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Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 20/2/2024 (lemmy.nz)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!

Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

So, how’s it going?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think wasps might be eating all my monarch eggs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is it good because you'll have a sustainable population? Or bad because you'll have no population at all?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

No population at all at the moment. Might change when the weather cools. My swan plants are the "giant" variety and grow about 10 foot tall, so sustainability isn't usually as big of a problem it is for people with little plants.

I can't find where the wasps have their lair yet. It's annoying because the internet says spray individuals with flyspray then run away, but running isn't really an option for me.

The homeowner says they're going to cut down 3 of my 5 plants soon so it's a pity they didn't get used.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh wow, 10ft!

If you sit and watch, if the lair is nearby then you will probably see a steady stream of wasps coming and going from the same direction.

But once you find the lair, working out how to do something about it without the "run" step might still be difficult.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah this is the problem. I'm not seeing a stream of anyone and I've wandered all over the area. They're Aussie paper wasps so normally their lairs are easier to spot from a distance than yellowjackets but the wasps themselves are harder.

If I can find it, they're toast. The trick to killing wasps is to go out on a dark night, with all your skin covered, and suffocate them. No running required.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm imagining you sneaking up behind them and suffocating each one like in video games.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

He heh! now I'm imagining using stealth archery against them with a tiny bow and some toothpicks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Ooh if you try it be sure to take a video to share 😆