Yesterday was a dangerous day for me.

[Stealhead]

Originally Posted by Red October1984

There's a hole in the edge of the eaves over the garage where I swear, up to 200 wasps live at a time. Sometimes during the summer, you can catch about 50 of them at a time sitting out on the eave.

Can of Raid usually does the trick. But they just....keep...coming....BACK!

I posted two pictures back in July of when I got stung...when my one ear was like 3 times bigger than the other.



Which makes them perfect for practical jokes...or if you just really don't like somebody.

I wouldn't let it loose in somebody's car...but there are other things you can do with a wasp to scare somebody.



+1

And they sting when you least expect it...and for me, at first you don't know what the hell has got you...but then it immediately starts hurting like you (in my case) lost an ear.

Not allergic to them...but I hate them. Managed to escape getting stung most of my life...only been stung a couple times...which is surprising considering how many of them are around. I don't attract wasps...I attract mosquitoes.

I think Wasps and Mosquitoes are the two of the most useless animals on earth.

Kind of a risky prank though if the person is allergic.Better hope an EpiPen is near by.Some people are so allergic even ant bites will cause a reaction those types they could die from one wasp sting.Cool thing about the EpiPen is that medical device is around thanks to military technology it is an auto injector and those where fist used (and still are) my the military only in the to inject nerve agent antidotes well at least enough to keep you from dying right away the good old Mark I NAAK and the ATNAA.Now they have EpiPens for allergies and to also for insulin.

The best thing is the special spray for wasps and bees it allows you to stand 20 or 30 feet away and spray and it is nearly instant in killing them.

Wasps kill caterpillars and locusts and spiders so to me they do have a good use you just do not want to mess with them.Actually they paralyze the prey and then they take it to their nest and the larva slowly eat it. Every once in a while I happen across a wasp vs. spider fight pretty brutal one is going to win and one going die and it can go either way.I watched a Wolf Spider loose to a huge female wasp this summer I thought for sure the Wolf spider got her but she lost and the wasp managed to kit in one fatal hit then it just grabbed the paralyzed body and flew away.

The one you want to avoid is the Velvet Ant really it is a flightless wasp the females(in Hymenoptera order females are always bigger and badder) are flightless and have no wings so they got the name Velvet Ant because they look like a really large ant with red velvet covering it.Well they have a very painful sting the strongest in North America.

Mosquitoes I guess they are around to spread disease to control populations of other animals also lots of other animals eat mosquitoes or their larva so they do serve some purpose.


I wonder sometimes what is the purpose of humans to be honest we seem to be the most harmful species.It is a good thing other animals lack the cognitive ability to see us as the threat that we are.