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Post by MrTPenguin on Jul 1, 2005 11:50:07 GMT
The computer I worm at is in an upstairs room in my house, facing a sloping wall. Between the wall and the roof, a wasps' nest is currently being built! There is a continuous crackling noise that sounds a bit like rain. This is the fourth time wasps have targetted our house. I am one metre away from a horrible death! I've now got a good excuse for if I lose a CWT game (assuming the pest control man hasn't destroyed it by then) Zzzzzzzzzzzz... Aaaaagh! ;D
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Post by fury on Jul 1, 2005 12:57:20 GMT
Hey don't be wuss man Call the firemen or something before playing
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Post by HHC on Jul 2, 2005 0:41:18 GMT
i had one too a few years ago, just next to my room. I got kinda suspicious when i started to find dead wasps near the window almost every day. Then came the buzzing too. Decided to spent the next few days on the couch in the living room for sleeping time. Had some guy my dad knew come over to eradicate the bunch. We put the remains of the nest in a fish tank, but got rid of it because of the nasty smell and after a couple of days things started moving in the thing once again They didn't come back the year after though, so i was lucky. But yeah, they do come back to the same places quite often, not sure what is that attracts them in your house, probably something like a nice hole just below the roof ideal to build a nest, gotta check if you can't put something in front of it to prevent them from building a nest there again next year.
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Post by Teletubbies on Jul 9, 2005 16:36:45 GMT
We had a nest too a couple of years ago, they got through a tiny hole in the roof and made a huge nest in the roof. We didn't realise until one night (late) I went into our bedroom and found that the wasps had tunnelled through the bedroom ceiling. It was a bit of a shock to find several hundred ~500 dozy wasps flying around our bedroom :-) I suggested to my wife that we sleep next door ‘cos there were a few wasps in the bedroom. I emptied a can of fly killer in the room and left it until next day. It took 3 days to get all the bodies out of, draws, bedclothes, curtains, everywhere. Now I check the roof space every year just to be sure :-) I got the nest in the roof space by using a can of wasp nest destroyer, that was a bit scary, me and hundreds of wasp in 1 small dark space, I didn't get stung once though :-) Phew!
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Post by MrTPenguin on Jul 10, 2005 12:44:33 GMT
Whoa!
I was thinking a few days ago that we needn't have bothered having the wasps killed (the job was done last week by a pest control man), but in the light of your post, I'm glad we did!!
For those of you who don't know, ordinary wasps only live for one year. The central activity in the life a wasp is the building of a nest for a Queen wasp, so that she may hibernate over winter and go on to produce more wasps. I think that what might've happened in your case, Pete, is that the nest might've been finished, and the redundant wasps might've tunnelled down as part of a post-nest-contruction passing-the-time behaviour.
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Post by Crespo on Jul 10, 2005 12:50:50 GMT
For those of you who don't know wasps are closely related to ants; in fact, if you are lucky you might find a wandering lone winged ant which it might be a male or a young queen. Both of these insects belong the order Hymenoptera and while ants belong to the family Formicidae wasps belong to the family Vespidae. Biology rules...
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Post by Jigsaw on Jul 11, 2005 21:51:27 GMT
It is good to know your enemy
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Post by Crespo on Jul 12, 2005 12:47:17 GMT
Ah! MrTPlatypus if you have any plants with flowers in your computer room then you could gather some crab spiders to nail those wasps. Crab spiders (Thomisidae) are one of the fewest spider families that can easily feed on wasps and bees. They hunt by camouflage in the flowers, standing with their 2 pairs of front legs stretched on the air and when a prey passes by... Well, they usually get it. Among common spiders their venom is quite sigificant but they cannot harm humans because their quelicerae are so small that they can't penetrate the human skin. More biology!! SOME WORMERS NEED SOME WASPS NESTS IN THEIR ROOMS FOR NOT PLAYING THEIR FINAL GAMES...
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Post by Bytor on Jul 14, 2005 17:35:31 GMT
Keep a can of hair spray near your PC, U can shot them in mid air, there wings stick togeather instantly and they drop like stones.:-) Then U can step on them or do my personal favorite and carry them to the "Microwave O Doom" for a slow painfull death.
P.S. I am sure everyone knows I am trying to arrage my game. Have I ever been a problem? I am allways one of the first to finish group stage. Maybe we should all "Mass Email" the little lady. :-)
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Post by MrTPenguin on Jul 14, 2005 20:43:28 GMT
Haha! I've often wondered what microwaving an insect or a small mammal would be like. I'd do a fly or a wasp any day of the week, but I wouldn't want to get our microwave oven dirty.
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Post by Frosty on Jul 14, 2005 23:03:47 GMT
Then U can step on them or do my personal favorite and carry them to the "Microwave O Doom" for a slow painfull death. ;D That sounds like a great new weapon for the next Worms game!
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