I hate wasps - it's total war.

[Chubbo]

Wasps

Wasps

I still laugh at my late father-in-law’s, quaint pronunciation, of the word ‘wasp’, i.e., ‘wa-sip’ Fortunately, I haven’t received a wasp sting recently. Most of my time is spent indoors. In previous years, it seemed as though wasps would travel long distances, just for an opportunity, to sting me.

I destroy, wasps without compassion.

I will offer an instantaneous remedy for bee stings, that I assume will cure wasp stings also. Apply fresh squeezed onion juice to the sting.

 

[Mainsail]

Wasps
Apply fresh squeezed onion juice to the sting.

If nothing else it gives a plausible reason for crying.

 

[SMSgt]

My next door neighbor ran into a yellow jacket hole while mowing. He parked the running mower over the hole and left it until it ran out of gas. He said the underside was coated with wasp remains, but they were all gone.

 

[vt_shooter]

War against wasps requires the same philosophy we had in the Strategic Air Command - Hit the enemy until he has neither the will nor the capability to retaliate.

 

[Greyman50]

Starter fluid spray with bic lighter works well. Remember many times on the farm cutting grass would run over ground bee nest and have to put lawn mower or ford tractor in high gear. Always returned with about a gallon of gas, long rolled up paper and match.

 

[Llew Taranau]

The only way to deal with wasps:

 

[walkin jack]

YEP, that'd take care of 'em!

 

[Snapping Twig]

I hear they like malathion - a lot!

Why deny them?

 

[soFlaNative]

Sneak attack, show no mercy.
Ping Pong ball sized paper nest shows up almost overnight. Under a lawn chair, ladder rung, etc. I spray the perimeter and overhangs with Bifen I/T every couple months but the little spit eaters manage to find a hidey hole.
Under stair rails and inside uni strut supports at work keep me looking out the corner of my eyes.

 

[swsig]

We used to get mud dauber wasp nests on the ceiling of our front porch and under our eaves. When we had them painted, the painter asked us if we wanted him to mix some insecticide into the paint. He said it would stop the nest-building. We were skeptical, but agreed to the insecticide-laced paint. The painter was right. It's been about 10 years since he painted, and we haven't had any nests since.

 

[len917]

I'm recovering from an attack just the other day. While watering the shrubs, h found a hole so I put the nozzle on jet and poured water down the hole. Then the merciless attack on me. They came out like locusts on the Plains. I'm thinking of putting an M-80 down the whole but the lady of the house called our exterminator who says it's part of the package.

 

[Squarebutt]

When I was a kid we had a milkman (yep, I'm old) and one day he announced he wouldn't be delivering any longer because of wasp nests under the front walk, and he was very allergic.
Dad wasn't about to let that happen, so that evening just as it was getting dark he poured an unknown quantity of gasoline down the hole. Then he waited 10 minutes, tossed a match and the results were beyond spectacular, a mighty BOOM followed by clouds of debris floating through the air. There were thousands of wasps all over the lawn, not a single one moving. He was in the artillery in WWII.

 

[Bugkiller99]

Here’s one way of taking care of insect problems. Note the dogs reaction.
Man blows up backyard trying to kill a pest. - YouTube

 

[Llew Taranau]

When I was a kid we had a milkman (yep, I'm old) and one day he announced he wouldn't be delivering any longer because of wasp nests under the front walk, and he was very allergic.
Dad wasn't about to let that happen, so that evening just as it was getting dark he poured an unknown quantity of gasoline down the hole. Then he waited 10 minutes, tossed a match and the results were beyond spectacular, a mighty BOOM followed by clouds of debris floating through the air. There were thousands of wasps all over the lawn, not a single one moving. He was in the artillery in WWII.

My dad tried that with some yellowjackets. Burnt up several hundred dollars of nice shrubbery, and my stepmother was royally teed off.

 

[glenwolde]

I was ambushed in the garage once. My instinct was to draw and fire, so I grabbed the first aerosol can I saw on the bench and pirouetted while spraying.

Turned out it was 3M Spray Mount. Stuff worked great. They couldn't fly soaked in glue and they'd stick to the wall when they tried to climb but lost control.

 

[Ole Joe Clark]

When I was a small boy, I attempted to follow my older brother and first cousin across the fence and into the pasture. They didn't disturb the wasps, but I, being smaller had trouble crossing the fence, got attacked by wasps that had built in the honeysuckle vines on the barbed wire.

I can still remember the pain and agony from that day to this one.

Have a blessed day,

Leon

 

[jscheck]

I took out a ground wasps nest in the back yard yesterday. They got me twice last week before I was able to take action. They won't be an issue now I assure you!

 

[M29since14]

I try to use the word hate with great discretion but if there is anything that deserves it that would be any type of flying, stringing insect that attacks without warning or provocation! Evil danged things! KILL THEM ALL!

(Yeah, they got me about five days ago. Similar circumstances.)

 

[Stevens]

Just this morning I noticed a wasp nest on the outside wall of my metal shed. About 10' off the ground, it had what looked like 30 or 40 wasps on it.
I had a brand new can of wasp spray inside so I got it and gave them a good shower of it, I believe I got them all!
"Good riddance to bad rubbish" as my Mom used to say!
Steve W

 

[59yukon01]

Several years ago I was working in a planting bed picking weeds about 3-4 feet from a large decorative rock.

Wasn't even disturbing that area when I was hit by a couple of yellow jackets on my back. I swatted several with my gloved hands but they still stung thru, and then followed me about 15 feet away still stinging.

Well that just really pissed me off. While they were settling back down I was mixing up several gallons of Sevin and plotting revenge.

Right at dusk I attacked. Needless to say they won the earlier short sneak attack on me, but I won the war and completely wiped out the entire nest under that rock.