WASPS or whatever they are, that don't die!

[897tgigvib]

Digit, these are different than the yellowjackets we have here. Yellow jackets nest in the ground and are more yellow. I would have already been stung much more too.

Here's one website that seems pretty good. As you might guess, I'm doing a lot of googling about this problem.

http://insects.tamu.edu/fieldguide/cimg348.html

 

[catjac1975]

Maybe they're killer bees!

 

[thistlebloom]

Those look like what I call paper wasps. They build their nests all under our eaves, and in any cavity they can access.
We have a car that doesn't get driven very often and a few weeks ago my son opened the door and they had made nests in all 4 doors and they had crawled in behind the side view mirrors and nested. They also get behind the half wall plywood on the interior of my shed and nest. I wait until late evening and spray them when they're all home. Real early in the morning works too, before it warms up.

I used to put the sweeper nozzle on the hose and spray the nests under the eaves down during the day. Then one day , like a bad comedy movie, I was zeroed in on by a couple of angry wasps. I saw one coming for my face, up close and way too personal. She got my eyelid and my forearm as I tried to fend her off. ( I just discovered that the males can't sting. )

Kill the suckers.

 

[Carol Dee]

I have those here. They are crazy for the hummingbirds necter. I keep hoping to find where they are nesting so I can kill them all. I have been stung before. Burns like the dickens.

 

[897tgigvib]

Yep, these are one of the thousands of species of paper wasp. (I think they like to give a species name for every slight color varietion. "Ohp, this one's 2 yellow dots on its head are a fraction of an angstrom smaller. Let's give it a new species name."

I fixed the gatorade jar with sugar water and meat juice under it the corner in the porch they are going in and out. I also got a different can of construction fill goop, put a big dab of it on a piece of cardboard, braved the blighters, and rapidly blopped it over their entrance and ran. They are right now congregating on it and flying all over the area.

I'll goop uip that entire area this evening!

So far no stings!

I don't want to use the wd40 until i have it all gooped up. it might make the goop not stick.

Ohhhhhhhhhh, the day's adventure!

now to pet clevland. I took "his chair" from him to sit at the laptop. so he took my lap! lol!

 

[hoodat]

You may have already goofed. According to this page from an exterminator site the worst thing you can do is seal the entrance hole.
http://www.thebeehunter.com/bee-information-pittsburgh.htm#questions

 

[897tgigvib]

I'm taking that goop off just as the bee hunter guy said

Thank you for the info Hoodat

 

[canesisters]

Marshall, any new news? Did you find a way to get rid of them?

I have a 'bee' problem that is almost spooky. In one room of the house (spare bedroom) I have wasps that are very similar in shape to yours but small and all black. I believe they might be the 'dirt daubers' that you mentioned. They appear in that room by the dozens - BUT - only when my sister in law is on her way to stay for a while. I SWEAR! I love her and wish she'd visit MUCH more often - but for the past several years, every time she is planning a visit, about the time I get the 'We're in VA, be there in a couple hours' call - the wasps arrive. I'll check the night before - no wasps, no little bodies, no signs of anything amiss. When she calls, I'll go to make sure the room is ready and there'll be a couple of them. By the time she gets there, there'll be a dozen. They rarely come into the rest of the house.
She rarely comes during the summer anymore.

 

[897tgigvib]

There is something about wasps and hornets. When they are outside a person hardly thinks about them. Kind of shrug them off. When they are inside your house or cabin, it's seems like the makings of one of those Stephen King movies! Sound effects even.

I did what Hoodat's website he found said, and removed the plug I put on the opening. I have a mess now that is growing. I have not heard any sound from them last night.

wasps are strange. thousands of species of them. they are closer related to ants than to honeybees.

I don't know what the day will bring with this saga. Maybe clean and hose off my porch.

 

[OldGuy43]

I don't know what the day will bring with this saga. Maybe clean and hose off my porch.

Be careful! Ever heard the phrase, "Madder than a wet hornet."?