How long can wasps remember hate/rage/rape?

[igor_kavinski]

I saw a wasp stinger going into human skin on the "That's incredible" show (I think) when I was a kid. After watching that, I make sure to stay out of a wasp's way.

 

[Torn Mind]

Maybe my skin or ears release some plant-based compounds...because one time, some bee certainly was very interested in me and literally was flying around my ear, even landing on me. I stayed still and eventually left.

Fucking Nature's terrorists.

 

[crashtech]

All one has to do is wait for nightfall, then the spray gets all of them.

 

[KidNiki1]

your use of "rape" and "revenge rape" is really off-putting to me. really poor wording, and even worse judgement.

 

[Captante]

 

[MtnMan]

Wasps like targets. Couple of weeks ago, I was working outside repairing a downspout, wearing just shorts. I must have disturbed a wasp/hornet, and the asshole stung me right on the nipple

 

[snoopy7548]

I love that guy's sting videos.

Pro-tips for anyone dealing with wasps, hornets, yellow jackets, etc...

Get one of those 1 or 2 gallon pump sprayers, fill it with water and add maybe 1/4 cup of Dawn dish soap. Mix it up and spray it on anything that comes across your path. The dish soap coats their bodies (which they breathe through) and they instantly fall to the ground, suffocate, and die. Works infinitely better than those cans of wasp spray.

For dealing with nests, get yourself some Delta Dust or Tempo Dust, and a bellow duster from domyown.com. At night, dust around the entrance of the nest. Within a couple of days the entire nest will be dead.

If you even see wasps flying around your soffits, you can dust the area and they will track it into whichever nest they came from.

 

[shortylickens]

your use of "rape" and "revenge rape" is really off-putting to me. really poor wording, and even worse judgement.

We'll do like Republicans and call it "unscheduled intercourse".

 

[balloonshark]

I think what we call a wasp around here may actually be something different. It could be a paper wasp but they look brown to me. Whatever they are I give them a wide berth. They are the meanest sonsabitches I've been around and sting you as soon as they land on you. Mud daubers don't bother me but I stay away just because they intimidating.

 

[igor_kavinski]

I've only seen the small yellow ones in my life. They hover around and when I played the game X-wing, I think the B-wings are modeled after wasps. Saw some video about Japanese wasps. They are huge! I never want to see one of those in my life.

 

[Zorba]

FYI, the Wasp spray will knock them out of midflight. But mud daubers usually aren't bitches.

My current house doesn't get near the paper wasps my previous houses got. But I do get fucking black widows in my eaves.

 

[Captante]

How long can wasps remember hate/rage/rape?

OP COULD go ahead and edit that title to remove the offensive term.

Just sayin.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

And they can walk on water!!! Or at least land on it. They'll swoop in slow, spread their feet and land, take a drink, then fly off. As long as their wings don't get wet. And even if they do, if they manage to get onto something like a leaf, they can let their wings dry off and resume attack patrol.

 

[snoopy7548]

I had a run-in with a nest of bald-faced hornets last summer. They made a nest in the bushes in front of my house, which I knew about for like a month.

I tried to give them a chance so we could live together in harmony, but one day I was mowing the lawn and got too close, and they started swarming me. One ended up stinging me on the nose.

I got my revenge later that night, and I haven't seen any since then.

 

[Zorba]

I had a run-in with a nest of bald-faced hornets last summer. They made a nest in the bushes in front of my house, which I knew about for like a month.

I tried to give them a chance so we could live together in harmony, but one day I was mowing the lawn and got too close, and they started swarming me. One ended up stinging me on the nose.

I got my revenge later that night, and I haven't seen any since then.

How did you get your revenge?

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

^^^^ Remember that whole burning bush thing????

 

[snoopy7548]

How did you get your revenge?

Put on a couple of pairs of jeans, 3 long-sleeve shirts, a few face masks, a winter hat, safety goggles, gloves, and my head-mounted red light. I found the nest in the bushes, and dusted it with Tempo Dust. I went out to check on them a few days later and there were probably ~30 dead ones on the ground, and the nest was empty.

 

[Red Squirrel]

This is another approach to take care of a nest and have fun at same time:

 

[crashtech]

Wasps won't fly at night. So it's possible to exterminate nests at night with no protective clothing and very little risk. I use cheap carb spray, the kind that may not be available in densely populated areas. It has to contain a smidge of dichloromethane, an excellent sludge dissolver (known to cause cancer in California) which kills the wasps instantly. One nice thing about solvents is that they dissipate rapidly instead of linger, the opposite of toxic pesticides.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Obviously at this point you need to spray yourself down in RAID every time you leave the house forever. A nice heavy coat, remember, its a bug killer so I'm sure you'll be fine...

 

[sdifox]

You should start taking antihistamines as part of your daily routine. It might save your life.

 

[Captante]

Wasps won't fly at night.

The literally 100's of 24-hour flying hornets buzzing around all night from that nest by my old office would like a word!

Seriously wasps won't/can't fly when they can't see, BUT copious amounts of human-provided outdoor lighting or natural events like a really bright full-moon can allow them to come after you full-blast just like the sun was shining!

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

They won fly when it's too cool though ... because they can't. If you happen to live in an area when nightime temps sometimes fall into the 50s .... you may have a chance just before Dawn.

I've watched those red ones stumbling around, barely able to move on cool mornings.

 

[Shmee]

And they can walk on water!!! Or at least land on it. They'll swoop in slow, spread their feet and land, take a drink, then fly off. As long as their wings don't get wet. And even if they do, if they manage to get onto something like a leaf, they can let their wings dry off and resume attack patrol.

OMG, it is Jesus wasp! I like bees and wasps, they are pretty and cute little bugs. When I was a kid I was at a picnic on a campground, and there were yellow jackets. I think they wanted some BBQ chicken. So I let them land in my hand and they nomed on the chicken, and then they nibbled a little on my hand with their mandibles, it didn't hurt, just tickled a bit. They were nice and we called them nibblesome.