The Christmas tree is alive

(but really)

It was December 6th and I was racing with a friend to the local hardware store to pick up a nice little tree (by the way, you put this under). Not too big, because there was that one time we had a specimen that was at least three meters in circumference and about just as tall. We had to take that one to my in-laws, otherwise I probably wouldn't have been able to sit on my own couch at Christmas.

After he first looked at a large tree with ten sides, I firmly led him to a small one with a root ball. It doesn't sound very sexy, but I had such a nice pot at home and for now this type loses the least needles (until last night, but so be it). Wrap it up, pay, into the car, out of the car, through the hallway and let it drop prominently in the living room. We have an extra companion in the house. But now it turns out that it doesn't stop at one. I remember that at the same mother-in-law's house there were at least forty little spiders spinning a web on the ceiling per square meter of surface area. We found it strange, because where did they come from? Until I saw a diligent little spider going to town between a branch and a silver Christmas ball during Christmas dinner. THEY ARE IN THE TREE.

All perfectly normal, I read on Telegraaf.nl, because an average Christmas tree provides shelter for about 25,000 insects, says a pest control company. This way you bring a complete lice convoy into your house, that tree also has some moths in its old coat, the aforementioned spider is abundantly present and springtails also thrive well in a tree. I really have no idea what a springtail is and I actually dare not type it into Google, but it is lurking, between needle and branch. Just so you know. So now I have itching everywhere and I dare not decorate my Christmas tree tonight with balls and lights. Why don't we see those little monsters? They are hibernating and therefore do not show themselves. No idea what that spider guard was doing on my mother-in-law's ceiling, by the way.

I can imagine that the more the merrier. Now it so happens that May just dragged a Nordmann-like one into her basket at Bol.com, from two meters to two fifty. Hallelujah. Not in the mood for all those uninvited guests? Then put it in the shed for a few days first and then shake it very, very well. Then probably only 10,000 insects will come into your house, that's still a sip on a drink.

Itch them all!

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