps are ok too, but the little bastards will sting you just because they can. At least bees are a bit more reserved in the stinging department because after they've stung, they die, so they are onto a loser straight way compared with wasps.
I've often found a bumble bee in the late evening just crawling around the floor drowsy like, so what I do is let it crawl onto my hand until it warms up, then it flies away result! one happy bumble bee, one wife cringing and saying, "Bob are you fucking stupid" i do the same with bees bob its to do with when there cold they cant fly or so i was told by a bee keeper. this was during some aversion therapy after standing in a waspsnest and getting stung over 20 times including 7 times inside my ear (had to have the bugger syringed out) the girl who was behind me running throuh the orchard was stung over 150 times and had to have treatment in a A&E we were both 8yo at the time
i kill every wasp i ever see without fail bees on the ther hand ............"
I want to know what you and a girl were doing in an orchard at 8yo You Naughty Naughty Boy
Stung inside the ear .... Ouch !!!!!!! |
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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago
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"I'm a big fan of wasps and bees, particularly bumble bees, they are so cute, and how do they manage to fly ? Have you seen the shape of them ffs .
Wasps are ok too, but the little bastards will sting you just because they can. At least bees are a bit more reserved in the stinging department because after they've stung, they die, so they are onto a loser straight way compared with wasps.
I've often found a bumble bee in the late evening just crawling around the floor drowsy like, so what I do is let it crawl onto my hand until it warms up, then it flies away result! one happy bumble bee, one wife cringing and saying, "Bob are you fucking stupid" i do the same with bees bob its to do with when there cold they cant fly or so i was told by a bee keeper. this was during some aversion therapy after standing in a waspsnest and getting stung over 20 times including 7 times inside my ear (had to have the bugger syringed out) the girl who was behind me running throuh the orchard was stung over 150 times and had to have treatment in a A&E we were both 8yo at the time
i kill every wasp i ever see without fail bees on the ther hand ............
I want to know what you and a girl were doing in an orchard at 8yo You Naughty Naughty Boy
Stung inside the ear .... Ouch !!!!!!!"
playing hide and seek !   |
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By *G LanaTV/TS
over a year ago
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"Bees and wasps. My biggest fear, might be because i'm allergic to the things. "
It's very rare thankfully to be allergic to both bee and wasp stings, something I wad very glad of when I had a hive. I ended up with a wasp nest close to the hive and inevitably got stung, by a wasp and reacted fairly severley.
Interestingly there is anecdotal evidence that beekeepers suffer far lower rates of arthritis which has been suggested may be due to the periodic stings. |
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By *evilwolfCouple
over a year ago
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"If they are so clever to find their nests and hives after flying 100s of metres from them, how come they can't find their way out of the window they just flew in "
If bees & wasps had invented glass, it would have had hexagonal escape holes, and probably been opaque too...
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you should see the wasps they have in cyprus the come in to your kitchen and steal the cat food they especially liked the big meaty chunks in gravy
our two cats soon learned to let them have it "vets are more expensive over there too" |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Bumblebees don't die when they sting, that's a common misconception. There are bees with hooks on their stingers, they die if they sting, but not bumblebees. oh and it's only the girls who sting
...dunno how to tell them apart though.  |
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