# 22ft Wasp Nest Found In Abandoned Home In Spain **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 12, 2013, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22ft-wasp-nest-found-in-abandoned-home-in-spain/655505 "2013-04-12T14:40:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2013, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22ft-wasp-nest-found-in-abandoned-home-in-spain/655505/41 "2013-04-13T16:00:57Z")
In Soviet Union, human stings wasp. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2013, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22ft-wasp-nest-found-in-abandoned-home-in-spain/655505/42 "2013-04-13T16:04:55Z")
_The general scratches his swelling and thinks His guns work well but his kevlar stinks Castilla girl, hard and sweet jabs epi-pen into his fast retreat…_ ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2013, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22ft-wasp-nest-found-in-abandoned-home-in-spain/655505/43 "2013-04-13T16:08:12Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > _The general scratches his swelling and thinks…_ A guy is stung on his penis. He says to the doctor, ‘Can you take away the pain, but leave the swelling?’ Oh, and **Blucher** … _Houyhnhnm!_ ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22ft-wasp-nest-found-in-abandoned-home-in-spain/655505/44 "2013-04-14T12:16:22Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > It probably only requires … a sufficient supply of food… Man, you had to say it… ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22ft-wasp-nest-found-in-abandoned-home-in-spain/655505/45 "2013-04-14T12:44:04Z")
Any more news? What’s the latest buzz? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22ft-wasp-nest-found-in-abandoned-home-in-spain/655505/46 "2013-04-14T13:40:15Z")
> [@clairobscur](#): > > Also, no trace could be found of him in Spain where he was supposedly born, hence he was most likely living under an assumed identity. > [@clairobscur](#): > > Finally, another mystery : no evidence of his birth was found in Spain, but evidences of his death were. Before dying in France in 1997 or so, he already died in Spain in 1970. > [@clairobscur](#): > > He also died towards the end of the Spanish Civil War while fleeing the country according to another article. Any mention of a big blue box? ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22ft-wasp-nest-found-in-abandoned-home-in-spain/655505/47 "2013-04-14T15:58:29Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Any mention of a big blue box? Sorry, I don’t get the reference… ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22ft-wasp-nest-found-in-abandoned-home-in-spain/655505/48 "2013-04-14T16:16:51Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Uh, “Africanized”? The article says they could be direct from Africa. So wouldn’t they be “African wasps”? The house is on La Gomera, one of the Canary Islands. Geographically, that’s still Africa, just off the coast of Morocco. If they are indeed “African” wasps, I’m sure they still think of it as their turf. Now if anyone needs me, I’ll be curled up in a fetal position in the corner, sucking my thumb and meeping softly. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22ft-wasp-nest-found-in-abandoned-home-in-spain/655505/49 "2013-04-14T16:26:48Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Any mention of a big blue box? > [@clairobscur](#): > > Sorry, I don’t get the reference… I suspect it’s a reference to Doctor Who, appearing and disappearing through time. What got the neighbours worrying, I wonder? Did they see clouds of wasps pouring out of the house at dawn or dusk or whenever it is they’re active? ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22ft-wasp-nest-found-in-abandoned-home-in-spain/655505/50 "2013-04-14T16:37:49Z")
It was like the bat flight at Carlsbad, except it was wasps. ---
**Author:** ![Zjestika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8edcca/32.png) [@Zjestika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zjestika)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22ft-wasp-nest-found-in-abandoned-home-in-spain/655505/51 "2013-04-14T16:54:38Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > My house would be abandoned too if it had a 22ft wasp nest in it. > > Abandoned and perhaps set on fire. I have a wasp issue at my house where they get in the screen door at the side of the house and start building a nest between the storm door and the screen. I consider abandoning my house over one wasp at a time. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22ft-wasp-nest-found-in-abandoned-home-in-spain/655505/52 "2013-04-14T19:17:15Z")
> [@flodnak](#): > > Now if anyone needs me, I’ll be curled up in a fetal position in the corner, sucking my thumb and meeping softly. Don’t worry. To get to you, they’d have to cross the Maginot Line first! ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22ft-wasp-nest-found-in-abandoned-home-in-spain/655505/53 "2013-04-14T19:35:57Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > I do wonder how they will deal with it. > > “Tent” the house and spray in insecticide? I imagine getting the “tent” over the house will be tricky … :eek: Shouldn’t be, it’s a pretty small, self-standing house. A rowhouse or flats would be much more complicated. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22ft-wasp-nest-found-in-abandoned-home-in-spain/655505/54 "2013-04-14T22:19:01Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Shouldn’t be, it’s a pretty small, self-standing house. A rowhouse or flats would be much more complicated. If I found out that someone else in the same building had a nest like that in their apartment, I’d be out on the street with my suitcases, calling a cab, in about 15 nanoseconds. (Glad you’re safe, **Nava**. Yes, I know you’re probably hundreds of kilometres from The Nest, but a) Spain looks pretty small from here, b) they can fly, and c) AAAAAHHHH!!! RUN!!! ) ---
**Author:** ![TPWombat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TPWombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TPWombat)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22ft-wasp-nest-found-in-abandoned-home-in-spain/655505/55 "2013-04-15T00:57:32Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Am I the only one who read the article’s last line…“Authorities have been unable to trace the owner of the house”…and then looked at the picture…and then at that line…and then at the picture… And did you also wonder if _he was still alive but paralyzed inside there?_ ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22ft-wasp-nest-found-in-abandoned-home-in-spain/655505/56 "2013-04-15T13:33:52Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Shouldn’t be, it’s a pretty small, self-standing house. A rowhouse or flats would be much more complicated. Heh I meant “getting the tent over the house while being swarmed by millions of wasps would be a bit tricky”. Obviously they will be wearing those fancy protection from bee suits like beekeepers wear, but still. I can think of jobs I’d rather do! :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/22ft-wasp-nest-found-in-abandoned-home-in-spain/655505.md?page=2)