September 4, 2011 Another Kind of Bee Man

[BigV]

I got a slightly alarmed call from my girlfriend a couple weeks ago saying that there was a swarm of wasps trapping her in the house. She'd been stung once and now could not get in or out of her house from the front door. I came over and found these guys. They'd colonized the grill cover. We could see them flying down to the bottom and disappearing. I didn't know what I was facing at the time, so I stole this picture. I setup the camera and put it down on the ground and shot upward. These guards were not amused.

I would up capturing the whole colony in a bag (which I rebagged several times) and I'm just going to starve them. By the time summer's over, I'll be able to take the grill cover back out of the bags, clean off the bodies of these yellowjackets and cover the grill again.

For the record, in my capture and cleanup I was stung once. It didn't hurt very much, a little, but the next day the itching was fierce. I still have a red sore on the back of my hand ten days later.

[CaliforniaMama]

Originally Posted by BigV

I would up capturing the whole colony in a bag (which I rebagged several times) and I'm just going to starve them.

Thanks to your example, I knew what to do when my son came to me this morning with a yellowjacket in his shirt.

I grabbed a garbage bag and threw it over the yellowjacket, shirt and all.

We didn't tie it up to suffocate the poor thing, though. I had my son take it outside and dump it out.

Apparently, the yellowjacket has been in his shirt for a couple of days, ever since hubby brought it in from the drying line.

Weird timing, isn't it, that it happens while we have this thread running.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by CaliforniaMama

Thanks to your example, I knew what to do when my son came to me this morning with a yellowjacket in his shirt.

I grabbed a garbage bag and threw it over the yellowjacket, shirt and all.

We didn't tie it up to suffocate the poor thing, though. I dumped my son out first.

Apparently, the yellowjacket has been in his shirt for a couple of days, ever since hubby brought it in from the drying line.

Weird timing, isn't it, that it happens while we have this thread running.

fixed it for me...
Excellent!!! Once I got the yellow part out of my mind. The whole "shirt and all" part left an image of you with a bag full of shirt yellowjacket and son. Congratulations!

an interesting coda here, an hour later we were at the grocery store getting some dinner fixins and I felt something tickling my leg. I was wearing some light loose hiking pants with long zippers at the cuffs. I unzipped the cuff and pulled up the pant leg there in the store... Yup. There was the last of the yellowjackets crawling up my leg about six inches above my knee on the outside of my thigh. I was so surprised, I didn't take a picture. (I know, pretty surprised, eh?). Flick, squish. My genocidal satisfaction was finally complete.

[CaliforniaMama]

Originally Posted by BigV

fixed it for me...
Excellent!!! Once I got the yellow part out of my mind. The whole "shirt and all" part left an image of you with a bag full of shirt yellowjacket and son. Congratulations!

Sometimes, I do feel like doing just that!

Sorry, no, son wasn't wearing shirt yet.