My childhood has been torn apart, shredded, burned and the ashes flushed down a dirty drain. So my friend decided to send me a video named "Shrek is love. Shrek is life."
Do not watch this youtube animation with children in the room, let alone in the same house. It is funny and equally disturbing leaving you wondering what in the world did you just watch. I . . . don't even.
QUOTE(Callidus Thorn @ Jul 3 2014, 07:22 PM) 
I'm not a nature guy, but yeah, some stuff needs to be left alone, spiders and the like. Wasps/hornets should ideally be nuked wherever they're found in my opinion.
Gotta love lizards though
Yes, yes she is...
I don't mind spiders. I have many wolf-spiders running about here. They clean the house of unwanted critters like the geckos, too. Yes, I agree with you on that opinion. I hate wasps.
QUOTE(treydog @ Jul 4 2014, 01:57 AM)
As to wasps, allow me to quote Robert McCammon from "Boy's Life" (a great book, by the way).
"Now let me say a few things about wasps. They are not like bees. Bees are fat and happy and they float around from flower to flower without a care for human flesh. Yellowjackets are curious and have mood swings, but they. too, are usually predictable and can be avoided. A wasp, however, particularly the dark, slim kind of wasp that looks like a dagger with a head on it, was born to plunge that stinger into mortal epidermis and draw forth a scream like a connoisseur uncorking a vintage wine. Brushing your head against a wasps' nest can result in a sensation akin to, as I have heard, being peppered with shotgun pellets. I have seen the face of a boy who was stung on the lips and eyelids when he explored an old house in the middle of summer; such a swollen torture I wouldn't even wish on the Branlins. Wasps are insane; they have no rhyme or reason to their stingings. They would sting you to the marrow of your bones if they could drive their stingers that deeply. They are full of rage... If the devil indeed ever had a familiar, it was not a black cat or a monkey or leather-skinned lizard; it was, and always will be, the wasp."
Quoted for truth. There is only one good thing about the wasp and that's that every pest insect species has at least one wasp species that preys upon it or parasitizes it, making these stinging hot-heads critically important in natural control of their numbers.
But everything else said above from the book is right. They're mean, they're nasty and they live by the sting, thus they should die by the sting.
In fact, I never heard of any other insect who were responsible in two plane crashes on separate occasions like the mud-dauber, a type of wasp that build their homes inside the plane resulting in poor readings and then the crash, killing multiple people.
