Saturday 14th April 2012 I dragged my ailing body out of bed for this one. |
As if there weren't enough hostile bugs to worry about in the garden, in the last two days I've been hit by two completely different types.
I was so looking forward to 14th April, for it was this precise date last year that the potential of my farm to attract migrant birds became apparent, with a Black Redstart and a Wheatear spending the day in the newly planted orchard. It would be a huge coincidence for anything similar to happen this year, but I still had to check, until...
Bug Number Two...well, I refuse to be stigmatised by it. The home equivalent of catching headlice. BED BUGS! Uuuuuurrrgh.
Sue had been getting bitten by a mysterious overnight culprit for a few days now. We suspected, but we could not prove, nor could we work out how they might have arrived. I was a bit miffed they had spurned my blood. (Maybe they knew about Bug Number One)Then, on that same Friday 13th, Sue managed to take a couple by surprise and capture them indelibly in folded sellotape. My eyes aren't what they used to be, and without a magnifier they could have been bits of wool, except Sue said they were clearly crawling!
Turn a pair of binoculars round the wrong way and hold them really close to the target and, hey presto, giant target! - definitely an insect, a bit like those pictures on the internet, but are bed bugs really this large?
Our reading also told us that this was no job for a sprig of lavender, or even wormwood. A specialist destruction agency would need to be called - at a specialist destruction rate!
He arrived, did his stuff, told us that what we had captured were babies (!!), and left. Problem sorted...hopefully.
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