Keeping out hornets/wasps?

[silkiefluff]

I'm building a coop from a shed I got. I noticed there were remnants of hornets/wasps nests in the ceiling. How do you keep them out in the first place? Don't pests strips just work for flies?

 

[chfite]

I haven't had wasps or hornets in my coops. If I find a wasp nest in a place where it should not be, I take a match to it in the daytime when the wasps are out and burn it. I leave the burnt nest. They don't return there during the season.

There are plenty of places where they can nest without bothering people.

Chris