We are amidst a war in our house right now, we have been invaded by wasps. It is a war that I will win and will not lose, each battle that ensue I am sure to be armed with a hard backed book and aerosol hairspray. Living in an old house always has its moments between the wasps and the japanese ladybugs that bite, however I would rather deal with the ladybugs than wasps any day of the week. Especially since I get hives when I get stung not to mention it hurts like heck, but so far I am winning this invasion of bugs. Since I am pregnant I try not to use anything with chemicals unless I have to, so using hairspray is less harmful than say wasp spray. Hair spray works by making their wings all sorts of gunky and slows them down so I can swoop in with my books and squish them into smithereens.
I have also found that my vacuum cleaner works fairly good too, I have sucked up about 3 since the invasion has started last weekend. But I have only been keeping track of how many I have killed since the 8th, so far we have killed 34 wasps in our house. The way I figure it is if we kill as many as possible now there will be less of them to dive bomb my head later on this year.
I personally hate all insects that sting after my unfortunate encounter with a yellow jacket about 15 years ago, it stung me atleast 16 times. You can still see the scar on my right arm that I received from that encounter where you can count 8 of the marks were the yellow jacket got me, so my hatred for stinging insects is well founded.
So the war has started and my hope is that it will be won without any of us getting stung.
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