Recent content by merylvingien

Use a free disused pop bottle, or pay 30 odd quid for a disused pop bottle with a label on it? I know which one i would use... Karol still here, still pushing his "high efficiency" wasp traps i see. I say no more.

Hang on a minute. I am a pest controller and i dont waltz around with posion without a clue. Always talk people down from killing bumble bees. Once you give them the right information they are happy to leave them alone. Most people are worried about their homes being damaged. Bumble bees in...

As a pest controller i am getting on average 15 - 20 calls a day which turn out to be bumbles. How many can they see? 100s? (honey) or less than 50?(bumble) What are they doing? Flying about aimlessly around the nest entrance?(bumble) Are they fluffy and black?(bumble) Do they look like...

Well cmon, its getting a bit silly isnt it, a determined sales pitch i will give him that, but common sense will tell you whats right and whats wrong. Its been a bad year for wasps, so i wont judge Karol for pushing things to the limit, but when it all gets a bit silly you have to take a step...

Yea best to be safe and buy a wasp trap eh?

Hmmmm you’re not convincing me there with yet again another theory Karol. Unless you’re referring to the theory that creatures seek out and find food? By the way, that theory isn’t original and most people have heard about it. So wasps find a source of food and return, in the case of a hive that...

Thats the funniest thing i have ever heard, so what your saying is, if the food source stays still, the wasps will navigate thier way to it, but if it moves they will follow it? Umm, isnt that what most mobile creatures do? :rolleyes:

Millimetre precision when wasps are mass feeding is not needed. Wasps can detect sweet foods much better than we can. Have you ever smelt the scent of honey coming from a beehive? I attended a job a couple of weeks ago where there had been a wedding/party and there was one bin liner of food...

I sort of expected that responce, as anyone can refer to what experience they have or have not. If you had any credible facts to hand then you would indeed pour them out for everyone to see and be amazed. I am afraid that you have lost any crediabilty that i once had in you and your research...

I see where the confusion is. When i say there are virtually no wasps present an hour or so after a nest is treated, i mean live flying wasps. Not actual dead bodies contained within the nest. For the record, i dont have any problems with wasp traps or the way your business impacts on my...

Actually no, you are not quoting me, i was merely refering to your previous statment that there are few wasps left in a nest after treatment, last years discussion. The theory is all yours my friend. I believe that a nest treated during the day will vary in how many dead wasps are left inside...

Hi Karol, I think we will have to agree to disagree, because you believe one thing based on your experience and I believe another thing based on my experience. I will however say that since you mentioned the landing rights theory a couple of years ago to me, I have since paid more attention and...

Hi Karol, I don’t perceive you as a threat, but I do not like to see info posted as fact when that is not the case, especially when it’s my business that you are talking about. We have been here before, and once again I will ask you to explain your theory of “landing rights” in the case where...

But this is just your theory isnt it? No hard evidence to prove this theory? I would argue that you are in fact wrong, just by counting the number of dead wasps in a nest after treatment isnt sufficient to prove your theory. Having treated "thousands" of wasp nests, i would argue that a large...

Interesting approach, i would be interested to see how effective this is.