Are there such a thing as manslaughter wasps?

[Wilbur ★]

Somewhere between normal wasps and Murder Wasps.  Jeebus they are huge this year. 

[Guest]

Maybe they put on the Covid-19 grams....

[Allen ★]

Every night in the summer I have one hornet come investigate the lights around my darts wall. Just one a night, but every night. My buddy loves to hunt them with a blow gun. The ceiling is wood, it can be a forest of blowgun needles by the end of the summer. 

[jsharr ★]

We have cicada killers in Texas. Huge things that sting cicadas and shove them down a hole they dug to feed their young.  They are pretty non aggressive unless you look like a cicada.

 I think they are going to get confused with murder hornets and car jacking yellow jackets and money laundering paper wasps.

[Wilbur ★]

6 minutes ago, jsharr said:

We have cicada killer in Texas. Huge things that sting cicadas and shove them down a hole they dug to feed their young.  They are pretty non aggressive unless you look like a cicada.

 I think they are going to get confused with murder hornets and car jacking yellow jackets and money laundering paper wasps.

This is why man should live in cold climates.  

[jsharr ★]

Just now, Wilbur said:

This is why man should live in cold climates.  

Yeah, I will stay with hot and Texas.

[Wilbur ★]

2 minutes ago, jsharr said:

Yeah, I will stay with hot and Texas.

Now, stop thinking like a hornet and put yer stinger away! 

[Razors Edge ★]

1 hour ago, Wilbur said:

Are there such a thing as manslaughter wasps?

Somewhere between normal wasps and Murder Wasps.

Oh, they exist.  Probably based mainly on the nuance that they were able to afford their own lawyer vs settle for a public defender.

[12string]

We do have carpenter bees.  Most of the time they don't bother you, but sometimes they insist on payment up front then don't clean up when the job is done, leaving piles of sawdust everywhere.  But who else can you get to do the job?  No WAY I'd hire the Gypsy Moths!

[Allen ★]

2 minutes ago, 12string said:

We do have carpenter bees.  Most of the time they don't bother you, but sometimes they insist on payment up front then don't clean up when the job is done, leaving piles of sawdust everywhere.  But who else can you get to do the job?  No WAY I'd hire the Gypsy Moths!

My house is covered up in carpenter bees. I keep badminton rackets strategically placed around for when they need thinning out. I wouldn’t mind them except they are earring my house. Although they are only really bad during mating season, about two weeks every spring. 

[MickinMD ★]

3 hours ago, Wilbur said:

Somewhere between normal wasps and Murder Wasps.  Jeebus they are huge this year. 

I've had a few cases of wasp nests under porches, in cellarways, etc. where I knocked them down with a hose or hit them with a pesticide spray can, then quickly ran away.  They would have slaughtered me if I didn't!

[Rattlecan ★]

14 hours ago, Allen said:

My house is covered up in carpenter bees. I keep badminton rackets strategically placed around for when they need thinning out. I wouldn’t mind them except they are earring my house. Although they are only really bad during mating season, about two weeks every spring. 

Yeah, those guys are eating our pergola. I have used some inject able foam insecticide shot directly in the holes. Seems to quiet things down for a while, but they always come back. 

[Parr8hed]

17 hours ago, jsharr said:

We have cicada killers in Texas. Huge things that sting cicadas and shove them down a hole they dug to feed their young.  They are pretty non aggressive unless you look like a cicada.

 I think they are going to get confused with murder hornets and car jacking yellow jackets and money laundering paper wasps.

Those things look evil.

[jsharr ★]

1 hour ago, Parr8hed said:

Those things look evil.

Like Ralph they only look eville but are actually docile unless you are a cicada 

[groupw]

I have a black wasp trying to nest in the eaves by my patio. I have kicked her out twice, but she keeps returning. I may have to have Karen call the police....