Get a couple of these. You'll be AMAZED at how many of those little fuckers the traps catch.

https://www.google.com/shoppin...HtO26eKWWxoCdiTw_wcB

Being good neighbor Sam I got popped three times yesterday by the bastards cutting my little old neighbors hedges yesterday,both hands are swollen and a knot at my collar bone

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Originally posted by 1967Goat:
Get a couple of these. You'll be AMAZED at how many of those little fuckers the traps catch.

https://www.google.com/shoppin...HtO26eKWWxoCdiTw_wcB

Those do work well. I've got half a dozen of them hanging around here.

My balcony seems to attract wasps like a magnet. The purple passionflower draws them in. Last year I was sharing the balcony with the wasps until I noticed that the nest was the size of a baseball. Zoiks! A big rainstorm came through one night so I took the opportunity to soak the nest with a squirt bottle. After that I used a bamboo pole to knock the nest down. Darkness and water are your best tools.

When I was a kid we would battle the wasps with squirt guns and badmitton raquettes. The terror was part of the fun.

Anyone have those giant asian wasps around?

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Originally posted by mr kablammo:
Last year I was sharing the balcony with the wasps until I noticed that the nest was the size of a baseball. Zoiks!

I had one larger than that several years ago. I couldn't figure out where they all were coming from, and one day I happened to look up into the trees and saw it about 30 feet up hanging off a branch. The outside of it was just crawling with them.

It was too high to reach with the Raid so I called a pest expert who came out the next morning. He took a good long look at it, scratched his chin, then turned to me and asked, "You got a shotgun?"

"Yep", I replied.

He put two rounds of 6-shot into it and blew it to smithereens along with several thousand paper wasps.

I watched from inside the house.

wasps are only assholes because bees push them out of the pollination game.

They are assholes!!! When I was a kid I hopped on my moped leaving the swimming pool. Little bastard flew out from underneath my seat went up my swimming trunk leg and stung me in the right region of my nut sack!!! Worst pain ever!!!

Down here we have those little bastards that build a nest underground . Some folks call them Ground Hornets .EXTREMELY aggressive and the sting hurts for several days . A couple of years ago I was mowing and got hit by three of them . When I went back with the wasp spray I got hit again . Took two days to locate the little hole they were going in and out of . Gasoline and a match did the trick .