Oct 05
How to get rid of them?!?

How to get rid of them?!?

Hav­ing been a real proud cow­ard for ages, flee­ing away as soon as a gen­tle zzzzzzz came into any per­cep­tion of sound or any uniden­ti­fied fly­ing object crossed any side sight, I was won­der­ing if I could really over­come a wasp’s inva­sion in my own beloved apart­ment.
I was per­suaded that this hon­estly pud­ding hearth behav­ior would have saved me from many dis­tresses like stings, bites, pricks and asso­ci­ated side effects. I could have not fig­ured out so far any other pos­si­ble ratio­nal reac­tions to such attacks and harass­ments than a plain outrush.


Do you know what?

I could not even have killed a fly and let alone crush a worm before today. Nev­er­the­less I have never been invaded by a bunch of insects’ or lived in any green area in my life.

Let me tell you some­thing more about how this story began.

Though at first I was scared about liv­ing much closer to the coun­try­side than to the city, it was already Novem­ber and the autumn was going to delight me with falling leaves and no flow­ers and spring had sprung around.
It hap­pened soon, even before autumn was able to turn into win­ter, snow had been falling on our green area for weeks chang­ing it in a white area. It was such a high vol­ume of snow that the only things I could see fly­ing around were pure and white snowflakes, though the biggest ones ever seen. I could never have believed that I could have hated the snow as much as at the time, actu­ally I had no equip­ment to go through all that cold and ice and I felt like a pris­oner in my own house.

All of that was over and not soon, only in the late April/early May.
Such a long win­ter made me wish I could throw open the win­dows and any pos­si­ble green hints were most wel­comed. I could not have been dis­ap­pointed, in fact a green­est avalanche of trees and bushes and col­or­ful flow­ers sprawled in a few weeks and cov­ered every lit­tle cor­ner and edge as well as wide areas, regions which came into my sight from my neigh­bor­hood on.

Well, it brought along all sorts of insects whose shape I could have never imag­ined by myself and to which I could have never dared be so close. It should come eas­ily into your mind that I received all kinds of unex­pected fly­ing guests and that I was not delighted by such a crowded cohabitation.
My hero!

My hero!

My Hero

Despite his will my boyfriend was often requested to be involved in many aer­ial fights equipped with news­pa­per, vac­uum cleaner and long arms weapons. So well did he suc­ceed that I started to observe his war tech­niques from a safe cor­ner instead of run­ning out of the room shut­ting the door and wait­ing for him to come out victoriously.
More than an inter­est, it was a need: I could not count on him all day and night long since he works at a com­pany and trav­els for busi­ness very often.

The oppor­tu­nity to start my new insects’ ser­ial killer life came dur­ing sum­mer: a wasps´ clus­ter invaded my bed­room shut­ters.
At first it hap­pened from time to time that a wasp came in to the room let­ting us won­der how it came in since the win­dow was closed.
My first approach was the only one I knew: leav­ing the room imme­di­ately as it was burn­ing out and wait­ing for my boyfriend to come back home.

Any­way a much more sub­stan­tial event changed our mind regard­ing this issue that was con­sid­ered just tem­po­rary. After some hol­i­days we went back home and found 14 dead wasps in our bed­room.
We did not waste time in any buri­als and mourn­ing and found the courage to go on and to think of global wasps´ exter­mi­na­tion. How­ever it was late evening and we wanted to go bed with­out feel­ing guilty because of eco­log­i­cal prin­ci­ples to be respected, so we just ignored the inva­sion and slept on it.

Nei­ther dreams nor our sleep­ing will put this prob­lem on hold, in fact 3 wasps woke us up early in the morn­ing cel­e­brat­ing our new life together. News­pa­per weapons worked well in this respect and we went back to sleep.

Nev­er­the­less many other wasps were out­side and look­ing for­ward to liv­ing with us. They adven­tur­ously passed through the shut­ter despite any pos­si­ble harm and found a pas­sage to our beloved house.

No way. They must be out.

My boyfriend plugged any entry con­nected to the shut­ter and it helped a lot. But how could we over­come the sum­mer warmth with the win­dows con­stantly closed?
We must open them and let wasps come in again.
Wasps invasion

Wasps inva­sion

Liv­ing with wasps became a habit since I liked the room so much that I used to work there dur­ing the day and the wasps just sat on the win­dow glass and buzzed bear­ably.
Until when would this peace­ful cohab­i­ta­tion have to go on?
That was the ques­tion and it was quickly answered.

The sum­mer was early over and windy rain­storms were becom­ing the steady every­day weather, though win­dows were still half opened. Are you won­der­ing where wasps spend their win­ter? I was won­der­ing the same before going to bed on a rainy night when 3 wasps came in to my kitchen and 2 into my bedroom.

I took a look at the bunch of mag­a­zines lying on shelves for months and I quickly chose one of them which I was so not inter­ested in. I grasped it strongly in my hand, I took aim mea­sur­ing the col­lo­ca­tion of the wasp on the closet wall and mashed it!
Yes, I did it and I did it well and again.

Soon I dis­cov­ered the plea­sure of killing them and that I could not stop it. I became addicted to that, I had to find wasps and kill them more and more. I was def­i­nitely get­ting into my new per­son­al­ity: the wasps´ ser­ial killer.

This con­fes­sion could be crit­i­cised by eco­log­i­cal orga­ni­za­tions with­out any under­stand­ing of what my life with wasps was like and how I really tried to live with them in peace. Bor­ders could be crossed, that is fine, but they did not meet the require­ments to get any res­i­den­tial per­mit and what can I say? I am griev­ously pleased with that, a con­tra­dic­tory feel­ing I must live with.

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The sec­ond social media apero is over and we are get­ting ready for the third social media apero. To get a bet­ter under­stand­ing about the for­mat of the event you can have a look at the lat­est Social Media Apero video inter­views gallery.

Worn out about stick­ing on your lap­top? Don’t pass up the chance to meet the inter­na­tional social media crew in Basel.

The third inter­na­tional social

The third Social Media Apero in Basel is due on 15th of June at 18:30 at Kohlmanns in Basel.See the map: http://www.blomap.com/Switzerland/Basel/Restaurant_Kohlmanns/1428/9/MAP/

This sort of inter­na­tional event is not very com­mon in Switzer­land. We are try­ing to spread the “meet-up” for­mat and dif­fer­en­ti­ate this event from the stan­dard sem­i­nar or work-shops events. To gather together peo­ple with the same strong pro­fes­sional inter­est in social media is a

This sort of inter­na­tional event is not very com­mon in Switzer­land. We are try­ing to spread the “meet-up” for­mat and dif­fer­en­ti­ate this event from the stan­dard sem­i­nar or work-shops events. Gath­er­ing together peo­ple with the same strong pro­fes­sional inter­est in social media is a plain way to build a com­monly shared  social media aware­ness and culture. 

I am a Web and Social Media man­ager and founded the brand-new

Venue: Kohlmanns

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This is an infor­mal net­work­ing event meant to get together Social Media pro­fes­sion­als and stu­dents to swap opin­ions, to share inno­v­a­tive ideas, to infor­mally present new projects and last but not least to hand on the social media culture. 

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