Apparently, one way to deal with bald-faced hornets is to spray them with soapy water-- and I also read that bald-faced hornets are less active when it's dark-- so during yesterday's thunderstorm, I geared up in sweatpants, gloves, and a rain-jacket, filled a lawn hose end-sprayer with dish soap, enlisted my long-armed son Ian, and we ran the ol' "spray the soapy water smack the hornet's nest with a shovel end around"-- and while we definitely aroused the ire of these hornets, I'm not sure we really did much damage to the nest . . . but I'm not quite ready to call in the professionals yet, as I do have other schemes brewing in my head (I've been dreaming about this nest for a week now, it's totally invaded my subconscious, it's down there buzzing and humming and thrumming in my amygdala).
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can your student draw me as a squirrel?
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