Ever wonder how mosquitos get into your house, when you haven't had the doors opened?? I finally know! Caught 'em in the act!! The bigger ones push the smaller ones through the holes in the screens!! I gotta tell ya, THAT was quite a revelation! I mean, WHO WOULD'VE THOUGHT!?
What I can NOT understand, is how wasps are finding their way into my sunroom!?? The mean, ugly, RED wasps.....who won't hesitate to sting you just out of spite. They only need the slightest provocation! There are no holes in the window screens, and all the screens are tight-fitting, so I know they're not squeezing in around the edges somehow. But the wasps are undeniably THERE. Flying around my sunroom, looking for a way OUT. Why the heck is it that they can find their way IN, but not out?? Yesterday, I killed two. The room was 'wasp-free' when I went to bed. Today, I count three wasps, flying around in there! WHY??? What do they want??
They're difficult to kill with a flyswatter. Guess they're wearing some sort of bug 'body armor'. I have to hit them several times. The first strike only serves to piss them off! It takes the second or third strike to finally get 'em on the floor, then I stomp them a few times, just for good measure. I leave their dead carcasses in the floor till the following day, as a deterrent to other intruding wasps. That doesn't seem to be working, though. The next day, I'm dodging flying wasps while scooping up dead ones from the floor.
And spiders...... I left them alone, thinking they could be of some help in controlling the wasps, but none of them seems able to build a web strong enough to snare one! The spiders don't know it yet, but their days are numbered! I HATE SPIDERS!! I have a mild to moderate case of Arachnophobia. I can't even swat or stomp them!! I have to rely on anti-spider bug sprays to take them out! The last time I had to actually squash one with a shoe, I nearly turned wrong-side-out! Took me a half hour just to get my blood pressure down & my breathing to return to normal. The accompanying adrenaline surge was NOT pleasant, and I can promise you, I will never be one of those 'adrenaline junkies'!
And we won't even talk about cockroaches! Just the thought makes me shudder!!!!
Bad as I need a job....I could never work for Terminix!!
