Middle of the week and it's kind of slow! Wednesday usually is.
Although today was a little more exciting, at least as far as work is concerned. Not the work itself, it was fairly routine although I did at least have something to do all day - which doesn't always happen, it can be a very slooooooooow office at time.
Anyway.
Today's excitement:
I actually found this picture on the internet, but it's a good representation of my day. Or at least about an hour out of my day. I was out in the back yard at work, with the 95-year-old-teenager. We were checking on his garden (lots of peppers and tomatos on the way). We noticed a large number of winged things with stingers and stripes, and when we were going back in the door we realized why. They were building right outside of the door and we'd completely missed it when we came out. I had to tell the "teenager" that we couldn't get them right then, it was best to wait until dark. Because he was trying to go get the broom and go after them! That was the LAST thing we needed. So, I get him back inside and then I go get younger boss and tell him where the wasp spray is. After the "teenager" left to go take his lovely wife out for lunch, we got busy. Younger boss actually just stuck his hand out the door and aimed the can at the nest - wasp spray comes out in a very thin, fast spray and it is made to go several feet away since sometimes they get a little testy when you spray them! All the stingy things died and fell to the ground, and then the nest more or less dissolved and all the (numerous) larvae (dead now) also fell. At that point, we got the broom and swept them away.
Then, we decided to walk around and see if there were any more. There were. EIGHT MORE. They were all over the place. Now, they are all d.e.a.d. And I had to go buy another can of spray since we ran the first one out. Guess I'll spend the next few days watching to see if they rebuild, since the reason you wait until after dark is so that they are all on the nest for the night. However, if we didn't get them right then - the "teenager" would probably have gone after them with the broom and there is no telling what the end result of that would have been - beyond numerous stings, that is.
Not much else happening beyond that. Really exciting, huh?!
4 comments:
kid3 found a nest the hard way. She got stung. Will go out this evening and see what stung here and spray them. Froggy
Ow! Hope she's ok. If it stung her, it's probably not a honey bee so I'd say spray away!
sprayed them last night. They were inside the hose holder, very hard to see and get at. Could not see them enough to say for sure what they were, but I think that they were yellow jackets.
Froggy
They are really bad this year, I wonder if the warm winter had anything to do with it?
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