zebthecat
12:23 Fri Feb 4
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Oddly beetles don't bother me at all. Probably due to growing up in south east London where Stag Beeltes are pretty common - they are great creatures. Scary looking but totally benign.
Cockchafers are pretty amazing too.
Devil's coach horse beetles have plenty of attitude - have seen a few around here.
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gph
12:16 Fri Feb 4
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Wasps are one of things that stop the world from filling up with the corpses of invertebrates. Or, at least their larvae do.
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Haz
12:11 Fri Feb 4
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Got stung by a couple of hornets once, the size of helicopter gunships. Not pleasant,
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Haz
12:09 Fri Feb 4
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Wasps = Pointless fuckers
Hornets = Grade A cunts
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riosleftsock
11:55 Thu Feb 3
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The internet is a wonderful place, it even has 'innovative' music heroes, like Epic Horn Guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXvQXEhEs0k
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Nurse Ratched
11:48 Thu Feb 3
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https://youtu.be/pAtPAWcqDu8
For zeb
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Nurse Ratched
11:38 Thu Feb 3
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You're right, it's dumbsnet.
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riosleftsock
11:38 Thu Feb 3
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I remember playing indoor cricket in Holford (iirc) YHA in the male dormitory, because it was pouring with rain outside, when a queen hornet flew in - it was like a slightly scaled down model of an apache attack helicopter and probably more lethal.
Just to show you how long ago it was, I borrowed a can of harmony hairspray and with my lighter, made a flame thrower, destroyed the hornet which landed in a bin full of paper and promptly set the dormitory on fire and we had to be evacuated while the poor old doorman/receptionist bloke had to come and put the fire out and got a bollocking from the fire brigade when they turned up an hour later.
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gph
11:35 Thu Feb 3
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"* no off-colour remarks, please."
This isn't mumsnet...
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Nurse Ratched
11:33 Thu Feb 3
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"Hornets freak me out - they are just a little too big and sound like a Heinkel bomber"
You wouldn't want to meet a May Bug beetle, aka cockchafer*
They are extremely loud and sound like a lawn mower. In an enclosed room, with the walnut-sized flying beetle dashing itself against walls at fifty mph, it gives you a bit of a fright.
* no off-colour remarks, please.
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BRANDED
11:32 Thu Feb 3
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I had a ten minute battle with a hornet on my first trip to Greece as a young man. I used a newspaper. I won but it was 50:50 for a while. I realised that day that England was a happy safe place if not hot.
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gph
11:31 Thu Feb 3
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Wasps' exoskeletons are made of chitin.
Chitin is the basis for an experimental plastic replacement.
So wasps are almost made out of plastic.
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gph
11:26 Thu Feb 3
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When I was 7, hornets were upsetting my little sister, just by being there.
I, the gallant hero, decided to attack their nest to defend my sibling.
I wasn't quite so gallant six stings later.
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gph
11:26 Thu Feb 3
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When I was 7, hornets were upsetting my little sister, just by being there.
I, the gallant hero, decided to attack their nest to defend my sibling.
I wasn't quite so gallant six stings later.
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threesixty
11:15 Thu Feb 3
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White Anglo Saxon Protestants...
look at you putting in a sneaky politics thread :-)
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zebthecat
11:12 Thu Feb 3
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All part of nature but won't have them in the house.
Had to shoo a queen out yesterday; she wasn't happy but flew out via the front door in the end.
Hornets freak me out - they are just a little too big and sound like a Heinkel bomber.
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riosleftsock
10:30 Thu Feb 3
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"ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!"
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