Ive never had a wasp bother me and they seem to be everywhere in my backyard. They seem to like the dogwood bushes....nesting in them. I was out trimming bushes today and, apparently, was disturbing them. They just flew around and did nothing. I guess it depends on the type of wasp. That said...when they do build up a decent size nest...I use the long distance spray. Yellow jackets also just fly around like p*****s and don’t sting me when disturbed a little bit. What am I doing wrong? Sting me, b****es!
Those are more fun, but the problem with them is that you have to be there when the wasps are there and more just keep coming. With a spray, it keeps on killing for weeks as well as returning wasps and offspring when you're not there. But... if you hate sprays, you hate sprays. I still want to try the soda bottle trap, but my wasp problem isn't too much of a problem.
I'm like that for spiders. My mother told me in an impressionable moment that spiders are good to have around. I used to like to just watch them operate when I was a kid. Now, when the wife or kids start screaming about a spider, I'll relocate it but I won't kill it. Insects, on the other hand, get whacked. Especially wasps. I'll go around the yard a couple times a summer looking for and poisoning nests.
Random gif search on aerosol flamethrower. I liked this one. Caption was something like "store owner fends off robber with..."
I just closed on a new house. Thank jebus I haven’t sold my old house yet. When we did our walkthrough there were 50+ dead wasps and multiple alive. Red tree wasps, paper wasps, yellow jackets. It was like a horror movie. Exterminator came and I also bug bombed the inside…. Next day, 50+ dead wasps again and about 5 living ones. I lit a fire in the chimneys tonight, we have 2 so maybe there were multiple nests? A few dead ones fell when I opened the flues. Hopefully that solves it. If not idk what I’m going to do. Burn the house down? I ****ing hate these assholes.
Dude raises chickens, then sprays brake cleaner all over the coop, likely leaves dead wasps for nature to eat... I guess he's not a Whole Foods kind of guy, lol Random link from google: https://www.envirofluid.com/articles/tetrachloroethylene-a-deadly-danger-in-brake-cleaner/
There’s probably a nest somewhere in the chimney. Those things will squeeze their way through the flue and into the house at random intervals. I used to walk home to one flying around every day. The exterminator should be able to knock that out for you.
The queens will find a place to hide and hibernate when it hits a certain temperature....then they wake up when it gets warm again. Unfortunately for a lot of people, they hide in our attics and groggily go towards the light source and somehow come out inside the house. It happened after the last cold snap then warm front, I killed 10 wasps in a week. I've never actually seen them come out anywhere, I just usually hear the screaming when they are spotted inside and I'm called to kill them with my size 12 flip-flop. The fun part is that the family runs away and has no clue where it went. At least the little kids stopped trying to pick them up. Pro-tip: be careful smacking them too hard on windows.
Definitely agree with you, I use brake cleaner regularly for car stuff but not like this. What's really interesting is there's 2 formulas of brake cleaner - chlorinated (which has tetrachloroethylene and is banned in California so it's the strong stuff) - ie it cleans better but has dangers mentioned in article and smells a little like chlorine vs non-chlorinated - no tetrachloroethylene - but it's still very strong and probably not something you want used around nature/food sources etc. Anyway, if someone is welding/working around a flame and uses the chlorinated version it's not good, I don't recommend using the non-chlorinated version when working around a flame but it's probably better vs the chlorinated one (assuming it was used properly). Tl;Dr on a side note... I have actually had to tell people not to use brake cleaner on their hands... Yeah it works... , but it also is absorbed through the skin and isn't worth the long term health issues.
Quick update I still have a wasp problem, looks like while the house was vacant a nest was made in my AC ducts + nests in both chimneys. Exterminator was able to get the ones in the ducts, but I’ve been waiting on a chimney sweep to come clean out the nests in the chimneys. Lighting a fire is a temporary fix, but after a few days they would always come back. Anyways after countless Google searches I found that they don’t like the mix of clove, geranium, and lemon grass essential oils. I put together the concoction in a spray bottle with water and sprayed in the fireplace around the flue and haven’t seen any in 2 days… which is sadly a record here. I’m going to rub down a log in the oils this weekend and start a fire. Hopefully this can keep them away until the chimney sweep can make it.
