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What Would You Have Done With This Wasp ?

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  • 11-04-2015 2:21am
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    Bongalongherb
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    There I was, sitting in front of the computer watching a tutorial on how to install a new distributor for my car . Trying to take all the information in to my brain, and all I could hear was the really loud buzzing sound of a wasp at my ear.

    I had the earphones on at the time but no music playing, and I thought the buzzing was from the earphones, but then I saw this big-ass wasp crawling from the rim of my hat onto my eye.

    Well, I can be normally relaxed in extreme environments, but this wasp caught me off-guard and as such I jumped up from the computer chair and flayed my arms and swiped at my hat trying to disengage this wasp from my face.

    The wasp was ok as I just swiped it from the rim of my hat close to my eye, so it was ok and landed on the ground, slowly making its way up the radiator struggling in a tired state.

    I could see this little feller was out of energy as it was trying to climb but kept falling down and onto its side.

    I decided to feed this wasp watered sugar as I had done a couple of years back and give him the energy to go about its business outside. You mix a finger-nail amount of sugar to water and spill it in-front of the wasp and it will go for it and eat it, and after 10 minutes it will fly off.

    My question to you is... Would you help a wasp, or would you just kill it ?

    Will you get stung by a wasp this summer ? I'd doubt it unless you wave your hands and arms about.



    If you ever see a bee on the ground that can't fly, then give it watered sugar and after 8/10 minutes it will have the energy to fly off.
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    Guffy
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    Bongalongherb wrote: »



    If you ever see a bee on the ground that can't fly, then give it watered sugar and after 8/10 minutes it will have the energy to fly off.

    It'll have the energy to fly erratically around you with no purpose no matter how fast you run serving no purpose but to scare the bejaysus out of you


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    Dozer Dave
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    What porn were you watching?


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    FueledbyCoffee
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    If it was a wasp I'd have to kill the fecker, they're evil.

    I would help a bee though.


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    The Diabolical Monocle
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    same reaction as yourself op, with the flailing and the spinning and the soiling.

    dont think I'd be nursing the wasp though, likely catch it with a glass and bit of paper and feck it out the window while cursing it.

    ill do the water sugar thing with the next available knackered bee though.


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    Bongalongherb
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    I'll always help a wasp myself. They are not as bad as folk think. Waving your hands and arms around will make them agitated and might sting a person. Stick one on your arm and give it a rub on the back of its neck they love that.


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    The Backwards Man
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    Kill wasps, save bees.


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    Bongalongherb
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    The Diabolical Monocle wrote: »
    same reaction as yourself op, with the flailing and the spinning and the soiling.

    dont think I'd be nursing the wasp though, likely catch it with a glass and bit of paper and feck it out the window while cursing it.

    ill do the water sugar thing with the next available knackered bee though.

    Definitely. The bee is a heavy feller and they run out of energy if they get lost, and this is when you see them crawling on the ground and cannot fly. The mix of sugar and water mixed well will fix them up perfectly.

    it takes 8/10 minutes for the bee to digest it into themselves and usually you will see one wing flap like a rotor, then the next 5 seconds you will see the other wing flap... 10 seconds after that you will see it fly off.


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    Kermit.de.frog
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    At least you're getting a buzz out of it OP.


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    Dozer Dave
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Kill wasps, save bees.

    They are all gods creatures now tbm show some compassion.


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    artanevilla
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    I have an awful phobia of wasps. Leave me squealing like a little girl and whimpering. Please kill it for me.

    Here's some important information that may help you decide.

    https://beesfromtheox.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/funny-graphs-graphjam-so-much-evil-in-such-a-little-thing.png


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    Bongalongherb
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    artanevilla wrote: »
    I have an awful phobia of wasps. Leave me squealing like a little girl and whimpering. Please kill it for me.

    Here's some important information that may help you decide.

    https://beesfromtheox.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/funny-graphs-graphjam-so-much-evil-in-such-a-little-thing.png

    There's many arse-daggers in government so I think the humble wasp is worthy of a break compared to the arse-daggers we have to bow to.

    The poor wasp gets a lot of stick.

    Just remember the solution to look after the bee. Water and sugar is all it needs. And 10 minutes for it to fly away. :)


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    MadDog76
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    Wasps, bees, spiders, flies .......... I kill 'em all and let God sort them out!!!


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    the evasion_kid
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    Massive wasp hovering around me last week so I backhanded him straight in the forehead and he landed in the dogs dish of water....the funniest part was he landed on his back in it and was trying to fly but just kept going around in theses speedy circles :pac:


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    Bongalongherb
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    MadDog76 wrote: »
    Wasps, bees, spiders, flies .......... I kill 'em all and let God sort them out!!!

    But wouldn't you be a God to them ? seeing that you have the choice to kill them and remove them from existence ?.


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    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo
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    Obviously I'd just need some matches and lots of petrol once it got to the "it's too late, it's in the same room as me stage". Once the wasp is engulfed in flames it'd be time to wake the kids up and get them out of the house. Then a long night drive to the ferry port to get to continental Europe.

    Only God or the cars GPS can guide us from then on...:(


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    Bongalongherb
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    the evasion_kid wrote: »
    Massive wasp hovering around me last week so I backhanded him straight in the forehead and he landed in the dogs dish of water....the funniest part was he landed on his back in it and was trying to fly but just kept going around in theses speedy circles :pac:

    It's actually what most folk do when a wasp buzzes around your head, but they are just checking you out because you are close-by a wasps nest. They are just watchers/protectors of the nest, and if you get close or near it they will suss you out, but they will not sting you unless you flap your arms around.

    Let them check you out and ignore them and they will go away. Always worked for me.


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    artanevilla
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    Bongalongherb wrote: »
    There's many arse-daggers in government so I think the humble wasp is worthy of a break compared to the arse-daggers we have to bow to.

    The poor wasp gets a lot of stick.

    Just remember the solution to look after the bee. Water and sugar is all it needs. And 10 minutes for it to fly away. :)

    Government folk can only move along the ground. Wasps move IN 3D.


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    Bongalongherb
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    artanevilla wrote: »
    Government folk can only move along the ground. Wasps move IN 3D.

    Scientifically speaking, you are correct.


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    MarkAnthony
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    Bongalongherb wrote: »
    There I was, sitting in front of the computer watching a tutorial on how to install a new distributor for my car .

    Well, I can be normally relaxed in extreme environments,

    I decided to feed this wasp watered sugar as I had done a couple of years back and give him the energy to go about its business outside.

    Thinly veiled I'm a cross between Mr T. Chuck Norris and a **** Dr. Dolittle thread.

    Relaxed in extreme environments, lol like what? Tallaght?


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    Bongalongherb
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    MarkAnthony wrote: »
    Thinly veiled I'm a cross between Mr T. Chuck Norris and a **** Dr. Dolittle thread.

    Relaxed in extreme environments, lol like what? Tallaght?

    Welcome to Dublin 4 :)

    A good mix of the above is not bad in reality... Do you not think. ?.


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    MadDog76
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    Bongalongherb wrote: »
    But wouldn't you be a God to them ? seeing that you have the choice to kill them and remove them from existence ?.

    Nah ............. I'm the Grim Reaper! :)


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