Uninvited Guests

Kanon and I now have some uninvited guests at our apartment – yellow jackets. They’ve decided to build their nest directly outside of our backdoor in a birdhouse that some former tenant must have thought was a good idea. So far they haven’t caused any major problems. We have debated spraying them through the screen on our window (aka we are both far too chicken to stand outside and do it), but since they’ll die off anyway once the weather gets cool enough, we have thus far resisted. The teacher in me actually thinks that it’s kind of cool to get to see them do their thing close up without any risk of injury especially since we don’t really use the backdoor. Of course, the anti-insect side of says they have to go! I’m not sure how long they’ll last, but for now, our uninvited guests remain.

The birdhouse in this picture translucent so the darker parts of it are the areas where the nest is. I was trying to actually get a picture of our guests instead of the nest, but they were being uncooperative.