Deliguy

Two weeks ago I put up a big ass bee trap in my back back yard to catch some of the wasps n shit before they get a chance to multiply and become a problem later.

This morning it caught like 7 wasps and I was looking at it and noticed that it now has several dozen baby wasps in there now. IDK i just thought it was cool cus they're all super tiny like little striped flying ants. I wish i could take a picture of it but they're too small and they're in the plastic container which makes it too hard for a camera. I must have caught a queen bee and she must have laid em shortly after being caught.

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JoshTodd

Zoom lense?

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DreamMachine

you'd need a macro lens, not a zoom

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Deliguy

idk i could whip out the big digital nikon but i doubt it would do any good especially since i don't know what a macro lens is exactly. The baby wasps are also clearish except for their heads and the stripes

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kimboslice

The wasps are going crazy out here in New Orleans. One of my kids got stung twice Saturday.

Deliguy

question for anyone who might know:
i know wasps don't live very long and they seem to be able to survive in the bee trap for a day or two, maybe more if they're babies and the queen doesn't die. Any chance they will grow while in the trap?

Considering that there's at least 50-60 of them in there that'd be wicked if they grew up while in there and overfilled the whole thing before they died. THAT would be picture worthy!

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Fatbat

Why do you have a "bee trap"? Bees are nature's workers and don't go out of their way to sting. They are also suffering from various issues, including colony collapse.

Without bees we don't have any food to eat.

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justo_tx

A wasp thunderdome? Sweet, 60 larvae enter, 1 wasp leaves. If you could get Tina Turner to narrate you'd be looking at YouTube gold.

WritingSolution

There are nests behind both of my wife's side mirrors of her car. I haven't told her yet. It's a surprise

Deliguy

The trap catches every type of wasp and hornet but doesn't catch regular honey bees. I guess all new traps are honey bee safe because of some shortage.

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affiliatearmy

Yeah theres a huge study goin on right now nationwide- people are actually counting bees and submitting #'s....polution etc are a big prob..think about it...less bees....less everything.

Deliguy

i may be getting too sheltered to still be intrigued by this but there has been a breaking development.
The baby wasps have figured out how to get out of the trap and they're freely flying in and out. None are leaving they just hang out on the outside of the trap for awhile and fly back in and hang out there for awhile longer. It's really freaking me out. Should i spray the lil' bastards with some good ol' wasp spray?

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unorganised

Here's a freaky wasp story that will take 30 seconds to tell. We had a regular wasp on the window the other day, grabbed a tea-towel and took some flick shots at it, so one of the flicks hit it smack on the body and its entire abdomen flew off and stuck to the window frame about 2ft away.. the damn wasp was still alive with it's head, legs and wings intact (wtf)!

So after watching it fly (badly) and walk around for a minute it was put out of it's misery. I had no idea they could survive without the entire abdomen, fascinating huh?

Sticks79

They reckon that the main purpose of these chemtrail sprayings is to kill of the bee's so the illuminati can control teh foods!

Genetically modded food anyone?

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Cin Jackison

Wasps freak me out

turbolapp

I have no idea why, but this thread has made me sad. WTF??

I guess it's cause I'm the type of person that says either kill em or let em go but don't torture the poor buggers by slowly starving them to death or whatever.

We were at the beach one year with a couple of other families and there was a scorpion in the house. They caught it in a jar and kept there to ooooh and ahhh over it for like 24 hours. And then the mom that caught it said it was time to kill it. I was like wtf??? We got in this huge argument about scorpions being left alive around her children and I was like yeah well you should have smashed it when you first saw it, instead of touting it around like your children'ts plaything for 24 hours and then taking it outside to kill it. (And really it's not like you couldn't just dump it outside far away from the house, and what was it going to do come back and hunt you down???)

It still pisses me off when I think about it. (nooo, really???)

/random thread derailment rant

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Roundabout

Deli,
If the wasps are freely flying in and out, that's a good thing, it means they've more or less taken your "trap" and turned it into The Wasp Westin Hotel.. so just wait until evening when they're all in there, and spray the crap out of it, you should nail the entire nest.

Deliguy

Update on that actually. I just went and checked on em. All the babies are dead and from what i can tell they all died inside the trap which is sad and weird because the babies had no problem getting out of it. They just wouldn't go very far once they were out. I guess they didn't want to leave the dead as a doornail queen. It looks like a bunch of pepper on the bottom of the trap. Yesterday was like 95 degrees outside so i'm not too shocked they're dead already. I kinda wished they would have lived, kinda glad they're dead. lol

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