(Joan here) It all started with a little wasp and ended up with the fire department - yesterday I was sitting reading out on the pool patio and also watching the progress on the casita. The guys have worked hard and its almost finished and considering they have few electric tools really, but a lot of hand tools. They were chiselling out a chanel above the new french doors to accommodate the Spanish-style tiles, and I guess that noise, along with their radio and singing (yes, they sing constantly) must have annoyed some wasps and there was one or two flying around. You would have thought the wasps were pterodactyls the way the workers were yelling and dancing around like a bunch of girls. Jose (our gardener) and I were laughing at their antics, running around flapping their hands around their heads and then they were all huddled in the corner by the laundry room.
I never thought any more of it and went inside as it was getting too hot (yes, and its almost mid-November folks) and to get another drink. About a half hour later Jose came in to say one of the workers had been stung twice and they weren't working now and that the tree where the wasps have a nest would probably have to be cut down. That would be such a shame - its a beautiful African Tulip Tree - dark glossy leaves very like Sumach but with huge cup-shaped orange flowers, just like ttulip. The tree isn't on our property proper, but on the corner outside on the street. Jose took out his bug killer and sprayed where he thought the nest was, but that didn't satisfy the guys as there were still wasps flying around.
I guess they had called Steve (the contractor who owns the business) and he in turn called me to say that the fire department had been called and would probably be here in about a half hour. Well it was about an hour or more later (it was dark now) when they showed up - the workers had long since left. There were hundreds of dead wasps on the ground at the bottom of the tree, but Trevor said there were hundreds, if not more, still further up in the tree, so I'm guessing more than one nest.
The fire department guys got suited up and took out spray things and sprayed chemicals all over the tree and in a whole bunch of holes in the tree then took paper soaked in the chemical and stuffed it in all the holes. They were here for quite a while. Whatever they did worked as Trevor said he didn't see any live wasps today when he was over there and fortunately, the workers came back and are working (and singing) hard.
All in a day's entertainment here in Mexico - and still loving it.
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