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5 drops of front line pet flea treatment mixed in a standard tin of tuna. the dose rate has be close as to much and the wasps die before they get it back to the nest and to litle wont do the job. I think its the same active ingredient as vespex. Last couple of years its cleared the wasps here. Not cheap though.
Correct.... It is the same active ingredient. Its Fipronil 0.1%Quote:
Originally Posted by sneeze
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Yellow German pricks they are lol. Did you know that these suckers actually breath through their wings.
Fill up the ol weed sprayer with luke warm water and dish washing liquid,,go get em. It wets their wings, clags up quick and down they go.
This new bait is great I must say.....bout time and like already mentioned above,DOC would be doing the birds a treat by killing as many of the pricks as possable and f*** the 1080 bullshit.
Hate the things
Did no-one spot this??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP71vOnK5qQ
bloody funny, like his re-labelling of the Panasonic
All this hatred! Golly I bet old Hans and his SAFE buddies will be mounting a campaign soon called SOWFE (save our wasps from extermination)
Seriously though, on tho odd occasions Ive found nests of german wasps, a couple of puffs of flystrike powder in the hole has done the trick. I have mixed advantage with sardines and that seemed to work too Its imidacloparid and some crop sprays use it so that also seems to be an option.
I have been following this story for a while
Initially when the bees started dying the cause was unknown although a poison was suspected.
Samples were sent to MPI and it turns out Fipronil (the active ingredient in vespex and also frontline for flees) was the cause.
I think this highlights the need for understanding the wasps protein cycle\link and not using a sweet\sugar lure.
For those of you that are interested check this out...
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/natio...-police-matter
There is also some good info in this article, concerning the same incident.
Particularly from the developer of the vespex bait.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/...s-in-murchison
Cheers fellas
Them wasps gobble through sandflies like there's no tomorrow. Just saying, in case you live near a stream.
I know its off track but talk about cherry pick facts.Quote:
Originally Posted by kukuwai
"A study on the effects of 1080 dust on bees found no 1080 was detected in samples of bees, pollen and nectar taken from six hives within the boundary of an aerial baiting operation".
"A" study,so only one with no citation ....epic Journalism not :XD:
There is a lot of muppets out there VC :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
Yes unfortunatly they read and believe anything on stuff or dickbook and vote :wtfsmilie::XD:Quote:
Originally Posted by kukuwai
waterblaster at very close range ,particularly on pesky little arseholes that landed on my driveway fence as i was constructing some homebrew. wifey wondered what the smears on the new fence palings were -i told her it was organic art -well I assume some of it was their organs but my eye sights not that shit hot.
daughter unfortunately was badly stung a coupla times as a kiddie and well me Ijust hate the huas.
pity they weren't a little bigger -"hmmm 3"no3steel 12g should upset the flight dynamics"
did deal with a bees nest in me front porch with a washgun&compressor featuring 700ml used carpainting thinners ,700ml 91 petrol delivered at 100PS Ifollowed by a bloody great slug of carbaryl after 3of the huas stung me and me old dog JJ RIP.
twas life jim -but alas not as they knew it.strangely lots of brown bits in the garden -compost now!
Now is the time for your Vespex wasp control. :cool: Attachment 84259 another one to boot Attachment 84262
What's going on there @BeeMan are they dead bees or wasps lying around on the sand ?Quote:
Originally Posted by BeeMan
Looks like there is no problems with the wasps taking the bait tho !! Good stuff, get stuck into them.
Here's a question you might know the answer to "how far does a bee fly from its hive" ??
I was working in a wetland today poisoning crack willows with XTree Basel and holy shit they were all buzzing with bees after the sticky stuff all over the leaves.
Couldn't see any hives around but thought there was far to many for them to be wild.
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At this time if year wasps seem to go willow leaves as well.
killed 4 nests today -= 1 whiskey and two loads of wood
Most bee activity is approx a kilometre n under. But later in the season when flowering sources start to dwindle they could venture out to a couple kms. The dead bees on the sand are close proximity to a bee site, honey has been harvested, collateral damage. Hope that helps kukuwai.
Off to Okiwi....rubs hands! Going armed this time!
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Is the sticky stuff from aphids kukuwai
Not really sure, possibly. Was back in there again today they are all crack willow and the leaves are very sticky. The place is literally buzzing. thousands of bees all over the leaves ! Only wasps i saw were paper wasps hunting insects !Quote:
Originally Posted by BeeMan
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Ok so ...the wasps love the stuff ( vespexs) but are distracted but other fishy smells , like frames etc ...they prefer it to burley though and we're harvesting it over phillie and Mack ..harvesting it rolling up we balls and hauling it away ..VC was a clever barstard and rubbed our set up with a fish skin and set the game alive ...the only problem was the bait trays are very light and wind blows them out of the trap do we tapped ours down.. into the trap ...will report back hopefully next weekend no wasps see how it goes
The few we seen around base camp today certainly seemed a bit dozy on it.Quote:
Originally Posted by stingray
I put the vespex out on sunday am and the wasp numbers are already down by a huge margin.
Now to find a product that does the same for Sandflies ;)
Thats what happens [emoji3] !Quote:
Originally Posted by Pengy
If they are taking it then you do notice a big difference in a matter of days.
Good on all you fellas the more that goes out around the top of the south the better i say !!
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Have just been around the South Island on bike.
Ended up with dead wasps in chin air inlet.
Had dead one get into helmet got enough dried venom to get a bit of swelling etc.
Ended up in ear pocket.
Noticed bugger all flies compared to CNI are the wasps dealing to them?.
pengy -sandflies whiskey and sand
get some whiskey(nastier the better for those pricks-pour it all over your flippers &exposed chunks(not that though)then waddle off and roll in the sandpit.
Mofos zoom in get off their faces on the piss and killeach other throwin the bloody rocks about!
i could sugeest a proprane torch but dunno singed penguin might offend some greenies and do your breed eat cremated sandflies???
Yep, along with spiders, caterpillars, etcQuote:
Originally Posted by erniec
