Kiki's Hurricane Hurrah & Fire Function

[CindyinSD]

No biohazards are required to kill wasps or bees. Both can be killed by spraying with a very soapy mixture of dish washing soap and water.

If they have an entrance into a wall, filling the entrance with spray foam can also solve the problem.

I did not know that. Thanks!!! I'm gonna try it next time. We haven't had a lot this year.

We hired a pest control guy to spray wasps one year, they were so bad. At my mom's house, there were a bunch living in the wall, entering at a corner under an eave. I asked him if filling the hole would work and he said he'd seen people do that but that the newly hatched brood had literally chewed through the drywall into the house. So I didn't do that...

 

[LaFleche]

I did not know that. Thanks!!! I'm gonna try it next time. We haven't had a lot this year.

We hired a pest control guy to spray wasps one year, they were so bad. At my mom's house, there were a bunch living in the wall, entering at a corner under an eave. I asked him if filling the hole would work and he said he'd seen people do that but that the newly hatched brood had literally chewed through the drywall into the house. So I didn't do that...

I can confirm that and would never do so again.

This year is extreme, we have 7 wasp nests in the walls of our house and we use an industrial wet-dry-cleaner with added hollow surfboard pole to suck them all into the prepared soapy water where they all die instantly.

Best done in the morning when they all come out and in the evening when they come home.



One guest room on the upper floor was all of a sudden filled to the brink with wasps that had chewed through the dry wall. We had to just keep the door closed and sealed up with adhesive tape as it was too dangerous to even enter the room much less take any action against those inside already.

 

[R2elk]

I did not know that. Thanks!!! I'm gonna try it next time. We haven't had a lot this year.

We hired a pest control guy to spray wasps one year, they were so bad. At my mom's house, there were a bunch living in the wall, entering at a corner under an eave. I asked him if filling the hole would work and he said he'd seen people do that but that the newly hatched brood had literally chewed through the drywall into the house. So I didn't do that...

If you put enough foam in there to fill the void, everything will be suffocated including unhatched brood.

 

[gointothebirdsfarm]

I can confirm that and would never do so again.

This year is extreme, we have 7 wasp nests in the walls of our house and we use an industrial wet-dry-cleaner with added hollow surfboard pole to suck them all into the prepared soapy water where they all die instantly.

Best done in the morning when they all come out and in the evening when they come home.



One guest room on the upper floor was all of a sudden filled to the brink with wasps that had chewed through the dry wall. We had to just keep the door closed and sealed up with adhesive tape as it was too dangerous to even enter the room much less take any action against those inside already.

Did you finally get in there? That's horrific!!! Those things will find the tiniest crack and find their way inside somehow.

 

[Painted Calls]

Did you finally get in there? That's horrific!!! Those things will find the tiniest crack and find their way inside somehow.

I can think of a few people I'd volunteer to send in and check it out.

 

[gointothebirdsfarm]

We were spraying at the entrance to the milk house which we frequent this summer cause there was a small nest, and low and behold all of a sudden blue wasps started pouring out of a old bird's nest there too. I didnt know they built their nest in bird's nests!!!

 

[R2elk]

I can think of a few people I'd volunteer to send in and check it out.

That's no way to talk about me. I would not be concerned about going in with the proper equipment.

 

[Painted Calls]

That's no way to talk about me. I would not be concerned about going in with the proper equipment.

Not talking about you lol.

 

[R2elk]

Not talking about you lol.

Sure you weren't.

 

[LaFleche]

Did you finally get in there? That's horrific!!! Those things will find the tiniest crack and find their way inside somehow.

No, not yet. As we are both allergic to wasp, hornet and bee venom and already had our shares of emergencies and hospitalizations we chose to just leave the room sealed until late autumn.
Our house is very old and half-timbered which leaves ample crevices for them to nest.