Anne - take a small brown paper bag. Inflate it as best you can - tie the top of it, and then hang it - or them - near where the wasp nests are. The wasps should decamp- they don’t like to the competition. You can also buy fake wasp nests from Gardener’s Supply Company, but I find the bags work just fine. Good luck! Robin
> On Aug 11, 2024, at 12:48 PM, Anne Sobol <anne.so...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've had wasps going in the siding of my house for a while, but they haven't > bothered me and I'm leery of poisons so I haven't done anything until this > past week. An occasional wasp would make its way into the house (I don't see > where this is happening), but again they hadn't bothered me and eventually > they die after banging against the plate glass window in my living room. > > I also have hundreds of wasps buzzing around the star magnolia by my front > door (again so far they haven't bothered me). Turns out the wasps are there > because of magnolia scale. I got an arborist to come and spray something > around the base of the tree which is then taken up by the tree killing the > scale. Apparently not doing something about the scale can imperil the > magnolia. (This is the current problem also with the wasps around the > magnolia at the front door of the Lincoln Library.) The arborist was here > three days ago on Thursday. > > While he was here dealing with the magnolia, the arborist squirted what I > think was pyrethrin at the hole in my siding where the wasps were getting in. > Maybe this treatment hasn't been given enough time to work, but a decided > increase in the number of wasps making it into the house has me concerned. I > suppose I could eventually get stung. > > I've looked at a few videos on youtube, I went to Home Depot and saw some > type of yellow jacket trap which didn't immediately acknowledge it was a > poison. Also saw a long shelf of many aerosol sprays to get rid of problem. > > Does anyone have any advice? This is beyond my dealing with on my own. Any > recommendations for an . . . erk. . . exterminator? > -- > The LincolnTalk mailing list. > To post, send mail to Lincoln@lincolntalk.org. > Browse the archives at https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/private/lincoln/. > Change your subscription settings at > https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/lincoln. > Robin Wilkerson 31 Old Winter St. Lincoln, MA 01773 outsideinformat...@gmail.com
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