Anyone who has been stung by a wasp or a bee will know the full extent of that unpleasant stinging, burning and swelling sensation, unless you so happen to work in the honey-making fields and getting stung is just part of the job. I was in my early twenties when I got my first bite, and to add insult to injury, twice within nine days. I kid you not. The first time, sniped on the forehead whilst minding my own business in the back yard, I almost passed out. The pain was immense and my body temperature shot up for a good thirty minutes too. The second assault was on my finger, and although not as frightening, it made me extra cautious as to avoid a third time.
If you live in the UK you will know our summers are short and heavily interluded with rain spells. Last summer, the sighting of wasps and bees were quite rare but wherever they were hiding and mating they definitely let the UK know they were back this year, appearing from the late winter/early spring. With more windows and doors open at that time of year it wasn't no strange thing that the odd one or two wasps were buzzing around the house untill the number increased, mainly from the bathroom. Even with the window shut, over a short period of time wasp after wasp would appear in my bathroom, mainly in the morning and late evening times.
After identifying the air vent as their entrance, I bought the most expensive wasp killer I could find in the shops but to my dismay, it just made them crazier and rushing from the choking fumes to other rooms in my home. Within a week, the numbers were increasing, I was scared to use the bathroom and tired of the swatting, ducking and diving. Even worse, I knew I couldn't afford to call out the pest controllers on my low budget. Then remembering a friends past comment on ant powder killing wasps, I squashed some powder in the vent in my bathroom. The wasps didn't dissappear but the ones I were finding were now dead or half way there.Viewing the vent connecting to the bathroom from the outside of the house, I could see these wasps diving in the holes (friends, aunties, uncles, cousins, the whole chibang!). Pushing my fear of heights to the back off my mind in order to win my battle with the little buzzers, I threw a quarter of the tub of ant powder down the outside vent, and watched in triumphant glee (from a distance of course!) as they buzzed off, suffocating in powder.
That was three weeks ago and I can honestly say, there's been no more buzzing activity from my bathroom air vent. Better still, I solved the problem with a 99p tub of ant powder. So people please think of ant powder as a pocket saving and effective alternative to picking up that phone to dial a pest controller that can cost from £50.00 upwards in my hometown.
Now, my next aim is to find a resultable repellent to get rid of ants. I have an annual problem with them in my kitchen and ant powder just doesn't seem to shift them.
