General Chat

get a large empty coke bottle (make sure you have the lid). Get some black tape and wrap it round the bottle from the bottom upwards to say just over 3 quarters of the way to the top. Then using a stanley knife, make a hole about 3 inches from the bottom (just bif enuf so a wasp can get in). Add some sugary liqued to the bottle (I use a tsp of jam and cola) and place the bottle nearby where your wasps are lingering.
The idea is they get in, try to head towards the light ie where there is no tape, get disorientated and finally drop/get attracted to the liqued but cant find their way back out. I got rid of loads year before last.

Good luck.

Aren't we a lot of vicious creaures, where wasps are concerned. I admit to getting satisfaction from killing the b*****s too.Yes, I know they are all God's creatures, but they seem to go out of their way to sting us, even when we are not interfering with them in any way. Up until now, I have had a nest in my attic, one in the pear tree which is close to the house, one in the shed (enormous!!).I called in a man to get rid of the one in the tree, the others I saw to myself.Have also had several nests of ground bees, but left them alone.At the moment, lots of pears are rotting, don't know why, but suspect my 'little evil friends' of eating them.Now lots have fallen to the ground, making an easy meal for the striped vandals, thus causing even more problems when I am in the garden.GGRRR! Because of the nest in the attic, I daren't open the window up there anymore, so it is like a Turkish bath.
Why oh why were these wicked, seemingly useless creatures placed on this earth?

They were out in force our way on Friday.

That's about the only good thing the rain does.................

keeps them away

xx

anteaters eat ants!!!

I had a wasps nest in the cavity wall of my house this year - would have left it cos they weren't really bothering me but had to buy some wasp nest destroyer as tomorrow I am having the cavity walls insulated and thought they might attack the workmen

anteaters eat ants Ann but what eats wasps??............I would gladly buy a wasp eater........lol. The cat makes a swipe at them. He will swipe at anything that moves

Several of my cats have been stung on the paw, believe it or not.
When one of my daughers lived in Eindhoven, they found a lot of wasps in one of their children's bedroom.Turned out the little b*****s where in the cavity walls.Really scary!!!
We need a lot of wasp-eaters, something like Ghost-Busters.Come back Dan Ackroyd, all is forgiven....WAS Dan A. in Ghost Busters?

Come to think of it my Granny ate a wasp........well almost. She put a handfull of sugar puffs into her mouth and there was a wasp in them and it stung her on the tongue. My Mum made her wash her mouth out with vinegar.