Kampung Folk Fun Day - A Death Trap

Bees.

Aukei wrote it in such thrilling and enlighting manner though the reality is fuh! A death trap!

Aukei's fight with the bees in his very own words:

Ada banyak penyenagt (penyengat) di kampong saya.

Last night I spent laying waste to a colony that was roosting under the eave of my parents’ front porch. They were always divebombing folks who came by to visit.

Armed with a case lot of Ridsect spray, I set up a hunter's blind in the front hall just behind the screen door and flipped on the porch light. Sure enough sekor (seekor) keluar to see if any passersby were around for the hive to mess with.

Mungkin dia ni guard kot.

One shot from the Ridsect can and the guard spiralled into the welcome mat.

I believed these things send out a pheromone distress signal. In two minutes I had ten more penyengat buzzing the porch light. I killed those and thirty more showed up.

Four cans of Ridsect thirty minutes later, I had covered over the "Welcome" on the welcome mat with dead penyengat.

About the time the sixth can was half-empty, the arriving penyengat' numbers began to slacken, then taper off to just a few, and finally no more.

Feeling brave I opened the screen door and peered around it.

Surprise!

There were a half-dozen who'd gotten out of the line of fire by wedging themselves between the top of the screen door and the doorframe.

These promptly zoomed into the house, and made my life interesting for the next hour or so. Eventually, the interlopers were eradicated, and no more penyengat appeared to avenge their fallen sisters.

I filed a Giant plastic bag (!) with the bodies of the slain, and tossed them into the bin.

Today I removed the nest. I need to re-paint the front porch around the porch light.

(Ridsect also dissolves paint in sufficient quantities.)

Oh, and I get a new welcome mat, too.

Not a hobby I'd recommend to everyone, though it does sharpen your aim.

That’s all a “kampong folk fun day” from Aukei.