[unnecessary accent wall intensifies] 

"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck) 02/26/2018 at 23:35 • Filed to: Mah home val-yoos!, Will be largely unaffected by this small effort

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Previous owners used that wall as a swatch wall... And then left it. I didn’t want to repaint the entire bathroom which was otherwise fine sooooo... 

I also replaced the toilet seat and added a magnet strike and a pull knob to my linen cabinet. Why I’m doing all these things I’ve been putting off for three years, I don’t know.

AestheticsInMotion > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/26/2018 at 23:39

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Seeing your clean tub surround reminds me I need to replace mine. Well, redo the whole bathroom really.

Oh, I spotted this at work the other day... Any idea what it is..?

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > AestheticsInMotion 02/26/2018 at 23:43

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Not sure. Could be for mason/sweat bees?

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > AestheticsInMotion 02/26/2018 at 23:44

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Those are houses for mud-dobber wasps.

AestheticsInMotion > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 02/26/2018 at 23:46

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Oh. Alright. Uh... Next question! Why is this a thing? Are they training an army of evil?

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > AestheticsInMotion 02/26/2018 at 23:54

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Mud daubers are easily the second most painful sting I’ve experienced. First is still a bumblebee by a country mile. Yellow jackets only seem bad because you usually get stung by a dozen of them at a time.

AestheticsInMotion > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/27/2018 at 00:00

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This just makes me even more worried about the reasons behind the wasp house.

Hmm I haven’t gotten stung by any sort of bee in about ten years. I did have an obscenely wealthy client somehow buy and receive a full beekeepers suit within twenty minutes without leaving the property when I mentioned he had a massive wasp nest near his skylights. That was a unique experience to say the least.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 02/27/2018 at 00:03

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What? I’ve never heard of such a thing. Got a source for that piece of knowledge?

fintail > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/27/2018 at 00:08

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Fix up the old place rather than buying a new place. You’re saving money.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > AestheticsInMotion 02/27/2018 at 00:14

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Most definitely, creating a wasp army.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > TheRealBicycleBuck 02/27/2018 at 00:15

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I made this up, I hope I’m wrong.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > AestheticsInMotion 02/27/2018 at 00:19

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I am most definitely full of shit, I have no idea why you would nail 2x4s to your house with holes drilled in then unless you wanted to attract wasps.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/27/2018 at 00:20

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How did you manage to get stung by one? These are easily the most passive wasps I’ve been around. The most aggressive were some yellow & black wasps that took up residence in the cable box on the side of my house. I got a little too close and two of them attacked. I was stung twice before I even realized they where there. These were also the most painful stings I’ve ever experienced.

So, I rank them as follows:

Louisiana yellow jackets (for lack of a better, more correct name)
Scorpion
Red paper wasp.

I find red paper wasps almost as docile as mud daubers. I fired up the grill last summer with a red wasp nest under the front shelf. I didn’t even know they were there until one returned to the nest. I already had a good fire going before I looked underneath the shelf and spotted five or six wasps staring back at me. I let them hang out until I was finished grilling. No need to spray wasp killer onto the place I was cooking dinner!

TheRealBicycleBuck > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/27/2018 at 00:45

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I think you’re right.

AestheticsInMotion > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 02/27/2018 at 00:46

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That’s the best idea so far. We’ll go with that for now

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > TheRealBicycleBuck 02/27/2018 at 01:29

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I was 11 years old, riding in the backseat of my dad’s Audi 4000 coupe, on the way to church. It was a hot summer morning, so the windows were cracked. I feel a sharp, hot pain in my knee. I look down at this mud dauber with half of it’s stinger still through my flesh. You can imagine what my reaction was, as a young manly man:

[inhales] WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! :’((

My dad, looks back and says, “What’s — HOLY CRAP!”

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > AestheticsInMotion 02/27/2018 at 02:57

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I’d bet these are intended for bats, but I have no clue why they are on the house or surrounded by hardware cloth.

Could also be for some kind of cliff- or tree-dwelling bird.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/27/2018 at 03:11

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I just looked more closely and looked up how to construct them... You’re right, they’re probably for mason bees. Now I’m guessing the protection is against birds.

Odd location, though. Supposedly they should be placed where they get morning sun but are protected from rain.

punkgoose17 > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/27/2018 at 08:48

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That is because you think of all the things you want or need to fix when, you think about selling your house. I do the same thing.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 02/27/2018 at 09:05

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Funny. I did the same thing. Same conclusions, too. The construction and mounting is driving me batty. They aren’t thick enough, they aren’t all the same size, they aren’t mounted straight, the wire is everywhere....

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 02/27/2018 at 11:06

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Yup. Zoidberg wins. My dad was trying to convince me to put them in my house a while back, but I am against all flying insects. http://www.chicoer.com/lifestyle/20170302/the-real-dirt-hosting-mason-bees-in-your-garden