If you like flying things that sting, don't read this entry

So we had the bug guy out today -- he comes four times a year to kill bugs in our house and outside of our house. I'm sorry, I know. I'm a terrible murderer. But I don't like bugs, even the ones that are supposedly good for me. I like bats for the very reason that they eat skeeters. Bats creep me out, but not as much as skeeter bites. 


So anyway, we have had a problem with these large bees that hover on/around our deck on warm days. I thought they were bumble bees and were just hanging out because they enjoy all of our flowers.  Though they are never on or near the flowers. They hang on the deck - near the stairs, near the BBQ, and they hover there, until another one comes along and then they bump into each other and fly off and probably have bee sex.  They freak me out but I figured they are the price for having lovely gardens.


Turns out they are not bumble bees. They are carpenter bees and they are eating our deck. So I told bug guy to nuke 'em. And while he was at it, wasps were building nests in the seams of our wood paneling, so he nuked them too.

No, I didn't take this picture, they are way too fast for me, in a slow, large bee kind of way.  But here's one I found on the internet, and he looks pretty much like ours, only ours have more black and less yellow.

Sorry bug lovers. Does it help that I wouldn't have nuked them if they'd just been bumble bees? And hey, you love Bob's big damn deck as much as anyone, did you want them to eat it away?  I didn't think so.

P.S. I bought a Kindle yesterday. So I will stop killing so many trees. That should help my bug killing karma, don't you think?