wasps, hornets and bees.. etc..

[Soundguy]

Boy.. has been a busy season for these suckers.

Just this past week I found a 6" round hornets nest under the hood of my NAA.. I liked to had a coronary when I casually flipped the hood open .. ticking them off I might add.

I had about 10" of space between the tractor and the barn wall, and I think I made it out of the barn in about a second.

Got them with some 'enforcer' spray.. it's one of them sprays with the 'power-head'.. and shoots 20'.. kills instantly.. and I do mean instantly. I then found a nest of paper wasps on one of the wall supports.. of course.. found the hard way, by banging into it. All I saw was a bunch of things flying at me.. a quick shot of spray and every one of them suckers hit the ground... dead.

Thought my 'fun' was over when i took the seat off my JD-B.. only to find a 3" x 4" paper wasp nest.. partially hooked to the seat. I don't think I got stung.. but did bang my leg up getting out of the barn.. well.. once they calmed down about an hour later and had all roosted back on the nest... I let them have it with the enforcer.. worked as well on wasps as did hornets.. ended up using the whole can that day, but for 2.62$.. it was well worth it.

Any preventative you can hang up or put out to get rid of wasps?

Soundguy

 

[slowrev]

don't know of much of any way to run off wasps and hornets. btw the spray stuff does not kill bumblebees right away. Some of those and myself had a discussion about where I was working yesterday evening. The bumblebees won the argument....for now /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[at_obuk]

Any preventative you can hang up or put out to get rid of wasps?

If there is any I'd like to know about as well. They (paper wasps) keep making nests in between the door and the body of my Ford Ranger. I think they like the color (blue). So far this summer I've had to spray 12 nests.
Than they have been making nests under the eves of the house and under the railings on the decks. I'll bettcha I've nailed at least 3 doz nests. Even though I use the same type of spray as you have, they are back in the same spots a week or two later. I thought that spray was suppose to linger and keep 'em from comin' back!!

Eric P.

 

[SPIKER]

hey guys; go to the yellow jackets link below. and to the rural living forum there are posts there on them! some good stories to make you laugh smile and cringe!@ /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Mark M /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[mhalla]

<font color="green">Since I too have been having problems with wasps and hornets, a week ago I did some web surfing on the subject and found an idea that takes into account the fact that wasps and hornets of the people stinging kind are protein eaters. The article I found suggested soaking a small piece of meat in insecticide and hanging it where the wasps and hornets will find it. They will take pieces of the poisoned meat back to the nest to feed the larva which will then die.

Sounds like the approach used in household ant traps that use poisoned bait. I haven't tried getting rid of wasps or hornets this way but find the approach interesting and may try it sometime.

This might be a way to control wasps and hornets before it takes a can of spray to get rid of them or before they build too big a nest in an unpleasantly surprising place.

Mike </font>

 

[DiskDoctr]

Soundguy,

Sounds like one heck of an aerobics program you got going there /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Preventative? Got it. Mothballs. We used to have trouble with wasps in a wooden mailbox, under the eves of a garden shed, etc. Put a few mothballs in the mailbox and up in the rafters, and (poof!) no more wasps. I don't think it killed them, just drove them away.

They're cheap and easy to use. Can also toss them into places, too. They will eventually dissolve if you get them wet (exposed to rain), but hey, they come by the box full /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

-JC

 

[texastomtom]

Hmmm

I'm gonna try the moth balls for wasps idea..

Never thought about using them for that.

But I thought I would also throw in that while I can't confirm it we put them out to keep skunks away.

We acctually just scatter them around the permiter of the property and we havn't seen a skunk since we started doing this. Of course it may just be coincidence but a friend told us about this.

I'll have to put more moth balls around the house and barn now though and see if it keeps wasps away.

I've been stung 3 times this month and I'm really gettin tired of it. 2 of them really were no big deal but one of them nearly sent me to the funny farm.

The wasp dive bombed me,,, flew 1/2 way up my nose - just enough to position his stinger on my upper lip and let me have it. Then while I was freaking out with him 1/2 up my nose ( I could hear his buddies laughing ) he decided to buzz and dance in my nostril.

I'ts kinda funny now but it sure wasn't at the time and the sore on my lip still hasn't healed....

Oh well - at least he didn't climb inside my sinuses...

 

[bczoom]

Well, since I haven't seen what I use, I'll throw in my 2 cents.

In the barn, I use the sonic repellers. Plug in and forget it for years. They emit a sonic sound that keeps most bugs and small rodents (don't affect cats or dogs). Once or twice a year I also may let off a couple of the bug bombs. I have bees everywhere around the buildings but have never had a nest in them.

Around the house or other outdoor places they like to gather, I use the Ortho Home Defense spray. Keeps them away for about 6 weeks. Also works for direct contact spraying but I prefer not to use to directly kill flying things since it's pretty toxic to breath (until it dries) and I don't want to be flailing the wand around. Works well for spraying on a nest and let them carry in. I use a 2 gallon pump sprayer so when I'm spraying nests, around eves and stuff, I can stand way back.

If you need something in a hurry and don't have bee spray around, use WD-40. Kills them dead.

I also use moth balls but I can't stand the smell so I use sparingly and in places I normally don't frequent.

 

[beenthere]

Yours is the first positive I have ever heard from someone using the sonic repellers. /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

I am getting to like the Ortho HomeDefense (hoping it will work in the next few weeks on the asian lady beetles). /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

I don't know if I can attribute the lack of wasps and yellow jackets to the use of this HomeDefense spray I have been using this summer, but there have been none (absolutely zero) which is not characteristic of a summer for me.

 

[bczoom]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Yours is the first positive I have ever heard from someone using the sonic repellers.)</font>

beenthere. I really can't attribute the lack of bugs/mice/varmints to anything other than those sonic things. The next building over gets all kinds of mice, birds...

 

[garbageman]

I was clearing a path in the woods last Sunday afternoon when I hit a nest of Yellow Jackets. I felt pain on my neck and shoulder area, I didn't know what hit me. When I finally realized what I have done I flew, I mean flew off the tractor and ran like ..., still being stung. Went back to the house, put on my winter jacket, gloves and hat-armed with wasp spray went to take back my tractor. Spraided the .... out of the area, made a dash for the tractor, took off with the the Y.J. in hot persuit and made it out with no futher damage. I counted 11 bee stings. Something so small hurts so much.
Ray

 

[PineRidge]

I used to get wasps in my shutters and under my deck each and every year. They drove us crazy and when we tried some of the cheap stuff in the aerosol cans it stained the vinyl siding. For the past several years I have been using a product called Cynoff that is water soluble, doesn't stain, kills wasps, bees, yellow-jackets and all kinds of other flying insects. The residual lasts for several months even after the rains that we have been getting here in Ohio.

Yesterday I got up on my roof to put a snow cover on my satellite dish. I heard some buzzing and spotted a large wasp nest in the satellite dish mount tube. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif I waited till dark and sprayed the tube with Cynoff and left it until early this morning. When I went back up to finish my cover project the wasps were all history and I didn't have to worry about the chemical softening my shingles. I swear by this stuff, I spray it everywhere. I mix it one ounce of Cynoff to a gallon of water and it goes a long, long way.

Cynoff click here

 

[MarkLeininger]

Moth balls are really toxic, especially to children. One mothball can be fatal to a small child if they eat it. They're also toxic to all critters. If you scatter them around the yard, you might try putting them in some kind of mesh container so they at least can't be eaten.

 

[Tdog]

some good stories to make you laugh smile and cringe!@ <font color="blue"> </font> <font color="blue">

Well, I bet garbageman wasn't smiling last Sunday. I pulled pretty much the same stunt while mowing a few months ago - - see my post in the Rural Living forum. Some of those stings stayed with me for days.

OK, maybe I can smile about it now. My mother-in-law finished off one that followed me into the house, & my dog got another. I'm still trying to smile.

 

[slowrev]

PineRidge,
Is Cynoff regulated or can anyone buy the stuff ? sounds pretty good.

 

[PineRidge]

Slowrev anyone can purchase it however there are a few states listed at their web site where it cannot be shipped.