Hope you're improving. Wife is allergic as well and when we're together and come across a nest or swarm, she'll move away REAL fast. I can stand around and wave them off.
Been working on a barn addition which means ripping off metal siding tearing off eaves, etc. and uncovering fair number of nests. They don't seem to like people whacking near their homes with hammers and crowbars for some reason. :lol: Usually they'll just buzz around my head. Had a couple actually fly into my head and bounce off rather than land and sting. I suspect I exude some kind of "old curmudgeon" odor that wards them off. I have found that if you kill one by smashing it, the others seem to get fired up. I heard once that they react to the chemicals a smashed one gives off. Don't know if that's true or not, but I try and leave them alone or use a can of spray on the nests or get them in mid-air.
I've been working on a canopy for my FORD 3600 and was test fitting the brackets on the ROPS the other day. Put the bolts in one ROPS upright and found out that I'd plugged the access holes for a nest judging by the couple of wasps that came back and were mighty upset that they couldn't get inside the post. Evidently the 1/2" holes were mighty fine doorways to a very protected nest site. Anything I build nowadays for my equipment has any tube ends or nooks/crannies covered by a welded piece of sheet stock just to eliminate potential nesting areas. Nests out in the open are easy to deal with but the hidden ones are what I fear, for my wife's sake.
I do sympathize with those who are allergic and am surprised to find that you can become allergic later in life. It will make me more wary from now on.
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