A wasp enters your room, what do you do?
One of my college professors found herself in this situation during a lecture. She didn't want her class disrupted. She didn't get worked up. She just calmly and carefully picked up a big textbook and moved slowly over to where the wasp had landed. Bang! She slammed the textbook down in him and....
...shattered the third story window he'd landed on, sending book and glass tumbling to the ground far below.
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I finish my tea, appreciating the companionship. Then I ferry my beautiful visitor outside in my teacup, and bid her farewell.
They're really not hostile most of the time. If you find a nest early in the year, you can make friends with the wasps by offering them food from tweezers. (They quite like flower chafer grubs and little caterpillars). Most wasps have surprisingly good facial recognition, so if you keep feeding them over a few weeks, they'll consider you to be an honorary nest member of sorts, eventually accepting caterpillars from your hand.
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Well, since my pc is on the other side of the room then my window and wasps tend to stay at the window. I would continue gaming for a while, until it gets further inside. Then I'd call The anti wasp and spider squad my dad and stalk him until he removes it.
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I had a situation once where there was a wasp in my room and it was being very annoying. It kept flying near my face for some reason and I absolutely DETEST and fear flying insects. If I even hear the buzzing sound I get shivers of fear racking through me. I fetched the electric fly swatter... one of those that looks like a tennis racket and fries the insect with an electrical shock. After some patience, it finally landed on my window so I seized the opportunity and struck!
As I triumphantly pinned the sucker under the mesh wire, I pressed the button for the fatal shock.... and nothing happened. The god damned swatter was out of battery. I froze in my half crouched position absolutely terrified that if I moved, it would get free and sting me. In fact, I could see its angry little butt humping back and forth in a stinging motion already as it took out its anger on the mesh. I looked around and I could see fresh batteries right there on my desk. SO CLOSE... but so far away. I could not reach without moving the swatter. I tried so hard to reach those batteries. I even risked sliding the swatter across my window a bit. I first tried with my arms, then even my legs to try to knock them to the floor closer to me. It wasn't happening. I gave up on the batteries.
Instead I tried to wiggle the swatter so that the wasp would be near the edge instead of the middle so perhaps I could squash it with the edge plastic. That plan failed. After spending several minutes contemplating my problem, I decided to risk something. I was going to try to move it off the window. I slowly slid the swatter down towards the edge of the window. Where the glass met the plastic frame, there was a little ledge. I carefully slid it towards that. The swatter was starting to go at an angle and if the angle grew any bigger, it'd be free. I was sweating. Once it was there I pushed the swatter down! It got decapitated on the edge.
I keep a can of Raid in my room at all times now... and have used it to much better effect than the swatter. I don't give a shit if it's bad for my health or whatever. I never want to go through that again.
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That feeling of not being able to reach? I think I've found your solution.
My training regime includes multiple alarm clocks and habitual oversleeping.
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Flies i tolerate (hard to evacuate anyway), wasps i kill or capture and release, never been stung by bees or wasps and i want to keep it that way, they scare and panic me too much. If it stays still, i grab a cup and capture, slid a flat thing under, view its horrfying hiddeousness and release it trough a window. Same goes with spiders, altough parents got me scared with a bad luck from killing them kind of bullshit, so i try to avoid taking their life and just eject them trough windows if i can. Freak me the hell out, scared shitless, oh boy if you could see me reactions...
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I'm glad you've chosen the path of nonviolence. The arthropods aren't your enemies, and sparing a life is never a bad choice.
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Bee? Ignore, unless it gets too close, and then just move my face away from it. (I've been stung a few times, and I've learned it's just best not to antagonize the buggers and hope they make it out to the flowers outside instead.)
Wasp? Probably open a door and shoo it outside... gently. Or ignore it. If it gets in my face though, I might have to shoo it more forcefully. I don't want to kill it, since it's good for eating the other bugs that prey on the tomato plants outside. Unfortunately, the spiders seem to have gotten the last nest of theirs.
And then back to CoD! :) (I almost completely missed the giveaway on this one thinking about the answer!)
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I'd get a roommate to get rid of it for me.
If there is absolutely no one and have to take care of it myself, I'd do the 'ol plop a cup over it and cover it with a paper trick, while holding onto that cup for dear life. I'd then throw it outdoors, so I have a chance to get back inside the door and close it before it tries to kill me. I'd get the cup hours later after I'm sure it left.
Whenever I've gotten stung by bees I'd always think "oh that wasn't that bad" (thankfully not allergic) but man, wasps are a bee's evil twin brother. They are relentless and horrible and scary. ;_;
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I do the same thing I do with spiders I get some newspaper or similar and take it out of the house, I don't fear those things and I certainly don't kill them.
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My mother is actually highly allergic to wasps. She almost died, when she got stung by a wasp.
I really don't wanna find out the hard way, if I'm allergic too or not. :P
So, f*** it, I'll just leave the room and close the door.
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Slowly move to grab a blunt object (preferably something like a shoe, which would minimize collateral damage), then begin moving towards the target. Pause momentarily to face the camera, put a finger to your lips, and whisper "Shhh, be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting wasps." Then, with lightning-quick reaction time, lunge forward and vanquish your foe.
If you miss, just rinse and repeat.
And by rinse, I mean plaster over the new holes in your wall.
Or grab a can of Raid and hose it down.
*If it lands on you at any point, just freeze until it moves into optimal position for you to strike,
As a side note, one time I had a bee land inside my shoe, right against my heel. I was in Pre-K. You can imagine how well that worked for me.
(Pretty great actually, I got a popsicle to suck on so I would shut up and stop crying)
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I'll just sit there, smacktalking my opponents, their mothers and now the damn wasp! D:<
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You're sitting there, playing that CoD game you just won from me, smacktalking your opponents, and their mothers, and feeling all macho. And then a wasp enters your room. What do you do?
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