I love nature and I love to create beauty in homes both inside and out. However, I am now faced with a dilema. Wasps have decide that one of my gardens was prime real estate for them and they moved in. Don't blame them you know, I like it too. So what to do. I first noticed this nest a week or so ago when trimming some overgrowth. I actually bumped right into it. Boy did I move quickly as wasps flew all around me. Guess they didn't like the intrusion. I received only two stings, but felt very insecure as previously I have been told that I am allergic and must use an epipen and go straight to the hospital. Well the nearest hospital is 20 minutes away and I was all alone. No epeipen either as the latest advice is that I really don't need one as I only swell up and don't experience breathing difficulties. So this was a test. (I guess I passed as I'm still here writing this). I swallowed a few allergy pills and went out to look at the nest again; this time from a safer distance. The wasps had attached their home to the side of one the the plant supports and it was the size of a small hardball.
A few weeks later and the nest has grown to the size of a small canteloupe. So I have made a decision. My garden is becoming too overgrown so the nest has to go.
I feel like such a home wrecker! If I could only transport the nest into the field or somewhere else where we could all live in harmony, but alas, this is not to be. I bought wasp spray and one of these nights my husband will be out there spraying away (what, you thought I would do it, not in your life!). Sorry wasps but location, location, location is sometimes not all it's cracked up to be (wasp, lol)!
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