And I finally managed a quick and fuzzy snapshot of the designer-builder. She is over 3cms long, black with yellow abdomen stripes and a very big butt...About Me
- Glenda Larke
- Malaysia
- My life has been described by one of my editors as “impossibly exotic” – although really it is not my life, but me, that’s the exotic. I’m the uprooted plant, the exotic who doesn’t belong, always living in someone else’s backyard...
An Australian living in Malaysia. Writer, traveler, environmentalist. Author of The Isles of Glory trilogy (The Aware, Gilfeather, The Tainted); The Mirage Makers trilogy (Heart of the Mirage, The Shadow of Tyr, Song of the Shiver Barrens) and, writing as Glenda Noramly, a stand-alone book Havenstar.
The latest trilogy is called The Watergivers in Australia and the Stormlord trilogy elsewhere. Book One, THE LAST STORMLORD, is already out; Book Two, STORMLORD RISING, is out in US and Australia and will come out in UK at the beginning of November 2010; Book Three, STORMLORD'S EXILE, will be out in all three countries in August 2011, or earlier.
Cover art by Vincent Chong for the Oz covers and by Larry Rostant for the US/UK covers (Book 1) and Steve Stone (Book 2).
Saturday, July 10, 2010
More waspish industry...
She now has two upstairs rooms built on the three downstairs. The third downstairs room addition has an outlook on to the floral landscape. I love the tail of greenery for the backroom.
And I finally managed a quick and fuzzy snapshot of the designer-builder. She is over 3cms long, black with yellow abdomen stripes and a very big butt...
And I finally managed a quick and fuzzy snapshot of the designer-builder. She is over 3cms long, black with yellow abdomen stripes and a very big butt...
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9 comments:
Boy am I glad I am not a friendly neighbour, I WOULD NOT want to use that bathroom.
We used to get carpenter bees in NC which cut perfect holes in the wood of our decks in order to build nests. This kind of activity would eventually destroy the decks if left unchecked. You, I guess, would have sacrificed your decks to the wildlife.
mum, don't u think you should get rid of it???
I concur with you wholeheartedly. Both you and your sister should natter at her and maybe she will do something.
i sadly had to get my carpenters of too, but no way they were eating my balcony !
Come on, it's just ONE wasp, she's not at all aggressive - in fact when I enter the bathroom she flies out the window. And I am enjoying watching the progress of the nest.
Unlike your carpenter beetles, she's not even damaging the infrastructure!
yes but that ONE wasp is about to produce a whole bunch more.
Apropos, Glenda, they are definitely carpenter Bees, not beetles.
One of my most vivid memories of childhood is being attacked by a swarm of wasps. Thankfully I wasn't allergic as I was stung a lot! Strangely it hasn't made me afraid of them. I laugh at people who shriek and run from one puny little wasp!
Although I think getting rid of it before she brings in family would be a good thing, you have to admire the work she's doing! It does have a strange beauty to it! : )
jmkirk - they hurt, don't they??!
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