Beware wasps

[yorkshire sam]

I normally leave my gardening leather gloves hanging up in my lotty shed by bulldog clips to help them air and dry. Today I went down to feed and water my chucks and because I had to dig out about a foot of snow I put my gloves on. 10 minutes in I felt like someone had driven a red hot needle into my index finger. A wasp had hibernated in my gloves and had taken exception to being rudely woken. Lesson learned - check gloves before wearing. RIP wasp.

[FionaH]

Ouch nasty!

[Nicos]

Ya know...I'd never had thought of checking either!!!!

Scorpions in wellies in the med maybe, but not hibernating wasps!!!

Ouch!!!

[mrdinkle]

You can get scorpions over here too, though given the recent weather perhaps they might go into decline!

[seasprout]

Poor you.
Poor Wasp.

[wellie]

mrdinkle - you are not wrong. My birthday is on 26th October, so I am a scorpion!

To be honest, last year was a nightmare on the Wasp-front, and I found one buzzing around in the bedroom a week ago about 9pm round the bedside lamp bulb. Thankfully I managed to trap it. But for the last 3 months, constantly, I've been having to trap and kill them. I really hope that I've not missed any, and find them hibernating in my clothing, like I did two years ago

[mrdinkle]

You just reminded me wellie - I used to live in an apartment in the roof of a big house in cheltenham, it was all wood frame at the top. We had wasp nests everywhere - they were getting in via the chords of the sash windows. A few people got stung when we had a party one night - attracted by the noise and the strip lights in the 1970's kitchen diner bar area.

We also had wasps coming into the bathroom which had a pink and black sunken bath.

Wow that was some place.

[seasprout]

We also had wasps coming into the bathroom which had a pink and black sunken bath.

Wow that was some place.

Now I bet that appeared in a few Videos.!

[mrdinkle]

Possibly, though in the era before me!

All the internal doors had locks and some doors had inner metal doors - think it must have belonged to some kind of drug dealing pimp in the 70's.

Anyway, back to them wasps..... we had to call in the exterminator

[mrdinkle]

with a gloucestershire accent..... hahaha (the drug dealing pimp)