This morning I was looking at the cedar shingles on the roof of the kitchen bay window and noticed wasps or hornets leaving\entering a space between two shingles. Tomorrow, I had planed to stain the shingles with opaque Olympic Stain. Don't want to clean/stain the shingles 'til after getting rid of the stinging pests. How can I get rid of them w/o getting stung?
Thanks,
Mike
you look in your yellow pages for a bee removal service and write them a check. the hive could be enormous somewhere inside your house.
Probably wasps. Here's one enviro-friendly possible:
How big is the space the hole leads to?
I would squirt some wasp killer into the hole and then put something over it that blocks their egress.
You might get lucky. It has always worked for me with wasps that live in the ground.
First, thought I'd try to do it myself.
Mike
I'll going to buy a can of it.
Mike
I'll try it.
Mike
Note, there are lots of different wasp type things. They don't all act the same way.
My method takes two cans, one long range squirt type and one fog type, one in each hand. Both designed for wasp. I have found that as soon as they know what is going on, they all come out to join the party. They come out in a big hurry. The squirt gets most of them as they come out and the fog gets the ones that get past that before they get to me. ;-)
The sprays knock them down in a big hurry. They get about three feet after being hit. Stay at lest four feet away. ;-)
If they are honey bees and not wasp, please don't kill them Call for someone to remove them if possible. Bees are having a really hard time surviving now and need all the help they can get.
Good advice from someone who's yard always has a nest of yellowjackets somewhere under the lawn.
I do things a little differently. I want until dusk and they're all back home for the night. I sneak up with a can of spray and a large rock. I fire the stream of stuff down the hole then move closer until I can drop the rock onto the hole. Stand on the rock to cover the hole so the little bastards can't escape then back off. I scan around the area in case they have an alternate escape route.
If you might be allergic to them have someone watch you do this so if you get stung and start to swell up (like me) they'll be able to assist you. I keep an epi pen handy now, sort of sucks. :(
if you are not in a hurry apply sevin powder around hole. use alot. you may have to apply fresh every day for a few days. they will carry it on their wings and body to nest and kill the colony.
First know what you are killing, honey bees are best left to a pro. Dont seal their hole they will migrate into your house. Better is a powder first Ortho 7 , the bees get it on their wings and comtaminate the whole hive. , The problem is getting it in the hole, if its that difficult then spray may be better. But the powder , a few cups pour over the hole if its a horizontal surface. I tape a plastic container on a pole and pour it in , never more than 2 aplications. For ground nests it works best. Nests can be giant . At dusk or pre dawn is best or you wont catch 80% in the hive. It will take days to clean them away but if you use spray , soak it 2-3- cans worth. It may be best to call a pro, ive seen then power inject powder.
running around with a spray can in each hand squirting madly at the attacking wasps making sure to stay 4 feet away. lol. i love it.
randy
When we first moved in the lot next to us (which was part of the deal) hadn't been mowed in years. While walking though it one day I stepped on a hole of yellowjackets and they swarmed. I was stung at least 9 times...this was early spring, they were nice and all PO'd. After swelling like a freaking toad and puking my guts out I staggered over and gave the nest a can full of spray. Then I tossed a little gas on the hole and torched it. My neighbor (who watched this happen) said I should have puked onto their nest. :P
"Mike" wrote in news:_WkFc.2435$ snipped-for-privacy@nwrddc03.gnilink.net:
If you don't know how big the nest is,you could be in for real trouble. Call the pros.
rickm wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
Pouring gasoline or petro products on the ground is polluting your ground water,and eventually the water table.
It's also probably illegal,with a big fine and cleanup costs to remove the contaminated dirt.
I did that one time just after dark. At 3:00 a.m. I awoke as I was being stung by several bees. During the night they made their way to the bedroom to escape the fumes sprayed in from outside. Next time I hired a pro, cost a bit more but it sure was more comfortable.
Bob
I had a yellow jacket problem right under my front door ground level concrete landing that I couldn't reach with chemicals or instruments.. To cut a long story short what I did was to use a badminton racket to swat them as they flew to and out of the hive. Hot dang, it was as easy as hitting shuttlecocks and a lot more fun. The insects were sliced so cleanly and instantly that they never had a chance to send out any warning signals to the rest of the hive. There was never even a hint of a yellow jacket attempting to sting me. Over a week I must have killed enough yellowjackets that the hive no longer had enough workers to keep it going. They never came back.
Use wasp/hornet spray just after sundown when the insects settle down for the night. This spray will shoot a stream 10-20 feet. Another alternative is to hire an exterminator.
My neighbor had one under his concrete steps also , he turned on his vacume cleaner on the nest for days till it burnt up, He still had the wasps.
Good point,
Mike
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