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No politics please. Don't be a dick.
Stripy little dickheads. Though, part of me admires them.
Imagine, you are presented with a fucking TITAN creature, it's tens of thousands of times bigger than you. So, what do they do? They charge headlong at the titan's face shouting "I'LL STAB YE WITH MY ARSE!"
I attempted to bat a wasp away with my flip-flop once and I missed. The wasp stung me on the palm of my hand and my flip-flop went sailing off the balcony when I let go of it in shock screaming "it's fucking stung me!" The pain up my whole arm was not fun at all. That was the last time I tried to pick a fight with a stripy little dickhead.
Ouch, wasp 2 - 0 Juniper I guess! Did you manage to get your flipflop back? I'm imagining a scene where you go to retrieve it and the wasp is waiting haha.
I know this'll sound like a tall tale, but once many years ago I had a wasp getting all up in my face, I'd just been watching boxing so without thinking I jabbed it... and punched it clean out of the air, it sat there on the floor all dazed. Weren't expecting that, were you ya stripy little dickhead!
Hahah, a story for the ages! "I once KO'ed a wasp!"
I did get the flip-flop back without round two, thankfully.
There is a nest in my loft, I can stand in the garden and watch them fly in and out of the eaves.
The loft belongs to them now...
Someone once told me that they won't come back to an old nest the next year, so I'm praying that's true and I'll have my loft back come winter. Thoughts and prayers please!
Unless...OP, do we use the opportunity to begin a Ghostbusters knock-off?
WHEN THERE'S A SPOOKY BUZZ
IN THE COMPOST HEAP
WHO YA GONNA CALL
WASPBUSTERS!
The last bit of this comment absolutely took me out. Thank you for the laugh.
Make an essential oil mix of peppermint oil and eucalyptus oil, wasps hate the smell of both. I use this mix in the attic by way of an oil burner, after a week they've gone.
Please don't kill them as we need all the pollinators we can get.
This is my actual nightmare, hope you can get rid of them.
A few years ago I was living in a top floor rented flat. Went to climb into bed one night and stood on something painful. I'd taken my glasses off and couldn't immediately see what it was but imagine my horror as I stooped down, pain in my foot continuing to build, to find a dead wasp had just been lying there in wait ready for me to stand on it!
It turns out we had a wasp nest in the roof of the building, and for the next few weeks we tried in vain to get the landlord to sort something. Meanwhile despite our best efforts the wasps kept getting in, sometimes we'd find them still alive but more often dead. They started to fill the ceiling lights in the bathroom, until there was no light getting through the sheer mass of wasp corpses.
We moved out asap, naturally. When we packed up the bedroom it was spotless and a few hours later, easy to spot in the completely bare room, there were at least 10 new dead wasps strewn around the carpet.
When I say this is my nightmare, I do not exaggerate. It's haunted me ever since.
Make an essential oil bomb of peppermint oil and eucalyptus oil, wasps hate the smell of both and both mixed will Fukem off in a safe manner.
I'd suggest you use a couple of garden night torches but fill the tanks with the mix of essential oils and the fuel, you're gonna need to test the mix a few times to get the highest pungency with a good burn. Then deploy them, keep refilling the tanks all the time and you'll find they move on.
I use this mix in the attic by way of an oil burner, after a week they've gone.
Please don't kill them as we need all the pollinators we can get.