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Post by BadBeast on Jul 9, 2012 10:48:40 GMT -5
Wasp stings can be very tricky. Your body kind of keeps a memory of previous stings, and if you were very badly stung as a child, (say from buggering about with their nests) by a swarm, decades later you can get one single sting and your body goes into shock at the memory. You won't even know it will happen, (because it's not an allergy, per se) and the shock can kill. Another big danger is when they crawl inside drink cans, and get swallowed. A single sting in the throat is the biggest killer. My Mate was riding his motorbike one summer with his visor up, and he got stung by a Bee on his cheek, and his head swolled up so much they had to remove his helmet with a bonesaw. I've been stung once in my life by a Wasp, once by a Bee, and once from a dead Wasp that I stepped on, and the worst reaction was from the dead Wasp.
I once had a garage with an up and over door, and one year, I had Wasps that made a nest inside. It was no bother as long as I didn't disturb them too much, and although I posted the "Raid" piccy, I'm not one to wipe out a whole nest unless it's a matter of life or death. So I ignored them. After about the fourth year of them being there, the nest got so big, that whenever you opened the garage door, the elbow of the opening mechanism stabbed into the side of the nest. So I used to open the door, then run the fuck away before they spotted me. Go back in half an hour, and they'd calmed enough for me to get the lawnmower out, or whatever. But they got so aggressive that Autumn, the neighbours called the Environmental Health out, and they dusted the nest. It was four feet across at the widest, and over six feet from top to bottom. I called a nearby Woodland Park/Leisure centre, and they came out and collected it for their Museum, and said they'd never even heard of one that size before. Plus, I got about two bucketfuls of Wasp Grubs from it to use as bait. And was able to use the garage without having to first open it in the middle of the night. That last Summer, the swarm resulting from the 'door stab' would turn the sky black, and if anyone had been caught by that in daylight, they could very well have died. My neighbours were all a bunch of bastards anyway, but still . . . . . Looks bad, yes?
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Post by BadBeast on Jul 9, 2012 10:56:34 GMT -5
I know the trick of 'training' Bees and Wasps, then putting a lead on them so you can walk fly them around, on leads of cotton thread. A bit like balloons, but way cooler. Does anyone else know how that's done? (Five Karmas for the first person who does)
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Post by StormInateacup on Jul 9, 2012 11:31:49 GMT -5
We had a Cockroach a day fly in the window of the house in Paddington,it was my job to evict them(no killing,as a general rule I don't intentionally kill anything I'm not going to eat). I'm not talking about "a" cockroach love. I'm talking about swarms of the fuckers. Nests with thousands of them in it. Under cupboards. In wardrobes and behind the stove. They stink and make it impossible to turn on the toaster without first upending it, or to leave a slice of bread on the bench while one treks to the fridge for butter and jam. It's fairly obvious you didn't spend a lot of time in Coastal North Queensland, The Northern Territory or Broome.
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Post by StormInateacup on Jul 9, 2012 11:33:54 GMT -5
I know the trick of 'training' Bees and Wasps, then putting a lead on them so you can walk fly them around, on leads of cotton thread. A bit like balloons, but way cooler. Does anyone else know how that's done? (Five Karmas for the first person who does) First of all you find a fertile mushroom field........
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Post by Random Panther on Jul 9, 2012 12:50:28 GMT -5
We had a Cockroach a day fly in the window of the house in Paddington,it was my job to evict them(no killing,as a general rule I don't intentionally kill anything I'm not going to eat). I'm not talking about "a" cockroach love. I'm talking about swarms of the fuckers. Nests with thousands of them in it. Under cupboards. In wardrobes and behind the stove. They stink and make it impossible to turn on the toaster without first upending it, or to leave a slice of bread on the bench while one treks to the fridge for butter and jam. It's fairly obvious you didn't spend a lot of time in Coastal North Queensland, The Northern Territory or Broome. I spent some time in Queensland and NT,mostly in a tent though,didn't make it to WA,we headed for the middle instead,I was outvoted. I'd already been to Uluru,Kings canyon and Kata Tjuta. I wanted to travel the west coast and cut across to Adelaide and Melbourne.
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Post by BadBeast on Jul 9, 2012 13:40:35 GMT -5
We had a Cockroach a day fly in the window of the house in Paddington,it was my job to evict them(no killing,as a general rule I don't intentionally kill anything I'm not going to eat). Are you mistaking Cockroaches with Cockchafers? (Although that's an etymology I wouldn't like to speculate on)
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Post by Sita on Jul 9, 2012 13:53:39 GMT -5
The worse type of roach is a palmetto bug. Those suckers are huge and they like to dive bomb you! We had quite a few at one place we lived at, each one met it's end under a very heavy book.
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Post by StormInateacup on Jul 9, 2012 13:55:58 GMT -5
We had a Cockroach a day fly in the window of the house in Paddington,it was my job to evict them(no killing,as a general rule I don't intentionally kill anything I'm not going to eat). Are you mistaking Cockroaches with Cockchafers? (Although that's an etymology I wouldn't like to speculate on) There are 450 different species of cockroaches in Ausuralia. 4,000 world wide. In Australia, only five species are considered pests. The five pest species have become scavenging experts and have a long association with humans. In fact, some scientists believe that as early humans left Africa to colonise the world, cockroaches were probably not far behind. The Asian cockroach is the pest species I was referring to in the burn back approach - they regularly grow to be 4 cms long. And the fuckers FLY! German and American cockroaches are also pest species. The native cockroaches look not a lot like the pest varieties at all and they feed on pollen and bark so they don't come onside. If you find a cockroach inside, it's not a native. australianmuseum.net.au/Native-Cockroaches/www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&pq=cockroaches+queensland&cp=29&gs_id=3b&xhr=t&q=australian+native+cockroaches&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&biw=1298&bih=622&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=bSj7T-6NO_GQiQeLuZn3Bg
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Post by Random Panther on Jul 9, 2012 13:59:16 GMT -5
No. I know a cockroach when I see one and am letting it run over my hands.
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Post by BadBeast on Jul 9, 2012 14:58:49 GMT -5
No. I know a cockroach when I see one and am letting it run over my hands. Then surely that's a "handroach"
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Post by firesong on Jul 12, 2012 18:15:59 GMT -5
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Post by firesong on Jul 12, 2012 18:19:18 GMT -5
Wasp stings can be very tricky. Your body kind of keeps a memory of previous stings, and if you were very badly stung as a child, (say from buggering about with their nests) by a swarm, decades later you can get one single sting and your body goes into shock at the memory. You won't even know it will happen, (because it's not an allergy, per se) and the shock can kill. Another big danger is when they crawl inside drink cans, and get swallowed. A single sting in the throat is the biggest killer. My Mate was riding his motorbike one summer with his visor up, and he got stung by a Bee on his cheek, and his head swolled up so much they had to remove his helmet with a bonesaw. I've been stung once in my life by a Wasp, once by a Bee, and once from a dead Wasp that I stepped on, and the worst reaction was from the dead Wasp. I once had a garage with an up and over door, and one year, I had Wasps that made a nest inside. It was no bother as long as I didn't disturb them too much, and although I posted the "Raid" piccy, I'm not one to wipe out a whole nest unless it's a matter of life or death. So I ignored them. After about the fourth year of them being there, the nest got so big, that whenever you opened the garage door, the elbow of the opening mechanism stabbed into the side of the nest. So I used to open the door, then run the fuck away before they spotted me. Go back in half an hour, and they'd calmed enough for me to get the lawnmower out, or whatever. But they got so aggressive that Autumn, the neighbours called the Environmental Health out, and they dusted the nest. It was four feet across at the widest, and over six feet from top to bottom. I called a nearby Woodland Park/Leisure centre, and they came out and collected it for their Museum, and said they'd never even heard of one that size before. Plus, I got about two bucketfuls of Wasp Grubs from it to use as bait. And was able to use the garage without having to first open it in the middle of the night. That last Summer, the swarm resulting from the 'door stab' would turn the sky black, and if anyone had been caught by that in daylight, they could very well have died. My neighbours were all a bunch of bastards anyway, but still . . . . . Looks bad, yes? Dunno if that's completely accurate... I've been stung by a horde of wasps on two separate occasions, both of them about 50 years ago... but stings still don't bother me. I actually get on pretty well with wasps. I was at a holistic gathering and workshop, and EVERYONE there got stung... yellow jackets were all over the place... well, everyone but me. I have no problem with them sitting on my arm, or my hand, or my food plate. I actually had one land on my hand and I scratched his back a little... no problem at all. I think they react to the pheromones when you're afraid of them...
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Post by BadBeast on Jul 12, 2012 18:36:52 GMT -5
Wasp stings can be very tricky. Your body kind of keeps a memory of previous stings, and if you were very badly stung as a child, (say from buggering about with their nests) by a swarm, decades later you can get one single sting and your body goes into shock at the memory. You won't even know it will happen, (because it's not an allergy, per se) and the shock can kill. Another big danger is when they crawl inside drink cans, and get swallowed. A single sting in the throat is the biggest killer. My Mate was riding his motorbike one summer with his visor up, and he got stung by a Bee on his cheek, and his head swolled up so much they had to remove his helmet with a bonesaw. I've been stung once in my life by a Wasp, once by a Bee, and once from a dead Wasp that I stepped on, and the worst reaction was from the dead Wasp. I once had a garage with an up and over door, and one year, I had Wasps that made a nest inside. It was no bother as long as I didn't disturb them too much, and although I posted the "Raid" piccy, I'm not one to wipe out a whole nest unless it's a matter of life or death. So I ignored them. After about the fourth year of them being there, the nest got so big, that whenever you opened the garage door, the elbow of the opening mechanism stabbed into the side of the nest. So I used to open the door, then run the fuck away before they spotted me. Go back in half an hour, and they'd calmed enough for me to get the lawnmower out, or whatever. But they got so aggressive that Autumn, the neighbours called the Environmental Health out, and they dusted the nest. It was four feet across at the widest, and over six feet from top to bottom. I called a nearby Woodland Park/Leisure centre, and they came out and collected it for their Museum, and said they'd never even heard of one that size before. Plus, I got about two bucketfuls of Wasp Grubs from it to use as bait. And was able to use the garage without having to first open it in the middle of the night. That last Summer, the swarm resulting from the 'door stab' would turn the sky black, and if anyone had been caught by that in daylight, they could very well have died. My neighbours were all a bunch of bastards anyway, but still . . . . . Looks bad, yes? Dunno if that's completely accurate... I've been stung by a horde of wasps on two separate occasions, both of them about 50 years ago... but stings still don't bother me. I actually get on pretty well with wasps. I was at a holistic gathering and workshop, and EVERYONE there got stung... yellow jackets were all over the place... well, everyone but me. I have no problem with them sitting on my arm, or my hand, or my food plate. I actually had one land on my hand and I scratched his back a little... no problem at all. I think they react to the pheromones when you're afraid of them... I didn't mean that everyone who catches a swarm gets anaphyleptic shock, but a significant number of people who do go into shock unexpectedly after one or two stings, were badly stung like that in their past. No-one figured out my "Bee on a lead" trick yet then?
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Post by StormInateacup on Jul 13, 2012 2:02:10 GMT -5
Dunno if that's completely accurate... I've been stung by a horde of wasps on two separate occasions, both of them about 50 years ago... but stings still don't bother me. I actually get on pretty well with wasps. I was at a holistic gathering and workshop, and EVERYONE there got stung... yellow jackets were all over the place... well, everyone but me. I have no problem with them sitting on my arm, or my hand, or my food plate. I actually had one land on my hand and I scratched his back a little... no problem at all. I think they react to the pheromones when you're afraid of them... I didn't mean that everyone who catches a swarm gets anaphyleptic shock, but a significant number of people who do go into shock unexpectedly after one or two stings, were badly stung like that in their past. No-one figured out my "Bee on a lead" trick yet then? You put it into suspended animation, ie: freeze it to knock it out. Tie a string to it while it's asleep and then when it wakes up you have a bee on a lead. My cousin Mike used to do it to win bets. He also grew square tomatoes and could string ducks together using a piece of salted beef on a fishing line, fed to them - it comes out the same way it went in and almost immediately - and can be fed to the next duck. He was a cruel polluted bastard too.
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Post by rscott on Jul 13, 2012 3:25:30 GMT -5
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