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Posted by Jeff and Jennifer Cook on July 23, 2006, 4:59 pm
Hi,
We are just finishing the inside of our home and I see wasps flying into the
peak of our home between the brick and the facia.
The wasp nest is not visible from the outside. The attic is blown with
insulation and I have not been up there yet.
I am thinking of setting traps outside to draw them out and see how many I
get, before spraying the outside entrance to the house. I do not want them
finding new exits into the interior of the home. Any ideas?
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Posted by clintonG on July 23, 2006, 5:36 pm
I went up on a ladder with a couple of cans of sprayed foam insulation and
sealed their entry into the wall cavity where they try to nest. No matter
how careful when applying the foam the stuff will expand from under the trim
boards and look like a real sloppy caulk job. Being as careful as possible
when spraying of course I just let the foam expand and dry and then went
back up the ladder with a spackle knife and a wire brush. I ran the edge of
the spackle knife up under the bottom edge of the trim boards to slice the
expanded foam and the wire brush to clean up the excess giving a clean
finished seal. Some of the foams will probably take paint but when I sealed
mine -- more than five years ago in a northern climate -- I just left well
enough alone as I got tired of climbing up and down the ladder and had
already painted the year before :-)
I maintain and keep things clean by spraying any attempt to nest on window
mullions and other places they will try to nest closer to the ground once
you seal off their efforts to nest up high which they prefer. I use the Raid
product for spray.
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<%= Clinton Gallagher
NET csgallagher AT metromilwaukee.com
URL http://www.metromilwaukee.com/clintongallagher/
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> Hi,
> We are just finishing the inside of our home and I see wasps flying into
> the peak of our home between the brick and the facia.
> The wasp nest is not visible from the outside. The attic is blown with
> insulation and I have not been up there yet.
> I am thinking of setting traps outside to draw them out and see how many I
> get, before spraying the outside entrance to the house. I do not want
> them finding new exits into the interior of the home. Any ideas?
> j
>
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Posted by Nehmo Sergheyev on July 23, 2006, 11:03 pm
Use a small-caliber rifle with a scope. Get 'em one at a time as they
exit.
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Jeff and Jennifer Cook wrote:
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> We are just finishing the inside of our home and I see wasps flying into the
> peak of our home between the brick and the facia.
> The wasp nest is not visible from the outside. The attic is blown with
> insulation and I have not been up there yet.
> I am thinking of setting traps outside to draw them out and see how many I
> get, before spraying the outside entrance to the house. I do not want them
> finding new exits into the interior of the home. Any ideas?
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Posted by Cathy Strong on August 16, 2006, 6:07 am
Nehmo Sergheyev wrote:
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> Use a small-caliber rifle with a scope. Get 'em one at a time as they
> exit.
>
He Can't do that! Lee Harvey Oswald died in 1963.
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> Jeff and Jennifer Cook wrote:
>
>>We are just finishing the inside of our home and I see wasps flying into the
>>peak of our home between the brick and the facia.
>>The wasp nest is not visible from the outside. The attic is blown with
>>insulation and I have not been up there yet.
>>I am thinking of setting traps outside to draw them out and see how many I
>>get, before spraying the outside entrance to the house. I do not want them
>>finding new exits into the interior of the home. Any ideas?
>
>
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Posted by hobosalesman on July 24, 2006, 4:12 am
Jeff and Jennifer Cook wrote:
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> Hi,
> We are just finishing the inside of our home and I see wasps flying into the
> peak of our home between the brick and the facia.
> The wasp nest is not visible from the outside. The attic is blown with
> insulation and I have not been up there yet.
> I am thinking of setting traps outside to draw them out and see how many I
> get, before spraying the outside entrance to the house. I do not want them
> finding new exits into the interior of the home. Any ideas?
Funny, I have exactly the same problem, right down to the blown
insulation and having not been up there yet. I've done a fair bit of
research on the critters recently.
Common wasps, yellow jackets, are attracted to meat or sugar depending
on what stage their larvae is in. There is a lot of info on making
traps with 2L pop bottles, dish soap, fruit juice, etc. Another trap
involves tying a fish over a bucket of soapy water, you can also buy
traps from hardware stores. Trapping is a waste of time though, unless
you just want to keep numbers down for an outdoor event or something.
If you really want them gone you need to get rid of the nest. However,
only the queen will survive the winter and she won't return to that
nest, so you could also just wait them out.
DON'T SEAL THEM OUT OF THEIR NEST. They will find a way through
anything you put in their path, if you seal their entrance they may
just chew through your walls and enter your house, it happens. You
cannot make them leave their nest, the only solution is either kill
them all or remove the nest.
Personally I won't use chemicals on my home, so I'm going to locate the
nest. At night, while wearing a lot of clothes, welding gloves, hats,
duct tape, etc, I'm going to climb up there and stuff the nest ina
pillow case, which I'll throw in a bucket of water.
Incidentally baking soda will make stings feel better. Also, while a
.22 would be a bad idea I've found that a brad nailer can be remarkably
accurate, but strangely hitting one doesn't even seem to bother it.
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> We are just finishing the inside of our home and I see wasps flying into
> the peak of our home between the brick and the facia.
> The wasp nest is not visible from the outside. The attic is blown with
> insulation and I have not been up there yet.
> I am thinking of setting traps outside to draw them out and see how many I
> get, before spraying the outside entrance to the house. I do not want
> them finding new exits into the interior of the home. Any ideas?
> j
>