Thread: Wasps

Hey Ladies and Gents

Best way to get rid of wasps in a residential situation......and go

Hamish

Sent from my SM-S911B using Tapatalk

Paper wasps or German wasp that is all through our bush?
Pour petrol down hole. Do it in the evening when they arrive all back in hole.

Originally Posted by 300wsm for life

Paper wasps or German wasp that is all through our bush?

okay the common wasp is the wasp more likely to be encountered in our native bush - german wasps can create huge nests with multiple queens and entrances one at Kaitaia was the size of a mini - common wasps normally one entrance and nest the size of a small football - I have done hundreds of nests mainly common wasps - Waikaremoana we had plaques of them - not uncommon to use Conservation Corp trainess 10 of them womble the motor camp spaced 3-5 metres apart and find 20-30 nests over 3 acres - okay control - paper wasps are really easy once you have found nest normally about the size of a small fist - spray with black flag or other good fly spray I do it in day time walk up spray but at night is safer they hurt - now the others DOC website has a good write up and has names of a number of products but for a single nest a good wasp powder such as carbyryl - I have just tossed in a spoonfull in day time by being quick - but a better way is at night - use piece of garden hose about 5 ft long bend about 10 inches over - put in about two teaspoons wasp powder with a funnel - walk up and blow powder into hole - done hunderds like that next day dead nest - dont bloody suck its blow ahhh - larger problems need bait stations and a product for that a good one is vespex - okay we used 5 ft garden stakes and a stiff paper coffee cup - staple cup to stake and put out at 20 -30 metre intervals - prefeed with tuna based cat food - use a good desert spoon full and next day if all gone double it -dont be tempted to put out heaps start small - well that is what we used follow instructions with vespex they may recommend a meat based cat food - prefeeding is key to a good kill - we prefeed for 4-5 days and then fifth day the vespex went out and normally only need that once - damn effective - we also used 1080 but of course you cant buy it - so in a nut shell it depends on the size of your problem - finding nests is a skill walk slowly looking for flight paths - one hint likely not far from water - they have to fly water to nest with wood they have chewed of to make nest and they cant fly water far -

I use a bottle of powder called no wasps (I think) in a yellow bottle. Puff a few lots of that on the nest and they vacate it pretty quick. Once they vacate it I knock it down and stamp on it to kill any larvae. They seem to reinhabit the nest if you don’t do that as well. I had some guy come out and spray when we first moved here and he used a powder as well. I think it’s just pyrethrin and diamtemacous earth (spelling will be incorrect on both of those). Works well if you know where the nest is


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If you have a hole/nest in the ground where you can see the entry sprinkle NO MORE WASPS powder around it at night. Alternatively a 1.5 litre coke bottle of petrol jammed into the hole and left for a couple of days has worked for me in the past.
Vespex is absolutely amazing but from what I know it can only be used at certain times of the year when wasps are feeding on protein.

Originally Posted by RUMPY

If you have a hole/nest in the ground where you can see the entry sprinkle NO MORE WASPS powder around it at night. Alternatively a 1.5 litre coke bottle of petrol jammed into the hole and left for a couple of days has worked for me in the past.
Vespex is absolutely amazing but from what I know it can only be used at certain times of the year when wasps are feeding on protein.

Have used petrol in the past but it appears as though its not 1 hole, rather a crack about a foot or so long...as well as a hole and on side of a creek so unsure petrol is the go.....

Hamish

Sent from my SM-S911B using Tapatalk

Originally Posted by HNTMAD

Have used petrol in the past but it appears as though its not 1 hole, rather a crack about a foot or so long...as well as a hole and on side of a creek so unsure petrol is the go.....

Hamish

Sent from my SM-S911B using Tapatalk

the yellow pottle no more wasps will work....sprinkle it on as much of entrance holes as you can reach..by tomorrow they will be dead
Im told the tin of tuna and few drops of drontal type flea treatment works a treat ONCE the wasps are feeding on tuna/protein and thats where arguments start as hungry wasps will hone in on meat all summer long....
I HATE the hot arsed germanic huas...

Didn't have chemicals handy so put vacuum cleaner hose at entrance of underground nest, got sucked in when flying out to fight and then sprayed fly spray into nozzle sna sealed with duct tape, had about 1-2 liters of dead wasps in bottom of cleaner. then destroyed nest. Exciting way to hunt

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

the yellow pottle no more wasps will work....sprinkle it on as much of entrance holes as you can reach..by tomorrow they will be dead
Im told the tin of tuna and few drops of drontal type flea treatment works a treat ONCE the wasps are feeding on tuna/protein and thats where arguments start as hungry wasps will hone in on meat all summer long....
I HATE the hot arsed germanic huas...

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 )

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.

Used this last summer.
https://www.hawkeye.kiwi/products/pest-control/wasp/
Went for the wasp bait starter pack.
Was a bit late getting onto them, and am just about to set up again (still have about have the bait left from last year).
We're on the edge of farmland, stream close by, bit of bush so plenty of ground for wasps to set up.
There were wasps coming from 3 different directions to a bush in our garden that really drew them in. After about 3 weeks of topping up the bait station (just used the one as they were all converging in the one spot), the numbers started to plummet.

Originally Posted by HNTMAD

Hey Ladies and Gents

Best way to get rid of wasps in a residential situation......and go

Hamish

Sent from my SM-S911B using Tapatalk

Check out Hawkeye.kiwi this is product that we make and there is wasp lure to trap them to reduce numbers and catch queens at certain times of the year. Then there is bait that is taken back to the nest and then more wasps are recruited and this will wipe out the nest.
These products are best if you don't know where the nest is.

Sent from my CPH2145 using Tapatalk

If its one of those hive type nests you see hanging on the side of a fence, tie a used bake bean can or any can to the end of 2m stick. half fill the can with petrol, holding the other end of the stick, tip the petrol on the nest. Do it late in the day but before dark. This will be the end of it. There may be 4-5 individual wasps still hanging around that you have to clean up by other methods, but the petrol on the nest is like a nuclear warhead on a small village.

Permex powder works really well if you can get it into/around the entrance of the nest. Kills the nest in no time.

If its the ones with the hanging nest(paper wasp?) I spray the nest at night time with flyspray. It kills them. Leave the nest up dont take it down. Those type of wasps are teritorial if you leave the nest up another bunch of wasps wont come along and build a nest nearby.