[Texican]

I any of your rigs are reasonably tight, grab a handful of white mothballs and chunk them in and slam the door, it will keep out most critters, mice and rats stay out also.......

[SR.GRINGO]

I used to live in the NW--tons of wasps

Here is a sure fire way to kill lots of them. Pound a big nail into a tree close to the cruisers and hang a 5 gallon bucket. Fill the bucket 1/4 full of water and a ton of dish soap. Then take a hot dog and secure it with a wire about 1/2(about 12" from the top) in the bucket(you can hange this from the nail as well.) How it works is the wasps gorge on the hot dog and are too heavy to fly out and they get stuck in the soapy water. If you can't get to them with the ortho spray(by far the best) this may be the solution. Good luck


When I was young my buddies and I always threw rocks at the nests---talk about a quick learning curve

[PolterGeist]

had one loose in the house the other day, I think it flew in the through the hole in the screen the goddamned cat made.... Cornered him in one of the casement windows, and the closest thing at hand was lysol spray. (The green apple kind-- I don't know if it matters)

Sprayed him with it. He couldn't fly anymore, and he kind of sat there for a while stumbling around before he died...

So it worked, and the bonus is that when the wife got home, she smelled the Lysol and actually thought I was cleaning instead of playing around on MUD.

Steve

[treerootCO]

I am going to buy a hot dog....

I was wondering what the highpoint of my day would be

Makes me smile just thinking about those bastards stuck in the bucket. Might have to buy an 8 pack in case the squirrels figure it out.

[White Shark]

Originally Posted by SR.GRINGO

I used to live in the NW--tons of wasps

Here is a sure fire way to kill lots of them. Pound a big nail into a tree close to the cruisers and hang a 5 gallon bucket. Fill the bucket 1/4 full of water and a ton of dish soap. Then take a hot dog and secure it with a wire about 1/2(about 12" from the top) in the bucket(you can hange this from the nail as well.) How it works is the wasps gorge on the hot dog and are too heavy to fly out and they get stuck in the soapy water. If you can't get to them with the ortho spray(by far the best) this may be the solution. Good luck


When I was young my buddies and I always threw rocks at the nests---talk about a quick learning curve

Add orange soda to the mix. Yellow jackets and wasps go crazy for Sunkist and Orange Crush. That combined with the meat will draw them fast. The soapy water kills them effectively.

[player]

I caught a yellow jacket under a cup, then nuked it with some axe body spray. The thing was spazzing.

[Jman]

Ahh, that was a great summertime sport as a kid--clearing the barn of wasps. Nothing like a few ten year old boys with a long pole, some rags, some gasoline, and one of those backpack water pump fire extinguishers. Let the games begin!

Wouldn't try it on a cruiser, though--I'd just do it realy early in the morning, when they're cold and groggy.

[Enigma]

theres 2 kinds of Raid I've used with great success. The Raid foaming covers the nest in a thick foam, then you stick the supplied straw into the raid can nozzle, insert straw thru the nest opening and fill the nest up with the foam.
The other one is raid wasp and hornet killer, it shoots a high pressure stream something like 12' or so...kills them dead instantly.

Do your wasp slaying at night. All the 'lil buggers are back in their nest then so you can get 'em all at once.

I got some trap directions off the net somewhere, involved cutting a 2litre pop bottle top off (1/4 of it about), inverting said top section and putting it back in the rest of the bottle, staple it together, then put in a little bit of pop and swish it around to make the sides all sticky. hang it up somewhere and watch the fun!

I also get a kick out of feeding spiders in their webs...but thats just me

[LabRat11]

This is going to sound really stupid and make for one hell of a mental image......

However, I've seen it work.


2 parts to this ....

Part 1) Shop vac with a few inches of the afore mentioned soapy water in the bottom. Hose on extension poles. Go right to it and dessimate the nest / colony.

Part 2) The brave soul to do the work is suited up, and breathing in through nose and out through a garden hose - turns out most bees/wasps/hornets/yellow jackets/etc are attracted to the CO2 you exhale - thus they are attracted to a spot 100 feet away.



As I said - sounds real stupid. But I've seen it work. Never brave enough to do it myself.

I have used a shop vac on a ground wasp burrow. Get up before dawn and set the vac hose down on the ground next to the burrow. First it sucks up all the workers as they leave for a day of forraging. Then as the day goes on and no workers return the scouts / guards go out to see what's happening and get sucked up. Then later the queen decides the nest is no longer safe and desides to swarm to go look for a new nest and the rest of the colony is sucked up. After that day I estimated about 3000-5000 dead wasps all sucked up in the shop vac.

[Lockd97]

Originally Posted by Landpimp

my favotite(in my youth) method for catiplers........WD40 and a lighter...

If Dad hid the WD40, Mom's hairspray was the next best!

[Jman]

Originally Posted by LabRat11

I have used a shop vac on a ground wasp burrow. Get up before dawn and set the vac hose down on the ground next to the burrow. First it sucks up all the workers as they leave for a day of forraging. Then as the day goes on and no workers return the scouts / guards go out to see what's happening and get sucked up. Then later the queen decides the nest is no longer safe and desides to swarm to go look for a new nest and the rest of the colony is sucked up. After that day I estimated about 3000-5000 dead wasps all sucked up in the shop vac.

That is fawking genius. Don't know if I could get away with letting my shop vac run all day, but that sounds like a lot of fun.

[treerootCO]

I tried the hotdog suspended in the bucket this past week and I think the only ones I caught flew in there by mistake. So far, 5 in the bucket, about 20 in the phermone trap, and 2 in the sugar water traps.

According to the net, the sugar should only work on yellowjackets. The paper wasps are past their nest building time so if you can knock them down, they won't rebuild.

[Kief]

Diesel or Kerosene in a squirt bottle at night or in the AM, some use a garden sprayer, when you have as many as I do bug killer gets spendy. Follow up with a garden hose. Haven't heard of any traps that work for the paper wasps. I will try the soapy water, still will hurt when the mist gets in my eyes.

[FLFJ40]

PB Blaster works great on wasps, start spraying the nest and don't stop until they stop coming out. They drop as soon as it hits them, coats they're wings. The nest also gets destroyed so they won't come back.

[player]

flame thrower? or perhaps one of those propane torches. the heat melts/burns their wings so they cant fly.

[DavidW]

Paint thinner will drop em fast! Got stung this afternoon by some that had a nest right next to the handle on the backyard gate.