Wasps!

We kept noticing wasps in the front room, but there was a fan in the window and we thought they were getting in there. So Alan removed the fan and closed the window. But the wasps kept appearing.

They were no trouble. They didn't keep flying around the house trying to dive bomb us, in fact they made no human contact at all. They didn't seem interested in any fruit in the house, or any food at all, really. The wasps would congregate by the window in the front room and try and get out.

I would count about 15 on any given day. Unless it was cold, then there weren't many at all.

It took me a while, but eventually I realized that there were no windows open, and there were numerous wasps inside our house, maybe, just maybe, they were getting in from the outside somehow. I know, I'm a slow learner, but what can you do?

So, my good friend LoAnn and I went and investigated around the outside of the house, and there we spotted it. Well them, really. Lots of them. Flying into what must have been a gap between the ceder siding on the outside of the house and the brick. Aha! There must be a nest in the wall of our house. Comforting to have figured out the problem, but rather disturbing in that there was now a problem to be dealt with...

Alan, my hero, sprayed some wasp killer up the hole one evening after they were all safely (!) tucked up in bed. The following day, they were just flying around as if they had had a really, really good night out and were now suffering the consequences.

He tried it again.

The same happened.

So, we had to call out 'the guy' - you know, the one who charges a lot of money for a few minutes work and then shows you all the small print that explains that even if the house falls down as a result of his few minutes' work, his company is not liable...

So, the guy came and sprayed some stuff up the hole. His stuff was white and the wasps didn't like it much, but they still wanted to get to their nest. I expect they had left all their important stuff there and received no warning about their impending eviction. You have to sympathise with them... at a distance, of course.

I didn't see any the following day.

Maybe they have managed to find somewhere else to live.

I didn't want to kill them, I just wanted them to choose another location. I don't know how you negotiate land treaties with wasps. I just hope that some nomadic wasps don't assume squatters rights and move into the now vacant wasp's nest...