[tjay]

something interesting i found.......

"most wasp species are predators. Their function is in the control of many other insect species. They are actually very effective parasitoids, and because of this efficiency they have been used for decades as biological control agents. Many crop pests including horn worms and scale insects which cost millions of pounds in loss annulally are controled by wasps. Without these predators, tomatoes, oranges, tobacco, and many other important crops would be so scarce that the price of them would skyrocket. Their method of efficiency is that they will lay one egg on the back of a caterpillar, and throught the process of polyembrony, the egg multiplies itself, producing hundreds of larvae. These larvae hatch, kill the caterpillar, and pupate. Once development is compltete, the newly formed wasps will emerge and go out in search of their own caterpillar to deposit eggs on.
So next time you see one, learn to love it."

[Jasmin71]

last 24 hrs been wild/ itching/ more red/ really hot...... been over a week and now the trouble starts again ! grrrrrr


Love them my behind..... rather have a worm then a wasp like this !

[Jasmin71]

Update
it is now infected
Antibiotics, benadryl, Claratin and Advil.... + 20 min. ice packs.

Not better by friday will have to have IV.

Tell me how should I love this thing..so far it cost me over $ 80 !

[Swansen]

i have seen those around for a couple years now, rarely, but i have had a couple sightings. I figured they weren't native, as they just popped up one year and living in a forest you tend to notice all kinds of things. If they are invasive and are in the numbers you say they are in i would contact come one and they will probably come take care of them for you, no charge.

[Jasmin71]

Havent seen any sense the 16th thats when I got bit.

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I never even bothered to read this thread, but yesterday there it was, sitting on a plate in the sink........he was at least 1.25" long, solid black and I couldn't believe my eyes, it was defintely the biggest wasp I'd ever seen. I waved my hand to get him off the plate and he flew about 10 feet and I finally found a rolled up newspaper to kiil him, but it was some kind of freak of nature... a super wasp. I don't even know how he got in the house, (I run my AC 24/7 the last 3 months, no open windows).

Needless to say I'm sleeping with one eye open lately.

[Jasmin71]

lol. thats the same one that got me !
feeling better now sense Meds kicked in, but I tell you I am always on the look out now when I go out.

[Sparrow_temp]

Better check your attic unless that super wasp just happened to come in the door with you. I'd get the occasional wasp in the house in spring/fall and couldn't figure out how until the insulating guy found the nest in the attic. One of the vent seals got a hole in it and they came in there.

[justtroitin]

By any chance is this what you saw? Just snapped this pick in my back yard. There are a few of them out there. Can anyone tell me what it is?

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Originally Posted by justtroitin

By any chance is this what you saw? Just snapped this pick in my back yard. There are a few of them out there. Can anyone tell me what it is?

No, the big black wasps are solid black and the one I saw was at least an 1 1/4" long. I don't what that is in your pic, but I've seen them around my place too. I don't Know MI bugs to well, I moved here from FL and back home we would call that a yellow jacket.

I think that bug in your pic is the species that stung me a couple weeks ago. It dive-bombed me out of a tree and stung the top of my hand....it happened so quick I didn't even see what it was. Later that same night my hand swelled up real bad and I couldn't even close my hand to make a fist and I could hardly grasp anything. After the swelling went away it became very itchy for a couple of days.