What do you use to get ride of WASPS and DIRT DOBBERS?
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Jan
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Have those trying to "home" under our handrails on our walk to our porch. Anyone used anything that has helped get rid of these?
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I haven't tried it yet, but read that spraying WD40 in the places where they nest works.
KathrynElizabeth Etier
on Mar 11, 2014
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My grandmother used to paint the underside of handrails and the eaves of her house a sky blue color. She told me that it tricked the wasps into thinking it was the sky. Don't know if that actually worked or not but, I don't recall ever having to deal with wasps around her house.
Shannon
on Mar 11, 2014
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Wow! Those are great things to consider! I have the WD40 and might give that a go tomorrow! Blue paint... I would LOVE to have that work..... just because it is a great story! :) Thank you KathrynElizabeth Etler and Shannon!!
Jan
on Mar 12, 2014
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I hang a wasp collector. It's a hanging green tube thingy they get into but cannot escape. Every hardware store carries them for summer.
SK on Elderberry
on Mar 12, 2014
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check with your local feed store, they should have a wasp spray that shoots a heavy stream a long ways, this works great. spray in the evening or early morning when they are at the nest. then knock the nest down.
Sherie Walden
on Mar 12, 2014
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I have used peppermint spray on the dirt dubbers nest and they do not come back to them. I spray the eaves with it and they do not make nest there and it keeps them away.
Veronica Patrick
on Mar 13, 2014
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I love having paper wasps and mud daubers in my yard because they pollinate and kill a lot of insect pests. I have an old wood bird feeder I put out that the paper wasps like to use and it keeps them away from the house. I've never had a wasp sting me, even when I've accidentally hit the bird feeder!
Michelle Eliker
on Mar 21, 2014
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Hmmm. I guess because they "Dive Bomb" me I am concerned they will sting?
Jan
on Mar 23, 2014
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Thanks everyone!!!
Jan
on Mar 23, 2014
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