What to do against wasps?!
With my left hand, I waved hard around my head, while fluttering I ordered a glass of wine from the waitress and then I almost squished the wasp between his and my cheek. I'm not joking: there were more wasps on the terrace than people and our kind was quite well represented.
The wasp experts warn: “We are heading for a more than average wasp year.” My free translation? Stay indoors, close windows and doors, nail screens in frames, and leave the bottle of perfume untouched until nine o'clock in the evening. The wasp is coming to get you.
Why do they land on your tasty food? A wasp eats proteins and sugar and they want to extract those two precisely from your steak or ice cream. They are useful, by the way, even though we often think otherwise, because the wasp catches thousands of insects (yes, even the mosquito).
Here you go, six quite handy tips to keep them at bay:
- Take a lemon and cloves. Halve the lemon, poke the cloves in it and you have a repellent that will send the black-yellow striped friends into a frenzy. A bit of clove on your clothes works too, by the way.
- Go for copper again, no matter how much we love gold. Copper emits a scent that wasps cannot appreciate.
- Mix a bit of water and ammonia, put it in a container and place it where you don't want wasps. Or vinegar, they also take off from that.
- A bit of quick filter grinding on fire, comes a smoke from it that won't make you happy, but neither will the buzzing colony.
- Bring out your inner hippie and incense your garden with your favorite scent. They cannot stand it.
- And finally: don't flee like a madman when you see a wasp; if you stay calm, it won't sting. They say. No guarantees here.
Hey, nice August everyone.
Source: Bedrock and RTL
