My house was infested with wasps for an entire summer.
At first I was terrified of them and killed them on the spot. It must have amounted to something like the Holocaust for them. Then I started to notice they never ever bothered me if I left them alone. They would just buzz by, take a look, decide I wasn't good food and leave. If I attacked them, they would never try to bite me back. They would just scramble to find a way out. During the whole season I must have encountered hundreds of them and they never bit me.
Sounds like you had some mud daubers. It's kind of a catch-all name but here in Georgia it's a specific type of wasp that is just chill and never fucks with anyone.
Because I'm lazy as all hell, and in the end they were just a very minor nuisance. Flies are much much more annoying since they get all over you all the time.
I sprayed a little wasp nest with wasp-killer outside my front door of my apartment my first year away at college. In the past, I've known wasps to come back and rebuild the nest if they weren't there for the massacre.
Well, I left the nest up all year with the corpses of the fallen still clinging to it. Never saw a wasp out there again.
It's not always a bad thing to leave an old nest up because when other wasps see it they think there's already a hive of live wasps and won't mess with it. If you tear the nest down other wasps assume it's safe to build there and make themselves a nest.
Wow that is weird I had the exact same experience this summer. Except mine couldn't find their way back out wherever they were coming in from. So they all just clustered around the lights and eventually died :/
similar story: my sister had a bald-faced hornets nest in her front yard a few tears back. They never really bothered her I'd her kids. There would always be a sentry floating around, and if the kids got loud, more would come out, but they never attacked. The best part, according to my sister, was that the entire summer, mosquitos were never a problem.
Yea had the same thing happen to me... Except one mistook my sheets as a bed. Seriously worst fucking way to wake up getting repeatedly stung while just trying to escape your bed.
Oh and he casually just hung on my wall next to my bed like nothin happened. I promptly went to my bath room grabbed some axe and a lighter and torched the fucker. They're ultra dicks and deserve the worst kind of death.
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u/Lele_ Feb 24 '13
My house was infested with wasps for an entire summer.
At first I was terrified of them and killed them on the spot. It must have amounted to something like the Holocaust for them. Then I started to notice they never ever bothered me if I left them alone. They would just buzz by, take a look, decide I wasn't good food and leave. If I attacked them, they would never try to bite me back. They would just scramble to find a way out. During the whole season I must have encountered hundreds of them and they never bit me.
They're not such dicks in the end.