Just look at these busy bees wasp workers! All up under my soffit, like they own it, or something.
Bonus! You can see some of the roofing problems, that existed before Irma.
Then, they started a second colony. Apparently the first one wasn’t big and scary enough.
Even more bonus: More pre-existing roof damage. No longer need to wonder why the roof sprang a leak during the storm, do we??
This is the truly frightening one. It’s inside the porch!!
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Lots more nests:
Not AS worried about these, still not happy they’re there of course!
That’s when I realized I really had to do something! The next place was gonna be inside! So, I put out the SOS to our guys. PopPop was the first to run to the store.
Thanks, PopPop! The lives you saved had your own blood!
Here’s the gruesome scenes, of my attacks.
Sadly, NOT, none of the wasps survived.
Not enough corpses for ya? Here’s some more.
I just love seeing dead bugs!! Of any variety!
Wasp workers wasted!! Mwuahahaha!
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AUGGGGHHH!! Up in this part of Utah, wasps (hornets, yellow jackets, big ugly stinging repeatedly flying insects) are a huge problem. I hired a bug/pest control company and they come four times a year and douse my drain pipes and house with wasp killer to keep the nasty little buggers from doing just what you had happen. This year, despite the first application, wasps appeared a couple of weeks later and were flying around a certain area on my roof. Bug guys were called back (free because they guarantee their work) and had to douse again. Brrrr. Pop pop and you are BRAVE. I wouldn’t go near those nasty things. Now I wanna know (rhetorically) WHY bees don’t do that. I’d welcome bees.
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On no!! I’m glad they came back for free!!
Well, I only am brave because the spray reaches so far away!! (20 ft!) If I had to be any closer, I wouldn’t be the one doing it!
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But why do they like you so much? How come there were so many of them?
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Because it’s Fl?? Because I’m sweet?? lol It definitely not because of my cooking!
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But I also live in Florida, and on the 1st floor! I think it’s because you are sweet, definitely! 😻
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Awww, Dolly! You is sweet! And Kind, and impo’tant!!
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But I try to reduce sugar intake, and they don’t like it! Or maybe they simply like purple people more than other people?
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Lol!! It’s undoubtedly the sugar!!
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Put them on the diet!
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Bwahahahaha!
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LOL 😻
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I wait until nighttime so they’re all in the nest when I do it. I’ve done it during the day and then I have angry wasps buzzing around for a few days going ‘WHERE IS THE NEST???”
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Boy, I wish I’d talked to you first!!
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I love seeing that you got them all and didn’t get stung! My method for dealing with that sort of thing (if Mr. C isn’t available) is to text Pete. Then I hide in the house until it’s safe again.
Those kinds of wasps are bad enough when we have to deal with them but we had a ground hornet nest in the front lawn. Those serial killer bugs chase you back to YOUR nest!
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Thanks, Elizabeth!! I felt quite the powerful woman, killing so many in 1 blow of the spray!!
Nooooo!! Ground hornets make wasps look like a summer breeze!! I hope Mr C and/or Pete burnt ’em out!!
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Mr. C got ’em. Pete and I had to teach city boy how to handle that kind of thing. Pete had a 82 year old customer who was going to run out in the middle of the day to attack a ground hornet nest. Yikes! He headed her off and went back after dark to take care of it for her. Then she thought she should pay him for it! He said, “Not getting yourself killed is payment enough!”
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Lol!! WOw!! She was brave! Just a mite misguided! You raised a wonderful man, there!!
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Thank you, Melinda. He really is a good guy.
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