Having a wasp in the house has always been one of my greatest fears...
This place has a seriously bad wasp problem. Last summer, especially august, was so bad that it got ot the point where we were finding a wasp in the house at least once a day, and no matter how hard we sealed things they found a way in.
We've since moved downstairs, and now not even my room is safe. At the very least, in the upstairs home, I could retreat there. Not so anymore.
Bonus points because I have a deep-seated fear of flying yellow and black things after a certain incident in my childhood made me absolutely hysterical.
Invest in Raid. Wasp spay all the nests you can find, and all the ones flying and crawling around. Then use Ant/Roach spray to the areas where they hang around most, and around any holes and doorways and whatnot. Off-brand ant/roach spray will suffice, but you get more actual wasp spray with Raid than comperably sized off-brands.
Alternatively, invest in carberator cleaner and learn to laugh at drunk wasps.
I think any sane rational person would be afraid of a wasp. Bumblebees on the other hand are adorable.
Wasps are much more badass, and they know it. They only have 3 shots of venom, but a pissed-off wasp will just keep stinging you like a sewing machine needle... On top of that, they fly where they want to and expect you to move out of the way. Plus, there's the fact that certain species lay eggs in other bugs and let their larve do the whole "chestbuster" thing. That's what inspired the Alien reproducive cycle. And there's a type of wasp that has a sort of mind-control venom, that it uses to get grasshoppers and whatnot to comply and willingly crawl into the nest to be eaten.
Bumblebees have never bothered me. My doctor's oldest son was my second best friend growing up. If not for going over there on saturdays, I would've never been able to watch SatAM as a teenager... Anyhow... They used to also be beekeepers and we would help with the honey harvesting.
Now... Wood bees... Those big, fat suckers can rightfully scare someone. And they always wait until you're in a doorway or somewhere in a barn where you can't really get away when they decide to fly less than a foot in front of your face.
When I was a little kid I used to think there existed a species of spider crossbred with wasps. That they would be flying spiders with stingers where if you got stung, it would lay eggs in you and your body would explode open with thousands of smaller spiders.
Mud daubers will fly around carrying small spiders. They take them back to the nest to cocoon them for babyfood for their larve. And it's not just small spiders that they'll kill and try to take back. I once saw one trying to drag a tarantula up a metal wall. It was rather hilarious, since the wasp kept falling back down about half-way up. The only real good thing about them is that they're a considerably more laid-back type of wasp. They'll bump into you and ususally not sting, unless you're attacking their nest. Or unless you smack one with a flyswatter not hard enough to stun it...
