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After getting stung 5+ times yesterday, not a fan of them. Apparently, they leave a scent encouraging further attacks. We just happened to be doing clean up n

After getting stung 5+ times yesterday, not a fan of them. Apparently, they leave a scent encouraging further attacks. We just happened to be doing clean up near an undergrown hive.

xenadu02 7y ago
Nuke them from orbit.
wavefunction 7y ago
I have a fair amount of wasps in my vicinity: mud daubers and paper wasps mostly it seems. They're very inquisitive and curious but not necessarily belligerent. I've never had any problems with them so I generally leave them alone, though I do clean their nests off my house and shed. *One of the coolest experiences of my life spent outside was watching a tarantula hawk and tarantula engage in mortal combat right in front of my friend and I as we were sitting and relaxing in a park.
- davidw 7y ago
  The worst ones seem to be hornets/yellow jackets. They're aggressive, and want to eat anything that people have.
  - lostlogin 7y ago
    Vespex. It’s a fantastic tool for removing wasp populations and is working wonders in areas of New Zealand where wasps are really harming native insects and animals.
- wahern 7y ago
  Where I grew up as a kid you were always warned about yellowjackets, not wasps generally. Not knowing how to discern a yellowjacket I guess I was generally wary of wasps, particularly any wasp that was yellowish, but never had the mindset that all wasps were aggressive. A wasp-shaped thing that was black wouldn't have been something I'd think twice about. What sucks about yellowjackets is that they're easy to dismiss as bees. You can ignore bees; indeed, you should ignore them. Not ignoring bees is how you get stung. Yellowjackets have a reputation for being capricious. Ignoring a yellowjacket is how you get stung, not how you avoid getting stung. At least, that seemed to be the wisdom.
  - hvidgaard 7y ago
    I really don't understand how to mistake a bee for a yellowjacket - they look very different, and about the only thing they have in common are that they fly and some bees have a yellowish color that does not look like the bright yellow. They sound different, they are build quite different, and they fly differently. Just observing bees on flowers for a few minutes every day in the summer and it's obvious, at least it is to me.
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- kwhitefoot 7y ago
  It might even be better to leave the nests because they generally will not re-use a nest, for hygiene reasons apparently.
GordonS 7y ago
I got stung for the 1st time last year - it hurt way more than I expected! It felt like I'd been injected with liquid fire!
- rags2riches 7y ago
  Yes, it gets the message across doesn't it? Last time I was stung, I also noticed a strong sense of disgust after the pain was gone. I wonder if that was all in my mind or if it's another effect of the poison.
  - animal531 7y ago
    A while ago I thought the best way to clear out a small starting 3-man nest was with a broom. I was mistaken.
zerogvt 7y ago
Hundreds of them. A 20x60cm nest inside the window case. After bitten for about 10 times and trying every household spray I could fit in the opening of the case with zero results I called professional exterminators. For a hefty price they nuked the room (no idea what kind of poison they used but 4 days afterwards and it still stinks) and killed them all. My most hated thing in insect kingdom rubbing shoulders with mosquitos.
non-entity 7y ago
I had a wasp manage to get inside my home a few months back. I went up to take a quick look (it was hovering around my ceiling fan). I was too lazy to care that much, and figured I'd go get some spray after finishing a TV show. After sitting back to watch, I looked back and was surprised to see the wasp dive bombing towards me. I have no idea what I did to provoke that aggression, I had gotten closer previously, but still remained a sage distance

After getting stung 5+ times yesterday, not a fan of them. Apparently, they leave a scent encouraging further attacks. We just happened to be doing clean up near an undergrown hive.

xenadu02 7y ago

Nuke them from orbit.

wavefunction 7y ago

I have a fair amount of wasps in my vicinity: mud daubers and paper wasps mostly it seems. They're very inquisitive and curious but not necessarily belligerent. I've never had any problems with them so I generally leave them alone, though I do clean their nests off my house and shed. *One of the coolest experiences of my life spent outside was watching a tarantula hawk and tarantula engage in mortal combat right in front of my friend and I as we were sitting and relaxing in a park.

davidw 7y ago
The worst ones seem to be hornets/yellow jackets. They're aggressive, and want to eat anything that people have.
- lostlogin 7y ago
  Vespex. It’s a fantastic tool for removing wasp populations and is working wonders in areas of New Zealand where wasps are really harming native insects and animals.
wahern 7y ago
Where I grew up as a kid you were always warned about yellowjackets, not wasps generally. Not knowing how to discern a yellowjacket I guess I was generally wary of wasps, particularly any wasp that was yellowish, but never had the mindset that all wasps were aggressive. A wasp-shaped thing that was black wouldn't have been something I'd think twice about. What sucks about yellowjackets is that they're easy to dismiss as bees. You can ignore bees; indeed, you should ignore them. Not ignoring bees is how you get stung. Yellowjackets have a reputation for being capricious. Ignoring a yellowjacket is how you get stung, not how you avoid getting stung. At least, that seemed to be the wisdom.
- hvidgaard 7y ago
  I really don't understand how to mistake a bee for a yellowjacket - they look very different, and about the only thing they have in common are that they fly and some bees have a yellowish color that does not look like the bright yellow. They sound different, they are build quite different, and they fly differently. Just observing bees on flowers for a few minutes every day in the summer and it's obvious, at least it is to me.
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kwhitefoot 7y ago
It might even be better to leave the nests because they generally will not re-use a nest, for hygiene reasons apparently.

GordonS 7y ago

I got stung for the 1st time last year - it hurt way more than I expected! It felt like I'd been injected with liquid fire!

rags2riches 7y ago
Yes, it gets the message across doesn't it? Last time I was stung, I also noticed a strong sense of disgust after the pain was gone. I wonder if that was all in my mind or if it's another effect of the poison.
- animal531 7y ago
  A while ago I thought the best way to clear out a small starting 3-man nest was with a broom. I was mistaken.

zerogvt 7y ago

Hundreds of them. A 20x60cm nest inside the window case. After bitten for about 10 times and trying every household spray I could fit in the opening of the case with zero results I called professional exterminators. For a hefty price they nuked the room (no idea what kind of poison they used but 4 days afterwards and it still stinks) and killed them all. My most hated thing in insect kingdom rubbing shoulders with mosquitos.

non-entity 7y ago

I had a wasp manage to get inside my home a few months back. I went up to take a quick look (it was hovering around my ceiling fan). I was too lazy to care that much, and figured I'd go get some spray after finishing a TV show. After sitting back to watch, I looked back and was surprised to see the wasp dive bombing towards me. I have no idea what I did to provoke that aggression, I had gotten closer previously, but still remained a sage distance