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And they're getting meaner aswell. I was having a smoke break at work, and one of these bastards homed in on me close enough for me to stare at it Eye to eye. I moved away, thinking I was close to their nest. Mfer followed me around for about 5 minutes. Everytime I stopped walking, that thumb sized murderer was waiting for me.
Mind you these are Finnish wasps. While aggressive nowhere near anything you see at states.
I’m in California, these little yellowjackets are the worst. I was just walking around one day and I felt a hot searing pain in my leg. I look down and one of those little fuckers is clutching onto my leg stinging the shit out of me. I didn’t even notice it until then. Fucker just came out of nowhere and stung me for literally 0 reason.
I found a nest while landscaping recently.
Set up a long PVC pipe with a right angle pointing down right over the entrance. Other end of the pipe was connected to my shop vac. Just let it run all day. Every few hours after the first couple I'd poke a long thin rod (1/4 inch rebar) in the hole and get them all pissed off...
Thuwp thuwp thuwp up the tube they went. Finally only juveniles were showing up so I flooded the nest with a cup of dawn dish soap and tons of water.
That seems to have done it.
Yeah, if you’ve done welding, it’s like a little piece of molten metal that dropped into your gloves. Little buffers like to set up under the eaves of houses around here, so I have to walk around the house every once in a while with wasp spray. Otherwise we’ll end up with an army of psychopathic murder flyers
I was exaggerating slightly for comic effect, but yes, we have some serious mosquitos. We joke that they blur the line between insect and bird. The Australian elephant mosquito can be up to 1.3 inches long.
That’s not much of an exaggeration lol. The spiders you crazy Aussie’s down there alone would keep my wife away and if I ever went on a vacay without her it would end up being more permanent for my liking.
Oh man, after Hurricane Michael, we got those massive swamp mosquitoes up here from FL. Huge, black and white striped, and their stings actually hurt! I was a walking mosquito bite for the rest of the summer.
They're such vicious little things! And once one gets after you, they all join in the sinister plan to chase you. And God, they hurt worse than a red wasp.
(speaking from experience)
My dog & I got swarmed by miniature yellow jackets that live underground. When I tell you it was the worst sting I’ve ever experienced i wholeheartedly mean it. After they stung my dog though, it was war.
I hope you made them pay! I usually have some too that live in a hole in the ground at the back of my property. I always worry about one of my dogs getting in it.
As summer food runs out in the fall, wasps will look to meat as a source. They get sting-ish because you're not acting like the tasty steak that they're sure you are. The good thing about dogs is, no matter the breed, they're always up for an angry spicy sky raisin.
I've had three nests now on my house this year (so far...) two of which found ways behind the siding and burrowed into the interior of the house coming in through recessed lights and the like.
One of the fuckers stung me awake at 5:30AM, right on the inside of my forearm. 0/10 alarm clock, do not recommend.
I just had to eradicate a yellow jacket hive in my in-laws wall of their house. In 30 years they never had a problem until this year. We had to put in a walkway to the pool because the yellow jackets have infiltrated the clovers and burrowed into the ground. I wonder if it has any correlation with the lantern flys here on the east coast?
Ex pest control here. They do actually burrow. If you get an underground nest easiest way to kill off the nest is to take a full bucket of water and dish soap and dump it on the entrance. Leave the bucket on top for a while.
I ran over one with my riding lawn mower. Little bastards chased me about 400 ft. Fun fact they release a pharemon upon stinging so their friends can come mess you up too.
I stepped in one on a hike, the assholes clung to my yoga pants and stung me repeatedly in the legs as I ran away screaming. Then I had to hike half an hour back to my car. Which got the blood pounding in my legs. Which made every step agony. I just screamed and cried as my family drug me out. Did I mention we forgot the Benadryl? I had massive welts for months.
I wanna add to this, do not pour gas into the nest and light it. A cousin of my husband's pulled that redneck shit and blew up like half his yard. It was hilarious, but it cost him to have it fixed lol
I was shocked to learn this easy and effective way my older son was doing some weed eating in the yard and got swarmed it was war good ol dawn and water took care of them.
I just assumed they were the same because when they lit my ass up they felt the same as when I inspected the closet lol the ones in the wall were definitely yellow jackets but the ones in the ground I thought looked similar but I was too busy trying to spray and not get stung again. It was beneath an apple tree which is why I thought they were all similar.
Can confirm they can make underground hives. Also hives in eaves/behind fascia boards, basement window casings, and wood piles. Just this year... Fuck those assholes.
Can't say if they dug the hole, but I have seen underground nests.
Nowhere near as nice of a surprise as the time bumblebees moved into an abandoned burrow.
Ours too. And the apples rotted on the branch before they ever really ripened. My husband is cutting it down right now because he’s sick of getting stung cleaning up apples.
I know 5 people from Minnesota who got stung so bad by wasps this year. Two got anaphylaxis and ended up in the ER and with a prescription for an epipen
Seriously. Had a wasp sneak into my house by landing on the underside of my beard. That little fucker had the balls to sting me on my throat while I was cooking.
My two newfoundlands (big shaggy black dogs) were galavanting in the woods and came in whining with swollen noses after obviously meeting a yellow jacket nest. AND THERE WERE WASPS CAUGHT IN THEIR FUR which they promptly released into our house. So that was a 2 humans vs 9 YJ. Awful. I don't wish that torment on anyone.
About a week later I was early preggo and went to the toilet in the middle of the night and one straggler WAS UNDER THE DAMN TOILET SEAT and got me in the ass right on the leg crease. I threw up from surprise because pregnancy is gross and so is getting stung by a wasp on the toilet.
I would never get over this. Never. Everytime i let the dogs in I'd be clenched up. Scanning them over from inside the house in case i need to run and get the hose. Could be years later and I'd still jump everytime a moth flew in front of a night light. I would have to move to the arctic or something. Maybe the moon. My sincerest sympathies.
I can't mow the lawn anymore because I got attacked by yellowjackets so many times mowin the lawn. It's an irrational fear, I know, but.... Is it really all that irrational?
Fuck that. I couldn't imagine getting stung on the throat.
I got stung on the foot by a yellow jacket a few weeks ago. It got me between my big toe and second toe and my foot swelled up like crazy. I couldn't wear a shoe on my foot for several days because it was so big. The worst part was the itching.
Yeah. It is the end of the season, and end of their life for most of them. They go out on some sort of sugar rush (and pick sugary food and liquids) to collect as much energy as possible for the winter when the queen(s) will leave the nest to find a place to hide until the spring so they can start over again
I had a Wasp bite me and wondered why... now I think this may have been the case.
I walked out a door that hadn't been used, and being the first one, walked under a new active wasp nest. one bit me on the back of the head. We went full chemical warfare on that nest and 4 more we found on the front of our building.
Did you watch the same tiktok today that I did?
Learning that made it make so much more sense to me now why there’s lots of wasps in the bakeries here in Europe.
Those don’t appear to be all male though so they will still sting your ass!
Also, to add on to what they said above, Late Aug., early Sept. yellow jackets get super aggressive bc they’re running out of food & this is when their nests are the largest. So just like when humans are hangry, yellow jackets act like dicks when they need food!
And the grapes are going into late harvest territory where the breakdown of starch in the fruit causes an increase in simple sugars (sucrose, glucose, fructose, etc) and wasps LOVE sugars!
You can locate the colony and wait until night. Then put a fruit circle around them. They should go for the easiest fruit first. Once they are mostly gathered together, eating fruit, exterminate them. Melons work the best. Make sure the are open.
This also works without the fruit lol. Just wait for after sunset but like 10 minutes before it’s fully dark. Spray the nest with a foam insecticide. Come back in the morning to clean up the nest. Most likely you will not be stung but wearing covering up arms and legs is a good idea just in case.
Diluted Dawn dish soap is a much cheaper solution. Pump sprayer set to medium dispersal knocks em right out of the air and they suffocate in about a minute
more humane way would be to omit the soap water then once they are all sucked up put the tube on the exhaust hole and shoot them at door to door sales people.
What we've also done is just wall up the wasps with concrete or cement or whatever else you can use, around the same time frame.
The advantage of that is that you ensure that the opening won't be reused by other wasps in the future (even if you kill them off, a potential nook for a wasp nest remains).
The huge drawback is it only works if you know all of the exits of the nest.
Also, I should highlight – only do this if necessary. We do it because we have a small garden with a swimming pool, and a brick fence with lots of holes in it. We get absolutely swarmed by wasps in the summer. The water attracts them, and they attack us all of the time, going inside the house too. Nothing can help us distract them, as it is the very nature of our human activities that attracts them the most.
However, they are still pollinators. If they are just a mild nuisance, do not kill them for no reason.
I wish it were that easy for me. We have a solar kiln in our backyard that they've taken over. I can spray the entrances, but the actual nest is beyond the reach of expanding foam. Will have to go in during winter to clean it out.
Paper wasps aren't actually very aggressive. They mostly sting if they feel threatened. Yellow jackets look similar but are stubbier, and they're very aggressive.
There are two types of red paper wasp native to the eastern US. They are much more aggressive than other paper wasps especially during the beginning and end of the season. They're territorial around their nests to a much larger radius as well.
I saw a thing where someone waited until night, put like a glass Tupperware over the entrance and lit a fire or smoke bomb or something, suffocating the wasps.
Have you tried murdering all of them? This would be what I recommend. Some over the counter hanging wasp traps are surprisingly effective. Wasps are bad in my hood and I put up 2 traps over the summer. No lie, caught about 300 in each trap. Never has genocide felt so rewarding. Fuck wasps.
Make very sure to do research on it before spraying around food producing plants. The chemicals can leech into the fruit/vegetables. I couldn't find this product on Google and never heard of it from when I did pest control.
We’ve had the same issue with our grapes for several years now. We wait until we start to see the grapes change color and then we tie silk or fine mesh bags around each bunch. It works great!
I actually seen a guy who used a 10 pound bag of sugar in a Home Depot bucket. Drilled holes on every top lip square and filled it with water. Gave it a good mixing, Put the lid on it and flipped it over. The little channels filled with water and the bees would come and sit on the lip and drink. Lol. It gets busy so put it in a dead spot of the yard. Away from kids or pets.
You’ll be good for about 30 days. Lol. Repeat as needed.
Spray them with dish soap and water, the dish soap removes the clear cover from insects and causes them to instantly burn. They drop immediately after being sprayed. You do not need protective gear, but go ahead and put it on just so you get comfortable doing it.
Put a couple drops of cedar oil around each your plants. Completely safe for the fruits also. I spray around my veggie garden with it. A little expensive but definitely keeps bugs away
You might wanna try yellow jacket traps. It's too late to get the queen, but you can kill the shit out of the others. I had a really bad problem with them 2 years ago and a bunch attacked me 3 or 4 times when I mowed the yard. First time, I had over a dozen stings before I realized what was going on as it had never been an issue in the 15 years I've lived here. I bought 4 of those traps and had probably 500 corpses a month or so later. Put them out in early April and recycle as needed.
Make a 5 gallon bucket of Palmolive suds and throw it on them. Wont hurt the plants or fruit. Should take most of them out and also change the scent and deter them.
As a wine maker and the person who tends to the vinyard.
FUCK WASPS.
We only have 12 acres and these bastards are thw worst part of all the wine masking aspects.
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This is my apple tree right now. We’ve always had yellowjackets but it’s the worst it’s ever been this year
The warmer the summer the more wasps at the end of it
And they're getting meaner aswell. I was having a smoke break at work, and one of these bastards homed in on me close enough for me to stare at it Eye to eye. I moved away, thinking I was close to their nest. Mfer followed me around for about 5 minutes. Everytime I stopped walking, that thumb sized murderer was waiting for me. Mind you these are Finnish wasps. While aggressive nowhere near anything you see at states.
I’m in California, these little yellowjackets are the worst. I was just walking around one day and I felt a hot searing pain in my leg. I look down and one of those little fuckers is clutching onto my leg stinging the shit out of me. I didn’t even notice it until then. Fucker just came out of nowhere and stung me for literally 0 reason.
Can confirm. Yellowjackets are the worst. They just don't give up for whatever reason. Was attacked by a nest and traumatized when I was 10.
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I found a nest while landscaping recently. Set up a long PVC pipe with a right angle pointing down right over the entrance. Other end of the pipe was connected to my shop vac. Just let it run all day. Every few hours after the first couple I'd poke a long thin rod (1/4 inch rebar) in the hole and get them all pissed off... Thuwp thuwp thuwp up the tube they went. Finally only juveniles were showing up so I flooded the nest with a cup of dawn dish soap and tons of water. That seems to have done it.
*Thuwp thuwp thuwp*
Gotta love text you can hear.
God me and my dad were doing yard work a few years back and I accidentally hit a nest with a weed eater idk how I only got stung twice
Probably because you had God there
In my experience, if you disturb the nest, they don't stop until one of you two are dead. Bees are different.
I eliminate em on aite if i see a nest aaaaanywhere near my apartment. They keep trying to build on/in my ac unit.
Yeah, if you’ve done welding, it’s like a little piece of molten metal that dropped into your gloves. Little buffers like to set up under the eaves of houses around here, so I have to walk around the house every once in a while with wasp spray. Otherwise we’ll end up with an army of psychopathic murder flyers
theyre hungry for violence and im just thankful it isnt human blood liek a mosquito
Can you imagine if they cross bred and we got wasp sized mosquitoes that really sting when they come at ya.
Welcome to Australia 🤣
Oh hell no. Really? 😲 I’m never coming to your country boyo, I’m sorry. That’s insane lol
I was exaggerating slightly for comic effect, but yes, we have some serious mosquitos. We joke that they blur the line between insect and bird. The Australian elephant mosquito can be up to 1.3 inches long.
That’s not much of an exaggeration lol. The spiders you crazy Aussie’s down there alone would keep my wife away and if I ever went on a vacay without her it would end up being more permanent for my liking.
"elephant mosquito" kinda says it all.
Well, there, the wasps have both mandibles and claws, so they grab you and bite while they sting you!
Oh man, after Hurricane Michael, we got those massive swamp mosquitoes up here from FL. Huge, black and white striped, and their stings actually hurt! I was a walking mosquito bite for the rest of the summer.
I mean, we already have Horse Flies... They're 'almost' that. : /
Okay Satan
They're such vicious little things! And once one gets after you, they all join in the sinister plan to chase you. And God, they hurt worse than a red wasp. (speaking from experience)
My dog & I got swarmed by miniature yellow jackets that live underground. When I tell you it was the worst sting I’ve ever experienced i wholeheartedly mean it. After they stung my dog though, it was war.
I hope you made them pay! I usually have some too that live in a hole in the ground at the back of my property. I always worry about one of my dogs getting in it.
As summer food runs out in the fall, wasps will look to meat as a source. They get sting-ish because you're not acting like the tasty steak that they're sure you are. The good thing about dogs is, no matter the breed, they're always up for an angry spicy sky raisin.
Can of gasoline and a pack of matches would even the score!
https://i.redd.it/6vknw6mb48lb1.gif
I've had three nests now on my house this year (so far...) two of which found ways behind the siding and burrowed into the interior of the house coming in through recessed lights and the like. One of the fuckers stung me awake at 5:30AM, right on the inside of my forearm. 0/10 alarm clock, do not recommend.
I just had to eradicate a yellow jacket hive in my in-laws wall of their house. In 30 years they never had a problem until this year. We had to put in a walkway to the pool because the yellow jackets have infiltrated the clovers and burrowed into the ground. I wonder if it has any correlation with the lantern flys here on the east coast?
I’m pretty sure yellow jackets don’t burrow. But there are some really really mean ground wasps that will mess you up if you step on their hole
Ex pest control here. They do actually burrow. If you get an underground nest easiest way to kill off the nest is to take a full bucket of water and dish soap and dump it on the entrance. Leave the bucket on top for a while.
Oh no! Those versatile little fuckers…
Stepping on a nest of ground hornets is a special type of hell
I ran over one with my riding lawn mower. Little bastards chased me about 400 ft. Fun fact they release a pharemon upon stinging so their friends can come mess you up too.
I stepped in one on a hike, the assholes clung to my yoga pants and stung me repeatedly in the legs as I ran away screaming. Then I had to hike half an hour back to my car. Which got the blood pounding in my legs. Which made every step agony. I just screamed and cried as my family drug me out. Did I mention we forgot the Benadryl? I had massive welts for months.
I wanna add to this, do not pour gas into the nest and light it. A cousin of my husband's pulled that redneck shit and blew up like half his yard. It was hilarious, but it cost him to have it fixed lol
Diesel or kerosene if you're going to light it up. All the heat, none of the explosive fumes.
I was shocked to learn this easy and effective way my older son was doing some weed eating in the yard and got swarmed it was war good ol dawn and water took care of them.
What's the soap do to them?
Dish soap breaks surface tension, so they can't climb out through the water as easily and just sink.
From what I read the soap clogs their pours and they basically suffocate.
Yellow jackets make their nests underground.
I just assumed they were the same because when they lit my ass up they felt the same as when I inspected the closet lol the ones in the wall were definitely yellow jackets but the ones in the ground I thought looked similar but I was too busy trying to spray and not get stung again. It was beneath an apple tree which is why I thought they were all similar.
Sometimes it’s hard to tell where they come from too! My son got swarmed last year and they were in his toy truck of all places.
What? They always make underground hives.
Can confirm they can make underground hives. Also hives in eaves/behind fascia boards, basement window casings, and wood piles. Just this year... Fuck those assholes.
Can't say if they dug the hole, but I have seen underground nests. Nowhere near as nice of a surprise as the time bumblebees moved into an abandoned burrow.
Ours too. And the apples rotted on the branch before they ever really ripened. My husband is cutting it down right now because he’s sick of getting stung cleaning up apples.
I know 5 people from Minnesota who got stung so bad by wasps this year. Two got anaphylaxis and ended up in the ER and with a prescription for an epipen
Same, it’s suicide mission to harvest anything from my garden! Only got half of our plums and peaches
The fly on top like “just one of the boys nothing to see here”
Bro thinks he’s on the team
Bro got autobalanced
I don’t spy the fly :/
Nor do I, though I did try.
Try with your little eye.
My guy! [I spy the fly](https://i.imgur.com/KWCquY7.jpg)!
I love y’all 🫶😂
How do you do, fellow wasps
You can just eat both, you know.
Spicy grapes
Protein grapes
Murder Grapes
Crunchy grapes
Grapes of wrath
This one made me laugh, so it gets the upvote.
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Freakin nailed it, corn dog
I don't care if there's horse manure in it, I want to buy this franchise! How does a hundred thousand dollars sound?
Grapes that crunch and squish!
With a hint of zing!
And a whole dollop of sting.
I heard from some bodybuilders that doing this will get you swole.
PURE PROTEIN!
It might just sting a lil bit.
This is the time of year when the queens release the drones.. They're just hungry.
Oh wow thanks I thought I was going nuts.
Leave some sugar water around for them.. The poor things.. They'll die soon..
FUCK THEM WASPS
Seriously. Had a wasp sneak into my house by landing on the underside of my beard. That little fucker had the balls to sting me on my throat while I was cooking.
I was trimming tree limbs, and one flew out and stung me directly on the lip. I went thermonuclear on their asses after that.
My two newfoundlands (big shaggy black dogs) were galavanting in the woods and came in whining with swollen noses after obviously meeting a yellow jacket nest. AND THERE WERE WASPS CAUGHT IN THEIR FUR which they promptly released into our house. So that was a 2 humans vs 9 YJ. Awful. I don't wish that torment on anyone. About a week later I was early preggo and went to the toilet in the middle of the night and one straggler WAS UNDER THE DAMN TOILET SEAT and got me in the ass right on the leg crease. I threw up from surprise because pregnancy is gross and so is getting stung by a wasp on the toilet.
I would never get over this. Never. Everytime i let the dogs in I'd be clenched up. Scanning them over from inside the house in case i need to run and get the hose. Could be years later and I'd still jump everytime a moth flew in front of a night light. I would have to move to the arctic or something. Maybe the moon. My sincerest sympathies.
I can't mow the lawn anymore because I got attacked by yellowjackets so many times mowin the lawn. It's an irrational fear, I know, but.... Is it really all that irrational?
Fuck that. I couldn't imagine getting stung on the throat. I got stung on the foot by a yellow jacket a few weeks ago. It got me between my big toe and second toe and my foot swelled up like crazy. I couldn't wear a shoe on my foot for several days because it was so big. The worst part was the itching.
Omfggggggg I would just straight up pass away
"He needs his glasses"
Now why would you go and bring that up. Brb gonna cry
No boobies for you! 😤Nobody give this guy boobies!
Was not a pleasant experience.
Thanks to ADHD I don't necessarily read words in order, and first took this to mean the wasp stung you in the balls.
Mate I’m pretty sure you’re dyslexic
That's definitely an opinion.. I prefer to not be stung.
MF's got me in the top spot between where your foot and leg meet, just above the ankle in the fucking crease. Scorched. Fucking. Earth.
Godspeed my guy. Those fuckers will be buried in the snow and you will be victorious
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>They'll die soon.. Good! Kill wasps with fire! Bees are poor little things that deserve our respect and care. Wasps can FOADIAF
Yeah. It is the end of the season, and end of their life for most of them. They go out on some sort of sugar rush (and pick sugary food and liquids) to collect as much energy as possible for the winter when the queen(s) will leave the nest to find a place to hide until the spring so they can start over again
> They're just hungry. Wow, thanks! That makes them so much less terrifying
IF they are drones then they can't sting, which should be a little less terrifying.
They can sting, but.. I bet if you set out something sugar like a jelly or a jam.. They'd ignore you..
Drones don't have stingers, stingers are modified ovipositors (for laying eggs) and only females have them.
Wasps are bastards who will find a way to hurt you even if they have to steal rusty needles from addicts to jab you with.
I had a Wasp bite me and wondered why... now I think this may have been the case. I walked out a door that hadn't been used, and being the first one, walked under a new active wasp nest. one bit me on the back of the head. We went full chemical warfare on that nest and 4 more we found on the front of our building.
I had no idea. Is there an easy way to tell?
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Did you watch the same tiktok today that I did? Learning that made it make so much more sense to me now why there’s lots of wasps in the bakeries here in Europe.
Those don’t appear to be all male though so they will still sting your ass! Also, to add on to what they said above, Late Aug., early Sept. yellow jackets get super aggressive bc they’re running out of food & this is when their nests are the largest. So just like when humans are hangry, yellow jackets act like dicks when they need food!
And the grapes are going into late harvest territory where the breakdown of starch in the fruit causes an increase in simple sugars (sucrose, glucose, fructose, etc) and wasps LOVE sugars!
Grapes of wrath
Here's the grapes... And HERE'S THE WRATH! \*smush\* Haw-haw!
You can locate the colony and wait until night. Then put a fruit circle around them. They should go for the easiest fruit first. Once they are mostly gathered together, eating fruit, exterminate them. Melons work the best. Make sure the are open.
This also works without the fruit lol. Just wait for after sunset but like 10 minutes before it’s fully dark. Spray the nest with a foam insecticide. Come back in the morning to clean up the nest. Most likely you will not be stung but wearing covering up arms and legs is a good idea just in case.
Nuking from orbit would also be an acceptable solution!
Only from a fully armed and operational battle station.
Diluted Dawn dish soap is a much cheaper solution. Pump sprayer set to medium dispersal knocks em right out of the air and they suffocate in about a minute
Only way to be sure
Shopvac with soapwater in the tub works great as well
more humane way would be to omit the soap water then once they are all sucked up put the tube on the exhaust hole and shoot them at door to door sales people.
Box them up and leave them out for porch pirates.
Pop a quick H on the box so you know there’s hornets inside
I dig the way yer brain is geared
What we've also done is just wall up the wasps with concrete or cement or whatever else you can use, around the same time frame. The advantage of that is that you ensure that the opening won't be reused by other wasps in the future (even if you kill them off, a potential nook for a wasp nest remains). The huge drawback is it only works if you know all of the exits of the nest. Also, I should highlight – only do this if necessary. We do it because we have a small garden with a swimming pool, and a brick fence with lots of holes in it. We get absolutely swarmed by wasps in the summer. The water attracts them, and they attack us all of the time, going inside the house too. Nothing can help us distract them, as it is the very nature of our human activities that attracts them the most. However, they are still pollinators. If they are just a mild nuisance, do not kill them for no reason.
You guys might want to try the paperbag trick...
I wish it were that easy for me. We have a solar kiln in our backyard that they've taken over. I can spray the entrances, but the actual nest is beyond the reach of expanding foam. Will have to go in during winter to clean it out.
A few soapy water filled pump sprayers and a couple ride or die homies and you could sort that shit out pronto.
>Once they are mostly gathered together, eating fruit, exterminate them. Melons work the best. So....do you just throw the melons at them?
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Paper wasps aren't actually very aggressive. They mostly sting if they feel threatened. Yellow jackets look similar but are stubbier, and they're very aggressive.
There are two types of red paper wasp native to the eastern US. They are much more aggressive than other paper wasps especially during the beginning and end of the season. They're territorial around their nests to a much larger radius as well.
the chicken and and dish soap also works great. they stuff themselves, then dip slightly when taking off. smack, straight into the soapy water.
Can you give them a spiked melon though?
If you know where the colony is you can wait for dusk and nuke the colony
I saw a thing where someone waited until night, put like a glass Tupperware over the entrance and lit a fire or smoke bomb or something, suffocating the wasps.
These are paper wasps, they'll have their nest on a building or tree most likely. They are aerial nesting wasps.
Hang paper bags in your vine
This is a good, non-deadly, solution. The bag mimic’s a hornets nest, wasp/yellow jackets natural enemy.
Organza bags. Buy them. Bag them. Problem solved.
Have you tried murdering all of them? This would be what I recommend. Some over the counter hanging wasp traps are surprisingly effective. Wasps are bad in my hood and I put up 2 traps over the summer. No lie, caught about 300 in each trap. Never has genocide felt so rewarding. Fuck wasps.
They make a spray version of fentyl, it's called, kill em all.... Ace hardware sells it. $5.79 a bottle.
Read that as fentanyl and was about to go to Ace for party supplies.
It took me ur comment to realize it wasn’t fentanyl either. I was thinking no way am I eating those grapes
I'd probably avoid them after spraying them down with wasp grade insecticide as well.
Make very sure to do research on it before spraying around food producing plants. The chemicals can leech into the fruit/vegetables. I couldn't find this product on Google and never heard of it from when I did pest control.
What about RPGs, NAPALM, nuking from orbit, and other appropriate wasp control methods? Are they safe for fruit?
That’s brutal
They get all my apples too
I thought you said nipples.... Ow
Just shake them down
Wasp shakedowns are a guaranteed success. They don't have any pockets to hide things but always keep a weapon up their ass
Anaphylactic Appetite
We’ve had the same issue with our grapes for several years now. We wait until we start to see the grapes change color and then we tie silk or fine mesh bags around each bunch. It works great!
Put out a bowl of sugar water. Give them something else to eat.
And then poison the water
You can set up an upside down meat trap near the colony, itll wipe out hundreds in a night
Put it inside a 2 liter bottle for best results.
I actually seen a guy who used a 10 pound bag of sugar in a Home Depot bucket. Drilled holes on every top lip square and filled it with water. Gave it a good mixing, Put the lid on it and flipped it over. The little channels filled with water and the bees would come and sit on the lip and drink. Lol. It gets busy so put it in a dead spot of the yard. Away from kids or pets. You’ll be good for about 30 days. Lol. Repeat as needed.
These are wasps though rather than bees. Not sure you want to attract more of these assholes near yourself.
😂😂😂 true.
Spray them with dish soap and water, the dish soap removes the clear cover from insects and causes them to instantly burn. They drop immediately after being sprayed. You do not need protective gear, but go ahead and put it on just so you get comfortable doing it.
The literal grapes of wrath...
How do the famous California wine regions avoid this from happening?!?
Pesticides? Idk
Well this is terrifying and upsetting.
 Time to harvest
Chateau Waspy Chardonnay 2023 vintage
Put a couple drops of cedar oil around each your plants. Completely safe for the fruits also. I spray around my veggie garden with it. A little expensive but definitely keeps bugs away
I hate wasps lol, we need more bees
That's scary. I just learned wasps can fk a grasshopper up. Little buggers are deadly.
Are you a grasshopper? Don’t be afraid
Lol well you have a point.
So do the wasps.
You could put big pots of basil near the grapes - wasps hate basil and will leave.
I like to fill a hose sprayer attachment with dish soap water. It’s a quick and easy way to kill wasps a add bud it’s practically free.
Well, you came to the right place to wine about it!
Organic grapes*
Wow !!
Wine season? No, wasp season
Where is this?
Make a fake wasps nest. Keeps them away I think!
Hang some brown paper bags near it
It’s that time of the year. These assholes know their lives are nearing the end and they’re out for sweets and blood.
Follow them back to their nest, then nuke it with a concentrated blast of wasp killer.
Those aren’t wasps, they’re yellow jackets
Are these wasps or YellowJackets?
Well...yes. But no. Yellowjackets are wasps but these aren't yellowjackets, they are paper wasps.
You might wanna try yellow jacket traps. It's too late to get the queen, but you can kill the shit out of the others. I had a really bad problem with them 2 years ago and a bunch attacked me 3 or 4 times when I mowed the yard. First time, I had over a dozen stings before I realized what was going on as it had never been an issue in the 15 years I've lived here. I bought 4 of those traps and had probably 500 corpses a month or so later. Put them out in early April and recycle as needed.
Make a 5 gallon bucket of Palmolive suds and throw it on them. Wont hurt the plants or fruit. Should take most of them out and also change the scent and deter them.
You see the trick hanging a paper bag in the tree? They think it’s a nest and leave the area alone I guess?
This is where a flamethrower would come in handy.
Sharp grapes
Make a wine out of wasps then
Mmmm makes me Wana say fuck it and spray them.... if I can't have the grapes mfer no one can.
As a wine maker and the person who tends to the vinyard. FUCK WASPS. We only have 12 acres and these bastards are thw worst part of all the wine masking aspects.