Getting rid of wasps

[Nuggler]

So your basically talking about making a surprise attack with a chemical weapon of mass destruction with the intended goal of killing them all!!!! No negotiations, no dialogue, just genocide them?

Wow, that's brutal! 8O


:lol:

Fuk em...........................woops, sorry, to heck with them............jees, what was i thinking??

 

[Outta here]

ok - it's decided. I'll try the 9.00 fake nests first. If that doesn't work, I'm calling in the Nugginator. :violent3:

Either way, they've got to go before the fruit ferments! Even the most placid wasps are nasty drunks.

 

[#juan]

A few years ago, during the height of the yellow jacket season, I discovered a round, grey, paperish thing about a foot in diameter hanging from under our eve's trough. There seemed to be only a little activity around this thing so I thought I would be safe to just bash it off the house.

To make a long story shorter, I was stung thirty eight times. I had many more stingers hanging all over my clothing. Within a couple minutes, my eyes were swollen nearly shut and my throat was closing to the point where I was having trouble breathing. I managed to get home and my mother knew what to do. She had some strong antihistamine and I was out of danger in a few minutes. I was twelve years old at the time and should have known better but that was a harsh lesson. I was sick for about three days. My dad didn't talk to me for several days.

 

[darkbeaver]

I skewerd a hornets nest with a hockey stick one day and lifted out from under the steps, hockey sticks aren't long enough for that.

 

[Outta here]

Ya, getting a whole whack of stings does hurt. When I was 12, I was walking across a hay field which had a bee farm located along it's perimeter. I had washed my hair with Herbal Essence shampoo that day - (it's the one that smells like a flower garden) - I had long hair even then, and I ended up with umpteen bees all tangled up in my hair, stinging me, and not being able to escape from my hair. I had stings all over my head and my parents spent the better part of an hour picking the bees out of my hair.

... and that would be how I know I'm not allergic to bee stings.

 

[lone wolf]

I ran into a ground wasp nest while raking hay. It is absolutely incredible how fast one can lock up a tractor and PTO and make a beeline for the frog pond. Y'know ... mud DOES take the sting out (for a little while)

 

[wallyj]

I get stung about once a year. It comes with the job.If they are under your porch and there is only one opening ,I suggest grabbing some raid and a can of crack sealer. Wait till night,spray the raid,and then seal the crack. The fake nests only moves the problem to another area.WASPS are evil.KILL.THEM.ALL.

 

[karrie]

Well, it's that time of year again - the wasps are out in full force.

This year, they've taken up residence under neath my back porch. I've been reluctant to take any steps to get rid of them, as I was hoping I could find some way to do it without killing them.

I've found a site that says wasps are extremely territorial - so if there's another nest anywhere near theirs, they will simply leave and never return.

Apparently Canadian Tire sells fake wasp nests for this exact purpose so I'm going to get a couple and try it out.

If it doesn't work, I'll be looking for other suggestions - problem is, the nest is directly under my back porch, which is right near my kitchen window and my patio door - a high traffic area for us in the summer - so I'm a bit adverse to using anything toxic or flammable.

Hopefully the fake nests do the trick.

stuff a brown bag with newspaper... it's cheaper and does the same thing supposedly.