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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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jmorlan
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A Google search of Hot-shot No-pest strips indicates that they do contain Dichlorvos (DDVP). |
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normat
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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.
No dangerous chemicals either. |
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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.
All I got out of the stung was just a small bump in both spots. Hurt like hell tho. Not the sting, but the venom feels like a burning pool of molten lava under your skin. |
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Wildomar, CA | reply to jchambers28
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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cacroll
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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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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 | 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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Once we had a bee nest in our railroad ties. So I little bit of gas and poured on the roadroad ties. Then caught the ties on fire and left it burning for a 2-4mins about. Then took the hose and put it the whole thing out. No more bees after that.  |
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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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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. If you had airway swelling, then you should followup with an allergist who will test you for hypersensitivity to the major stinging insects (wasp, bee yellowjacket, hornets). These reactions can be fatal, so you want to avoid future problems.
»www.acaai.org/public/ALK/PATINFO.htm
Even before getting an allergist appointment, get a prescription for an EpiPen from your family doctor.
»www.anaphylaxis.com/page/treatme···es-index
(I do have experience in this area. PM me if you have questions). |
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Wasp killer should do it, as others have said.
We don't really get much here, but I don't tolerate any sort of flying stinging insects besides Bumblebees. Seems like regular honey bees and wasps will sting me for absolutely no reason, so if I see them, they die. A few weeks ago, I walked by a trash can at the airport and a wasp flew out, stung me, then flew away.
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| said by Time :I don't tolerate any sort of flying stinging insects besides Bumblebees.
Sometimes, they bite. And that hurts, just no venom to make the wound swell up.
I see one of those little fuckers, he dies.
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| said by cacroll :said by Time :I don't tolerate any sort of flying stinging insects besides Bumblebees. Sometimes, they bite. And that hurts, just no venom to make the wound swell up. I see one of those little fuckers, he dies. They typically don't bother me, I've had one land on me and not lay a scratch. They're also one of the better pollinators, so they are quite valuable. I've never seen one sting unless you're in close proximity to the nest, and even then, you'd have to actually corner one to piss it off.
The big ones that you have to watch out for are Carpenter Bees (are you sure you got stung by a Bumblebee?). The males don't have a stinger, but in the Southwestern USA (NV and CA), the females are black and DO have stingers (males are light brown). I've been divebombed by the females more times than I can count. »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylocopa_varipuncta
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cacroll
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| said by Time :They typically don't bother me, I've had one land on me and not lay a scratch. They're also one of the better pollinators, so they are quite valuable. I've never seen one sting unless you're in close proximity to the nest, and even then, you'd have to actually corner one to piss it off. The big ones that you have to watch out for are Carpenter Bees (are you sure you got stung by a Bumblebee?). The males don't have a stinger, but in the Southwestern USA (NV and CA), the females are black and DO have stingers (males are light brown). I've been divebombed by the females more times than I can count. » en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylocopa_varipuncta
I got bit by a yellowjacket.
That was the week before I figured out where they were living. I spent July 4 weekend spraying my roof with soapy water.
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1 edit | I don't think they bite! They sting, sometime a few times just to show you they are tough!
It's just nature loving you. 
Like poison ivy making you misserable. |
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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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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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I assumed you were referring to the bumblebee portion of the sentence.
As far as Yellowjackets, I hate them and just about any other wasp.
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Re: wasp problem
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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