Will someone please tell why wasps were invented,  I can not see they have any purpose than to make peoples lives a misery and to go round stinging them.
There seem to be hundreds of the darn things this year everywhere I go.
I have to keep all my doors and windows shut or they come in looking for a victim and if I dare venture into my own garden they are sitting waiting to ambush.   Anywhere I take the dogs for a walk there they are lurking in the grass or the hedge waiting to get you.
I really hate them and even walk the dogs with a can of wasp killer in my pocket now to try and protect myself from them.  

I've only seen two this year. One in my house, that I let out the window, and one that stung my 3 month old puppy :( If you are seeing loads it must mean that there are wasps nesting where you go. Can you not change where you walk? Or are they literally everywhere? We were just talking about how few there seems to be in my area.

They are everywhere.  I walk all different places and everywhere I go they are laying in waiting for me.

We have got a lot round here too - just bought some beaded door curtain thingys to try to keep them out of the house. My husband gets an allergic reaction when stung - swells up badly and needs treatment.

I can't recall seeing any so far this year.

Touch wood, but none here either. Flies, however, are a different matter ...

We seem to have loads of earwigs! may be because of the fruit trees, but there do seem to be far more than usual!

The weather seems to have made such a lot of changes to our wildlife - it is really autumn-like this morning.  The leaves on the trees are changing colour already. Wasps will be sleepy today.  I posted a while ago about the number of small furry animals that seem to have increased - especially mice.  We sit out by our pond and quite regularly see a mouse run and hide in the rockery.  In the paper the other day they did a story about the increase in rodents because of the mild winter we had.  There are a lot of nuts on the hazel too - and lots of squirrels - Meg tried to climb a tree this morning!!!!!  She really thinks she can catch them. 

What I've noticed more of is slugs (yukk!) All different shapes, sizes and colours. I even found one in the dogs food bin today (eewww)

We seem to have a lot of horse flies in Norfolk - they are horrible, biting through trousers etc :( :( I'm covered in bites on my legs, in particular and look as tho' I have a bad case of the pox :D :D :D

Daisy

ohhhh yes! 100s of slugs everywhere!!!!!

  There are a lot of nuts on the hazel too - and lots of squirrels

We have 4 walnut trees, and never yet have we had mature walnuts :D, they always disapear (and seen being carried in the squirels mouths) but we wouldnt do anything to stop them :D Little monsters that they are ;)

I sympathise - I have a particular aversion to wasps, since we had a wasps nest and they kept appearing from every crevice in the house, and were underneath anything you picked up etc... *shuddery smiley*. Not seen many this year - until that very hot day on Sunday when they were buzzing round the picnic table outside the pub. But I think August tends to be the biggest time for them...

My mother has got a wasps nest again - outside the door of the summerhouse - think I can safely say I WON'T be sitting in it when I visit her (the summerhouse that is, the idea of sitting in a wasps nest is too dreadful to contemplate! ). :rolleyes:

I'm sure there must be other members of the insect population that could take over the environmental function wasps serve, between them.

BREWERS YEAST!

bevb,

You sound like me :(  until about 10 years ago I couldn't go out in the summer without being mugged by wasps my friends and family thought it hilarious because they were never bothered   Then I was given vitamin b tablets by the doctor as I was low and hey presto, for the first time ever I wasn't bothered by wasps :D 

Now I just start taking brewers yeast tablets in May and keep taking it until the wasps have died off for the winter :)  I can even go to Dog shows/agricultural shows and places where kids will be eating ice cream and candy floss and the wasps ignore me :) :) I only have to take one a day - and it still works!

oooh great tip!

I hate them, was swarmed by a whole nest of them as a child.
The whole village probably heard my screams
My mum counted 52 stings left in me..
I was rushed up to the Dr's and got two massive injections in my bum.
Screamed all the way up to the Dr's and whilst in there.

Never forgotten the experience and hence go a bit 'silly' when
I spot one in the same room/office/vicinity as me.

I was told that a mosquito won't bite you if you have eaten a marmite sandwich so that may work for wasps as well :) Apparently they can detect the presence of marmite through you skin and won't land on you.

poor you, ive hardley seen any this year

I have just had a wasp spoil my shower horrible experience

We have a resident wasp and i havent been in the garden for days!!! everytime i go out it appears i'm pretty sure its lying in wait

I started with a Wasp Phobia because as a small child in school we had to stand like statues after the whistle was blown for the end of playtime.   A wasp landed on my face and started to crawl up my nose naturally I started to flap a bit and the teacher came and walloped me and told me off for moving - I wasn't stung but from that day I couldn't have a wasp  near me (within a mile) without total panic!  Palpitations, hyperventilation - the lot, too scared to scream or move tho :(

Brewers yeast means they ignore me so I can stop myself panicking - Marmite is basically brewers yeast in a tasty form :D :D

OH dealt with a Wasp Nest on Tuesday at his Mum's house, he got some 'foam' and a fancy-dress kit (beekeepers hat and gauntlets) from a company on the net :D :D  Worked like a charm and cheaper than a call-out :D :D

Of course Brewers Yeast makes sense now, I give it to the dogs as a flea preventative along with the garlic :P