've been lurching around my yard with the ******** cans from family dollar, putting my life at risk.
These red wasp on the mother colony would tear up a rhino. I'm not going in without the big guns.
I will need godspeed.
I fear em, BroHelenKeller
OT: Wasp Spray
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've been lurching around my yard with the ******** cans from family dollar, putting my life at risk.
These red wasp on the mother colony would tear up a rhino. I'm not going in without the big guns.
I will need godspeed.
I fear em, BroHelenKeller
THis mega nest is tricky. It's in an eve of a pool house. The attic door is the size of something you would picture in Vietnam. I'm thinking of just burning the son of a ***** to the ground. These things would kill a dog.....or baby.....or baby hog......maybe a donkey, abet a smaller donkey but still.
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Fipronil
Is all you need. Stuff is labeled for termites and is the active ingredient for dog flea treatment. 0.8 oz is enough for a gallon. I put that amount in a hand sprayer (like a windex bottle). Can buy them at Walmart like 32 oz.
Anyway. Go out and spray 3 or 4 wasps and wait a few days. The whole nest will be wiped out. Doesn’t kill them instantly. They carry it back with them to the nest. Molecules of the poison rub off onto other wasps then they carry it to others, and so on. Like a virus multiplying. I had a major infestation of red wasps a few years ago (hundreds of them). Sprayed 8 or 10 wasps and waited a few days. Wiped them out. I assume you’d have to spray one out of each nest. I just randomly walked around and sprayed and it did the trick. Only drawback is you don’t get the instant satisfaction of watching the bastards die.
Works for any insect that lives in a colony. Hell on ants too.
Is all you need. Stuff is labeled for termites and is the active ingredient for dog flea treatment. 0.8 oz is enough for a gallon. I put that amount in a hand sprayer (like a windex bottle). Can buy them at Walmart like 32 oz.
Anyway. Go out and spray 3 or 4 wasps and wait a few days. The whole nest will be wiped out. Doesn’t kill them instantly. They carry it back with them to the nest. Molecules of the poison rub off onto other wasps then they carry it to others, and so on. Like a virus multiplying. I had a major infestation of red wasps a few years ago (hundreds of them). Sprayed 8 or 10 wasps and waited a few days. Wiped them out. I assume you’d have to spray one out of each nest. I just randomly walked around and sprayed and it did the trick. Only drawback is you don’t get the instant satisfaction of watching the bastards die.
Works for any insect that lives in a colony. Hell on ants too.
This....the foam is the bomb diggity. I'm not sure if the poison is more potent than what has been mentioned in this thread, but they will be stuck in the foam and not be able to dive bomb your ***!
Also, I was told to leave the nest up. Wasps are territorial and will not come back to that spot if they see a nest up, even if it is an empty one.
That's a myth. I've seen them come back to abandoned nests many times. Take it down.
Interesting, never tried this. Sure seems like less work. My problem is, I do all this work to keep the soldiers out of my attic, but my neighbors are clueless, therefore, they reload their armies over in their houses. Then they come and forage and dive bomb over in my yard, and I can't ever tell where they come from.
This....I've been doing this for a few years now with a handheld pump sprayer and it works like a champ.
so 2 things. 1. i need to see a pic of Lettuce's mother nest. sounds amazing. 2. why would mix Dales and Urine? just dales alone is enough to kill any living thing. esp Mole Crickets and wasps
True, but it messes up everything else around it. Paint thinner is slightly less destructive.
Ran into this bunch my last week of work before retirement.... Thankfully it was cool that morning... But 30 feet up a pole it will still get your attention
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This is exactly what I was talking about. They will fly full speed at you like a 17ing kamikaze and hit you right in the head. The first time one did it to me, I sprayed it with the water hose thinking I would scare it off. Nope, he took that as a challenge and chased me around my back yard, tagging me several times.
I've tried it and it has worked for me....at least until the weather brings it down. I'm talking about small nests, not the monster one posted on this thread. That sucker would have to go!
Yep...their stingers also inject some kind of pheromone that tells any other yellow-jackets that smell it to attack you.
That’s the advantage
Doesn’t matter where they come from. They’ll carry the poison back to thier nest. The delayed kill is by design. Allows more to come into contact.
Doesn’t matter where they come from. They’ll carry the poison back to thier nest. The delayed kill is by design. Allows more to come into contact.
I think yellow jackets are the worst. Can't see the nest until you step on it. Little 17ers are hard to see and very fast. As mentioned, they release a pheromone to incite the entire colony to come deliver their personal wallop.
They actually bite to hold on for leverage AND THEN sting. 17 them. 17 them hard.
They actually bite to hold on for leverage AND THEN sting. 17 them. 17 them hard.
ha! Your pores don't close when you hold your breath. They are attracted to the carbon dioxide when you breathe. That is the reasoning behind this.
I've never seen a wasp in the attic, nor have I seen a nest either inside the attic or anywhere outside. I've just seen them buzzing around the eave area, and there's got to be a nest somewhere. Somehow, one will get inside the house on occasion. I'm thinking they might be coming down the chimney.
What is that? Looks like a television antenna, but the mast of wires where the nest is is confusing (to me).
I went to war last summer with red wasps. I was stung a few times, and they were actually attacking when we would come out of our back door. I used this stuff, and what I found is that wasps will not come back to the area where you sprayed.
I haven't had any nests around my house or in my shed this year after spraying the areas last year.
My buddy who works for Entergy stopped by and dropped me this and 5 others.
Ill report back
If you ever visit a Civil War Battlefield in warm weather watch out for red wasps around the cannon. You would think they would nest in the barrels. Occasionally they do but they love the hubs where the cannon is mounted on the carriage. They nest in the joints.
Seems like the perfect weapon: https://i.stuff.co.nz/environment/w...e-out-wasps-the-story-of-vespex--wasp-wipeout
Is this the stuff you’ve used?
Taurus SC 20oz https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0058DGMKG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_Rb5ABb958EB64
Learned this trick in the Army in Germany. 2 parts poison (your choice), 2 parts syrup, one part coke. Get a good goopy mixture, take a paint brush, and brush it somewhere within about 4-5 feet of the nest. They'll come eat, die and you'll have a mound of dead wasps in the morning.....
Aside from wasps, WTF is up with the Horse fly epidemic this summer?
ive never seen or had problems with horse flys.....its not just at my house, but at my farm about 40 miles from my house....my kids are reluctant to even get in our pools this summer because they have been such a problem....
ive never seen or had problems with horse flys.....its not just at my house, but at my farm about 40 miles from my house....my kids are reluctant to even get in our pools this summer because they have been such a problem....
Is this the stuff you’ve used?
Taurus SC 20oz https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0058DGMK...y all work the same as long as it’s fipronil.
Taurus SC 20oz https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0058DGMK...y all work the same as long as it’s fipronil.
If you want a great way that doenst spraying involve chemicals
get an old pie plate or something similar and fill it about 1/2 inch with beer. Place it as close to the nest as you can. The devil-bugs will land in it due to the sweet smell, drink and die right there. You will have to dump out the wasps and refill with beer. Once all the wasps are dead, you can put moth balls in the area where they were nesting and they won't come back.
get an old pie plate or something similar and fill it about 1/2 inch with beer. Place it as close to the nest as you can. The devil-bugs will land in it due to the sweet smell, drink and die right there. You will have to dump out the wasps and refill with beer. Once all the wasps are dead, you can put moth balls in the area where they were nesting and they won't come back.
Ditto this, when I drive up to my house they start dive bombing the vehicle. I was on the speaker phone the other day finishing a call as I drove up so I just sat in the truck with the engine running. It sounded like a hail storm with them hitting the hood, roof and windows. I'm scared to get on the tractor.