This summer right around the first of August, just in time for Kate’s swim birthday party in the backyard, we were invaded by stinging insects. Never in my entire lifetime have I seen anything like this.
WHAT IS THIS THING?!!!!
They were as big as my little Ava!!
This is only one species of the flying, attacking THINGS! The points on their rears look like they could cut your throat!
Now, this one on the sunflower I am used to seeing:
One of the stinging species in the backyard this year
The bugs were so thick you couldn’t walk through the yard. So I did what I don’t like to do. I went to the store and bought cans of hornet spray. There was no way I could have a bunch of kids coming over with those things swarming (best word I can use but it was an invasion) all around the pool and the yard.
So like a gunslinger, I walked out in the yard with my “guns” and chased and sprayed those bugs (some chased me back) until I got rid of them. Mainly just scared them off because they came back. I just kept my “guns” with me at all times while the kids were here and met them at high noon whenever I needed to do so.
WHERE WERE THEY COMING FROM IN DROVES LIKE THIS?!!!!!
After the two-to-four-week frenzy they all settled down. It was then I found all the mounds of sand and dirt in the yard and the huge holes. All the old timers said to pour gas down the holes. Some said light it on fire because they have a way in and a way out, which I found to be true in every mound.
I went with the gas-only method because if I set fire to all the nests in the ground, I am fairly certain my yard would have blown up.
I used a lot of gas. I wanted to get rid of them. Really, really wanted to get rid of them.
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