The bees/wasp were really bad a few years ago and we used wasp spray. They come around the end of june first of july they make their nest underground and have pushed the earth up so they can go in and out. They are so bad that we can't sit outside or cookout or even cut the grass without ducking or swating bees. Any help would be great.
2006-08-27 12:46:36 · 10 answers · asked by Vanessa P 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
I would contact a professional, it sounds out of hand to me!!! I have never heard of them coming from underground before. Cedar huh?
2006-08-27 12:52:59 · answer #1 · answered by Michelle 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buy some cans of bee wasp insecticide. The kind that shoots a stream of insecticide 20 to 25 ft. Wait until the cool of the evening when most of them are home. You will have to get close enough to make sure the stream enters the opening of the nest. Saturate the nest. Wear protective clothing, i.e., long pants with socks pulled up over pant bottoms, heavy weight shirt. gloves. If there are still some left your next choice is to birn them out. Put an oily rag on end of a long pole, light it and shove it into the nest and run away. Good luck.You could set out wasp and bee traps away from the immediate area of your house, Use pie pans or other flat type dishes. Bait with something sweet. Place the bait on a small rock in the middle of the dish. Fill the dis 1/2 full of water with a few drops of dish detergent in it. They will come for the sweet and fall in the water and drown. I killed 5 qts. of yellow jackets this way this summer. However, as yellowjackets are protein eaters I used small pieces of bacon or other meat as bait. If, yours aren't attracted to the sweet switch to meat.
2006-08-27 23:21:52 · answer #2 · answered by Leslie S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had the same trouble, weeding the flower bed they came after me bad, no matter what I used it didn't help, they go so far under ground water gas nothing helped, they just laugh. I got this idea and the 1st time they were all dead. Get some smoke bombs, like we us on the 4th of July, find the nest, and then at night when they are all home tucked in bed, light the fuse, stick in in the hole of the nest fuse in ground, the toxic smoke will travel all through the nest killing all.
Good luck
2006-08-27 13:33:20 · answer #3 · answered by camaro46368 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I actually had a teacher in high school who told us about his adventures with underground bees and wasps (he was deathly allergic to their stings, and obviously hated them). He poured a bit of gasoline into their nest holes and lit them up. The neighbors thought he was nuts, but I guess it worked.
2006-08-27 12:53:32 · answer #4 · answered by atomicfrog81 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cedar mulch repels a lot of insects, including bees and wasps. Apart from that suggestion, you may want to call in a professional.
2006-08-27 12:50:25 · answer #5 · answered by The ~Muffin~ Man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like you have exhausted your resources, time for the pest control call. This time of year is so bad. My hummingbird and orieol feeder are just swarming! I have to wait til dusk to finish mowing my lawn.
2006-08-27 12:53:25 · answer #6 · answered by All 4 JR 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try dumping a lot of vinegar on the nest, most bugs can`t stand the smell.
2006-08-27 12:51:25 · answer #7 · answered by star sailor 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
before the epa we used to use gas . an insecticide should do the trick .
no we did not ignite the gas .
2006-08-27 12:53:00 · answer #8 · answered by martinmm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
poor bleach on them
2006-08-27 12:53:25 · answer #9 · answered by soccer31330 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Poor bleach on them, it will kill them dead. I have had them too myself.
2006-08-27 12:52:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋