i share the earth, but not my space, yes I know. Wasps, snails, kgnats, spiders, snakes
O.K., believe it or not, I am an actual Democratic/Liberal/Progressive. I fully believe - and in a SPIRITUAL sense - that every thing - animate or inanimate - have a right to exist.
But not near/on/biting or scaring ON ME.
I believe in all the planet-saving remedies, but use spray on cockroches.
So last year was my exposure to TARANTULA WASPS, I got bit am not allergic apparently. Paid an exterminator.
This year they're back. Last year's lesson was about SPRAYing them. But this year I learned that that only works if wetting the nest. This year they're back. And I just learned from Al GORE'S internet lots of things, like, their queen can lay 1000 eggs so spraying one wasp at a time is a losing Vietnam war.
Better the sticky strips that do NOT hurt honeybees or bumble bees - see, I *am* a Dem/Lib.
**** Just have to do my yardwork without fear of being stung by GD wasps. There's plenty of planet away from me and my dog, K?
I'm trying 3 different products.
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We've been fighting damn stinkbugs in the house all year. They decided this was a cozy place to winter. First time we've ever had them. Most have now headed out, but I have no doubt they have left plenty of eggs in my house plants (the ones they didn't kill). They're also in everything in the garage. Its been making me nuts for months. And yes indeed--if you wack them, they stink like rancid cilantro.
Now, we're back to battling the wasps and carpenter bees. There are plenty of varmits that look at a log cabin as a big pile of sticks to call home. Carpenter bees don't sting, they just drill holes in your house to lay eggs. Wasps do sting, and I'm allergic to them.
I tried using an essential oil concoction in the house. They thought that was hilarious. I really don't want to spray anything more deadly inside the house (cats and dogs and humans). But we've been spraying the hell on the outside.
Nothing else you can do.
