Wart Spray

by **Raccoon** » 28 Aug 2006 14:10

It was the first time I had been stung by a wasp. And I had the very same wart at the crease of my thumb-- which I had for years, and that one's gone too.

I have a co-worker who also experienced the same thing last year. Got stung by a wasp and warts went away.

I mentioned that after I got stung, they started itching and spreading, even a few around my mouth. I know warts are a virus and even considered an STD, so I freaked out about a week after the initial sting. I didn't mention that I started consuming large quantities of colloidial silver (suspended silver in water), which is supposed to suffocate viruses. It *may* have helped, but I mainly attribute the whole thing to my immune system reacting to the sting and taking care of the warts in the process.

by **jb68** » 28 Aug 2006 14:21

I was thinking of starting a wasp farming business,...
Any backers?

by **Mememe** » 28 Aug 2006 14:23

jb68 wrote:I was thinking of starting a wasp farming business,...
Any backers?

I'm sure you'll get a great buzz from it

by **p1ckf1sh** » 28 Aug 2006 14:30

Were the stings near the actual warts with you guys?

I smell a business opportunity there. Especially for those tree-hugging, pharmaceutical-fearing sandal wearers suffering from warts. :twisted:

by **Schuyler** » 28 Aug 2006 16:09

Mememe wrote:
jb68 wrote:I was thinking of starting a wasp farming business,...
Any backers?

I'm sure you'll get a great buzz from it

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

ok, I laughed :lol:

by **jb68** » 28 Aug 2006 16:58

Made me giggle too

mind you, gotta watch them bank loans... don't wanna get stung....

That was bad eh :cry:

by **What** » 28 Aug 2006 18:47

jb68 wrote:I was thinking of starting a wasp farming business,...
Any backers?

how to keep wasps

by **Shrub** » 28 Aug 2006 18:52

That was quite interesting actually, i saw a wasp the other day land on a big fly, rip its wings off and fly away with it :shock:

by **jb68** » 28 Aug 2006 19:00

I'm begining to regret that off hand comment.
I don't even like the evil little b******s.
I've been stung about twelve times over the years and it ain't cured me of any thing.
Mind you, never ever had a wart, I wonder if it has behaved like a vacination???

by **Raccoon** » 28 Aug 2006 19:44

Great forum about wasp keeping. I'm sure I'll become a member there shortly.

I actually have a nest that started in front of my apartment door, and I watched it grow from a single wasp, to two then a queen, then 5 and 8 and 12 and 18 and 25... I just counted 29 last night.

It's really pretty amazing what you can learn while standing on the porch smoking a cigarette. I've figured out all of their moods, how they reproduce, and how the larva is nested and fed and becomes a wasp. I'm always putting my hand up by their nest, and one will occasionally crawl on my finger and seem attracted to the tobacco smell, but doesn't act aggressively. Though, now the nest is so much bigger, I'll find one or two that jump off at me, and I duck down or flick my shirt where they landed on.

It takes a wasp a few seconds before it can sting you. They have to land softly, grip with their arms and dig in their heals, and then poke at your skin like a hypodermic needle. They're not at all like a bee that can sting you in mid flight. Wasps are slow!

The one that stung me had gotten in the apartment and was crawling around my couch. I accidentally leaned on it and it stung the back of my left arm. To answer a previous question, the warts were on both of my hands and wrists and some around my elbow. When they spread, they covered all different areas of my arms and a few on my face. I don't believe proximity of the sting had anything to do with it.

As far as I'm aware, the Wasp is the only native species of pollinator of its kind. I believe bees and hornets don't belong here.

I'll post pictures in a bit.

by **What** » 28 Aug 2006 19:54

i envy you, you live in an awesome area....

congrats on the huge nest....

seen them eat any small inverts?

by **Shrub** » 28 Aug 2006 20:14

Two things im sure you know about,

When a wasp stings it then dies so its a kamacazie (sp) mission,

Secondly, when one is killed it releases a chemical that attracts other wasps to come and defend its honour as it were,

by **What** » 28 Aug 2006 20:25

wasps can sting multiple times(bees can't), im not sure about the pheremone release though....

by **Shrub** » 28 Aug 2006 20:30

I am 99% positive you have it the wrong way around,

When a wasp stings it leaves its sting in the thing its stung and when it pulls away it leaves it dies in less than a minute,

A bee however can kep stinging as many times as it wants,

At least thats the way it is over here,

Let me clarify, a wasp is the thin type insects that have a stripy bum, a been is a furry like insect that is dosile and flys from flower to flower polinating them and honey bees use tht pollen to make honey,

A bumble bee is bigger and rounder than a normal bee and both are bigger than a wasp,

Maybe you call them differant names over there, i know some parts have the killer bee which i think we would actually call a killer wasp i think,

by **What** » 28 Aug 2006 20:55

Bee Sting(from wikipedia):
"Although it is widely believed that a worker honeybee can sting only once, this is a misconception: although the stinger is in fact barbed so that it lodges in the victim's skin, tearing loose from the bee's abdomen and leading to her death in minutes, this only happens if the victim is a mammal. The bee's stinger evolved originally for inter-bee combat between members of different hives, and the barbs evolved later as an anti-mammal defense: a barbed stinger can still penetrate the chitinous plates of another bee's exoskeleton and retract safely. Note that, as honeybees are the only Hymenoptera with a barbed stinger, they are the only stinging insects that cannot sting a human repeatedly."

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