hornet!

[rm]

Yesterday I come home from work and Patty says, "I got chased out of the bedroom by a hornet this morning, but now I think it is gone."

Okay.

I forget about it.

We go to sleep.

We wake up a couple of hours later, and then I hear it. Buzzzzz.

I've forgotten about the hornet.

Patty says, "It sounds like a cell phone."

I put my head back down on the pillow, it's really loud.

I sit up.

"No. Turn on the light."

The buzz changes pitch.

We discover a hornet right by our heads on the wall.

We evacuate and sleep on the couch/floor in the living room.

So I ask you:

- How long do hornets live?
- How do we get the hornet out of our bedroom?

Comments

[shield-toad111.livejournal.com]

How do we get the hornet out of our bedroom?

I've always been a fan of the large cup and stiff card approach. (Cover hornet with cup. Slide card between rim and wall. Open window, remove card (with cup pointing outward), let hornet go about its business while you close the window and hope it never comes back.)

[featherofeeling.livejournal.com]

Yup. I do that all the time, only with a door.

Mind you, it does have to be a large cup.

[shield-toad111.livejournal.com]

I was only thinking a large cup to maximize distance from the hornet.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

I (or rather one of my less arachnophobic partners) use that process for spiders, but I'd be terrified to use that on a flying stinging arthropod. One mistep in the process puts you in very close proximity to a very annoyed hornet.