I’ve finally started the job of closing off all the gaps around the roof of the guest house so that birds won’t make their nests in there any more. I’ve got both sides closed off nicely, but when I tried to climb the ladder on the south end, the wasps suddenly swarmed out and attacked me, I fell off the ladder and they started stinging me! It was pretty scary, so I ran away, but they came after me and they’re really fast, I could barely keep ahead of them! They finally stopped following me after I got across the river about a hundred metres from the house. Fortunately I’d only been stung three times on the back of my neck.
But that was a couple of weeks ago now, which is enough time for me to have forgotten how traumatising it was! So today I went back to try again – but this time I was prepared! I made a gambiarra bee-keeper’s suit using a sombrero and a mosquito net 🙂 When I got up the ladder, hundreds of them swarmed out and attacked me, but I didn’t get stung at all and was able to nail all the pieces into place successfully, unfortunately Beth wasn’t able to get a good photo of them attacking me from inside the house.
