There's a Wasp Inside and It Won't Go Away!

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I'm spending the night at my mom's flat (she's away) and I was all ready for a comfy evening, until a wasp flew in through the balcony door a couple of hours ago. Now it just keeps buzzing and flying around and I can't stand it! I'm keeping the door open, but the dumb animal can't find it's way out! What should I do? I don't want to kill it, and to be frank I'm a bit scared of it. I haven't been stung by wasp ever since I was 13. Ugh!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 25 July 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Try shooing it towards the door...somehow.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 July 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

large moths are more annoying

― fcussen (Burger), Sunday, 25 July 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

ahhh!!! that's my worst-case scenario

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 25 July 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

(the wasp)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 25 July 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Try shooing it towards the door...somehow.

I did try to do that while it was still near the door, but now it's on the living room roof, ruining my TV watching experience from there.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 25 July 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

cature it under a cup and take it outside. It should be fairly sluggish by now, now it's cooler.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 25 July 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

bait a sheet of paper with something sweet like orange juice or honey. Then when it lands on that, get a bottle or glass and very, very slowly and gently, smoothly without any sudden movements, slide the receptacle over the paper thus trapping the wasp, then open a window or door and just as gently let the wasp out again so it flies away outside.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 25 July 2004 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I did the glass trick, and it worked! This reminds of the time, ten years ago, when I used to live in a one-family house in a wooded suburb of Helsinki. The house got really warm during the summer, so I had to keep the window in my room open, and all sorts of bugs and butterflies kept flying in during the night. I had to chase them and catch them in a glass almost every night, in the worst case several times a night.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 25 July 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm trying to remember whether or not wasps have halteres. I know flies do. They are the little knobbly structures on each side of the body next to the wings which act as gyroscopes and make the insect so manouvreable, which it is why it is so hard to swat a fly.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 25 July 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, this little bug was surprisingly easy to catch, so it didn't probably have them. I'm not sure whether it was a wasp, actually, more likely a gadfly.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 25 July 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Mark, are you still coming to Helsinki in August? I've forgotten to e-mail you some suggestions of what to do and see here, sorry about that, I'll get into it as soon as possible.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 25 July 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

yes I am! Wednesday 18th.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 25 July 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought this was going to be a slocki thread!

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 25 July 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Kill the wasp you fucking pussy.

― adam (adam), Sunday, 25 July 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I already got rid of it, read upthread. And I'm not for killing insects unless it's absolutely necessary.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 25 July 2004 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

now it's on the living room roof, ruining my TV watching experience from there.

Was it shouting pithy criticism about your choice of viewing?

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 25 July 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe in Waspish, it was.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 25 July 2004 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

You should set fire to your house. That would get rid of the wasp.

― penile infection, Sunday, 25 July 2004 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

ughh, wasps. i got stung by one last year, it had found its way into my BED of all places. thank goodness you got rid of it, tuomas

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 25 July 2004 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

When I was younger a wasp found it's way to my *pants*, and I didn't realize it until I started to wonder what's tickling my leg.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 25 July 2004 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

arrgggggggghhhhh!!!

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 25 July 2004 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Luckily it didn't get as far as my crown jewels...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 25 July 2004 23:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I got popped in the small of the back by a hornet once. I was 11, it got me right over the backbone, and I was sure I was either going to be paralyzed or turn into The Caucasian Hornet.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 25 July 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

A wasp crawled inside my belly button once, I was like, what the fuck is that in my belly button, and I reached in to pick it out and it was all twitchy and fuzzy, and I realised what it was and sort of threw it away, and it made a few bombing runs to try and sting me but bounced off my hair and then went away, but I found it and killed it because I was angry.

― Fergal (Ferg), Monday, 26 July 2004 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha ha, we did the "catching the wasp in a glass" thing in Cambridge but then it got so angry that we were all afraid to take it somewhere else and let it go. So it sat there. Until the barman came round and took it elsewhere.

It worked as a deterent to other wasps while it was still in the glass, though. I think they could see Wasp Jail and stayed away. We were convinced that there was going to be an army of angry wasps turning up at any minute to bust their brother loose...

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Monday, 26 July 2004 07:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Try the KenC method of catching in a glass (see above) & antaganising it until the barman comes along & moves the glass!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Monday, 26 July 2004 07:17 (twenty-one years ago)

ha this happened to me last night as well. the wasp seemed drunk and kept flying into my lamp's lightbulb furiously - i think it eventually just gave up and died so i got pretty good sleep in teh end

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 26 July 2004 08:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought this was a Dan Perry thread.

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 26 July 2004 08:15 (twenty-one years ago)

six years pass...

FUCK OFF

― Anti-Suggest Ban Order (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 July 2010 16:39 (fifteen years ago)

Kill it or cuddle it

― flashing drill + penis fan (Noodle Vague), Monday, 26 July 2010 16:40 (fifteen years ago)

usually I trap it in a cup and release it out of the window coz I'm nice but this one keeps buzzing me and also it flew into my lightbulb and fell directly onto my shoulder, the idiot

― Anti-Suggest Ban Order (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 July 2010 16:42 (fifteen years ago)

If a wasp was your size and you was wasp-sized it'd swat you without a blink.

― flashing drill + penis fan (Noodle Vague), Monday, 26 July 2010 16:44 (fifteen years ago)

thats coz wasps are cunts

― Anti-Suggest Ban Order (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 July 2010 16:46 (fifteen years ago)

This is the rationale I use when I mullah the little bastards

― flashing drill + penis fan (Noodle Vague), Monday, 26 July 2010 16:46 (fifteen years ago)

tbf there was one day of my life when I was at a friend's and was given a swat and told to kill wasps and I didn't want to and then one of them said 'hit the table now!' and I did and there had been a wasp on the swat itself and the wasp was killed so I thought what the hell and killed about 5 more wasps in a fit of blind grief

― Anti-Suggest Ban Order (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 July 2010 16:49 (fifteen years ago)

Showing compassion towards insects is only required of fully awakened Buddhas. Provisional compassion is plenty good enough for the college-educated middle class.

― Aimless, Monday, 26 July 2010 17:07 (fifteen years ago)

killed about 5 more [...] in a fit of blind grief

used this excuse many times.

when I moved into my flat there was a wasps nest in the gutter outside, I'd come home to find dozens of the cunts casually walking around like they owned the joint. I did not enjoy it.

― Merdeyeux, Monday, 26 July 2010 21:38 (fifteen years ago)

I let this wasp out btw - but I hoped a bird would eat it

― corn piece in mouffetard (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 July 2010 21:40 (fifteen years ago)

three months pass...

IT IS NEARLY DECEMBER FUCK OFF AND DIE

― pro EVOO sucker (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 07:50 (fifteen years ago)

It came back.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 07:51 (fifteen years ago)

I've heard tell that there's a wasp inside and it won't go away... but this is ridiculous.

― jeevves, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 07:52 (fifteen years ago)

OK, curser's remorse here...poor thing probably has no energy and will shortly die the agonising death of a starveling arthropod...rest in peace, buddy :(

― pro EVOO sucker (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 08:01 (fifteen years ago)

NO NO THAT DOESN'T MEAN BUZZ MY HEAD YOU FUCKER

― pro EVOO sucker (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 08:02 (fifteen years ago)

ALTHOUGH YES BY ALL MEANS KEEP FLYING INTO THEM 150 WATTS OF HEAT-DEATH YOU LITTLE IDIOT

― pro EVOO sucker (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 08:03 (fifteen years ago)

insects are so fucking stupid, especially out of season :(

― pro EVOO sucker (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 08:04 (fifteen years ago)

For the first time ever, I got surprise-stung by one of these fuckers in South Africa last month. Scared the shit out of me. When you're somewhere where you don't know where you are and something smashes you in the neck completely out of nowhere, it's really really really fucking terrifying.

― Friday: vuvuzela club meeting (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 08:09 (fifteen years ago)

An empty cigar tube filled with wasps makes a good vibrator.

― ＿|￣|○|￣|○|￣|○ (dayo), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 08:21 (fifteen years ago)

think it died

― pro EVOO sucker (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 09:04 (fifteen years ago)

pick up and have a closer look

― Aimless, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 19:56 (fifteen years ago)

I think we can safely conclude that the wasp is out of the bag, as it were.

― jeevves, Thursday, 25 November 2010 01:19 (fifteen years ago)

And into the house! Starring Martin Short as Waspy, the pesky wasp that just wouldn't quit, and Charles Grodin as the crabby house occupant.

― jeevves, Thursday, 25 November 2010 01:26 (fifteen years ago)

right so how do these things get into houses in winter

― nakhchivan, Thursday, 2 December 2010 02:33 (fifteen years ago)

they are awokened from hibernation by column of heat from laptop mebbe

― gospermaban sim gishel (acoleuthic), Thursday, 2 December 2010 02:34 (fifteen years ago)

god I need to get that vent sealed off

― gospermaban sim gishel (acoleuthic), Thursday, 2 December 2010 02:35 (fifteen years ago)

probably have a wasp nest somewhere in your flat

― .\ /. (dayo), Thursday, 2 December 2010 02:35 (fifteen years ago)

attracted by warmth and stingwant iirc

― .\ /. (dayo), Thursday, 2 December 2010 02:35 (fifteen years ago)

All worker wasps die out during the winter; the only wasps that survive are the queen wasps. Queen wasps hibernate during the winter inside the old nest or construct a small “golf ball” sized hibernation cell.

― nakhchivan, Thursday, 2 December 2010 02:36 (fifteen years ago)

aliens.

― for the next throbbing minutes (corey), Thursday, 2 December 2010 02:38 (fifteen years ago)

Cold rooms are ideal for hibernating queens and any increase in themperature would be enough to wake them.

Being woken from hibernation is not good news for the wasp queens as they use up vital stored energy for flight. Mortality rates in hibernation tend to be very high (often as much as 90%).

― nakhchivan, Thursday, 2 December 2010 02:42 (fifteen years ago)

that makes sense i guess cuz have had the central heating on nearly 24h lately

― nakhchivan, Thursday, 2 December 2010 02:42 (fifteen years ago)

can't see where this one went

― nakhchivan, Thursday, 2 December 2010 02:42 (fifteen years ago)

aw yeah well the one I was menaced with was monstrous in size and q portly - last I saw of it, it had nestled behind a green corduroy jacket and presumably perished

http://www.otrastardes.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/the-queen-is-dead.jpg

― gospermaban sim gishel (acoleuthic), Thursday, 2 December 2010 02:47 (fifteen years ago)

that's no way for royalty to go

― nakhchivan, Thursday, 2 December 2010 02:48 (fifteen years ago)

james II of scotland knew what was up

― gospermaban sim gishel (acoleuthic), Thursday, 2 December 2010 02:49 (fifteen years ago)

i got these ultrasonic repeller things that do a good job of dissuading mice, they're supposed to annoy insects too

― nakhchivan, Thursday, 2 December 2010 02:50 (fifteen years ago)

can u plz remix them + sendspace

― gospermaban sim gishel (acoleuthic), Thursday, 2 December 2010 02:51 (fifteen years ago)

i guess it's just a sine tone

so probably just yasunao tone for the arthropod/rodent crowd

― nakhchivan, Thursday, 2 December 2010 02:52 (fifteen years ago)

modulate it fast enough and maybe hyperbaric pockets will cause mass minibeast indigence

― gospermaban sim gishel (acoleuthic), Thursday, 2 December 2010 02:55 (fifteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/pNXTt.jpg

arquevaldo knew he had to get better frames if was gonna play a laptop set at the raster noton showcase [via tumblr to book deals]

― nakhchivan, Thursday, 2 December 2010 02:58 (fifteen years ago)

~if he~

― nakhchivan, Thursday, 2 December 2010 02:58 (fifteen years ago)

either that or next door's will have a clock radio whose ambient pulse is viewed as seminal

oh my word:

http://www.flipsideweb.com/websiteimagesa-h/addntox-king-12-lp.jpg

oh yeah, oh no

― gospermaban sim gishel (acoleuthic), Thursday, 2 December 2010 03:00 (fifteen years ago)

http://i55.tinypic.com/opz9e9.jpg

― mini-skirt and gogol books (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 2 December 2010 03:11 (fifteen years ago)

what the hell is that

― .\ /. (dayo), Thursday, 2 December 2010 03:19 (fifteen years ago)

i don't like the look of it

― nakhchivan, Thursday, 2 December 2010 03:20 (fifteen years ago)

gonna guess it's some kind of harmless fly which has evolved bcoz of god almighty or maybe pure hilarious mischance into a wasp-imitator, but done so fruitily

― gospermaban sim gishel (acoleuthic), Thursday, 2 December 2010 03:22 (fifteen years ago)

It's a treehopper! And it's the least weird of them I've seen.

― mini-skirt and gogol books (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 2 December 2010 03:23 (fifteen years ago)

Not poisonous.

― mini-skirt and gogol books (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 2 December 2010 03:23 (fifteen years ago)

five months pass...

it finally went away

― sarahel, Thursday, 5 May 2011 21:20 (fourteen years ago)

One of my favorite events in life is when my dad was driving us all to church when I was a teenager. A wasp was buzzing around the driver's seat of the van and driving him nuts. He rolled up a newspaper to swat at the wasp, and aggressively hit it. The wasp was right by his junk, so my dad recoiled in pain at having hit himself in the junk, and almost drove off the road. Hilarious! And then we didn't end up going to church because he was too angry at us laughing so hard. Basically a perfect day.

― offee is for losers only, do you not c? (Abbbottt), Thursday, 5 May 2011 21:27 (fourteen years ago)

ahaha

― horseshoe, Thursday, 5 May 2011 21:28 (fourteen years ago)

ten months pass...

ummm so i think it went into hiding but

― Check out these bent items: (arby's), Sunday, 18 March 2012 03:52 (fourteen years ago)

the cat gave up her fixated stare; do i?

― Check out these bent items: (arby's), Sunday, 18 March 2012 03:53 (fourteen years ago)

it looked like one of these. i think it might live in my wall

― Check out these bent items: (arby's), Sunday, 18 March 2012 03:59 (fourteen years ago)

want to sleep, have work, this sucks

― Check out these bent items: (arby's), Sunday, 18 March 2012 03:59 (fourteen years ago)

After building a cell, the female wasp captures several spiders. The captured prey are stung and paralyzed before being placed in the nest, and then a single egg is deposited on the prey within each cell. The wasp then seals the cell with mud. After finishing a series of cells, she leaves and does not return. Eventually, the hatching larva will eat the prey and emerge from the nest.

― Check out these bent items: (arby's), Sunday, 18 March 2012 04:00 (fourteen years ago)

actually it probably lives outside my window or someplace nearby that would make sense for it to live

i'm very tired

― Check out these bent items: (arby's), Sunday, 18 March 2012 04:16 (fourteen years ago)

Just go to bed! Wasps don't give no shit about people.

― any major prude will tell you (WmC), Sunday, 18 March 2012 04:38 (fourteen years ago)

playing duke nukem 3d on ipad has reignited some insect egg nightmares.

― deaths and oil painting graphics (blank), Sunday, 18 March 2012 04:44 (fourteen years ago)

i worked myself up with too many jpgs of paralyzed spiders. gonna try bed. so many loud drunk weirdos outside my window tho

― Check out these bent items: (arby's), Sunday, 18 March 2012 04:46 (fourteen years ago)

also i was stung by bees a bajillion times as a kid, freaked out by anything with stingers

― Check out these bent items: (arby's), Sunday, 18 March 2012 04:47 (fourteen years ago)

^grandpa had bee houses on his farm

― Check out these bent items: (arby's), Sunday, 18 March 2012 04:48 (fourteen years ago)

we get wasps hanging around the skylight in spring and fall when they're disoriented and half dead. only time i've been stung by a wasp was when one had built a nest in my basketball goal and i started shooting baskets.

― circles, Sunday, 18 March 2012 04:52 (fourteen years ago)

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