I hate wasps

[old_man]

I have a mirror off of my vehicle and a couple of exterior door handles while I am repainting and reworking the interior. It seems that wasps are trying to find places to nest and almost every day when I get in I stir up a half dozen wasps. The other day, I got stung three times on my side while I was driving.

For years I have had problems with wasps building nests by the fuel filler neck behind the door. You open the door and startle them and they all come pouring out all pissed.

Anybody else seen this?

 

[SteveT]

I was going to say I don't drive the Jeep enough. Went to fill up the other day, partial wasp nest built inside the filler door, but thankfully unoccupied.

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[zluster]

Yup. All the damn time. I those phuckers so much. My side yard where I store the parts cars and parts gets them really bad. I've been in battle mode. If you can catch them early when the nests are small, and iradicate them when it's cool at night you will do your itself a huge favor. I get back from being on the road a couple of weeks and I go out at dark and poke around the places I know they like to infest.

Kroil makes a great wasp killer. Though the range is not good. The propane torch is also pretty effective since it can instantly singe off those little flying phucks wings. I don't like the wasp killer spray because it tends to take too long, but it does have a good range and foams to cover a large area easier.

I also covered a bunch of my spare wheels in tarps this year since they like to build on the underside. I covered my parts cars too and that should Help. Right now I gotta keep an eye on the fenders and doors stacked outside. The header panels also make hidey homes for them.

Man I hate them so much. Kill them all.

 

[zluster]

I really like when they find their way inside of my parked van and die of heat exhaustion. That thing is like a solar oven.

Only downside is if I get in and they aren't fully dead yet.

 

[in4aride]

Yeah bad this year for me too. Killed a bunch so far. Been a few weeks since I've seen any number of them. Just some solo ones here and there.

 

[zluster]

I like when they decide to make a nest in my grill, sometimes they scare the phukk outta me when I open it, but man, it sure is satisfying to cook those suckers out. Thats what 2500btu/scf tastes like you flying bastards.

 

[zluster]

Awhile back I was over at thejeepgods place sitting outback on a chair and it seemed like an abby normal amount of wasps where flying nearby, we found out they had made a nest behind the chair. Naturally death by fire ensued.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IRI9upZmZI

Almost forgot we got some on his grill right next to the chair:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i1KHvDUfb8

 

[Fred]

Get one of the traps that use pheromones to attract them. Hang as far away from where people go as possible. You'll get rid of tons of them. The traps that use food as an attractant don't work as well. Don't get the attractant on you, unless you like to be swarmed by yellow jackets. I hate them. They are aggressive little bitches. Put me in the emergency ward once, but I've been stung since with no reaction, thankfully.

 

[1-tonxj]

White Anglo Saxon Protestants ?

 

[Hypoid]

New meaning to the phrase "Buzz box."

I'm not fond of the newest strain myself. I've been told they feed on everything, including rotting garbage (and rotting meat) and carry that bacteria wherever they go. Baking soda and calamine might buffer the reaction, but soon you will have an open sore where you got stung. BTDT got a lot of wasp eradication chemicals stockpiled.

Tom, I have read that the buggers follow some kind of scent/pheromone trail. If you can eradicate that source, they won't poke around your XJ.

 

[planefixer]

Evil bastards they are.



Brake cleaner kills them quick.

 

[zluster]

Get one of the traps that use pheromones to attract them. Hang as far away from where people go as possible. You'll get rid of tons of them. The traps that use food as an attractant don't work as well. Don't get the attractant on you, unless you like to be swarmed by yellow jackets. I hate them. They are aggressive little bitches. Put me in the emergency ward once, but I've been stung since with no reaction, thankfully.

Ive used those plenty before, but as it turns out they are not super effective towards European paper wasps, which were observed in Fort Collins in the US.

 

[zluster]

Tom, I have read that the buggers follow some kind of scent/pheromone trail. If you can eradicate that source, they won't poke around your XJ.

That may be true but they also visually can find places, at least based on my anecdote:

I had a red 96 XJ that I replaced the engine in, it came with a wasp nest between the drivers headlight and the bezel. A decent sized asshole cone with maybe a dozen hellspawn on it.

It caught me by surprise and I think in the ensueing chaos and wasp Holocaust I only got a little over half of them. The survivors picked up and went somewhere else to build a new asshole cone colony.

At the same time I picked up a green 00XJ, after the red 96XJ was sold I finished up the green jeep including repainting the front end. I had it parked in exactly the same spot as the red one had been when I unleashed the death spray WD40 on the first colony.

Despite the fact that there had never been an asshole cone there, and that everything had fresh paint smell on it, those same(presumed) survivors of the initial Holocaust keep flying back and looking for the old nest, always flying right around the same spot between the headlight and bezel.

I learned that time, its better to leave the asshole cone alone until the night is cool and dark, then strike them when they are weakest, leaving no survivors to rebuild. Complete and total destruction, no survivors, a true Holocaust.

 

[SteveT]

Found this little surprise splitting wood up at the cabin. Yeesh. Fortunately, it was about twelve degrees. Low mobility. Some were definitely alive. Shook most into the snow, stepped on anything that looked viable, but made sure one loaded piece went straight into the wood stove.

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[zluster]

I have a pet spider, or rather I have had many pet spiders, they are all named Doug. I don't know how many Dougs I have had, but its a symbiotic relationship.

You see I let Doug live at my Kitchen window, and Doug kills wasps. For some reason I always wind up with the flying hellspawn buzzing at my screen on the inside. Sometimes I close the window for awhile and let it die of heat exhaustion, sometimes I kill it directly with Pam cooking spray.

But my favorite method is to flying the wasp down to the bottom of the window, and let it get trapped in Dougs web. I have never seen Doug finish them off, but he does it. I think he is kinda shy and doesn't like to be seen eating.

Sometime in the fall Doug usually leaves, or dies off without food, but I like to think he just goes down and Hibernates for the Winter, each summer coming out with the coming of the Wasps and the Miller moths. I haven't seen Doug yet this year, but I know he will come. He always does.

 

[zluster]

Found this little surprise splitting wood up at the cabin. Yeesh. Fortunately, it was about twelve degrees. Low mobility. Some were definitely alive. Shook most into the snow, stepped on anything that looked viable, but made sure one loaded piece went straight into the wood stove.

That had to have been very satisfying. A video would have been nice to see, perhaps next year? Killing them with fire is always a great thing to do.

I'm curious about their lifecycle, I'm certain some larger colonies like this make it through the winter, but I think others have a queen that can survive the winter that rebuild the colony each summer.

If I can figure out how to kill the queen during the winter I should have fewer problems during the summer.

 

[SteveT]

I like to encourage a garden spider, the cat face variety, to set up residence over the patio deck. Any moth I catch inside goes to her. Charlotte is her name. She too, comes back every year, winky winky. I saw her take out one of those big black wasps one year. Sucker was huge, and we were eating outside. My wife was a bit more supportive of my habit after that.

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[YELLAHEEP]

The absolute BEST wasp spray I found quite accidentally. BRAKE CLEAN SPRAY!

I get those nests all summer long at my storage lot. Under the bed rails, mirrors, gas filler doors, gaps in the tail gates, gaps in the doors, behind the bumper corners....... all over.

I had a can of brake clean in my truck and decided to use it on a rather large (tennis ball sized) nest behind a rear bumper. It had easily 50+ clinging to it and full of larvae.

Brake clean has an excellent stream range and I was able to get the nest a good 2 second shot from about 6 feet away. I'm not kidding here...... every single one of the adults dropped to the ground instantly. I hit them again on the ground with another 2 second shot and they quit moving entirely, curling up and dying.

Knocked the nest down and soaked it with brake clean...... then smashed it under a 2x4.

If you take the straw off the end, you can shoot it just ahead of a flying wasp and it'll drop instantly after running into the mist. Amazing. I've been buying brake clean by the case now. It kills everything. Spiders are a bit more resilient but give them a good soak and they'll crawl for a minute then die.

Moths, mosquitos, bees...... haven't found a bug brake clean won't kill. Whats even better..... the stuff doesn't stain, evaporates quickly and doesn't leave that bitter, nasty bug spray smell behind.

 

[thejeepgod]

Yeah I like to use brake clean also. I always have some around and its flammable.

I get them in the parts jeeps and shed all the time. Nothing worse than reaching into a door, or under a dash and getting a bunch of angry wasps flying out at you.

 

[freerider15]

We get a lot of yellow jackets, and somewhat wasps around my place.

Set up one of those attractant / pheromone hangers last year. it was one where they can enter from the top or bottom, both have attractant. Top side has water (drowns them), bottom side is like your normal style (cooks them).

We filled the thing half way up last year.

We were a bit more proactive this year, and hung another two up.

As much as I like brake clean and ones like those, I don't use them on the cone's.

I'll use actual wasp spray for one reason...it kills those that keep coming back.

One of the places I lived, there was an old one car barn/garage thing. It would make a fantastic horror movie scene, but it was right on the edge of old town :laugh: All the boards had gaps between them, and the thing really just needed to come down. Anyhow, i was noticing quite a few wasps coming and going...and I had some parts in there still after having moved.

I peeked my head inside...and I've never seen so many wasps...ever.

There were probably a dozen or so softball size nests...hundreds of wasps in there.

Using the wasp spray...it would kill those on the nest and soak it, and when the other would return later it would kill them as well when they landed on it. That way there wasn't a whole crap ton of wasps flying around endlessly looking for their nest.