It's been really warm here and the wasps are out what can I use to keep them away?

Question

I have wasps all over. My kids love playing outside and I wonder if there is something I can use to keep them away ?Because I have looked for nests and havent found any. My neighbor has a huge pine tree right on the edge of my back yard are they coming from there?Any suggestions would help.

Answer 1

try to follow them and see where they are comming from . when u find it, wait till early morning when they are all in the nest and spray with approved wasp and hornet killer that will teach them to mess with you! keep a spray bottle of soapy water with you may not seem like it does much right away but those wont come back!

Answer 2

Look for nests in the ground wherever the grass is sparse. They look like an ant hole but bigger and more perfectly round. Keep the kids out of that area and there are a couple of things you can do:

daub peanut butter at nightfall and wait for your neighborhood skunk family (Oh yes, you have one) to come and dig out the wasps

Or, take plastic water or soda bottles, the 12 or 16-ounce size, and cut them in half. Screw the cut side into the ground. If you are using the top, make sure the cap is on. You can also use the tops from glass Yankee Candles, just plop it right down there. In about 2 weeks, the nests will die off. Try to spade the area up and plant a groundcover so the wasps won't find it as attractive.

I looked like the town kook for 2 weeks with my water baottles, but it got rid of the wasps.

Answer 3

You must live in Georgia. Learn to distinguish between Mud Wasps and Yellow Jackets. Mud wasps are basically harmless and do not normally attack humans. Yellow Jackets are different. If you go near their nests, they will attack you. There nests look like honeycombs. I don't think Pine Trees are the source.

I always keep a couple of cans of spray handy, and spray any nests I see. Nests are usually hanging from overhangs, under picnic tables and benches, in landscape bushes, places like that.

Answer 4

As stated, wasps usually build nests where they are out of the weather. I have had them go between the brick and the aluminum overhang on my house. You need to see where they go just before dark. Use a wasp/hornet spray and soak the nest ( or the area they enter) either after dark or early morning while they are still in it. Find a spray that has residual effect so they don't return after spraying. Mud dobbers look like wasps but I have never seen one sting. Their nest looks like a glob of mud on a surface. Regular wasps nest look like paper with "cells" in it.