!!wasps!! In Lofts

[Woosh]

Wasps are yellow and black

Honeybees are orange and black (mainly)

[satsuma01]

Wasps are yellow and black

Honeybees are orange and black (mainly)

[DAVE IN KENT]

just finished a big install yesterday i was working in the first and was happily waiting for a 8 core to be poked up when i herd a buzzing behind me, look round to see possibly the biggest wasp i have ever seen buzzing around my wonder light. needless to say got out pretty quick.

now the confession about an hour later got my trainee to go up and clip the cable and retrive the light (no mention of the killer wasp). needless to say whilst wiring the panel i hear a rather girly scream as he jumps out the loft screaming there is a massive wasp up there. Got the light and cables cliped though.

[satsuma01]

nowt to do with alarm system more electricity, was wiring a fused spur in an airing cupboard in a ladies house 2 weeks back and happily connecting the shower pump cable up when i heard a buzzing go round the side and back of my head, looked up wards and to my horror this huge wasp/hornet was flying directly towards me at lightning speed needless to say i didnt stay there i jump up ducked under the ladders got to the top of the stairs and this wasp / hornet was hovering above the b****y stairs i shouted a few choice words at it and it flew up onto the light fitting, now this is the funny part the stairs became a spring board jumped down the stairs and informed the home owner that she needed to get rid of that flying insect before any further could be carried out, so off she trots wasp spray in 1 hand and fly swatter in other 5 minutes later down she came with a rather flat and sorry looking thing stuck to the fly swatter.

never been so scared in all my life, ps this was a true incident from a couple of weeks ago while carrying out a consumer unit upgrade and shower cable replacement job in the local area.

[SUBS]

Bit like my mouse with wings ......watch out Roy cropperCant believe this threads spreads 2 yearsmuz

Must get some new glasses, looked like 2006 to me............who's roy cropper ?

[fertilebert]

I hate wasps , and do my utmost to avoid them, however top tip , if you see an old wasps nest in a loft , or your own loft , leave it alone, as they never build a nest in a site where there has been one previously, simirlarly if you are worried about wasps targeting your house , you can actually buy imitation wasps nests, if you hang one of these up by the eaves of your house , bingo you will not be troubled.

[Guest RJBsec]

I hate wasps , and do my utmost to avoid them, however top tip , if you see an old wasps nest in a loft , or your own loft , leave it alone, as they never build a nest in a site where there has been one previously, simirlarly if you are worried about wasps targeting your house , you can actually buy imitation wasps nests, if you hang one of these up by the eaves of your house , bingo you will not be troubled.

Interesting - anyone else seen more than on nest in a loft?

[Rulland]

Hi All, Many years ago when living in Telford my son and I used to take our dog out for a walk-he at the time only being 12 or so-And we had a certain 'bench' we were used to sitting on and exercising the dog.

The 'bench' was very well used-we went there near enough every night to throw sticks etc for our pooch.

To break up the monotony of playing 'fetch' every night with the dog my son, Sam, decided to bring a football along and practice his skills-Good idea I thought 'save him getting bored'.

We had been down the 'bench' on numerous occasions playing with the dog and the football prior to the night that forced us to stay away for a long time!.

Picture this-A lovely summers evening-nice and warm-the dogs running around-Sams got a stick as kids do and is walloping the football-what can go wrong!.

Doggy chases ball into an unserspecting hedge thing, and it disappears underneath-dog does then what most dogs do-gives up and goes to smell other dogs 'left behinds'.

Meanwhile whilst I am sitting quite contented reading the newspaper on the 'bench', my son, Sam decides to locate the ball in the hedge with a stick.

I recall him saying "come on if you think your hard enough"-as he rummaged around under this hedge with his stick-attempting to located the dogs ball.

I still can't quite believe what happened next, and it still to this day sets my hairs on edge when I think about it.

Whilst reading the newspaper I became semi-aware of some sort of not natural disturbance in the near vicinity-Sam sort of ran towards me muttering various things-which wasn't unusual for him anyway!, then the mutterings turned into shouts and very quickly then into screams-all this happened within about 10 seconds and when I looked towards him there was a 'cloud' following.

The bees under the hedge that he had disturbed were well pi**ed off-I grabbed discarded chip wrappers etc and tried to beat the buggers away-but they kept on coming-we ran about 1/4 mile up the road and they followed us-when eventually we thought we had cleared them I tore Sams T-shirt off-cos he was screaming-there were bees all under it-he had been stung about 50 times, and me around 30.

I will never forget that night-when we dragged ourselves home my wife couldn't believe the stings on us both.

Sam is now 16-but I only have to say 'come on if you think your hard enough' and it takes him and me right back to that night many years ago-scary or what !!.

We are now living in North Wales but do return to Telford to do rewires etc-last time we went he had to go to see if the 'bench' was still there-sadly or not possibly! it has been removed.

Richard.

[hpotter]

Managed to pull a bell wire through a large pink (assume wasps not bees) nest once (it was winter). The owner had stored newspapers in the loft, financial times among others. I thought all the workers were boys.

Do they die or do they hibernate?

And I have another question.

Few months ago during fire alarm service, one detector had dead wasp in base. They had eaten through fire rated foam. Why do they like the foam?

[arfur mo]

Managed to pull a bell wire through a large pink (assume wasps not bees) nest once (it was winter). The owner had stored newspapers in the loft, financial times among others. I thought all the workers were boys.

Do they die or do they hibernate?

And I have another question.

Few months ago during fire alarm service, one detector had dead wasp in base. They had eaten through fire rated foam. Why do they like the foam?

they think is old fashion beer - with a good head on it

i think it is similar in texture to wood and confuses them, so they take some of it for the nest.

regs

alan