I woke up bright and early this morning and decided it was a good day to cut my Rosemary and make some herbal medicinal supplies. I grabbed my big colander and scissors and went out into the yard to attack my rosemary. I was cutting away on one section of one of my Rosemary and decided to move to another section. After I moved, I was happily cutting away when I noticed a yellow jacket next to my hand. I moved away a little bit so I wouldn't disturb it. Then I noticed another yellow jacket sitting on the colander I was holding, so I kind of moved the scissors next to make him to make him move. He flew in a little circle and landed on my shirt. I looked down at him and noticed another one on my pants, another one on my arm and several swarming around me...AAHHHH!! Instantly, I went into self-survival mode and started screaming, jumping up and down, running in circles, and swinging my scissors around like a baseball bat to try to deflect them. No matter what I did, they stayed right next to me, so I took off for the house as fast as I could go. I opened the door and ran inside. When I was in the house, I looked down and was grateful to see I still had my colander of rosemary in my hand.
I waited about 15 minutes and grabbed my colander and scissors and tiptoed back out to my rosemary, but this time I stayed as far away from the "contaminated" area as I could. Moving as little as possible, I began very quietly, cutting more rosemary. It felt sort of like I was stealing someone else's rosemary, as I was forced to cut it so cautiously and quietly. Needless to say, I never cut rosemary so fast in my life.
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Wasp Trap
Bottle and 2 inches of Kool-Aid with extra sugar |
My next mission is to kill those yellow jackets without using any kind of spray, as I don't want chemicals anywhere near my herbs. I heard one time that you can get a bottle and put a couple of inches of sweet liquid in it and set it outside and the yellow jackets/wasps will fly inside to drink the liquid and can't get out. I've thought about this often because I know my hummingbirds can't get to the feeders sometimes because of the yellow jackets/wasps. I just set the trap a few minutes ago. I'll let you know how it goes. I put 2 inches of Kool-Aid in the bottle and EXTRA sugar. Hope that will lure them in, then we'll let the trap, hopefully, do what it's supposed to do. I think I'll get my binoculars because I have no desire to go next to that bottle and look inside to see if any of them have been trapped by the enticingly sweet liquid inside.
I did notice something as I stealthily crept over to my rosemary to place the trap in a strategic spot. If you notice, to the left at the top of the bottle is a dead sprig of rosemary. This sucks for me. I know that if I don't hurry up and get that dead sprig off of the plant, it will keep dying back until I'm forced to cut off a whole entire limb. The reason this sucks is because the dead sprig is in the vicinity of the enemy, and the enemy is dying to sting me because I interrupted their nap time. After it's been dark for a couple of hours, I'll go out and cut the dead sprig off when the yellow jackets are sleeping. Until a little bit ago, I completely forgot that yellow jackets and red wasps LOVE LOVE LOVE my rosemary. : (
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