T1B

Just got stung on the left earlobe as I was finishing up some minor shed repair in the backyard. I heard the telltale "BZZZZZZ" right near my ear, and before I could even react, the motherfucker stung me. Hurts like hell.

That's it, they're all dead. I've got six weeks and chemicals of all sorts.

Oh...it's on you useless little stinging cocksuckers!

Damn, I had a whole diatribe about how White Anglo Saxon Protestants have fucked the world over again and again.

Oh well, yeah, torch 'em MtLR, I ain't got no use for them other kind of WASPS either.

Mike the Lab Rat wrote:FRIGGING WASPS!!!

I think you just made IB climax.

better consult python.

he's been known to slaughter wasps by the bushel

From wikipedia:

Wasps are critically important in natural biocontrol. Almost every pest insect species has a wasp species that is predator or parasite upon it. Parasitic wasps are also increasingly used in agricultural pest control.

Wasps themselves do not take any nutrients from their prey. Indeed, adult wasps, much like bees, butterflies, and moths, derive all of their nutrition from nectar. Wasps paralyze their prey by injecting it with venom through their stingers. They then inject the prey with eggs; when the eggs hatch, the larvae eat the prey alive, saving the vital organs for last. They pupate inside the prey's body, and upon becoming adults, cut a hole in the prey's skin and fly out.

I was quite surprised to fink the term “cunt cookies” in wikipedia, though.

Mike the Lab Rat wrote:Just got stung on the left earlobe as I was finishing up some minor shed repair in the backyard.

Serves you right for not accepting the Gospel.

Sincerely, WaspTart

I have had my own battles with the bastards down here
over the past few years--got them AND the fire ants under control---chemical warfare is the only way to go--
out in the Cascades in WA--they had a particularly nasty
/aggressive species called the white-faced hornet
(black and white instead of the usual yellow and black)
--you'd walk along a trail in a group and the first guys would
rile the nest--and then it was run for your lives !!
Remember that the Vespids (hornets) have barbless
stingers unlike the bees (Apidae) which have barbs like a fish hook--the Vespidae can sting you multiple times like a poison injector machine gun !!
rock and roll TLR !!!

Ah, cunt cookies. Reminiscent of a better time on the Smack Boards, when people really hated each other. Happy days.

Mike the Lab Rat wrote:
I've got six weeks and chemicals of all sorts.

Now we know where the WMD's were hidden.

Sudden Sam wrote:Some kinda mutant huge wasp/yellow jacket/killer/pterodactyl-ish critter was hovering around my feet Sunday while i was reading the paper in the backyard.

Probably a Cicada killer. They typically don't sting humans unless they're fucked with. We have them here.

Don't get me started on bees/wasps/etc... Had a bad run in with those bitches at an old apartment. It was fucking on for about two months straight. I took out a shitload of them and eventually moved out after management refused to do anything about it. Fuck that place.

TTB 1: Vespidae 0
rack !!

Wolfman wrote:TTB 1: Vespidae 0
rack !!

Waaay more than one, wolf. This was the bedroom door to the patio one morning. The day I finished moving out, they finally ripped out a wall on the balcony. It was filled with a huge honeycomb and tens of thousands of bees. I should have sued their ass.

^^^^^
WHOA !!!

Sudden Sam wrote:

RadioFan wrote:

Sudden Sam wrote:Some kinda mutant huge wasp/yellow jacket/killer/pterodactyl-ish critter was hovering around my feet Sunday while i was reading the paper in the backyard.

Probably a Cicada killer. They typically don't sting humans unless they're fucked with. We have them here.

Close, but this SOB had a yellow-ish orange rear section and was close to an inch and 1/2 long. Never seen one before.

While we're on this subject, anyone seen these freaky weird things that move and look a little like hummingbirds? I looked them up once and found out it was a moth.

Found 'em!
http://www.birds-n-garden.com/hummingbird_moths.html

Those things are pretty cool. You'll sometimes hear them referred to as Sphinx Moths too. They'll even rest on your finger if you give them the opportunity to do so.

am currently waging war on three fronts.....



paper wasps are pretty much live and let live insects that don't present much problem



yellow-jackets...mean stingers with a very aggressive nature.....I've got a nest of these in one of the voids in my exterior walls....probably have to have this professionally treated



the baddest of the bad actors, bald-faced hornet......probably one of the most aggressive stinging insects there are....there's a nest of these in one of my neighbors trees (neighbors that are convieniently gone for a couple of months) but they seem to spend an inordinant amount of time gnawing on the wooden fence that seperates our property's.....I'm guessing the president of the homeowners association is going to get a call from me on this one.....

those things are nasty....

Found a paper wasp nest inside the shed I was working on yesterday. Not too big, just about four inches in diameter. Sprayed the frigging egg-heavy sac of Satan's spawn with some heavy-duty shit I bought at the Tractor Supply Company until the neurotoxin was literally dripping off the nest. As you can imagine, the mindless minions were trying to retaliate. Killed those motherfriggers also. Spent about an hour picking off the bastards as they tried to revisit their now-dead youngins. Crushed the aborted devil-seed with a garden rake. Laughed evilly with each stroke, scaring the crap out of the co-eds next door...

Next mission: the yellowjacket hole on my property line (Wolfman/Big O would be better able to tell me what they really are - they sting and they're not honeybees, so they gonna DIE!). I plan to use the traditional gasoline-"fire in the hole" method taught to me by my dad. Ah, the sound of stinging friggers popping as they stupidly fly back into the nest....

mvscal wrote:
I still hate most everybody.

RACK you!

I consider myself to be Old School, as well.

MtLR wrote:I plan to use the traditional gasoline-"fire in the hole" method taught to me by my dad

RACK you and your dad for being Old School, as well. But remember the Golden Rule -- if you dump less than a gallon in there, you're just not trying hard enough.


Yeah, yeah...I know, Dad...I'll get the hose and not tell Mom.

When I was 14 - 16 or so my first job was picking up balls on the local club's driving range, parking carts, cleaning clubs, etc. We didn't have one of those big caged tractor things pulling ball mowers, and the range was too steep for one of those anyhow. So at the end of the day I took a cart and a couple of barrels and used one of those canvas bag thingies with an aluminum tube sticking out the bottom to pick up balls and empty them into the barrels. Was supposed to park the cart and walk around getting the balls, but you know I didn't park the thing and walk much.

Pretty fun job for a kid, actually. There was a spot near the bottom that was usually wet from some kind of a spring or something and I'd regularly get going downhill as fast as I could and slam the brakes in the wet spot. That was good for a few thrills.

One day I found a yellowjacket nest in the ground. I also found a small plastic bottle of liquid OFF somewhere and my mind naturally started to work. When I finished picking up the balls on the range I drove up next to the yellowjacket hole, squeezed the OFF into it and shoved a range ball in on top to plug the thing up. Then I got the hell out of there as fast as I could. Probably pissed some of those guys off really bad.