Ick Donna... that gives me the creeps just thinking about it too. I am sitting in the nook now at my desktop pc and keep watching the spot in the drywall we covered in plastic with the dust between the plastic and wall. I'm actually eager to rip out that overhang and get the nest out of there, wish we could do that already now. Thinking about more hatching up there and having to get into the dust before they are all dead, knowing there is still something alive up there... makes me shiver.
We usually have issues with wasps here in the summer. Hubby plugged up any holes they used to use, so this yr they come around, get upset cuz they can't get in, and then leave, but they don't hunt us down the way the yellow jackets did.
The other scary part of all of this was the ones that came in at night, when they should have been in the nest sleeping. I had noticed that a few days in a row, when letting the dog in at 11pm - midnight, yellow jackets would fly into the back hall as soon as the door opened. I would have to go wake hubby up to kill them right away. We used hair spray on those few and it was enough to drop them long enough to step on them... but when there are hundreds of them dive bombing you from every direction, all you can do is run.
The exterminator told me it wouldn't have been such a big deal if it had been something like honeybees.... but then I always worry about the Africanized strain of those. No bee is a good bee when its in my house or nesting nearby.
Dawn
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--- On Sat, 8/21/10, Donna King <donnalynneking@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Donna King <donnalynneking@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [tropical fish club] Re: Aquariums, Fish and Exterminators...
To: tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, August 21, 2010, 9:16 PM
Geezz Dawn, how horrible!! Thank God your ok!!! I wrap my tanks with plastic
wrap and for good measure I toss blankets on them too when I have the bug guy
come.
We rented a house once that had bees living in the wall, I walked by right after
we got done moving in (it was to loud before this) and could hear the buzzing, I
was soooo freaked out!! The land lord called some bee guy and he and his young
son (I'd say maybe 10) came they put out some sort of sweet stuff that made all
the bees come out and then they took them away somehow. I remember this kid
standing out there with all those bees buzzing around him, he didn't seem to get
stung though.
Yellow jackets though are a hole different story. Ours were honey bees I think,
the sheet rock was paper thin where they had the nest.......Still gives me the
creeps when I think about it.
Donna
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From: Ray <sevenspringss@wmconnect.com>
>
> There were hornets here and there outside all summer, that is normal and we
>knew this yr has been bad for them all over. 4 days ago my husband woke up in
>the morning and discovered a kitchen full of hornets. He pulled out the vacuum
>cleaner, the fly swatter, and closed off as many rooms as he could and spent 3
>hrs battling to kill them all. (28 in total) Then he went in search of where
>they had come from. An entire day spent searching revealed that the small
>overhang roof area over the bay window in the breakfast nook area had a hole in
>the molding outside. As he inspected further he discovered a small area of
>drywall that had gone soft inside, and a nice little hole had been chewed
>through it. This is the room where my 120 gallon goldfish tanks sits, with my
>prize fish... Freddy, and its an open top tank.
>
>
> Dawn
>
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