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Posted by Les on November 21, 2006, 3:00 pm
I have a wasp nest just outside my front door. I just bought a spray to
hoepfully kill them.
The nest is active during the daylight and see lots of activity. Should I
spray it after dark?
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Posted by Don Phillipson on November 21, 2006, 3:22 pm
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> I have a wasp nest just outside my front door. I just bought a spray to
> hoepfully kill them.
> The nest is active during the daylight and see lots of activity. Should I
> spray it after dark?
Read instructions on the label, which
probably recommend use after dark or at dawn.
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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
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Posted by dpb on November 21, 2006, 3:26 pm
Les wrote:
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> I have a wasp nest just outside my front door. I just bought a spray to
> hoepfully kill them.
> The nest is active during the daylight and see lots of activity. Should I
> spray it after dark?
I don't bother to worry about it much unless it's actually a hornet
nest instead of just yellow wasp or similar -- they're a whole lot more
agressive. For a wasp nest, I typically just knock 'em down -- once
the nest is down, they'll abandon it. If you're concerned or it's real
big, a shot of the wasp/hornet spray will kill the ones you hit and the
others will depart for at least a while as they don't like the stuff
(obviously :) ).
Last time I recall getting a wasp sting was when about 5 or 6 and Mom
tried to swat one in the kitchen. I was sitting on a stool watching
her do something and she didn't kill or stun it, and it got me... :(
Use that to point out that have probably knocked down a 50 or more
nests in the nearly 60 years since and not been stung so that they are,
in fact, not _terribly_ agressive or are relatively easy to avoid. A
really, really large nest or the actual hornet nest, is, though, as
noted, something to be much more wary of...
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Posted by krw on November 21, 2006, 3:34 pm
lester123_nospam@adelphia.net says...
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> I have a wasp nest just outside my front door. I just bought a spray to
> hoepfully kill them.
It always works for me.
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> The nest is active during the daylight and see lots of activity. Should I
> spray it after dark?
Yes, preferably when it's cold. You wan them as inactive as
possible and at home when you nuke 'em.
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Keith
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Posted by kellyj00@gmail.com on November 21, 2006, 5:17 pm
paper wasp nests burn like newspaper...that's the way I handle those
guys. Take a can of aerosol and a zippo... spray it with a
gush...stop... light the lighter.... then spray again. Obviously
don't do this if it's near anything that'll burn...like a pile of dead
leaves.
Of course, I don't mess around with the RIGHT way to handle things...
like with a can of spray wasp killer.
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> hoepfully kill them.
> The nest is active during the daylight and see lots of activity. Should I
> spray it after dark?