Does Anyone Else Here Have Mutant Wasps In Their Backyard ?

Andrew, have you been using an insecticide intended to kill wasps, hornets, and flying bugs of that sort? That's the specific type you need to use. I could suggest a couple of extremely entertaining and gratifying methods that I've used several times, but I won't be a party to helping you risk burning your house down. :D
 
Ever since I was a kid I've loved to experiment with wasp extermination. I remember some of those old cans of bug spray my folks had, probably bought in the '70's ... you'd spray a wasp directly, and in about 20-30 seconds it would take off on this frantic, high velocity, final flight, buzzing like an old toaster with a really bad short. Great fun!

Later my interest turned to "improvised" methods of eradication. Clear lacquer is excellent, and gives you the choice of either letting the little bastid dry in place and mummify, or lightin' 'em up with a match or lighter if you like. They also don't care much for WD-40, and it burns real well, too.

SmoothOp, if you could post some good close-up photos of your mutant wasps -- live and angry preferred -- it would be a big help. :)
 
soake the nest with kerosene it will kill all the wasps. Thats how they did it years ago.
 
I'm with the guys who say wait until evening or night when all the insects are home and lay into them with a wasp spray. Then knock the thing down the next day so any stragglers don't try to come back and re-establish the nest.
 
Black widows and wasps both hate carb cleaner. It kills both. It actually starts dissolving the black widow's "shell" unbtil it looks old and gnarly and dead.

Worls on wasps, but catch them in the nest at night. Especially in ground nests.

Gene
 
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