As i stood 5 feet away from my front door with the girls at my ankles I decided that it was time to take action - well when I could get in the flaming house it would be.
The problem is this. I am allergic to wasp sting and there were a bunch of the little rat bags dancing round my front door thus blocking me out, brilliant.
We have lived here now just over three years and so far every march/april they come back to bug me. We have cleared the gardens front and back of anything that could be attracting them so as a last resort it was time to call the professionals.
The solution was hardly forth coming when the pest control officer over the phone decided that they were honey bees and thus what I needed to do was call a bee-keeper. So to the yellow pages I went to which I found the nearest beekeeper over 1 hour away, so not likely to come and remove the queen then.
But all was not lost when I recalled buying some local honey from a local shop a few months before. I called the shop who put me in contact with the keeper. A lovely lady then very kindly phoned me and within 10 minute was on my door step with yet more bad news.
It appears we have solitary bees. Now in opposition to their title we have about 20 of the things that according to the keeper are using the front of our house as a play ground due to the heat retained by the bricks. Great so looks like we are stuck with them for the duration and most probably for the coming years until they find better facilites elsewhere.
In the meantime I quivers at the thought of leaving or entering the house having to walk past them with the girls and even started having bad dreams about them - I WANT TO MOVE LIKE NOW.
If anyone knows how I could discourage them (apart from ice-cladding the house please let me know.