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Mark Blauhoefer

8 Years Ago

Sex

When the Wasp Queen mates she bangs all the males in the colony (to get the full range of DNA presumably), while the other females are the ones who do the foraging and scouting for predators. The spent males however end up uselessly trying to get out of the window in my spare room until they give up and their still writhing bodies drop to the carpet below.

Question is how do you get rid of wasps on a tight budget? I think they're in the air vent, but don't want to stick around to make sure. Access to the outside part is extremely difficult, but I'll get there to cure the problem if I really have to

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Mike Savad

8 Years Ago

i'd go with hornet spray and or a vacuum. hard to say what to wear to prevent stings to the face and etc.

a big boot

flock of hungry birds


---Mike Savad
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Gregory Scott

8 Years Ago

I've used a neat trick with yellow jackets. Perhaps you can adapt it to your situation, though it would likely be difficult.
Yellow Jackets make nests in the ground, sometimes with multiple entrances.
The trick is this: if you block their exit in the normal way, they will just tunnel around the blockage, so you can't usually trap them to die, UNLESS you use an inverted clear glass bowl, over the exit/entrance. When blocked in this manner, their instinct to dig around the blockage never activates, because they sense that they are past the exit to the tunnel, as they buzz around in the bowl at the exit. They just die of starvation and thirst.

You locate the entrance during the day, and invert the bowl over it at night, when they are not as active. On an exit on a vertical wall, I would suspect duct tape would be useful to hold the bowl in place, and seal the exit.

a flat glass or plexiglass pane might work better for some locations, since it can be sawed to whatever shape an unusual opening may require.

Best of all, no expensive toxic chemicals.

Be careful, most wasps are most irritable at this time of year. Maybe they are angry that most of them must die soon.

 

Brian MacLean

8 Years Ago

8 dolla bottle of wasp/hornet spray and wait till twilight, they get sleepy around then and it sprays about 25-30 feet so you don't have to be too close and it is effective pretty quickly. its they are in your siding of you your house just hose it off afterwards as it can stain siding/shingles

 

Floyd Snyder

8 Years Ago

Smoke.

I know they make a smoke gun sort of thing, we have one at our country club to get rid of bees and wasps. May want to get the protective gear as well.

Not sure this kind of problem is really one you want to go cheap on though.

 

Vincent Von Frese

8 Years Ago

In my studio which is located out in the wilds on a river bank I have a peaceful relationship with wasps and bees. The windows are open for circulation so they fly in all day long in the summer. They pass right by me and I ignore them posing no threat so they return the favor.

Never tried to harm them and they never attacked me. Nature can sense fear which is your problem perhaps.
I also have this gentle communication with venomous snakes. Just a week ago I picked up a Copperhead and moved Jeff out of my area to prevent and conflict with dogs. She never got excited.

 

Mike Savad

8 Years Ago

if your allergic to them, you would fear them more. i don't want to find out if it stings me again. last time it got me, i still have the mark, and ended up with an arm twice the weight for a month.

if a hornet thinks your threatening their territory they will not hesitate to attack and if they are indeed in the vents -- they are actually in the whole house. i'd close off all the other vents.

i also am using an invention that has been around for quite some time... window screens. works great for circulation while keeping bugs out.


---Mike Savad
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David Bridburg

8 Years Ago

Mike,

You have turned a really bad shade of white. Should one of us call an ambulance?

Hornet spray goes up to 20' or so as a spray.

Dave

 

Vincent Von Frese

8 Years Ago

I went to Kevin Callahan's castle to deliver a check in his mailbox for services rendered. Unfortunately the Hornets I saw in the box had a big fear of people and I got badly stung on my face and arm.

So it was a situation .........
I had little control over except I have never been back to
the castle of Kevin!


 

Mike Savad

8 Years Ago

when i get stung, this is what they do to me.


---Mike Savad
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Tony Murray

8 Years Ago

Most "wasp" bee colonies are lethargic and almost dormant at night. Do it then. You can actually pick them up by their wings.

 

David Bridburg

8 Years Ago

Have you tried acupuncture?

Dave

 

Mark Blauhoefer

8 Years Ago

Thanls all, good advice!

The nest was in the chimney. As much as I wouldn't mind if they just flew out the open window, they're the old type that have the flyscreens under them - Lift the glass and the screen raises in place.

I'm not sure if I have an alergy but I got stung on the finger tip once and that was enough for me - my finger was out of action for days. The sting hurt bad enough that I never want to feel that pain again.

Starting with the spray, that's the easiest

 

Jennifer Schneringer

8 Years Ago

Nice advatar Mike. Mad hatter suits you :) why did this. Post sucked me in with the sex topic. Not sure how it went from horny bees to them in your house lol.bees hate smoke and fire but not sure if that's good advice but I'm deathly afraid of bees so I'd set the house on fire and run LOL

 

Mike Savad

8 Years Ago

http://www.instructables.com/id/Reuse-an-Old-Plastic-Jug--How-to-Make-a-Hornet-Tra/

i thought of another realistic method that's cheap and possibly easy if you can get in there. i never made one of these, but a similar system is being used to capture zombie bees. it should work for you too. there are a number of methods to make it, using soda bottles and such.


---Mike Savad
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Mike Savad

8 Years Ago

yeah, the title really should be changed, and how they make out is kind of not the point. he would have gotten more response by typing in - help i have hornets trapped in my house.


---Mike Savad
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LEANNE SEYMOUR

8 Years Ago

I've had wasps or hornets (not sure which is which) flyin' around my balcony plants on and off and didn't have a clue where they came from......as well as scaring the hell out of me. My grandson when visiting spotted the nest off in the distance under the roof that was jutting out from the wall. I rang body corporate and they sent a pest exterminator to get rid of nest which they did. I wouldn't attempt trying to get rid of something like this by myself........I'd prefer to leave it to the experts thanks!

 

Cynthia Decker

8 Years Ago

Don't bury the lead!

:-)

 

Mark Blauhoefer

8 Years Ago

:)

The chimney.

Smoke, right?

They're confusing me with their mind control!

 

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