Thread: Wasps

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

yeah I have heard that frontline flea treatment also works but never tried it preefeed tuna cat food and then mix in frontline and apparently works now dont get me started on homemade cat recipes another story ( private emails only not on the forum )

Fipronil is the active bit in Verspex, also some flea treatments like spot on. You can use it for wasps, but it needs to be in a bait station as sunlight and moisture stuffs it pronto. You want to make it strong enough to end the wasps in the nest where the young die, not nuking the foraging wasps instantly... Plain tuna canned in spring water is a reasonable bait source, needs to be protein and used when the wasps are carting protein back to the nest for the young. It needs to be a plain protein, hence the tuna in spring water with no oils or flavours. A teaspoon of tuna, with one or two droplets of fipronil mixed in evenly should do it - possibly use something to put two droplets in and a small amount of red food colour then mix it into the tuna without going backwards as you don't want to contaminate your stuff you use for your food... Put it into the station then up near where wasps are foraging away from flowers or near the ground.

Originally Posted by No.3

Fipronil is the active bit in Verspex, also some flea treatments like spot on. You can use it for wasps, but it needs to be in a bait station as sunlight and moisture stuffs it pronto. You want to make it strong enough to end the wasps in the nest where the young die, not nuking the foraging wasps instantly... Plain tuna canned in spring water is a reasonable bait source, needs to be protein and used when the wasps are carting protein back to the nest for the young. It needs to be a plain protein, hence the tuna in spring water with no oils or flavours. A teaspoon of tuna, with one or two droplets of fipronil mixed in evenly should do it - possibly use something to put two droplets in and a small amount of red food colour then mix it into the tuna without going backwards as you don't want to contaminate your stuff you use for your food... Put it into the station then up near where wasps are foraging away from flowers or near the ground.

Or just buy tested and approved stuff

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Originally Posted by 25/08 IMP

Or just buy tested and approved stuff

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Verspex is a bit of a non-starter for 'home' or smaller type jobs, $58 plus farting around to get registered and then you have to actually get the stuff on top of that which requires freezer transport etc etc. OK if you have the work for it. For the average home or lifestyle block it's just a non-starter. I looked seriously at getting the approval to purchase and complete Monsanto's product husbandry requirements but it was just too much as you can't get a small enough pack to use it all before the expiries.

Some of the over-the-counter products we tried just didn't work, literally we were feeding the bloody things and they were coming back for more! Tied a tracking cotton to a couple of wasps and counted them back at least three times. That's when I got told about the spot on, and how to not kill bees with it - that's what was pissing me off the most with the wasps the bastards were ripping the heads off the bees and taking the bodies laden with pollen back to the nest and feeding the young up on bee protein with pollen for desert. The spot on treated tuna definitely dealt to them, over two days no more wasps. Much more bees in evidence, and since then only a few small paper wasp nests of 4-5 adults (easy to sort by knocking to the ground) and very few German or Common wasps in evidence and probably at the extreme limits of their foraging range.