Brace yourself! Wasp season is here!!

Wasp season has started here in Ireland a few weeks ago. Yes after the warm weather is gone the wasps come out… Do you get it? I don’t anyways.

I got stung by a wasp about 2 years ago and that is still so fresh in my memory that now whenever there is a wasp around, I’m either gone or start moving around like a crazy ninja.

So I don’t think its much of a surprise that when I saw a wasp in the bus yesterday, I panicked and pointed and probably yelled “WASP” to my two bus buddies.  Now they were behind me and they wasp was closed to them than to me. Now as my friend (half in a panic) climbs over her boyfriend to stand in the aisle. I just screamed “ KILL IT, KILL IT”. You can imagine that at this point people start looking…

No one moved so I decided that I would kill it. I had no energy for spending 15 minutes on a bus being paranoid whether it would land on me or whatever. So I took of my shoe, stood up and waited for the wasp to land on the glass. Now the two bus buddies are saying “Emma don’t, don’t do it”. I am thinking they were afraid that I would miss and piss it off. They don’t know I could be a professional wasp killer though. Shhh

I am that good though!!

The wasp landed and didn’t move as if it was waiting for me to land my shoe on its body! And I did, wacked the shoe into the window and killed the wasp. So my friend could get back into her seat and I could put my shoe back on.

After receiving a “Good job” from another passenger I sat down and I could relax for the remaining journey.

Now seeing as my story’s are always not so informative, I thought why not look up wasp facts. So here they are:

* The term wasp is typically defined as any insect of the order Hymenoptera and suborder Apocrita that is    neither a bee nor an ant. (yes I did copy and paste this line)

* There are two different types of wasps, the social wasp (maybe stinging is like hugging in they’re culture) and the solitary wasp.

* Only female wasps have a stinger because  it derives from the ovipositor, a female sex organ. (Whenever you are stung and say: “aahh you BITCH”, you aren’t so wrong so…)

* Female wasps mainly lay eggs inside the body of a host…

* Male wasps (drones) die after mating with the queen wasp. (one less to worry about or is it?)

* Most wasps die during the winter except the queen and her horde of new wasps…

* People can die from a wasp sting (now my paranoia doesn’t seem to weird eh?) even though they were stung before and were fine. The body can respond to it differently. So if you experience any tingling, feeling faint or even collapsing and vomiting you should call the emergency services.

Anyways Ill leave you all with that happy thought! Let’s hope wasp season ends soon!