Nothing should be able to fly AND inject venom
Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 7:18AM Because I'm still battling whatever Pollen Fiend is causing my sinuses to be so revolting, I'm totally phoning it in and re-posting something I wrote when not even FoN was reading my blog. But it's pertinent, because guess what I saw crawling their icky selves all over my deck this afternoon? Time to call the exterminators...
I try to be a tree hugger, I really do. I grow a garden that is never that successful because I can't bring myself to thin out my plants; I think they should all get equal growing opportunities. I admire vegetarians (but I can't be one - if we weren't meant to eat cows, they shouldn't be so tasty). I try to buy organic, stay away from chemicals, recycle, reuse, live simply. I think everybody is equal and all creatures should be treated with respect.
Except for wasps.
Bees? See, bees I can respect. Bees are useful. Bees have honour. They don't sting you unless you totally deserve it, and when they do they at least have the common decency to promptly die afterwards. Even spiders, which are creepy and wrong and omigod nothing should have that many legs, have a purpose (eating the mosquitos, which in turn spread the West Nile many hypochondriacs so desperately need now that Chronic Fatigue is out of fashion).
Wasps are like the head cheerleaders of the insect world. Sure, they look pretty cool (look at one up close - most sensibly, one that is dead - and you'll see what I mean. Whoever designed wasps should be working for Porsche) but they're vindictive little bitches and they get more aggressive as the season draws to a close. And they always know to target whoever can do them the most damage.
It's pretty hard to believe in a cosmic balance when there is something that mean out there that can fly and inject venom repeatedly. Not only that, but it has friends. How fair is that?
Reader Comments (30)
Not fair at all. I run screaming like an 8 year old girl when I see one of those evil evil things.
BTW, hope you feel better soon!
Allergies BLOW! Wasps are pretty Gangsta, I feel like a Wasp would kick a bees ass, not the queen though, she has a whole crew!
Yeah, those suckers are nasty! If you irritate one, you had better kill it or it will chase you to the ends of the earth.
They be evil! Raid makes an AWESOME blue can of stuff, and why yes I did enjoy watching them struggle and die!.
Agree 100% Evil dictators of the insect world.
LOL! I'm with you. I can handle just about anything (snakes, spiders other than brown recluses, bees, stick bugs, etc) but a wasp gets anywhere close to me? I'm out. I'm screaming, running, hitting myself in the head. We have them awful at my house, too. They always seem to be the earliest critters out and the latest to go home each season!
Totally unfair. Wasps ARE bitches.
Flying little bastards. My husband sealed a whole hive in a wall last summer, and we had the pleasure of listening to them die slowly. Ha, ha, ha!
Have you tried a saline rinse? Really, they sound gross, but work like nothing else. Gets all the old gunk out and stuff like that.
Flying & venom - I thought you were moving from zombies to vampires for a minute there ;D
wasps are awful and mean and i get so much pleasure out of spraying that super toxic death to wasps spray all over them and their nest.
I can walk away from a wasp or bee. Spiders? Usually like to stalk me in the shower or in the corner of my room. Those fuckers must die. By the hand of John. I refuse to do it myself unless they can make a shoe launcher with some accuracy so I can attack from 20 paces.
You sound like me with the whole gardening thing. It kills me to thin out my plants. I feel so guilty. And I take all bugs (including spiders with their freakish amount of legs) outside instead of killing them. I don't really have anything against wasps at this point but I've never been attacked and stung.
Amen to that! Wasps just don't have a reason to live, end of!
So sorry for your allergy troubles, I can relate. You are so right about the bee vs. wasp....bees are cool, don't bother you unless you bother then. Wasps? They are agressive sons of B's (no pun intended). Bees know that once they sting it's all over...wasps can sting again and again. Feel better!
Wasps are disgusting little beasts. I've been stung twice. Same day, within 15 minutes of each other. We've got wasps & mud daubers in our garage & I've run out of there more than once.
How about flies? What purpose do they serve? Other than sitting on shit and then sharing with us by landing on our food in the hopes of producing the nasty little maggots that totally gross me out.
I've been begging for rain for three weeks now so I can get a break from my allergies. It finally started raining yesterday and guess what? I'm still sneezing.
I blame the wasps.
Should be working for Porsche, you crack me up!!!! HAHA!
Yeah, I'm not a fan of the flying and the singing either.
It's totally not fair. Wasps suck. As do head cheerleaders.
Wasps are evil! Evil I tells you.
Hope you start feeling better soon.
I, and the millions of others still with CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome), sure wish it would go out of style! If it would cease to exist simply because people didn't believe in it, we would all be cured right now.
Shelli
www.chronic-fatigue-community.com
I'm with you, yet I'd prefer to go toe to toe with a wasp over a flying cockroach any day. Must be some childhood trauma I've conveniently blocked from memory.
We had a bee/wasp invasion in our house last summer. It was a blast when one joined me in the shower. I still hear buzzing even though they haven't been around in months. I think it's a permanent twitch now.