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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know what they are either, but I think that the moral of this story is, "Don't spray pesticides at insects that aren't bothering you."[/quote]

The wasps were near the deck and that is never a good thing. People hang out on their decks. Wasps sting people, usually unprovoked (unlike bees). Allergies to insect stings are common and deadly serious.

I think it's possible to take the whole laissez-faire "let nature be nature" bit too far, and wasps are certainly where I would draw the line. Are you also one of the people on the bamboo thread telling people to just go with it, cause, hey, it's just bamboo and NBD?[/quote]

How do you know that they are wasps? OP and OP's husband don't know what they are. That's the point. (OP also didn't say anything about allergies.)

And no, wasps in general don't sting people unprovoked. Every year we have paper wasp nests near the back door. We have never been stung by a paper wasp, not once. The only wasps that have ever stung us more or less unprovoked are yellow jackets. And yellow jackets don't nest in trees.

So, what happened? There was a nest of insects that were not (based on OP's post) bothering anybody. Then OP's husband sprayed the nest. Then the insects did start bothering OP.[/quote]

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