1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:02,000 Speaker 1: From the Zidium podcast network. 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:05,720 Speaker 2: It's Fleet Forlorn and Hayley's a little bit of pod. 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:08,719 Speaker 3: Welcome to a little bit of pod. 4 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:11,000 Speaker 4: It has been the summer of wasps. 5 00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: It's waspy again. 6 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:15,960 Speaker 4: It's very waspy. I had a wasps nest under my kitchen. 7 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:18,880 Speaker 4: I noticed it was that it was the fucking he 8 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:20,360 Speaker 4: throw airport. 9 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:23,239 Speaker 2: Of wasps in and out of there in one landing 10 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 2: every thirty seconds. 11 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:28,440 Speaker 4: I was just watching them. So I got there was 12 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:29,960 Speaker 4: like under the house, and that you could see the 13 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 4: hole there going through. So I literally just shook up 14 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:34,160 Speaker 4: in a tire can and fly spray and just held 15 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 4: the button down and put it up in there. Yeah, 16 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 4: that got rid of a lot of them. Next day 17 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:40,559 Speaker 4: they were all back. So I got my little you know, 18 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:42,680 Speaker 4: the little thing that goes off every year. I can 19 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 4: program it to go off once every thirty seconds. 20 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 3: Oh right, I've got four of. 21 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:49,520 Speaker 4: Them laying down, heads together like girls in a field 22 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:55,760 Speaker 4: like the fly sprayers. Perfect. Yeah, four of them put 23 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 4: their heads together, all pointing up the whole so it'd 24 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:04,040 Speaker 4: be like, oh yeah, dropped thousands of wasps. Yeah. Back 25 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:06,960 Speaker 4: in the actual little holes were full of wasps. To 26 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 4: Tom cruise on a bloody wire to penetrate that kind 27 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 4: of security. Yeah, exactly, Yes, so I got rid of them. 28 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:16,040 Speaker 4: I think they're gone now, but I have been on 29 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:18,360 Speaker 4: the hunt for those. I love to have one of 30 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:19,679 Speaker 4: those yellow legged hornets. 31 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 2: Those ones I've got, like because my those because if 32 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 2: you should show people not far at all? Have you anyone? 33 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:32,279 Speaker 3: I don't know, because these. 34 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 2: Are for those that aren't in New Zealand. There we've 35 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 2: got these yellow. 36 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:37,840 Speaker 4: Legged Asian hornets and I think that's what I. 37 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 2: Have maybe looking up the photos because they have been 38 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:44,480 Speaker 2: attaching little trackers to these ones and they follow them 39 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 2: back to the nest and then they. 40 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 1: Show me a photo because I used to be a 41 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 1: waspy house and then we got rid of them all, 42 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 1: and I've had a wasp free summer a couple of summers, 43 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 1: and now they've been hanging around. But they're long with 44 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 1: these wispy legs. 45 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:00,400 Speaker 4: No, and the legs, the legs, dang, ye there are 46 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 4: different because every wasp I kill I take a photo 47 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:05,160 Speaker 4: of and put it in an AI then like what 48 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 4: kind of wasp was this? And I'm yet to come 49 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 4: across the yellow legged queen? 50 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 3: Why are they so bad? 51 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:14,520 Speaker 4: Because we don't have them. The other ones are kind 52 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:17,080 Speaker 4: of all settled in. The Germans have settled in the 53 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:20,160 Speaker 4: Asian paper wasps have settled in ye, the common wasp. 54 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 4: He's an interesting fact. There's more German wasps than there 55 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:25,920 Speaker 4: are common wasps. Now I would say it's time to 56 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:26,799 Speaker 4: switch the name. Then. 57 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 3: Now are these yellow leg hornets? 58 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:31,520 Speaker 2: Are they allowed a thirty day visitor visa or don't 59 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 2: want to shutting the borders completely. 60 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 1: We're straight up telling them to go home, your passports, 61 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 1: get your paperwork. If you want to come in here, 62 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 1: you can stay it for a short time. 63 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:42,919 Speaker 4: They are like attack bees. They take down beehives. And oh, 64 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:44,400 Speaker 4: by the way, I'm going to have so much honey 65 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 4: on my hands. 66 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:49,960 Speaker 1: By the way, we put. 67 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 4: It all in a container and sealed it, because I'm 68 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 4: going to cap it and put the honey in jars sown. 69 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 4: Thirty kg is the thing. That's a lot of honey. 70 00:02:57,040 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 4: Have you guys are ready for some honey. I'm ready 71 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 4: for honey, for sure, ready for honey. For these they'll 72 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:03,920 Speaker 4: take down what they'll take down a beehive. So I 73 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 4: made some homemade traps to try to you get like 74 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:09,280 Speaker 4: a soft drink bottle and you cut the top third 75 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:11,720 Speaker 4: off and you inverg you put some water and some 76 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:13,919 Speaker 4: rotting meat in there, and then, yes, I've done this before, 77 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:15,600 Speaker 4: steal them up and they get in and they can't 78 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 4: get out. Yes, it's just it's full of fly. 79 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:23,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, just you've just got a stinky steak on your hedge. 80 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 3: To call a guy. 81 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 1: Just call a guy because they hover around and and 82 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:30,640 Speaker 1: my dad doesn't really get that. If you irritated wasp 83 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 1: ital sting, you say, he's constantly. 84 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:34,520 Speaker 3: Where are they coming from? 85 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 1: Usually they live in my hedge. 86 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 4: The hedge is a problem. I hat. I was trimming 87 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 4: a bush yesterday and I put the headstrom straight through 88 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 4: a wasp. 89 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 3: No, you guys live It sounds horrible. 90 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 4: Wist the wasps. 91 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 3: Wasps come and live. 92 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 2: In the city where occasionally get one fly. 93 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:56,839 Speaker 4: Last week I was in the city and some dude 94 00:03:56,920 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 4: jumped out of the Windy's drive through and wanted to 95 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 4: kick my fucking hidden Now the man passed on my shoes. 96 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:03,000 Speaker 3: Why did he want to kick you here? 97 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 2: Then? 98 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 4: Well, I went to Wendy's after Lane Way because it 99 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 4: was the only thing that was open, imagine, So it 100 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:11,119 Speaker 4: was the only thing that was open, and they said, 101 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 4: I'll go down and go through the drive through. The 102 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 4: restaurant shut. So I went down to go through the 103 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 4: drive through and I didn't have enough weight, thank you, just. 104 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:21,920 Speaker 3: Alway as much as a civic. The you go if 105 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:24,599 Speaker 3: you need a if you need an ego boost, yeah. 106 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:26,360 Speaker 4: The way I can't guarantee. 107 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:27,839 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true. 108 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:30,480 Speaker 4: Yeah. So I went down there and it wasn't setting 109 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:32,479 Speaker 4: it off. And this guy pulled in and I said, oh, hey, 110 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:35,320 Speaker 4: could you please pull forward just to do the ding 111 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:37,679 Speaker 4: ding so they can take my order. And he pulled 112 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 4: forward and I was like OK, and I said thank you, 113 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 4: and I turned around and then I turned back around. 114 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:44,839 Speaker 4: He had gotten out of the car and he was 115 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 4: like this monstrous man and he was like, you're supposed 116 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:50,039 Speaker 4: to have a fucking car to come through here. And 117 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 4: I was just like, oh, sorry, I thought you were. 118 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:53,719 Speaker 4: I know that the restaurant shut. It was like, get 119 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 4: the fuck out of my way. 120 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:58,159 Speaker 3: Like I was like, sounds like he's having a great day. 121 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 4: And he ordered only him in the car. Yeah, he 122 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:02,479 Speaker 4: wulded one hundred and twenty dollars with the windows. Okay, 123 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:06,599 Speaker 4: he's high on crack or something. What appetite, does it. 124 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 4: I think he was just just say that now. I'll 125 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 4: say that now. The time, I was like, oh, I know, 126 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:15,560 Speaker 4: you go ahead. I don't want my head cave penis 127 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 4: up and sick and rate burger. Yeah, you know, like 128 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 4: i'd take a punch for like a you know, top artisan. 129 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:26,039 Speaker 3: And I take a punch for a water pound a punch. 130 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:33,240 Speaker 4: Lit right, I'm taking a punch for like a handmade situation. Yeah, 131 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:36,239 Speaker 4: like Gormet brio. I've had a Gormet stan bun bresh. 132 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:37,920 Speaker 4: I take a light punch in the face. I'm not 133 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 4: getting clobbed for a bacon adder, you know. So what 134 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:41,400 Speaker 4: are we what are we doing with his wasps? 135 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:42,479 Speaker 3: Like? How am I getting a. 136 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:46,159 Speaker 4: Guy we're gonna find with our hat? And then honestly, 137 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:49,160 Speaker 4: just the cheapest I bought those twenty dollars cans of 138 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 4: like wasp away dead fuck? I love that song. Would 139 00:05:52,880 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 4: you spewere spare spot spare spot were oh spare hospital. 140 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 3: Way in my age, my fucking hege, the worlstness. 141 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:09,839 Speaker 4: Comes a lot, got a mottom mottom, but in her age, 142 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 4: a filthy fucking hege. 143 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:14,160 Speaker 2: Did you have a filthy huge well It sounds like 144 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 2: you both got disgusting hedges sorted out and done