A "sting" operation...

**Tickler** · 25th December 2007, 19:53

MURDERER!!!
wasps have feelings too.

the wasps play by the same rules as some humans...any hole is a goal!

i've only ever have a bug fly up into my helmet. makes you look completely stupid trying to get at your face with gloves etc. Do i go through the visor? or up from the bottom? neither bloody works!

oh well. carry on all the wiser (sore for the experience)

**TOTO** · 25th December 2007, 19:56

Originally Posted by sprag

oh he was in the vent but there was no way he could have got past the mesh inside, it was just kind of funny see a wasp just sitting in there and not being able to get itself out.

How did you get it out ?

**TOTO** · 25th December 2007, 19:58

Originally Posted by Tickler

MURDERER!!!
wasps have feelings too.

the wasps play by the same rules as some humans...any hole is a goal!

i've only ever have a bug fly up into my helmet. makes you look completely stupid trying to get at your face with gloves etc. Do i go through the visor? or up from the bottom? neither bloody works!

oh well. carry on all the wiser (sore for the experience)

yea and you try get it off with the glove and it just smujes on your visor. I hate that. happens to me all the time when I'm on motorway so I cant stop and clean it up.

**sprag** · 25th December 2007, 19:59

Originally Posted by TOTO

How did you get it out ?

Oh now i am going to feel bad, but they come out easy when they are in 1/2's

**TOTO** · 25th December 2007, 20:04

Originally Posted by sprag

Oh now i am going to feel bad, but they come out easy when they are in 1/2's

sounds messy. The one I had encounter today with. despite 20 hard hits was very much whole not splatered or anything. they are tough them wasps.

**xwhatsit** · 25th December 2007, 20:35

Lmao... a month ago, I was riding around in the newly-dawned sunny weather. Visor open, as I prefer in 50kph zones, going around the local suburban twisties down by the waterfront at my place. In my `happy place', smile inside helmet, Charlie Parker playing in my head, then *BAM*

WTF?

Huge (motherfucking yoooooj) bumble-bee flew straight into my (rather large) nose. Splattered all over my cheeks and face, and a little bit got into my eye, which stung like jeebus.

Got to the locksmiths and the guy asked me if I wanted a cloth for my face.

**TOTO** · 25th December 2007, 20:40

Originally Posted by xerxesdaphat

Lmao... a month ago, I was riding around in the newly-dawned sunny weather. Visor open, as I prefer in 50kph zones, going around the local suburban twisties down by the waterfront at my place. In my `happy place', smile inside helmet, Charlie Parker playing in my head, then *BAM*

WTF?

Huge (motherfucking yoooooj) bumble-bee flew straight into my (rather large) nose. Splattered all over my cheeks and face, and a little bit got into my eye, which stung like jeebus.

Got to the locksmiths and the guy asked me if I wanted a cloth for my face.

Muahahahahahahaha

very good description of the situation I imagine it looked like you trew up in your visor and it went up your face istead of down to your chin. I'm bloody scared of those big ones man. does the sting hurt more than a normal bee ?

**Mikkel** · 25th December 2007, 20:54

Hornets are the most nasty insects on this planet, period!!!
Good on ya for taking one out! Although I feel for your pain, they are rightfully agonising little buggers!

Originally Posted by P38

Visor up cruising along at 100kph, and a wasp flew into my glasses, lodged in my helmet and began to sting me beside my eye

Mate, now that is pretty stupid. Imagine what your eye would look like if it caught a bumblebee at 100 kph. A small hint: Not pretty at all! (and no, glasses are not much of a help in that situation...)
But glad to hear you kept the situation "somewhat" under control and managed to get it sorted out without a spill.

**xwhatsit** · 26th December 2007, 02:17

Originally Posted by TOTO

Muahahahahahahaha

very good description of the situation I imagine it looked like you trew up in your visor and it went up your face istead of down to your chin. I'm bloody scared of those big ones man. does the sting hurt more than a normal bee ?

From recalling being a little boy, no... wasps were far more painful. I seem to remember the bumble bee leaving its whole arse behind sticking out of my arm. Odd things they are.

This one died the horrible death that is being plastered all over my face before he could sting me.

Somebody on here once told the story of somebody getting stung in the eye on a group ride; the way to get it out was to loop a strand of hair around the sting and pull it out like that. Sounds feckin' painful.

**TOTO** · 26th December 2007, 06:58

Sound like something from fear factor. that would have been the wors thing ever - your eye is a delecate thing. poor man. he may have got a twitch in the eye after that

**Monsterbishi** · 26th December 2007, 07:07

Closest a bee has managed to get to stinging me was a large bumble bee that tried to fit through the front vent on my lid, being about 1/2 the width of the bee, it just exploded into a million pieces and took me weeks to get all the guts out.