Living with insects

[facthunter]

One version used to block the Pitot tubes with mud pretty quickly at Rutherford on occasions. Good lesson in flying without A/S and ALT for people involved.  Nev

[Old Koreelah]

On 21/2/2023 at 10:14 PM, old man emu said:

There's wasps and there are wasps. These mud daubers are harmless if left alone so I don't really mind sharing space with them. But the paper wasps are to be killed on sight.

One of the few animals I have no qualms in killing on sight. The buggers have attacked me so many times without warning that I now conduct regular scans of my stone walls for them; they can build a new nest in a day! 

 

Almost all their nests are on the northern side of our house, but recently I noticed one high up on the southern side. Being too difficult to reach with a flaming roll of newspaper or a long pole, I resorted to gunfire: wound down the regulator on my air rifle to minimum power and brought it down with a couple of pellets, which bounced harmlessly off the timber rafter and clattered into the guttering.