Topic: How To Get Rid Of Stuff.

[mistybear]

http://www.howtogetridofstuff.com/

[Clive]

How to avoid getting stung by hornets:

Do not disturb the nest in anyway.
Do not make any loud noises.
Stay back from the nest.
Do not bother a hornet who is trying to go to its nest.
Do not breathe on the nest or on a hornet.
Do not break a hornet?s nest. It is much safer in one piece.
Do not attempt to remove a hornet?s nest in the middle of the day.


Really?     

[mistybear]

Basically leave them alone, I suppose.

Most people are bitten by snakes when they try to catch or kill them. Silly really.

[gmax]

What the hell is a "hornet " some sort of an ant? looking it up

[mistybear]

More like a wasp, isn't it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornet

[gmax]

Yep, thats it

[Clive]

You have to understand that we poms are not used to things that bite, sting or are savage in any way!!  The mere sight of a wasp for me or a spider for Simon will send us into a complete trauma.  I have never even seen a snake in the wild!  Although I have seen a cast off skin from a viper (our only poisonous snake) in nearby sand dunes.   

[Simon]

What the hell is a "hornet " some sort of an ant? looking it up

A hornet is a wasp from hell!!  As Clive said, I hate wasps, who can only have been put on this planet to annoy humans, and spiders send me into a complete panic, especially if one disappears while you go to get something to hit it with!  I now have plug-in ultra sonic sound emmitters all round the house, which are supposed to repel insects, and I have to say, they appear to do a remarkably efficient job.

[Rodders]

I can imagine that arrangement producing quite an interesting display in the dark when the beams react with your protective tinfoil headgear Simon, but isn't the rolled-up-newspaper method a little more effective?

Bugs 0, Daily Telegraph 1.   
 

[Simon]

I can never find a newspaper quick enough, but a slipper is usually quite handy.  I keep them on my feet for any such emergencies.

[sam]

You have to understand that we poms are not used to things that bite, sting or are savage in any way!!  The mere sight of a wasp for me or a spider for Simon will send us into a complete trauma.  I have never even seen a snake in the wild!  Although I have seen a cast off skin from a viper (our only poisonous snake) in nearby sand dunes.   

is that by the sunken town?

[Clive]

Yes, that's where I took you and your girlfriend when you paid us a visit last October.  It's called Kenfig.  I thought it best not to worry Liz about the presence of poisonous snakes!  But it is a nature reserve of course!  I've only ever heard of one person being bitten by a snake at Kenfig (no, not me!) and that person survived to tell the tale.  Snakes don't come after you - they head in the opposite direction.   

[sam]

yes like most creatures, shame Liz couldnt outrun me! :-)

[mistybear]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6282075.stm

It has been fairly bad the last few years with snakes looking for water, our local vet told me that this season has been very bad, with snakes coming very close to the shopping centre. One dog was badly bitten on the nose after discovering a snake up a drain pipe. Usually you can't find the bite sight but this dog had a piece taken out of his nose.
I was lived in a house where there were snakes taking a short cut through my backyard to a house a couple of doors down who owned a pool.
Snakes like spiders are a part of life here, and thankfully snakes usually don't come inside like spiders do and are more easily avoided.

[Simon]

I don't mind snakes at all - at least not the ones that don't bite!