Not an ordinary window this, but rather a dangerous one.
The window has some excellent burglar proofing.
Now I know that you have a burning desire to see me reveal the secrets, but we will get there soon below. We sat and had some coffee in a garden and had to be careful as wasps kept on flying around. Let me tell you that the sting of a wasp is not a very pleasant experience, and many stings by several wasps will put one into a hospital. I am allergic to bee stings, but thankfully not to wasp stings, as one of those red little wasps gave me a few hammer blows to my chest some years ago.
Two smart rosettes in the window's upper corners.
They weren't rosettes, but rather two wasp nests.
The one at the left was static, and the one at the right was crawling with wasps laying their eggs.
That's why I said that the window has excellent burglar proofing, as a big and painful surprise will be experienced by anyone that would try to climb through that window.
So, there you have it, the secret is out, as that window has two live anti-burglar alarms filled with wasp venom. I pity any burglar that will try to get through that window at night when it is dark. They look like the invasive European Paper Wasps, or they might even be the German Yellow Jackets. More inclined to the first option due to the rings on the abdomen, orange antenna, and their size. The problem that we have with these wasps, is that they damage fruit and prey on local honeybees.
We already have a problem with honeybees, due to the pesticide spraying on farms and some other issues. These wasps are disgusting little things, as they feed their larvae on live or chewed up insects. Our indigenous species have certain insects that they prey on, but these invasive ones prey on a variety that wouldn't normally have them as their predators. I even stopped one, a few years ago, from carrying away a newly born baby gecko.
Such is life.
I hope you enjoyed the pictures and the story.
Photos by Zac Smith. All-Rights-Reserved.
Camera: Canon PowershotSX70HS Bridge camera.
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Good story and good pictures. Congrats!!!😀
Thank you, and glad that you liked it :)
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Yup, those are an invasive species. As far as I know, there's a reporting hotline in the W Cape and these creatures will be removed as SANBI are quite keen to contain their spread down there https://www.capetowninvasives.org.za/images/Wasps/Invasive-Wasps-ID-Kit.pdf
Oh yeah, we have reported a few sightings over time, but if it is only two little nests then we simply destroy them.
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Better. Apparently they are extremely aggressive although they don't seem to have travelled up North (yet). We get to contend with those large paper wasps here and they are very partial to nesting outside my front door. I take action once the nest gets larger than about 6 individuals although occasionally we find a really large new nest.
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Oh yeah, they are aggressive but thankfully I haven't been stung by one of these yet. What we do here, with problematic wasps is that we try our best to get them early. We either destroy their nests immediately, and at times we even chase them when we see them looking for a place to make their nests around our property.
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Your first sentence is so intriguing it gave me an eerie vibes. Only to know there are wasps in that window. But I wont call them invaders because for sure that was their place in the past before that house was built. They remember it because the house invaded their habitat. Greate story and photographs I love them because of the storyline and organization of photos like Im reading home horror story🌿🐝
Sorry to have given you eerie vibes at first. That was never their place in the past, as these particular invaders arrived from Europe some years ago, so that house was built long before the wasps arrived.
Glad that you like the storyline 😊
Excellent photos.
You can see the design of the anti-theft system in the first photo. I mean… maybe Fidelity Services Group? should be working on something like this 😁. What an irony — you’re allergic to bees and yet you’re in a... Hive. Haha… just kidding. Cheers!
Haha. That's a good one, and maybe it could be a good and inexpensive idea to simply use wasp nests for security in all of one's windows. The trouble is, it will grow so bad that the residents dare not leave their houses 😜
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Oh, what a blunder on my part—I never even thought about the residents… hahaha!
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Shame, they will live in a prison:)😜
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