Bedroom Hornet

I haven't shared a bedroom with 92 year old MrQ for about twenty-seven years. He had sleep apnoea and I got fed up with having arguments in the middle of the night when he used to accuse me of shaking the bed when I had been woken by his stentorian snores.

MrQ said that last night he had been stung by a wasp. I didn't believe him. He had been bashing and crashing about as usual and neither of us had much sleep. He showed me his finger and there was no sign of a sting. Then he said the wasp had stung his penis and it was the secret weapon of a named public figure?!

What a shock I got when I found a dying hornet on the floor when I went to lay out his clean clothes on his bed for the day. I was so sorry and apologised profusely to him. The insect hadn't stung him but it must have been horrible for him trying to dispatch it in the middle of the night.

Trouble is hornets are attracted to light and are most active at night. I fling open his bedroom window in the morning and MrQ shuts it when he goes to bed. As he can't see very well owing to ARMD he has lights on day and night. Also he takes lots of sweets and fruit to bed with him. I put them in airtight containers but they often get strewn around. 

Hornets are less aggressive than wasps and, in common with wasps, the males don't sting. 

It's dusk so I'm going on hornet watch and shutting the bedroom window.