Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for April 16, 2022

I love all animals, including insects, and I would have done the same thing.

With the nice weather this past week we have been leaving the door to the garden open more often again. So far, I have had to help two hornets and a large fly find their way back out again. And two weeks ago the small bird that spends the nights inside the bell hanging just outside the door flew into the kitchen as well. It actually let me pet it before I was able to help it find its way back out.

The wizard is me with all little invaders of my home

If the wasp is native to the region, I am fine with it – if it is an invader, squish ’em.

The Wizard and his wife are probably both WASPs (white Anglo Saxon protestants).

especially when you get together with Ant-Man…

White Anglo Saxon Protestant Lives Matter. (and Jews and Catholics, etc) An overlooked fact in the current WOKEy world.

Yep, wasps, butterflies, moths, bats and what nots, have left them out without hurting them. But mosquitoes are to be hit at all costs.

Only the wizard. But of course, he is an evil wizard. Not exactly Voldemort level bad, but still. Respect to the dark side. …well, the shady side. Okay?

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/phO81uu

I will often save the wasp that gets into my cabin by covering it with a glass and sliding a piece of cardboard over the top of the glass thus capturing the wasp. I then take the glass trapped wasp outside and release it.

I’ve found out the painful way that wasps are not good neighbors. I’ve tried sharing my yard with them and got stung for my efforts.

he may have just saved the future.

My sibling is like that with flies. Not me though, I kill them brutally.

Not in my house….splat!

I’m impressed he carried it out with his bare hands. That IS a wizard move!

Maybe with Honeybees and Bumblebees, but NOT with Yellow Jackets! They’re aggressive, vicious and I’m allergic!

Wasps are not useful for pollination

Timesly report:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/13/realestate/why-you-should-plant-a-garden-thats-wasp-friendly.html?smid=em-share

We lived in a house that wasps had built a nest between the bricks and wall. They would find their way inside. The colder it got outside the more would get inside. You have not learned to hate until you are stung on the cheek while asleep about one in the morning. You want to kill something and you don’t really care what. This happened to me twice. We did find that wasps are extremely fragile. We learned to slap them, with our bare hand, out of the air and it would kill them almost every time.

My wife wants me to kill spiders. I prefer to catch them in a jar and release them in the garden.

When she said “ take care of it” I think she meant Mafia style.

wasps lives matter too

My sentiment exactly.

Catching a wasp with a bare hand?

One year I had space to grow melons and it was the wasps and yellow jackets that pollinated them, had a great crop! The bees were busy everywhere but the melon patch.

I am in full empathetic mode with both Wiz and Blanch. I have melissophobia, but I do also recognize the importance of bees and their kin to the global ecosystem. In other words, anybody is welcome to keep bees if they want to, as long as they keep them away from me.

Let them live so that we can eat.

When I take insects or spiders out of the house, I tell them, “And don’t come back!”