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| it is just a regular wasp. watch and see where the nest is and after dark go eradicate them. the vast majority will be "home" after dark and you simply spray them with a can or two of wasp spray. do not use a light to see them, they will fly off. find the nest during teh day and then spray it after dark.
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| I agree you need to find the nest and spray it at night. You don't need any special wasp spray. Ant spray works just as well. Wasps are just glorified ants with wings.
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| Re: wasp problemb said by jmorlan  :I agree you need to find the nest and spray it at night. You don't need any special wasp spray. Ant spray works just as well. Wasps are just glorified ants with wings. ...and stingers. Get the wasp spray, the kind that shoots a 20-foot stream.
It only takes a little bit to drop and kill them quickly, unlike ant and roach spray that pisses them off first.
I have a huge problem with paper wasps at my place. They build nests everywhere there is a cavity or overhang, and sometimes where there isn't. These are a European variant that first appeared in the US in the 1980s and have been replacing the native wasps, which were not as aggressive. The native wasps also tended to build their nests in more out-of-the-way places.
I don't normally advocate randomly killing things, but I treat these wasps with extreme prejudice. They can and have made my life miserable on several occasions.
I keep cans of the spray out in my sheds and shop and other areas around the yard. I had not driven my truck in a week or so, and when I opened the door, there was a large nest in the doorjamb area with a bunch of angry wasps. I'm tired of it. I see them, they die.
Home Depot carries this spray in the Spectracide brand, which works very well. I normally go through a case of it every year.
Ace hardware currently has the Raid brand shown above on a rebate program. $2.99/can with a $2.00 per can rebate (limit 4). Stock up!
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| Re: wasp problemb said by wilbilt :I don't normally advocate randomly killing things, but I treat these wasps with extreme prejudice. They can and have made my life miserable on several occasions. Got that right !
ONE of those little ba$tards got me right on the ring finger joint two weeks ago. Not only did my finger AND hand AND upper arm swell to gigantic proportions, I also had a bit of a allergic reaction and started to get face and airway swelling - first time that ever happened.
A few Benadryl and about 4 days and all was good.
Potent little SOB's - I leave them alone until something like THAT happens, then....
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| Re: wasp problemb said by jay_rm :ONE of those little ba$tards got me right on the ring finger joint two weeks ago. Not only did my finger AND hand AND upper arm swell to gigantic proportions, I also had a bit of a allergic reaction and started to get face and airway swelling - first time that ever happened. I keep these handy for just such occasions. They work really well on wasp stings.
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| Re: wasp problemb said by robbin :I keep these handy for just such occasions. They work really well on wasp stings. Unfortunately, it seems that I may have progressed to the level where I need a full-blown Epinephrine kit 
Beware - venomous insect bites can be a cumulative thing. The more you get stung, the faster and more severe the NEXT reaction can be.
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| If they are invading an enclosed structure, such as a shed, I have found these hanging strips are effective at discouraging them from building nests in there. I replace them every year in the spring.
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| Re: wasp problemb said by Rxdoxx :I have hesitation, thought that product was pulled off the market by Shell years ago because it killed someone. I can't read the label, does it still contain DDVP? » en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichlorvos I don't know if it the same product as the infamous Shell version or what the ingredients are (I should check the next time I buy some).
I do know that is does state it is intended for use in areas where humans do not spend spend extended amounts of time in. Garages, sheds, campers while in storage, etc.
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Pacifica, CA | A Google search of Hot-shot No-pest strips indicates that they do contain Dichlorvos (DDVP). | |
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| Re: wasp problemb said by jmorlan :A Google search of Hot-shot No-pest strips indicates that they do contain Dichlorvos (DDVP). Well, they work pretty well preventing nests out in my tool sheds. I certainly wouldn't hang one in my bedroom or anywhere else in the house.
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| Spray is best, get the one that foams so it can stick.
BUT look and make sure you know where they are going in during the day, then AT NIGHT (best for attic spaces btw)go into area and then spary the holy hell out of it. I also use a flying insect killer just in case. DON'T use a flashlight if possibly since they will be attracted to it and you, thinking it's daylight but if you do need a flashlight use a red filter. Leave the saturated nest for a day, to poison those which come back to it. But then remove the nest. | |
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| The best thing is plain old dish soap and water.
For a big nest fill a bucket full of soap and water, get it nice and sudsy and throw it on the nest. Wait till sunset. That's when they return to the nest and are inactive.
This does 3 things.
The soap and water clogs their breathing pores.
It prevents then from flying.
It cleans the spot where the nest is.
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Martinez, CA
| Re: wasp problemb I used a soap gun (the amazing SoapJet "as seen on TV") and drowned a nest of yellowjackets a couple years ago. The soaping is so cool, it leaves them crawling around unable to figure out why they can't fly. Then you blast them with water.
»musings.nitecruzr.net/2007/06/ne···ant.html
This year, I had a paper wasp nest just above my front door. Foaming spray took care of that one.
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1 edit | I hate those little MF'ers. First time I got stung was one night when a red wasp was flying around the porch light. I decided to be a nice guy and squirt it with a water pistol to get it off the porch. The little shit proceeded to fly into my shirt. I got stung once in the neck and once on my upper back before I got a hold of him on the ground via a glass cup. Off came the wings, off came the legs, off came the antenna then it was the micowave for him. Lesson learned and forgotten upon death.
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Wildomar, CA | use the special wasp spray. Not only does it have a longer range but they will drop almost instantly when hit. | |
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| Don't know if this will work on a red wasp but it is a for sure deal for yellow jackets.
Discovered this while at a cabin up at West Yellowstone back in the 70's.
My friends had bought several kegs of Bach beer and the yellow jackets had a large nest in the eaves of the cabin we were at.
They must of wanted the sugar that is in beer and would converge under the spout and drink the spill but they would get drunk and could not fly after they had drank their fill.
Probably about %90 flew a short distance and crashed into the grass those never flew again the other %10 could not really navigate very well but managed to make it to a branch or leaf they would be comatose for and hour or so and as soon as they woke up they flew directly back to the beer none of them ever made a third trip except the queen which on her fourth flight crashed and died.
I am not an entomologist but I think that the ones that made it to a higher perch because of the nature if their exoskeleton the alcohol was able to evaporate and after the second drink they must have had alcohol poisoning I do recall them being very angry on the second trip probably thinking somehow they had been ripped off of the sugar or robbed.
Several times after that over the years I have bought a 6 pack of the cheapest dark beer and put a couple of small rocks in a tinfoil pie pan and after a few days the nest is dead.
I always position the beer near the nest so they will smell it right away no chemicals or toxic poison and whatever beer is left over makes for cooking killer sausage at a wasp free BBQ.
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Alma, AR | Re: wasp problemb why are red wasp only in the southern states I moved here from mo a few years ago and they did not have them there. I have never seen them there. | |
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| Re: wasp problemb They are only down south for one reason...they don't hibernate well at all. We had a late freeze 2 years ago here in TN, they still have not recovered well from that. Things are darned mean, i don't go around killing anything, but if I even see a wasp...it's dead! Been stung one to many times by those little buggers. | |
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| Re: wasp problemb said by milbrath :They are only down south for one reason...they don't hibernate well at all. We had a late freeze 2 years ago here in TN, they still have not recovered well from that. Things are darned mean, i don't go around killing anything, but if I even see a wasp...it's dead! Been stung one to many times by those little buggers. The European variety that is infesting us here in Nor Cal is not red, but black & yellow. They are colored similarly to yellowjackets, but are different physically and in their behavior.
I have often read that only a few fertilized queens survive over the winter, but that does not seem to be the case here. This past winter we had many more below-freezing nights than "normal", but their numbers are not reduced as of this summer.
I have often found clusters of wasps huddled together in various places during the winter. More than a "few". They don't move very well when it's cold, and although some would not consider it "sporting", I blast them anyway.
I don't know what natural predators they face here, being an imported species. Hopefully some native creature will soon decide they are tasty, as they are really getting out of hand around here.
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| Re: wasp problemb said by wilbilt :The European variety that is infesting us here in Nor Cal is not red, but black & yellow. They are colored similarly to yellowjackets, but are different physically and in their behavior.
That's the nest I killed a couple weeks ago, just over my front door. Black and yellow. Paper wasps.
Even after the inhabitants were dead, the nest did not come down easily. Neither a broom, nor the hose, brought the nest down, it was very well built in.
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| Apparently wasps are territorial and won't build nests in other wasps' areas. So you hang these around your house and the wasps go away.
There are several different kinds, this is one example.
Apparently you can DIY and just stuff a brown paper bag with some plastic bag (so it won't collapse) and hang that up and it works just as well. They aren't real bright.
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clubs: | Re: wasp problem That doesn't work worth squat. I had wasp and paper daubers even though I had those up. | |
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| Re: wasp problem said by Warzau :That doesn't work worth squat. I had wasp and paper daubers even though I had those up.
That is a hornet nest (or a fake one). Those are real bad news. The southern expressionMad as a wet hornet. refers to those things. You don't mess with hornets, even with a broomstick.
Or, with yellowjackets.
Yellow jacket stings are particularly nasty because yellow jackets don't just sting; they bite and sting, and sting, and sting, and sting until there's no more stingin' to be done. »www.getridofthings.com/get-rid-o···kets.htm
Mud Daubers and Paper Wasps are mosquitos, compared to hornets and yellowjackets.
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