We had a small species of yellowjacket wasps build their paper nest inside my garden seat on the edge of the pond. We’d turned it over yesterday, to try to remove them.
Today, seeing no wasps, I handed my coffee cup to Jane, reached in, grabbed the small nest and removed it.
My eyesight is not what it once was, and it was dark in there.
Yep. There were wasps. Only one nailed me. Two Benedryl, Benedryl spray, and two Sudafed and the pain stopped and the swelling’s nearly gone.
Brilliant, eh?
I feel sorry for the wasps, I really do, but when they appropriate my pondside seat, I’m territorial.
OMG!!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 perhaps you were checking out the kyo space area while on benadryl? your post is sooooo hilarious!!! glad things are better and all the snafus are straightened out 😉
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It’s a curious observation here, but when I was a child we would go out to the parks etc, and catch bee’s in jam jars with a few flowers tucked in to keep them preoccupied. At the end of the day though I always set them free again. Nowadays thought Honey Bees are Huge scarey things twice the size of the ones I remember as a kid. If they get into the greenhouse I give them a wide berth, or into the house I go to extreme measures to helencp them get out again.
Wasps however are a different matter. If they stay away then fine, threaten to get inside though and I’m on high alert. Actually get inside and all bets are off. It’s now seek and destroy, Terminate, with extreme prejudice.
Wasps here are maybe different from your encounters, but not That different.
Think yourself lucky though that you don’t have an incursion of a midge swarm.