Wasps are now trying to take over the hummingbird feeders. Is there any safe and easy way of getting rid of the wasps without having to go out and buy something?
2006-08-09 03:50:42 · 10 answers · asked by couchP56 6 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
I guess I should have been more clearer. I want to get rid of the wasps that are flying around the hummingbird feeders, so I can't spray the feeders with anything! And I don't think bacon would work hanging it off a limb. All that would do is attract other wildlife to the yard! The hummingbird feeders are on suction cups on my kitchen windows not on trees. Can't have the feeders on trees as the ants get into them.
2006-08-09 04:10:59 · update #1
I would also like to add that it is impossible to reach the wasp nest because it in under our shingles on top of our house.
2006-08-09 04:12:03 · update #2
Sugar water in a glass jar with dish soap.
2006-08-09 03:56:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am very allergic to wasp stings, so I have lots of experience in getting rid of the pests. Since they are being attracted to the hummingbird feeders, you won't get rid of them unless you give them something that interests them more than the hummer's sugar water. So you will need to go buy something, and that's a wasp trap. The feed stores and many home and garden stores carry disposable wasp traps. I have seen them at Home Depot. The traps already have a wasp attractant in them, and all you do is add water and hang them up. The wasps fly into the trap through small holes and then can't get out, so they drown.. When the trap is full, you just throw it away.
You can also buy non-disposable traps, too. Gardens Alive sells one (www.gardensalive.com) and you can buy a kit for making a soda bottle into a wasp trap from www.yankeegardener.com. My only concern with the kit is that it doesn't use an attractant or lure specific to wasps; you bait it with juice or soda or something, and you just have to hope that that's more attractive to the wasps than the hummingbird food.
But traps are definitely the way to go! No poisons to hurt the hummingbirds, and the traps just catch the wasps (and an occasional fly) so you won't harm anything beneficial like bees and ladybugs.
2006-08-09 07:00:59 · answer #2 · answered by sonomanona 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to Home Depot, Lowe's or Fred Meyer or your local hardware store and get a spray can of wasp killer. This cans are designed to shoot a stream of the insecticide 20 to 25 feet. Locate the nest, stand back and saturate the nest with the insecticide. It is best to this in the cool of the evening when it is almost dark. Because most of the wasps or yellow jackets or hornets will be in the nests at that time of day.
2016-03-27 05:10:50 · answer #3 · answered by Megan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are a lot of good ideas here but if I was allergic and didn't want to get real sick or die, I would call the "Orkin Man" or "Clark, we need you" or some local business in your area. I found the local one-man business more reasonable in the cost than the big guys. I was receiving monthly pest control service from one of the big guys and they had trouble keeping to our planned time schedule which was very important since both my husband and I were working at the time.. The one-man show works well. He is trying to build up his cliental so gives great customer service. Word of mouth and referrals from satisfied customers is a good way to get new clients.
Something funny, I asked one of the big guys who was spraying every month for fleas (dogs) and termite prevention to get rid of the outside ants. He said no and gave me a long story that ANTS ARE OUR FRIENDS BECAUSE THEY AIRATE OUR LAWNS AND KILL OTHER BUGS..
2006-08-09 04:19:29 · answer #4 · answered by cobra queen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tie a piece of bacon and let it hang down on a limb . Put a bucket of soapy water on the ground underneath it. The wasps will eat on the bacon til they get so full they fall in the bucket of soapy water and drown. This is a good thing to do while camping,too. Keeps them away from your food.
2006-08-09 03:59:40 · answer #5 · answered by cmdavemy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My husband is allergic so i know this works. Wait until it is almost dark, this is when they become dormant. Mix up a solution of soap and water, put into a sprayer and spray the nest, get out of there just to be safe. The next day you should not have a problem.
2006-08-09 03:57:08 · answer #6 · answered by ~Divine Mrs. P~ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Find their nest. In the middle of the night (you have to do this really fast) dump gasoline on it and catch it on fire. Keep a hose near by in case it gets out of hand. Once you catch it on fire, be prepared to run if they come out. Mostly likely the wont since its the middle of the night, but, just be careful.
We had yellowjackets in our garden and had to do it. We haven't seen any since we did it.
2006-08-09 03:56:07 · answer #7 · answered by Justin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
take a long bamboo and put enough paper at its end well tied to it.
then light the paper n burn the house of the wasps... or u can spray
insecticide if u r willing to invest a bit
2006-08-09 03:55:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
At night, shine a drop light near the nest. Then spray the nest with hornet spray. If any escape, they will go at the light, not at you.
2006-08-09 03:55:55 · answer #9 · answered by BuyTheSeaProperty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nuclear bomb
2006-08-09 03:54:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋