The wasps are back!

When we still had a Hearth & Home forum, I had a multi-page thread about my own personal war against a group of wasps who dared invade my back yard. And my front yard. And who had the nerve to attack me and sting me! :mad

I think Laura posted in that thread lot, if I remember right?

Anyways. The sneaky, vicious, disgusting little pests are back! One of them circled around my head as I went out in my backyard earlier, and I can clearly see attempts at nests high up on the house wall. I rushed off to my local home-improvement store and invested in a couple of chemical weapons of mass-wasp-destruction, and have now drenched the nests in powerful wasp-poisons.

The war is on. They will suffer. They will all suffer!

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I stayed far away. The Ultra-Kill can has a 40ft range.

Last time around (during the terrible times known as Wasp War I, or WWI for short) four of them stung me all at once in what can only be described as a vicious ambush. I'm very careful around them now.

But since my husband is severely allergic, they all need to die. :major

 

How large is the nest?

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That photo is what happens if the wasps win... :eek

They're very small, like small marbles. I believe in crushing them before they have a chance to establish their head quarters. :boxing

 

Oops! Thought we were going to discuss the play http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wasps

:-D

 

Once the wasps have vacated their now poisoned nests, I would suggest knocking the nests down/destroying them as it is possible for the wasps to return to existing nests after the chemicals lose their potency .

 

Good idea, and I fully intend to. I'm going to wait until tomorrow evening though... I want to make sure that they are all dead before I knock their nests down!

 

Really? I didn't know that, I'll definitely do that as well once the nests are knocked down and disposed of. Thanks!

 

We had wasp issue spray worked for small amount but this was many nest and behind walls which gets scary and makes you think your house will be those houses on tv where huge nest are behind tiles the whole time. So i ended up using gas and lighter to end the deal.
:cool

 

I am with you on the war against wasps Mimsy. Back 5 or 6 years ago, I was watering the lawn, picked up my hose, and was stung by a wasp in between my middle and ring finger. Could barely drive the next day, I had a standard transmission back then. I killed many wasps that year. I declared jihad on them. :-D

If you don't have cats around, the interweb told me that mixing poison in cans of tuna will also kill the little beasts.

 

Since I have two cats, who both like to be in the backyard, I think I'll have to pass on the poison tuna... but as soon as it gets a bit darker, I'm going to go out and smack at the wannabe nests with a broom handle.

 

TimW has a good point. I have heard you can spray bushes and such with soapy water, and the plants don't mind, but insects don't like it. Hit 'em with spray to kill them, and use a little soapy biological war fare on them. :cool

 

I've had a yellow jacket nest in a crack in the concrete on our pool deck. I've hit it three times with the foam and they're still around. they must be in deep. I also have the Bald-face hornet nest by the side of my house (pic http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=243915 ). I checked it yesterday and I think they've left. I'll wait a couple more weeks before I try and cut it down. I don't want to wreck it, it's interwoven with the rung on the ladder and my wife wants to take it to her school.
Anyway, I had a point here Mimsy, I don't know what it's like where you live, but here they're all done building nests and getting ready to leave.

 

They will be doing that here in a month or so, so it's very late in the year for them to start a nest. I was surprised to find them.

 

I live in an apartment now but before we sold our old house we had to get a nest removed from the loft space above the garage,It is amazing how these little beasts can get into the smallest of openings and build their houses of terror.
Here in Belgium you can call the fire department to come and deal with nests for free so it takes all the stress out of the job, so THANK YOU FIREMEN.