Country File

[Gwydion]

The barn is obviously an awkward place for a wasps nest and has to go, but if you can you should live with wasps as far as possible. B****y annoying little b*****s but they do kill an enormous number of insect pests and spiders so embrace the wasp - just not literally! 

[toxicpixie]

I reckon the mites had such a good time as the chickens had been locked down for so many times, and for so long...and hadn't been able to have a dust bath.

We'll get something sorted out for their run, if they have to be locked in, again. (Should have thought of this before !)

The 'Worsps'.....A bee-keeping friend of a friend is coming around in the next couple of days to sort those out. .I wasn't going to take on the half football sized nest....(My guesstimate would be there are a good few dozen, if not 100 + in that one....The one in the bird box can't have THAT many in it (not enough room ?)......Probably could have used the electric 'fly swat' on those.

Flockdown is a *pain*.

I find a bit of small sand and a load of diamateceous earth into a small dip is a great incentive for the chickens to have a good roll around and dust bath!

[Techno 3]

Worsps gone.

(I expected to see a lot more peed off worsps, flying around, while matey was working on the nests...Those that weren't in the nests, will die off in the next few days. (Apparently)

[Heedless Horseman]

I HATE Wasps... don't mind Bees. Thing about either is to wear protective kit that they can' get into. Most important thing is not to 'Flap' around... it excites them ! Poison will be carried into nest and will 'do' for most.

[Techno 3]

I did take my 'Executioner' (?) into the barn, while Matey was dealing with the nests.

Haven't zapped anything with that for a long while...I was surprised the battery hadn't given up the ghost.
I thought the advantage in using that, would be that I wouldn't have to swish it around.

[FierceKitty]

I semi-literally flamethrowered a centipede in the shower this morning. Insecticide won't kill them, but hold a flame in front of the spray...

[John Cook]

I semi-literally flamethrowered a centipede...

'semi-literally flamethrowered'.  That's an interesting concept.  I presume it was unnecessary to fully-literally flamethrower it?

[toxicpixie]

I semi-literally flamethrowered a centipede in the shower this morning. Insecticide won't kill them, but hold a flame in front of the spray...

That seems somewhat excessive, do I gather your local centipedes are... somewhat less friendly than UK based ones

[Heedless Horseman]

Dunno what is wrong with a Centipede... or Millipede... maybe regional. When an evil teen, used to flamethrower greenfly with lighter. Don't do it now. Food for something!

[FierceKitty]

Dunno what is wrong with a Centipede... or Millipede... maybe regional. When an evil teen, used to flamethrower greenfly with lighter. Don't do it now. Food for something!

Also with a venomous "bite" much to be dreaded. I have cats to protect, and even a human make be taken unawares.

[FierceKitty]

'semi-literally flamethrowered'.  That's an interesting concept.  I presume it was unnecessary to fully-literally flamethrower it?

"Throw" suggests a longer-ranged projection. This was a close-combat weapon, selected since the dam' creatures are harder to put down than zombies.

[Techno 3]

Asian centipedes are a LOT bigger* than the ones we get in the UK.... with a really painful bite  .....IIRC.

*Sodding enormous springs to mind.

[fsn]

IIRC, in the original book version of the James Bond "Dr No", it is not a spider dropped on Bond, but a millipede.

[pierre the shy]

IIRC, in the original book version of the James Bond "Dr No", it is not a spider dropped on Bond, but a millipede.

Still a creepy crawly.....

 

[toxicpixie]

Yeah, that's sounding like a flamethrowering is well in order!