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Thousands of Wasps Found Nesting in UK Home, Devouring Bed
ABC News ^ | Aug 27, 2014 | Kami Dimitrova

Posted on 08/27/2014 5:17:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A home in the U.K. was invaded by a monstrous colony of wasps, and the infestation was like a scene out of a 1960s Hitchcock movie, a local pest controller said.

"I couldn't believe my eyes," John Birkett, an employee at Longwood Services Pest Control, told ABC News today, referring to the nest of an estimated 5,000 wasps. "It was like the horror film 'Birds' but [with] wasps."

Birkett said he got a call from the homeowner’s son on Sunday about a nest that had taken over a bed in a spare bedroom in the home in Worchester, Hampshire. The colony was devouring the bedding.

In more than 40 years of working in the pest control business, Birkett said this was the largest nest he had ever seen.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: bees; horrorflick; stings; terror; wasps

1 posted on 08/27/2014 5:17:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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2 posted on 08/27/2014 5:21:53 PM PDT by SIDENET
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I didn’t know they still had White Anglo-Saxon Protestants in the UK.


3 posted on 08/27/2014 5:23:49 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Lights out, now TRY and get some sleep.


4 posted on 08/27/2014 5:24:27 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
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5,000 of them apparently.


5 posted on 08/27/2014 5:24:49 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
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Dhimmi wasps. They live off muslin bedding, apparently.


6 posted on 08/27/2014 5:28:54 PM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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So who’s side are you on, Britain or the Colonies?


7 posted on 08/27/2014 5:34:02 PM PDT by Ken H
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who's whose
8 posted on 08/27/2014 5:35:30 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: nickcarraway

Really? I must have missed that one. And I thought I had seen all of Hitch’s films.


9 posted on 08/27/2014 5:36:02 PM PDT by rhinohunter (Freepers aren't booing -- they're yelling "Cruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuz")
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I didn’t know they still had White Anglo-Saxon Protestants in the UK.

They do...just not in bed.

10 posted on 08/27/2014 5:43:54 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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Give them a church to live in. That would be appropriate for a WASP.


11 posted on 08/27/2014 6:21:38 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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If that were my house, I would have kicked the door open with a dammed flame thrower, and asked questions later! LOL


12 posted on 08/27/2014 6:28:03 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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Wasps. You invite them over for dinner and maybe a game of Parcheesi, and they move in and eat your bed. It happens every time.


13 posted on 08/27/2014 6:40:32 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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I’m sure Obama believes WASPs destroyed the United States as well.


14 posted on 08/27/2014 7:51:35 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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