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Just exchanged email with someone about that t’other day, oddly enough.

Went to Canada on a ski-trip, spent the day in Montreal, some of us broke off to hit a McD’s, the others a fancy schmancy French restaurant. God, how everything’s slathered in cream sauce… Anyway, one of our group ordered escargot in the cutesy little ceramic dishes with individual holes for each snail. His reaction was meh. Not horrible, not great, just meh.

I’m not even a fan of clams. Nice taste, but like chewing on pencil-erasers. So I prefer them finely minced to near microscopic bits like in canned chowder. Calamari? Like eating weatherstripping…

Still, to me, the idea of eating something that should be sprayed or stomped on just doesn’t appeal.

Now, someone explain to me what could possibly entice someone to create and eat “maggot cheese”.

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well it warmed up a bit today and i got a visitor inside.
queen yellow jacket.
BLAM!.
she will not start a nest in the spring.

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Good for you!

I don't know if I have encountered a yellow jacket, but I have been around wasps.

They're tough to kill, and honestly, they scare me.

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i am sure you have one if not several types there.
size of a honeybee but black and yellow.
nasty suckers.
nest in the ground and may go unnoticed all summer till you find them with a lawnmower.
at that point there may be thousands of them in the nest and you have a big problem.
nearly lost a 92 year old neighbor to them.
she was weedeating and set off a nest.
a neighbor happened to have an epipen and administered it just in time.
thats why they get exterminated on sight here.

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I've seen pictures of them online, but I don't think I've seen one in parts of Northern, Central, or Southern California.

I do not know their natural range.

I have seen plenty of wasps and bees, though.

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Hateful little things, they’ll follow you and go after any food you might have on you. And they seem eternally pissed off, like those African-American bees everyone’s a-skeert of.

And B’harni help you if you have any food on you. They’ll chase you across the planet trying to get it.

And yeah, they live in subterranean burrows, and if you make the mistake of disturbing their nest, they’ll swarm and kill ya dead. If you see one, best to just KIWF if you can.

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Reading this made me think of indoor moths. Maybe an effective trap would be rolled up contact paper, with a small LED inside the tube to attract the moths. Cheaper than regular sticky traps, and able to make any size, but maybe it's more effort than it's worth. You could just stick a light inside the tube, or wire a battery outside of the tube. Permanent trap & easy/cheap to service

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Counting on them to be attracted to the light but being clumsy fliers that hit the inside and get stuck?

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i think the answer is more along the lines of ‘have a shoe ready’.
any light bright enough to kill bugs will also blind you.

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If you want to stretch your species tolerance, this is good reading:

and

https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Loved-Wasps-Howard/dp/1555663508/ref=pd_sbs_14_1/141-3522031-7668857?\_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1555663508&pd_rd_r=6d568dac-7ea6-41a7-aa21-035c22a0462a&pd_rd_w=7IvN1&pd_rd_wg=DwLB0&pf_rd_p=52b7592c-2dc9-4ac6-84d4-4bda6360045e&pf_rd_r=VV6MMFD979ACHEND3N5H&psc=1&refRID=VV6MMFD979ACHEND3N5H

I learned to be very tolerant of baldface hornets — the ones that make the big gray football nests. They” recognize faces

and always left me alone if I left them alone and just calmly walked by; their guards come down and hover in front of my face then go back to the nest. Best home security system I’ve ever had, as when a stranger gets near the guards don’t hover, they zoom in and bounce off the stranger as a warning.

Encouraging them can make the neighbors a little crazier than usual.

Especially neighbors who don’t know the difference between them and the ground-nesting, picnic-plaguing yellowjackets. Them, I don’t want around.

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had a nest of bald face hornets in a bush next to my parking spot.
one day in late summer i parked and heard what sounded like rocks hitting the van.
and when i got out i got stung.
they went all summer with me parking there every evening and all of a sudden get pissy?
had to eliminate that nest.

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KIWF!

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few puffs of delta dust and all dead in the morning.

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Verboten to purchase in Noo Yuck without the appropriate papieren.

Guess we’re back to KIWF…

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No wonder they have a bedbug epidemic.
Seems anything that works gets restricted.
I stocked up on known working stuff here before it got banned.
Like diazinon.
Oh and to treat a nest do it after dark with a red flashlight.
A red fauxton is plenty.