• The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 days ago

      A lost wasp made its way into my garage yesterday, and I couldn’t find the fly swatter, so I got creative with a leaf blower and sent him flying back outside.

      • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world
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        In risk of being today’s insane guy on the internet, a lot of wasp species are actually pretty docile and even friendly. I used to water and relocate mud daubers that got into my apartment and after about a year they started nesting on the south side of the apartment and scaring off the squirrels that would get into the crawlspaces. By the time I moved they’d come up to me if I was outside and either fly around me if they wanted something or land near by and rest.

      • marighost@piefed.social
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        5 days ago

        I have one of those cordless vacuums. If it’s too big to get swatted, you gonna get the succ’d up, fool.

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        I tried doing that to a moth and accidentally threw it against the wall. Not sure if i killed it but I didnt see it afterwards :(

    • Ziglin (it/they)@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      That alone does not explain how a total of 3 hornets have made it inside my running computer (through the missing IO shield) over the course of two years.