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WASPS!!!! How to get them out

Posted on 5/28/22 at 7:30 pm
Posted by TigerDat
Member since Aug 2010
7629 posts
Posted on 5/28/22 at 7:30 pm
We have wasp nest coming up everywhere.

How do we control them other than spraying when we see them.

Any good repellents or traps?
Posted by Mikaelomo
Member since Sep 2012
529 posts
Posted on 5/28/22 at 7:36 pm to
Talstar in bushes around property
Posted by Spankum
Miss-sippi
Member since Jan 2007
56030 posts
Posted on 5/28/22 at 7:49 pm to
The easiest thing to do is just to spray them when you see them. Wait until dusk when they are all on the nest and put them down.
This post was edited on 5/29/22 at 3:36 pm
Posted by TigerDat
Member since Aug 2010
7629 posts
Posted on 5/28/22 at 7:50 pm to
quote:

Talstar in bushes around property


Don't have bushes or really much vegetation other than grass.

They build nest on our camper, under and around steps, lawn mower roll over bars everywhere.


Guessing talstar in the grass around those areas
Posted by armsdealer
Member since Feb 2016
11503 posts
Posted on 5/28/22 at 8:39 pm to
Its dumb but it works. Hanging brown paper bags puffed up and tied to kind of assemble a wasp nest keeps most wasps and dirt dauber's away from our back patio and pool area.
Posted by Cajun367
S. Louisiana
Member since Oct 2017
1928 posts
Posted on 5/28/22 at 11:42 pm to
Demon.

Suspend.

Talstar.


I used to fight this and went nuclear. A blend of Talstar and Suspend sprayed everywhere has limited my encounters to random wasps flying through the yard.

Very satisfying when they land on a treated surface knowing they just signed their own death warrant.


Posted by Huck Finn
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2009
2456 posts
Posted on 5/29/22 at 6:05 am to
As stated, Suspend SC is perfect for your application.


For the record, the bug-a-salt guns do not kill wasps, but acts more as a formal commencement of a duel.
Posted by TexasHand
Mississippi
Member since Sep 2013
975 posts
Posted on 5/29/22 at 7:27 am to
Demon WP will kill anything
Posted by WPBTiger
Parts Unknown
Member since Nov 2011
31026 posts
Posted on 5/29/22 at 8:59 am to
quote:

For the record, the bug-a-salt guns do not kill wasps, but acts more as a formal commencement of a duel.


Get some Koshar salt.
Posted by PillageUrVillage
Mordor
Member since Mar 2011
14792 posts
Posted on 5/29/22 at 11:01 am to
quote:

The easiest thing to do is just to spray them when you see them. Wait until dusk when they are all ton the nest and put them down


I walk around my house and do this once a week with a bottle of soapy water. Puts em down almost instantly.
Posted by cgrand
HAMMOND
Member since Oct 2009
38786 posts
Posted on 5/29/22 at 11:14 am to
yes soapy water it just blast the nest with the hose. No need to soak your house with poison
Posted by Perrydawg
Middle Ga Area
Member since Jan 2014
4769 posts
Posted on 5/30/22 at 11:27 am to
They like to make nests in my eaves. I spray the eaves first part of April with talstar and no more nests. I retreat about every two months. I still see some flying around, but not a huge congregation of them. I have taken out a few with the bug-a-salt but you gotta be quick on the follow up shot.
Posted by Celery
Nuevo York
Member since Nov 2010
11090 posts
Posted on 5/30/22 at 1:24 pm to
Those little yellow hanging wasp traps you can get on Amazon actually work pretty well at trapping and killing wasps. Only problem is I suspect I’m just attracting wasps from all over the neighborhood cuz those things really fill up.
Posted by Canon951
Member since May 2020
146 posts
Posted on 5/30/22 at 3:26 pm to
This has probably been shared before but worth repeating. Go to tractor supply or local feed store and buy some generic bifenthrin 7.9% (talstar is the name brand). Mix it in a pump up sprayer 1 oz. to 1 gallon of water. Spray the entire underside of the eaves of your house, bushes/hedges and anywhere else around your house where you are seeing nests. No more wasps. Repeat in a few months while wasps are active. It's easy and it works for other bugs too.

You can also use Suspend SC or Demon WP or there are several other good ones but that generic bifenthrin is probably the cheapest.
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