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Posted: 6/29/2004 1:46:14 PM EDT

Every day when I come home from work, I go to open the window next to my computer, and see one of these bastards outside the inner glass window, but inside the screen. Sons of bitches!

I hate yanking open the window and trying to swat it before it escapes into the room.

Posted: 6/29/2004 2:22:39 PM EDT

[#1]

Looks like a wasp or hornet. Oh lucky you! Go get a can of Raid...

Posted: 6/29/2004 2:29:50 PM EDT

[#2]

Go outside and swat it. Pancake that sucker between the screen and window.

Posted: 6/29/2004 2:34:32 PM EDT

[#3]

This may be the only bug I ever had qualms about.

Posted: 6/29/2004 2:40:57 PM EDT

[#4]

Looks like a 'dirt dobber' from the very narrow waist. They don't sting unless you grab them. Eat bugs out of the yard. A nuisance when if their nests are visible on your house. Best left alone as a 'friendly'.

If it is a wasp, then it is free game.

wganz
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Posted: 6/30/2004 4:59:50 AM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
This may be the only bug I ever had qualms about.

These guys are our friends. No stinger, non-aggressive (though I've heard it said the front leg-claw things can break a finger), and they eat many less welcome bugs.

Some garden stores and nurseries sell egg sacs of these, so you can put a bunch in your yard.

Posted: 6/30/2004 5:19:36 AM EDT

[#6]

Mantis's are bad-assed bugs.
I watched one snag a small lizard, kill it and eat it in about an hour.

Posted: 6/30/2004 5:27:46 AM EDT

[#7]

Looks like a "Mud Dauber" Wasp, It won't hurt you.

Posted: 6/30/2004 5:30:08 AM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Quoted:
This may be the only bug I ever had qualms about.
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These guys are our friends. No stinger, non-aggressive (though I've heard it said the front leg-claw things can break a finger), and they eat many less welcome bugs.

Some garden stores and nurseries sell egg sacs of these, so you can put a bunch in your yard.

I am friend of the Mantis... I hate bugs, but I love these because they hate other bugs as much as I do.

Posted: 6/30/2004 5:49:23 AM EDT

[#9]

The shop vac is your friend. It is the destroyer of all bugs that can fit down its tube. Crank it up, suck em down, leave it on for a minute and if theres enough crap in it theyll suffocate and die. No muss, no fuss, no cleanup.

Posted: 6/30/2004 2:21:11 PM EDT

[#10]

How long can these things go without food?

He's still alive and still stuck in the window.

Posted: 6/30/2004 2:25:09 PM EDT

[#11]

Find and kill the nest.

Posted: 6/30/2004 2:27:16 PM EDT

[#12]

I just want to see how long it takes him to starve to death.

Posted: 6/30/2004 2:27:46 PM EDT

[#13]

taxman: Not taking a bath until the AWB sunset.

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