So there was this once spring going into summer. I went out to the backyard and saw something flying, not a bee but something bigger; after time I recognized at is a hornet.... ever heard of a hornets nest? So to the store I go an
buy a bottle that says "Kills on contact." Um well let me tell you, it does not..... after being sprayed the hornet was mad, so very mad and wanted to get who did it in. I stood frozen out in shorts, the hornet flying around my legs, some twelve seconds later it laid on the ground, the stinger still pulsing. I was going to go down for it, when I heard another sound. Another hornet, I began to perspire, the hornet around me again as the other on the ground.
The next hornet was around my legs and chest, flying and I finally hit with the "Kills on contact." I stood again still it so very angry and flying around me.... I stood still and watched it fall to the ground, again waiting for it to go, and another sound.... I stood some more and in time went and brought them for the children and wife to see. 12 hornets longer and fatter than your fingers, and that does not include in the neighborhood, the tarantulas, or the bee hive in the water work.
So I have just gathered the hornets in my hand and placed them on the porch, out comes the children and the neighbors pull up. I still have the spray in my hand, kills on contact..... Something dark is coming my way... Okay so what, it kills hornets... It comes within ten feet and I spray. It flies away, and comes back, I aim again and spray, it comes at me and turns away again. For the third time it comes back to me, and I hit it square in the face again. "You are done." The black winged roach queen flew away. And I have not even gotten to the brown recluses, black widows; and yes their webs when cut make a sound like a string guitar.... want to go against 300, 400 bees?
I did not either nor my neighbors. So one day driving back from work and see something out of the normal in the air. I park and see my neighbor on her porch talking to another female. I walk forward and see and go back into the house, and grab to bottles.
Out I go and to the water meter, there are hundreds of bees flying in the air, I walk up slowly. Into the swarm I went and stood, and already haven shaken the bottles let the poison go, in the air first and down finally into the ground under the water meter, as I opened it. There must have been a thousand more, but the spray was foam, and in my shock stood slowly while spraying, the black sky lessened.
Thank you she said, you were not afraid. Oh yes I was, you could not see my knees shake.
