Removing Wasps

[Chef Isaac]

Hello all. I have a friend who said that the people in his community will pay per wasp hive to be removed.

I am thinking that wasps are easier to remove than honeybees....right?

The wasps build nests on peoples house and barns and they want them removes. Sounds easy enough to me....

any suggestion.. ideas... etc??? that might help? Any forwarnings???

[TwT]

wasp spray makes it easy ;)

[drobbins]

Chef
I think you might need to be carefull about legal stuff :rolleyes:
most places the pest control guy's have paid off the guv'mnt to pass laws that say you can't do that without a license

Dave

[Sundance]

Wasps can be rascals. Paper wasps are best handled at night I hear. No first hand experience and hope to never have any.... ;)

[wade]

Wasps are docile. Just knock the little paper-comb nest down with a broom and step on it. If they're too high then use Poewershot, I think Raid makes it. I like money but I couldn't not tell the person that. If they still want to pay then refer them to an exterminator. If you'd want to do it then maybe look into being an exterminator.

[ April 18, 2006, 07:43 PM: Message edited by: wade ]

[SilverFox]

There are people that capture, wasps,yellow jackets, bald faced hornets and bumble bees, and sell them to research facilities and colleges for research and venom extraction. Have a friend that does it, if he gets a call for honey bees he tells me and if I get a call that turns out to be one of the others I call him. Works out pretty good.
He takes only unsprayed hives andf uses a vacuum,
or a plastic bag. I guess it really keeps him busy, he has hired two other people to help him, and advertizes in Olympia and in the phone book. He does it for nothing.

[iddee]

Ever go fishing? A bamboo fishing pole is perfect to take down a paper wasp nest. If it is large, with many wasps, just lie down for two to three minutes. The wasps go for a moving target. They will get you if you run, or move away. Then take the nest and go fishing. The larva make the best bream bait you ever used. :D

[Big Stinger]

Bream bait but worms are easyer to get. :D :D :D :D :D :D

[Michael Bush]

Back when I was a kid, I had a friend who collected them. We took nests down all the time and we had NO protective equipment whatsoever. We just used a hose or a spray bottom of water, and a gallon jar with a lid with air holes. The wasps can't fly when they are wet (unlike bees who don't fly well, but seem to manage if they have to). So we would spray them with water and the wasps would fall to the ground, we pulled the nest off and put it in the jar and watied for the wasps to dry out. They would do a reorientation cluster, like bees do, where all of them just huddle on the nest, instead of flying around. We just put the lid on and took it back to his place. He'd dump it out and run. After they clustered again, he'd wet them again and glue the nest up on the eaves of his trailer.

You can use all this to your advantage getting the wasps. You can spray them with water and step on the ones on the ground, take the nest down and squash it and you have no more wasps.

As mentioned the paper wasps aren't that agressive. Not like hornets or yellow jackets.

[FordGuy]

wow, I have had the holy &&&& stung out of me all my life by waspers, and you guys have gotten a free ride? Now mind you, I was moving, and moving pretty fast, but only after a couple of them latched onto me and decided to carry me away to a safer spot to eat me. Yeah, the red/yellow paper wasps. Mean as ****. And Iddee, that laying down part, no way brother. Reminds me of the time daddy said, "here hold these wires while I turn this crank." haha.

[iddee]

You ran, got stung...I layed down and didn't...Self-explanatory.

No ha-ha...It works

[power napper]

White Faced Hornet nest--this happened about twenty five or more years ago!
Hornets were building a nest right above my garage door on concrete lentil. It was fascinating to watch out through the glass as the hornets constructed the nest each day, the nest grew as the number of hornets grew--golfball size nest, tennis ball size, softball size then soccer ball size. When we opened the garage door the hornets lined up and stared you down--amazingly no one got stung.
The hornets were getting pretty numerous so I figured that it was time to destroy the nest, got a twelve foot long pole and wrapped a rag on the end and dipped into gasoline. Lit a piece of paper on fire and carried gas soaked rag to the fire and "whoomp" , the fire was hot--swung the pole around an placed under the nest, smoke was billowing and hornets were dropping without any wings left, I was committed to destroying this nest. The wooden garage door was closed and brick exterior of the house was getting sooty directly above the nest--oops! Now the garage door was smokeing and paint blistering--oops! I could hear someone yelling "where is all the stinking smoke coming from" when I discovered the window to my daughters bedroom was open and it was directly above the nest---oops!
All in all it was a success--blackened bricks, charred garage door and no stings, the nest was gone!

[carbide]

White faced hornet nest in mountain laurel bush that decided to attack me as I went by on the riding mower. Came back a little while later with a metal clothes prop. Tied a cherry bomb to the end of the pole, lit it, jambed it into the side of the nest. No more nest. Two or three survivors flying around looking for the nest that was no more. smile.gif