Holier than thou!

[jenkinsbrynmair]

and cer i siglo dy hun means..........................................

 

[dpearce4]

That means "butters leaves" or " you may let it be"

Voi voi ... Means "oh dear"

Hän voi .... He can, he may

HAHA good old google translate or babel fish.

 

[beeno]

Hi Karol et al,
Not that I have noticed you pushing the Waspbane on the forum (but I did reflect how generous you have been with your time) or HM his queens, other people have done so for you. I don't mind anyone expressing a particular view on the forum that's what it is all about, but I do think peoples' commercial interests should be declared as it would certainly avoid these ugly situations. Have solved my own wasp problem by hoovering them up!
If you PM I will give you a lead of a restaurant which has a real wasp problem!

 

[domino]

A drama lama over wasps ...... oh dear

 

[Karol]

Hi Karol et al,
Not that I have noticed you pushing the Waspbane on the forum (but I did reflect how generous you have been with your time) or HM his queens, other people have done so for you. I don't mind anyone expressing a particular view on the forum that's what it is all about, but I do think peoples' commercial interests should be declared as it would certainly avoid these ugly situations. Have solved my own wasp problem by hoovering them up!
If you PM I will give you a lead of a restaurant which has a real wasp problem!

Thank you Beeno.

I quite like the fact that forum rules prevent direct advertising/selling and am happy to comply with those rules. It fosters technical discussions which I would like to think are more valuable in the long run. What tools are employed are then down to personal choice chosen in ones personal space and that's how it should be. If forum users have experience of a product which they have chosen in their 'personal space' and wish to make a personal recommendation without any commercial agenda then I believe that that's how the forum should be. By the same token though, there needs to be a counterweight against harmful advice/practices which are driven by dogma and ego rather than science and reproducible outcomes. Your vacuum method is one that I regularly recommend to pest controllers because it is a high efficiency method. The difficulty is though that it is time consuming and in many instances impractical especially in open fields. There's also the energy costs of the method which rarely get considered but are actually far greater than a physical device and so the vacuuming method is environmentally less friendly.

Thank you also for the restaurant lead but we don't actually provide a direct pest control service. We provide integrated wasp management training to pest controllers who then provide their services.

 

[oliver90owner]

Karol,

I think you may have missed the previous particular vacuuming thread. It was 6 wasps at a time!

 

[Norton Caff]

Thank you Karol for all the informative posts you have made. My daughter tells me wasps taste fizzy when you bite them, by the way!

 

[pargyle]

That means "butters leaves" or " you may let it be"

Voi voi ... Means "oh dear"

Hän voi .... He can, he may

Or "You can leave ...>"

But I'm not going to argue Finnish transation with a Finn who has six degrees ...

 

[Karol]

Karol,

I think you may have missed the previous particular vacuuming thread. It was 6 wasps at a time!

Sure I understand but that won't protect your hive from incidental scouting wasps that have to be controlled to prevent swarm feeding which needs to be done consistently during flying hours which can't realistically be achieved with a vacuum.

 

[Karol]

Thank you Karol for all the informative posts you have made. My daughter tells me wasps taste fizzy when you bite them, by the way!

It's a pleasure.

Sounds like your daughter had a bit of a lucky escape!

 

[Monsieur Abeille]

Just to echo the thoughts of others, I'm no wasp lover but have found your (karol) postings very informative and interesting.

And absolute garbage to suggest either you or HM abuse this forum for commercial means, in fact quite the opposite.

 

[Finman]

Just to be perfectly clear, my comments are expressly aimed at the minority Pargyle.

The vast majority of bee keepers as you quite rightly point out are decent, respectful soles who appreciate the sacrifice that their bees make and respect, love and tend their bees accordingly and it's a delight and pleasure to help and work with them.

Get a life but from where?

Out vast forests sings in the evening when wind is silent and milloin of wasps hunt aphids in canopy.

Do I need to hate or love wasps?... No.
. Why? I have no feeling and wasps do not mind about my opinions. They have been in Finland millions of years during several ice ages.

Out forests continues over Russia up to Pasific Ocean. Full of wasps. At least countless.

 

[victor meldrew]

I get stung by the bees and the taxman !,


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[Finman]

.
Today I fall asleep for couple of seconds and almost collided to tree.

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[beeno]

Karol,

I think you may have missed the previous particular vacuuming thread. It was 6 wasps at a time!

Now you are making things up again. That would have been like painting the Forth Bridge with a tooth brush. Very often 600 at a time! The six and more were congregating on my Maisemore nuc and making holes in it. However, they are all dying off here now. Someone else had the same problem and Hivemaker answered that query without ridicule.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

And without a hoover probably

 

[oliver90owner]

It was this post I was referring too. A real larf, really.

Hi all,
Hope it is ok to resurrect this wasp thread because I have strange wasp behaviour going on. Six wasps sit around one side of my Maisemore poly nuc in a little group. I hoover them up and then another six turn up. I have been wondering what they are up to, planning an organised wasp attack is my fear. So far the bees are defending valiantly. However, it would now appear that they are chewing the
polystyrene? Is this in an attempt to get into the hive?

Yes, a right larf. Six hungry wasps at a time.

 

[pargyle]

.
Today I fall asleep for couple of seconds and almost collided to tree.

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Were you moving at the time or did you just fall over ?

 

[Finman]

.
Two years ago I has 600 wasp's organized attack into my extracting room. But they did not know, that I have a vacuum cleaner from Lidl. I sucked them all into vacuum.

Wasp is clever. When it comes via hole of door, it returns to the same hole. IT does not fly against window like a bee.

 

[Cazza]

.

Wasp is clever. When it comes via hole of door, it returns to the same hole. IT does not fly against window like a bee.

The wasps in my bee shed came in via a gap in the door but couldn't find their way out again and beat themselves against the glass windows like bees! Must be stupid English wasps.
Cazza