The Nightmare continues

I believe we have an "Entomologist" in our midst.
Passive or Aggressive I cannot say, but above most for sure.
I like spiders & snakes, and have captured/kept them since very small. Things that eat bugs & vermin are all-right with me. Not the poisonous ones, they meet death.
I like bats too, and create habitat for them to live comfortably.

 

You want to get yourself one of these babies:



For years of fun filled bug killing!

 

Death to wasps!

We were once shown an excellent wasp-trap; mix a little honey and Wine (they seem to prefer white) in a cup and place it as far as you can from where you want to be - It seems to attract every wasp from miles around to it - even Coke doesn't tempt them away - , they get overexcited and drown in their hundreds , the only fault we've found is that it needs filling up from time to time as it's so effective and rapidly becomes more wasp-corpse than wine.

Most creatures have a 'purpose' in the great scheme of things, I'm told even slugs are effective at preventing the buildup of rotting debris that would otherwise strangle plant life... but does anyone know what Wasps are actually for? Do they have an essential purpose in nature or are they just the malevolent but strangely fascinating things they appear to be?

Cheers,
Adam.

 

They feed on just about every pest insect known to man. Some species even paralyze an insect and then use them to carry there young for them. Other species of wasp eat nectar which helps with pollination

 

AARRRGGGHHHH!

Yeah, thanks for that. You better give me the money for therapy.

 

its the time of year gents, spiders are trying to get inside to stay warm for the winter, garden varieties and there are many like the orb weavers are blasing out their web-silk like spiderman clinging onto anything for the last rays of sunshine and anything they can graps in their sticky webs.....

James how about I send you a basket full of Black Widows ? a fly swatter is an excellent tool if one does not like to pull out the hand sprayer for a qucik once over ....

I have at least 5 congregating around my 1/2 chord wood pile so the wood needs to be restacked........with GlOVES ON !

 

What about a suit of plate mail Erich?

 

This topic reminds me of Billy Connollly talking about............

Well your see, yes there is a connection to the subject of spiders.

ADULT HUMOR AND SWEARING YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pqnUceOIEHE

 

Wasps...Air Force of the Insect world , Ive seen jet black ones here and im told they are particularly mean , most i met seemed kinda stupid and met a quick end.
Thats the bug i meant Mike , crazy little suckers aint they?Pretty freaky really.I could have used a weapon like that today Stefan , no such thing as overkill when it comes to cleaning out a garage...the horrer...the horrer

Keep your spiders in the woodpile Erich , i dont envy you this winter , mind you..wont that kill them off ? If i seen that many widows on a wood pile id set it alight right where it was..napalm the suckers with lawnmower fuel.

Im still a little shell shocked after todays recce , got in to a hell of a firefight moving a chest freezer , they had me pinned down most of the afternoon behind the workbench and sent the airborne paras down from above..they never stood a chance...hit them with a half can of raid in mid air..dead when they hit the ground.
Body counts high gentlemen , we wont know exact figures until we do a final "sweep" of the area sometime tomorrow.

The enemy has been dealt a decisive blow , alls quiet on the rec room floor tonight.

 

James, you say that but a mate of mine found someone taking on a spider with an SA80, ok it was a camel spider in Iraq which he found in the shower but that's beside the point!

http://www.camelspiders.net/

 

Stefan has provided me with sufficient reason to never sleep again. Monsters do exist!

 

Foolishly I hadn't even considered this aspect... My dislike obviously overrode my common sense... again.
I like spiders for this role, they seem about the only thing that eat my own insect nemesis - The Mealy bug & it's insatiable hunger for succulents.

This of course doesn't mean the war with Wasps ends, though on a cautionary note a friend of mine once cut one in half with scissors in mid flight - the body flew off (always impressive) but the sting end then fell down her cleavage and gifted her with several painful new nipples... Poetic but painful justice .
(And yes, every 'gentleman' present immediately and bravely offered to suck the poison out...)

Kind of glad I live in a country with virtually no genuinely dangerous insects - though I have seen a Hornet or two this year.

 

I like spiders a lot. they keep mosquitos away. And I don't mean the plane!
But, if you're having spider problems, buy a cat. Thrust me one cat is more than enough to keep spiders at bay... They catch them with surprising ease and uncanny precision. Last time I saw a cat catching a spider was in Algarve and ittook him 5 secs to spot, run down and eat the bugger. Amazing.



Cheers...

 

First time I've seen German SPGs referred to contemporarily as 'The Insect series':
New Guns in the 'Insect' Series

And even the LRDG had trouble with spiders:

- Story continues at people's war:
Spiders and vultures, born out of wedlock

Cheers,
Adam.

 

Be afraid, be very afraid!

 

I bet that one would make a very loud crunching sound if you stepped on it and it would leave a rather nasty goo on your shoe, as well. Even Bear Grylls would not eat something that looked like that!

 

You'd probably miss, they are huge and really fast, they can run at 10mph and would probably attack the foot you are standing on

Anyhow, we all know Bear Grylls lived in hotels when filming and always had a hip flask of scotch to take away the taste

 

Stefan is having a banner day, both taking away my sense of security and damning my heroes! I suspect his next post will suggest that he has been secretly dating my wife!

 

Damnit, was going to keep that one for Christmas

Don't worry, you only get those beasties in the desert and Bear Grylls was always going to loose to Ray 'fatty' Mears any day

 

If both were left in the Jungle for a year one suspects that while Grylls would descend to a grubby spider eating 'gollum-esque' creature, old 'Fatty' Mears would end up with something like this:

Possibly with Monkey handservants and orderly teams of spiders keeping other pests at bay...