Thursday, April 18, 2013

I hate bugs

I drove up to the maker space yesterday after visiting my mom. I planned to air it out in the nice weather and start the repairs to my charging system. But when I opened the drivers door I was charged by a rather large wasp, followed by a slightly larger wasp. They flew by my head and off into the world. I carefully peered inside to see if there were any more guests. I spied one on the windshield and one on the dome light.
Now, I did know there was a possibility of having a nest somewhere in the rig, but I was in denial because I had already looked around the cabin and under the vehicle, and the bathroom showed no signs. So I figured the dozen or so insects that were behind the cushions were just from the past season and got trapped inside. Well, obviously I was wrong.
I started to bang on the sides and on the top vents to make them mad and reveal their location. But the night air had already cooled down enough to make them inactive again. I did a more extensive search and I did find two nests in the stove exhaust vent. My latest guess is that they migrated inside last fall because the nests show no activity.
My solution to my dilemma will involve using a bug bomb and removing the more obvious nests. Deep inside I know that there must be another nest I'm not seeing. So I'm hoping that the bug bomb will do the job.
I don't have many more cold days to rid myself of the pests so I will take the a/c cover off the top and check there as well as the refrigerator vent, heater vents and intakes and any other hole I find.

1 comment:

  1. a most excellent idea....no sense having wasp helpers, they're mean.

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