hymenopterous, adjective: any of an order of highly specialized insects that include bees, wasps, and ants.
Apparently, we have several hymenopterous insects living around our house. Ants are pretty easy to take care of. Bees don't live nearby, they just come along to pollinate our plants. It's the wasps that are driving me nuts. They have built a nest in the same spot every spring for the past three years. Yesterday I wanted to take the monkey to play in the back yard. I stepped onto the deck and what do I see? Wasps, crawling on the deck. So we turned around and went back inside. Oddly, though, their nest disappeared between yesterday and today. We can only hope that this means one less hymenopterous insect for me to worry about.
Well, my blog has hymenopterous in the background - hee!
ReplyDeleteThose are cute. The monkey has a book called The Very Quiet Cricket that has pictures of disgusting bugs like cicadas and spittle bugs. I can't even read it, it squicks me out so much.
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ReplyDeleteThere are cicadas in DC every seven years (or something like that)and since I've experiences it once, we are hoping to not be in DC once the next occurrence happens! If you haven't experienced it, be grateful. They are very noisy, huge, obnoxious, they jump and dive at you too.
ReplyDeleteI used to think I wanted to move to a warmer climate, but I've gotta love the nice cold weather that keeps the freakishly large insects at bay.
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