wasp medicine

Over the spring, I had two wasp visitations.  After attempting to coexist with the 1st one, I killed it when it came at me following a moment of miscommunication (I tried to guide it away from me with my book, but accidentally touched it).  It stung me on the ear.  Talk about prick up your ears.  

A few days later, when the 2nd one appeared, I wanted a different outcome; so I kept reading, and it rested at my headboard through the night.  In the morning, it was still there and I wondered if it was dead. But when I checked on it after my tea, I saw it was gone.

Next, I found a wasp nest in my loft.  Still small, it had been abandoned before completion, and never inhabited.

A wasp nest is made of paper.  Wasps chew wood and plant fibres to produce the material they use to make their nest.  It's a remarkable feat of ingenuity, creativity, and beauty.

So the wasps, creators of paper, makers of delicate and clever homes, eschewed nesting here.  I think they have a point.