I built a custom tool shed four years ago with spare lumber from a cabin building project.
My garage was already getting tight between my wife’s growing pottery studio and my existing woodworking equipment. I didn’t want my wife to lose any of the space she needed for her art projects, especially since we had just recently added air conditioning to the garage. That’s when I realized that I could solve all of our problems by just building a shed in the backyard. This seemed like an excellent idea until I started dealing with pests. First I had mice in there that took me weeks to clear out with traps before I could find and fill in all of their holes. Once the mice were gone, the wasps moved in. It started with a single wasp nest, but then it quickly progressed to five wasp nests in total. One afternoon I was trying to get my gasoline canister for my lawn mower out from underneath a box when a swarm of wasps attacked me. I was strung four different times before I was able to run out of the shed. That’s when I looked around for a bee removal service. Surprisingly I found a local exterminator who will take bees, wasps, and yellow jackets from peoples’ yards and relocate them to wildlife preserves where they can pollinate plants in nature where they can’t harm anyone. When I found out that the exterminator was going to move the wasps without killing them, that made me happy. I might hate them, but I understand how important they are for the environment.