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Subject: [OM] Re: Is this a hornet or a queen wasp
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 14:45:17 -0400
I don't understand the rather strong concerns to a wasp or hornet in the 
house unless you or a child have known strong allergic or anaphylactic 
reactions.  I don't know the statistics for bee stings but I can tell 
you that about 90% of the people who are bitten by venomous snakes are 
trying to capture or kill the snake at the time they are bitten.  I 
suspect the same is true with hymenoptera.

I agree that a flyswatter is probably the appropriate tool if the 
offender can't be convinced to exit open doors or windows which is 
probably what it would prefer to do.

I think an insecticide spray in the house is potentially damaging to the 
human occupants.  But I have no reservations about using a pyrethrin 
based spray on a nest which happens to be outside but still in the wrong 
place.  Pyrethrins are mercifully quick on bees.

It has taken a long time but the female in this household has gradually 
come to accept that a few small spiders in the house are OK.  If you 
have spiders in the house that are thriving it means that there is 
something for them to eat.  Better to let them eat those somethings 
since the spiders are not vegetarians.

Chuck Norcutt

AG Schnozz wrote:
>>suggestions on humane ways to put them permanently to sleep,
>>the wasp spray didn't seem to make the first one very happy.
> 
> 
> A thick newspaper does wonders.
> 
> 
>>It's good my wife needs me for some things ;-)
> 
> 
> Ah, the joys of being married to a feminist.  They can take on
> the world, but they leave the spiders to you.
> 
> AG


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