My house, and my shed, are wasp magnets. One thing I hadn't anticipated was that thos 100 degree weather, which has been around for a while now and is expected to keep hanging around for some time, just excited the heck out of the local wasps. They're thick and they're all over the place. They keep getting in the house and I don't know where they're coming in. I can't use insecticide just anywhere and I can't use a fly swatter just anywhere. This morning one landed on my computer. Well, I can't spray it or smack at it on my computer, so I have to make him move to where I can, and it's easy for one to disappear as I try to follow it wherever it goes next. I had to take the grandson's dog out yesterday and there were so many wasps flying around, it drove us back indoors.
I try to have a "live and let live" philosophy about it, but they have no such philosophy. Over the years I've been stung 3 times by wasps I didn't even know were there! One crawled up my pants leg. I felt an itch, scratched it, and he got my leg. One crawled under my bed covers and got the same leg. One crawled under the band of my wristwatch and he got my wrist. Enough was enough. As the movie put it, "They drew first blood", (although I didn't actually bleed).
And they hurt. Man they hurt! All 3 left little craters in my skin that burned for weeks. I tried a couple of remedies. One was an old American Indian remedy, mud. One was making a baking soda paste. They...don't...work! All that being the case, any wasp that invades my space is risking its life. John