Posted: 7/25/2005 9:23:09 PM EDT
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Not White Anglo Saxon Protestants either! I'm talking about the stinging nasty little poops! I had 2 buzzing around my arcadia door this afternoon and I didn't see any type of nest.. This is the door I let my pets out of to go do their business. I have a puppy and I have to stand out there with him or he runs away... What do I do? Do those spray's work? (The stream shooters)... OK smart azzes..Let's hear the funny stuff - But this is serious! I'm allergic to bees... |
really?!! i have never heard of that...looks like i got something to do in the morning |
I've done it dozens of times. It's also the mixture our local fire depts use to kill giant hives of africanized bees. |
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I have used the 'shooters' kind of BEE KILL and it's worked. Almost scary, yet FUN, because it's like a GUN! It's pretty accurate out or up to 20-25 FEET. Now, the water & soap thing sounds almost TOO simple, but I'll give it try! Like an excuse to get a new toy...  GOOD HUNTING. |
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Not a chance in hell I'm going outside with those little bastards buzzing around. Nothing I can do from a concealed tactical position is there? These are the TRUE terrorists! Not the islamo-maniacs! I'm going to Walmart in the morning and I'll be opening up a can of "Patriot Act" on them in the afternoon! |
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Wasps *suck*. They are mean and will come after you. That being said, I'm deathly allergic to bees and I have been hit by wasps several times and while they will leave a helluva welt, I can get by with a big dose of benadryl and not have to do the hospital thing. Those stream shooters work pretty well, there seem to be two types; one type that kills them in a few seconds and will knock them out of the air pretty well and the other kind that is like liquid death. I mean they will literally die just flying through the cloud the stream leaves. It's shocking. I can never remember what the brand is but I buy it at Cal Ranch here in Utah. The boys and I use wasp shooting as a diversion when we can't get out and shoot clay birds. We just load up with a few cans of spray and go shoot them off the tree that has a bunch of nests in the front yard. If you really want to get rid of them, make yourself a wasp trap. This trap is a homemade copy of a trap I used to buy at home depot and it will totally remove most wasps from around your house in a couple weeks; Get a gallon container, the commercial one was clear but I have used old milk jugs with great success. Grab a piece of PVC pipe and cut it so it hangs out the end of the milk jug if you just poke it right through the middle of the jug somewhere. Cut a chunk out of the top of the PVC pipe right in the middle. This is hard to explain but you need an opening where if the wasp crawls in it can get to the middle of the pipe and get out into the milk jug. If you look at the PVC from the side it will have a "U" shape in it like something took a bite out of it. Make it about 2-3 inches wide. Make a couple of these pvc pipes with the notch out of them. Poke them through the milk jug somewhere, usually at right angles but it doesn't matter. Once you have a good hole, pull the PVC back out and put some meat right in the notch you cut out, right in the middle of the pipe. I use hamburger but steak works fine too. Then pour a couple inches of juice in the bottle, covering the bottom at least two inches deep. Poke a hole in the lid and feed some string in there, tie a knot in the string so you can screw the cap on and hang it from something. Once the juice is in there, poke the PVC pipes with meat on them back in there and hang it near where you saw them. They will smell the juice/meat and crawl in the pipe to get to it. Then when they take off the ALWAYS go up, they can't fly down for some reaon and they won't usually crawl back out. They just keep hitting the top and then eventually get tired and drown. The little bastards. After a week, yank the pvc pipes out and throw what is now a nice juice, fermenting wasp and rotten meat soup in a garbage, preferably your irritating neighbors garbage, the day after they collect. Then get a new jug and poke the PVC through them, bait with new meat and juice and continue killing wasps. Whew, sorry for the long reply but this trap will clear you of wasps. To recap; milk jug with pvc pipes with top cut off in the middle with juice and hamburger near wasps = lots of dead wasps. If you want pictures I'll try and grab a pic tomorrow and upload it. |
| I declare war on wasps each Spring. As they start nesting, I get several bottles of Raid (the kind that will spray a long distance) and go around my house spraying all I can see. The ones I can't reach with Raid get hit with a straight stream from a waterhose and knocked to the ground, where they get stomped. When I'm finished, my Summer's are more or less wasp free. |
