Last night at around 3am I was fast asleep and minding by own business when all of a sudden I felt a pain in my side as if someone were jamming a huge shard of glass into me. I jumped up, turned on the lights, and shouted to my DH "some fucker just bit me!". At that exact moment a massive hornet flew up and buzzed around the room and DH and I both screamed and ran out.
I looked at my back and it was red and swollen with white bumps. Now five hours later the swelling has gone down but it still hurts a bit.
Luckily the bed in the spare room was made up so we slept there and this morning DH the hero went back and killed the hornet with rolled up newspaper. He brought me the body and after intensive googling it was definitely a hornet, probably a queen. At first we had thought it was a wasp but it didn't match the photos or descriptions. It was really big with brown and mustard yellow markings and kind of fuzzy. Hideous thing!
Now I am lying in the spare room with my iPad that DH rescued. I'm too scared to come out and am definitely not sleeping in the main bedroom ever again. DH had the window open a few times last week and he thinks it was just one that flew in. But what if there is a big nest of them in the wall or something??
Really quite scary it was. In all seriousness, though, I dread to think about something like that getting into a child's room.
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WickedWitchoftheNorthWest · 04/05/2014 08:31
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