Bugs

I stumbled across this object in our roof space this morning, lying on the ceiling joists, but which was probably hanging from the rafters at the time we bought the house, around thirty years ago. Perhaps to try and deter the wasps which occasionally nest under the eaves.

Some sort of rather granular plastic, presumably impregnated with something called Vapona from Shell. Or at least was, no smell at all now, unpleasant or otherwise.

BH vaguely remembers the brand Vapona in connection with the fly papers of old and it clearly still exists, in the form of an irritatingly mobile website at reference 1. From which I gather that it is nothing to do with Shell any more, rather swallowed up in Henkel, a US chemicals consortium. To be found at reference 2.

Reference 1: http://www.vapona.com/en/home/products.html.

Reference 2: https://www.henkel.com/.