Sad news today......Found one of my little African Red Billed Fires, dead this morning.
The weird part about this sad business, is that yesterday afternoon, I had a few wasps flying around the house. Not quite sure where these demons came from, but seeing as I hate them with a passion, I dispatched several of them mercilessly and had thought that I got all of them.
Before going to bed last night, I heared my Waxbill flight in a bit of an uproar. Seeing as they're usually sleeping peacefully by that time, I went to check on them. Everyone appeared to be alright, but wide awake for some unusual reason. And then I saw it, a large wasp crawling on the floor from under the flight. He seemed to be half dead, and a second later he was squashed and done for under my slipper.
I checked the flight over, but everybody seemed to be calming down, and settling In for the night . I went to bed, and woke up to a dead little Fire boy, and his brother crying for him.
Could a wasp sting kill a little Waxbill ? All I know, is that be was alive last night and gone this morning
.Elana
