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babyjane

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the difference between bees and wasps
« on: August 10, 2015, 02:32:03 PM »
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CLKD

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Re: the difference between bees and wasps
« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2015, 03:22:03 PM »
WRONG!

Wasps eat aphids and clear up corpses - put a piece of raw steak away from the BarBQ and watch one gnaw at it, taking large pieces to carry to the nest.  Right now I have jars of old jam/pickle in the undergrowth and the wasps are really busy.  I never get wasps in our house as they get jam instead.  Same with ants.

Wasp stings aren't too painful, however bee stings HURT!
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Dulciana

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Re: the difference between bees and wasps
« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2015, 03:47:21 PM »
I think wasp stings hurt, CLKD.  And they've got a horrible way of following you around, at a distance of about 12 inches.   I don't like them.  And there's always the possible danger of an allergic reaction, if you're one of the unlucky ones.  I'm not, I'm glad to say, but some folk are. 
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babyjane

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Re: the difference between bees and wasps
« Reply #3 on: August 10, 2015, 04:05:25 PM »
It was only a bit of fun (unlike a sting  ;)) , that's why its in the fun bit  :)
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Re: the difference between bees and wasps
« Reply #4 on: August 10, 2015, 04:08:53 PM »
Poor old wasps - always the bad guys..  ;D

I've set up a hornet feeding station.

Taz x  :ange:
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Dulciana

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Re: the difference between bees and wasps
« Reply #5 on: August 10, 2015, 04:39:12 PM »
Eek!
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Re: the difference between bees and wasps
« Reply #6 on: August 10, 2015, 04:41:00 PM »
 :rofl:
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CLKD

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Re: the difference between bees and wasps
« Reply #7 on: August 10, 2015, 09:11:48 PM »
 ;D - we have lots of bee/wasp plants/jars around …….. wasps don't follow me but one did have a go at DH recently  ::)

Taz - what do you put in your hornet feeder?
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honeybun

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Re: the difference between bees and wasps
« Reply #8 on: August 10, 2015, 09:26:32 PM »
I agree BJ  ;D

I hate wasps and usually manage to get stung in unusual places......and they hurt  ::)


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Taz2

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Re: the difference between bees and wasps
« Reply #9 on: August 10, 2015, 11:46:51 PM »
Quote from: CLKD on August 10, 2015, 09:11:48 PM
;D - we have lots of bee/wasp plants/jars around …….. wasps don't follow me but one did have a go at DH recently  ::)

Taz - what do you put in your hornet feeder?

It's not an actual feeder to be honest. All you need to do is put a ripe banana with the skin split in a bush or tree somewhere in the garden. Of course it also attracts wasps but it's amazing watching the two together - the difference in size. Mind you the hornet today took over forty minutes to get airborne. It kept climbing to the very top of the buddleia (twenty feet) and trying to take off but only managed a slow, controlled glide to the ground... over and over again. Drunken bum!

Taz x
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CLKD

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Re: the difference between bees and wasps
« Reply #10 on: August 11, 2015, 12:07:36 PM »
 ;D
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Ju Ju

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Re: the difference between bees and wasps
« Reply #11 on: September 11, 2015, 01:26:31 AM »
Wasp stings are very painful as I found when one flew up my sun dress many years ago. The dress had an elasticated bodice and I had no bra on (in the days when my boobs needed little support). I shrieked and my sister and her DH and his brother were all peering down the top of my dress trying to get rid of it. Meanwhile a lady was screaming from a high up window, thinking I was being assaulted! Well I was.....by the wasp!

Bee stings can have a beneficial result as my MIL found as her rheumatism was cured after a bee sting.
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CLKD

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Re: the difference between bees and wasps
« Reply #12 on: September 11, 2015, 03:24:04 PM »
One bee sting?  I had forgotten that stings are used to ease arthritis, was it RA? 
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