Wasps - Hornets - Bees - Yellowjackets

And I mean the bugs not the Dodge/Chrysler products. For those of us that store cars I am sure you have run in to them. I have had a on going five or six year battle with some wasps and some Yellowjackets. They are determined to set up home in my cars in the driveway every summer. What ever car is driven the least will become there home. Setting up residence in the mirrors or in the door or trunk jambs. They are anoying little buggers. Other than a shotgun or large amounts of fire or a small Nuke anyone got any ways to either perminantly kill them or make them want to move on?

For some reason this year they seem to like my Toyota. Last year it was the Porsche.

Bees in general do not like strong odors, as they interfere with their ability to communicate via pheromones. Try some AXE body spray (or something equally offensive) directly on the areas they are attracted to and see if it helps?

In reply to dean1484:

FWIW I was told(on here) the mud wasps aren't aggressive toward humans.

Bees sting once - yellow jackets over and over (we get these a lot). Yellow jackets are attracted to dark colors and give off a fermone that attracts more yellow jackets - you have to spray their nest at night.

Once I hit a nest cutting my dad's lawn and they started stinging my sock and I knew right away it was yellow jackets and I started jumping around and knocking them off. My dad freaked out thinking I had cut my foot with the lawn mower.

I have seen a ton of wasp nests this year. We rarely have a YJ nest or hornet nest. One of my neighbors has had to kill the third honey bee nest in his house.

The big hardware stores carry disposable yellow jacket and wasp traps.

I'd hang a few off the side mirrors of the lesser used cars.

You can't keep em away, I'd just lure them in and kill them.

(me and bees are friends, yellow jackets and wasps however...)

spitfirebill wrote: I have seen a ton of wasp nests this year. We rarely have a YJ nest or hornet nest. One of my neighbors has had to kill the third honey bee nest in his house.

That's unfortunate. The local agricultural extension office should be able to put him in touch with a local beekeeper who would remove the colony for free (provided he has not sprayed them with poison already) and help him find the site of entry to his house so he can remove their access.

If you don't bother them, they won't bother you unlike mosquitoes .

I was running an excavator and dug up a nest of wasps. I quickly shut the windows and did not get stung. Honked my horn at the two labourers in the trench. They did not understand my arm waving and just looked at me...until the stinging happened. There was a lot of stinging.

Other than that, brown paper bags or fake nests work quite well to keep them out of an area, and if you see them buzzing, follow them home and come back and kill the nest in the evening when they are all home for the night. I kill 15 or 20 nests a year on my property.

Kerosene (not water, the good stuff advertises it's dielectric strength) based wasp spray, the poison should stick around a while inside a door jamb (IIRC it's UV that degrades it).

EastCoastMojo wrote:

spitfirebill wrote: I have seen a ton of wasp nests this year. We rarely have a YJ nest or hornet nest. One of my neighbors has had to kill the third honey bee nest in his house.

That's unfortunate. The local agricultural extension office should be able to put him in touch with a local beekeeper who would remove the colony for free (provided he has not sprayed them with poison already) and help him find the site of entry to his house so he can remove their access.

This, the honey bee has enough problems at the moment without people killing them, don't add to that issue.

dean1484 wrote: And I mean the bugs not the Dodge/Chrysler products. For those of us that store cars I am sure you have run in to them.

Coincidentally, this morning I was having issues with wasps setting up in the passenger side mirror of my Dodge van.

I did a (possibly ineffectual) brakleen-and-dash; unfortunately, the weather's been quite warm recently, so if that hasn't done it, I might have to wait a little while for a good opportunity for a night time attack.

I'm a bit intrigued by this notion of hanging a trap from the mirror for a bit, but the van is used often enough I don't really want to have to do that all the time.

The bags and fake nests only act as a deterrent to new nests. The use is that they will move to another area to build a nest. Like 20 feet maybe.

I ran over a ground nest, while mowing the lawn last year. Got stung a few times. Glad I'm not allergic to it.

I had some luck last year with the plastic wasp traps, some old feta cheese and apple cider vinegar. So many of those jerks fell for it that both of them were filled to the top after just a week with dead wasps.

Well we will see what tomorrow brings. Nuked them with raid wasp killer first and the followed up with my home brue of pyrethrum with a couple drops of dawn and a little bit of glycerin.

The raid knocks down the live ones on The nest. My home brue sticks to it and killes anything that comes back and gets any eggs that the raid does not get.

Tomorrow in the light I will see what is left and hopefully dig out the nest and crush it.

Look up Drione dust. It's mostly diatomaceous earth and a quick puff will do to handle nests, or even kill colonies if you can catch a couple of the little suckers at large and dust them...they'll take it back home to the hive with them.

Low/no toxicity to mammals, but will kill any insects that contact it through asphyxiation. CHEAP in the long run. I've have a pound of it that I've been using for about 5 years and it's not even a third gone.

I puff the perimeter of my garage and basement when bugs start showing up. Effective for about 6 months.

EastCoastMojo wrote:

spitfirebill wrote: I have seen a ton of wasp nests this year. We rarely have a YJ nest or hornet nest. One of my neighbors has had to kill the third honey bee nest in his house.

That's unfortunate. The local agricultural extension office should be able to put him in touch with a local beekeeper who would remove the colony for free (provided he has not sprayed them with poison already) and help him find the site of entry to his house so he can remove their access.

He called a bee guy and they wouldn't touch it. Seems the hive is deep into the house.

spitfirebill wrote:

EastCoastMojo wrote:

spitfirebill wrote: I have seen a ton of wasp nests this year. We rarely have a YJ nest or hornet nest. One of my neighbors has had to kill the third honey bee nest in his house.

That's unfortunate. The local agricultural extension office should be able to put him in touch with a local beekeeper who would remove the colony for free (provided he has not sprayed them with poison already) and help him find the site of entry to his house so he can remove their access.

He called a bee guy and they wouldn't touch it. Seems the hive is deep into the house.

Speaking from experience, that's going to smell lovely. There is a lot of biomass in a bee colony.

Tyler H wrote:

spitfirebill wrote:

EastCoastMojo wrote:

spitfirebill wrote: I have seen a ton of wasp nests this year. We rarely have a YJ nest or hornet nest. One of my neighbors has had to kill the third honey bee nest in his house.

That's unfortunate. The local agricultural extension office should be able to put him in touch with a local beekeeper who would remove the colony for free (provided he has not sprayed them with poison already) and help him find the site of entry to his house so he can remove their access.

He called a bee guy and they wouldn't touch it. Seems the hive is deep into the house.

Speaking from experience, that's going to smell lovely. There is a lot of biomass in a bee colony.

This is the third time bees have nested in this house over 30 years.

For yellowjackets, try liquid nitrogen.

Yellowjackets are nasty, but Wasp & Hornet killer works amazingly well. Just hose the nest down with it after dark and revenge shall be yours. Or do it during the day for maximum entertainment value.

spitfirebill wrote: I have seen a ton of wasp nests this year. We rarely have a YJ nest or hornet nest. One of my neighbors has had to kill the third honey bee nest in his house.

He needs to call another guy.

Nobody is going to remove it for free. I suspect its more of he didn't like their pricing more than nobody will remove it. If its a swarm on the side of the house, you can get a beekeeper over in 30 minutes. Removing a hive from a house takes work. Killing the nest doesn't work, as youve seen. they need to be removed.

I have about 40,000 bees in my yard right now. The good kind though.

In reply to lnlogauge:

You are very possibly correct. These folks have lived in a house with no AC for years, because I assume they don't have the money to repair them. They aren't likely going to spend a few hundred $$ to tear off siding to save some bees.

I keep killing nests in my vehicles with brake clean. The cold nature of the propellant kills them instantly. And Advance is BOGO right now with makes it at least a $1.50 less a can than the normal spray....

Day or night I spray active nests and they never come back, even years later.