Re: [RE-wrenches] Wasps

[Dana Brandt]

Thanks for the input everyone. She's pretty set on getting rid of them.
I'll recommend hosing them down with water at night. I think she's going to
want to go chemical, though. I'd love to hear anyone's experience with
sprays damaging the backsheet or not.

Thanks,

Dana

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On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Dana Brandt  wrote:

> Hi Wrenches,
>
> I have a client who has developed quite a problem with wasps behind her
> array. Does anyone have experience getting rid of them? I'm afraid of the
> possibility of sprays damaging the backsheet. Is that a legitimate concern?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dana
>
> Dana Brandt
> Ecotech Energy Systems, LLC
> www.ecotechenergy.com
> d...@ecotechenergy.com
> 360.318.7646
>
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Re: [RE-wrenches] Wasps

[Chris Mason]

I have had good success with soapy water - mix dish detergent with water
and spray it on, won't hurt your modules.


On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Dana Brandt  wrote:

> Thanks for the input everyone. She's pretty set on getting rid of them.
> I'll recommend hosing them down with water at night. I think she's going to
> want to go chemical, though. I'd love to hear anyone's experience with
> sprays damaging the backsheet or not.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dana
>
> Dana Brandt
> Ecotech Energy Systems, LLC
> www.ecotechenergy.com
> d...@ecotechenergy.com
> 360.318.7646
>
>
> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Dana Brandt wrote:
>
>> Hi Wrenches,
>>
>> I have a client who has developed quite a problem with wasps behind her
>> array. Does anyone have experience getting rid of them? I'm afraid of the
>> possibility of sprays damaging the backsheet. Is that a legitimate concern?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dana
>>
>> Dana Brandt
>> Ecotech Energy Systems, LLC
>> www.ecotechenergy.com
>> d...@ecotechenergy.com
>> 360.318.7646
>>
>
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[RE-wrenches] ] Wasps

[Dana]

If you can slip a container over the nest, I put a ½” of gasoline in the
bottom of the container and go up at night and slip the container with gas
over the nest and holding it tight to the panel or soffit, slip it to the
side and hold it for a minute or so.

The gas asphyxiates the stinging monsters and then you have yet another
opportunity to be a male pyromaniac. 100% success rate so far.

 

Note to self - do not spill the gas on the house.

 



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Re: [RE-wrenches] Wasps

[Roy Butler]

  
  
Chris is absolutely
right, dish detergent really does work.
And Dawn is about the best brand to use.
  
  Roy Butler
NABCEP Certified Small Wind Installer®
NABCEP Certified Solar PV Installer®
NYSERDA eligible PV & wind installer
Four Winds Renewable Energy, LLC
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  On 5/6/2013 6:07 PM, Chris Mason wrote:


  I have had good success with soapy water - mix dish
detergent with water and spray it on, won't hurt your modules.
  

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Dana
  Brandt 
  wrote:
  Thanks for
the input everyone. She's pretty set on getting rid of them.
I'll recommend hosing them down with water at night. I think
she's going to want to go chemical, though. I'd love to hear
anyone's experience with sprays damaging the backsheet or
not.

  
  
  Thanks,
  
  
Dana
  
  Dana Brandt
  Ecotech Energy Systems, LLC
  www.ecotechenergy.com
  d...@ecotechenergy.com
  360.318.7646
  
  
  


  
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:13
  AM, Dana Brandt 
  wrote:
  

  Hi Wrenches,

  
  I have a client who has developed quite a problem
  with wasps behind her array. Does anyone have
  experience getting rid of them? I'm afraid of the
  possibility of sprays damaging the backsheet. Is
  that a legitimate concern? 
  
  Thanks,
  

  
Dana
  
  Dana Brandt
  Ecotech Energy Systems, LLC
  www.ecotechenergy.com
  d...@ecotechenergy.com
  360.318.7646
  

  

  


  


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Re: [RE-wrenches] ] Wasps

[Chris Mason]

Ladder - roof - gasoline - electricity - stinging insects - what could
possibly go wrong?


On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Dana  wrote:

> If you can slip a container over the nest, I put a ½” of gasoline in the
> bottom of the container and go up at night and slip the container with gas
> over the nest and holding it tight to the panel or soffit, slip it to the
> side and hold it for a minute or so.
>
> The gas asphyxiates the stinging monsters and then you have yet another
> opportunity to be a male pyromaniac. 100% success rate so far.
>
> ** **
>
> Note to self - do not spill the gas on the house.
>
> ** **
>
>
> 
> 
>
> *Dana Orzel* 
>
> Great Solar Works, Inc -  *NABCEP # 051112-136*
>
> d...@solarwork.com  - www.solarwork.com 
>
> PLEASE ADD & NOTE NEW CELL - *C *- *208.721.7003* 
>
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>
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Re: [RE-wrenches] Wasps

[Brian Teitelbaum]

I'd be weary of using Dawn detergent on PV modules because it has petroleum 
distillates in it. That's why it's so effective at stripping oil off of bird 
feathers after an oil spill.

Safer brand insecticidal soap will kill wasps, and it's non-toxic and 
petroleum-free.

I deal with wasps nesting in my ground mount with just a high-pressure sprayer 
on a garden hose. I have to go out there a few times in the spring to knock 
down the nests, but the wasps eventually get the idea that they aren't wanted. 
Two years ago I had a nest of white-faced hornets build one of their marvelous 
cone-shaped nests on the back of the array, and it was pretty large by the time 
I saw it, so I left them alone. I like hornets because they kill and eat yellow 
jackets, and if you don't bother them, they won't bother you, unlike yellow 
jackets.

Brian Teitelbaum
AEE Solar

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Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 3:47 PM
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Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Wasps

Chris is absolutely right, dish detergent really does work. And Dawn is about 
the best brand to use.



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On 5/6/2013 6:07 PM, Chris Mason wrote:
I have had good success with soapy water - mix dish detergent with water and 
spray it on, won't hurt your modules.

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Dana Brandt 
mailto:d...@ecotechenergy.com>> wrote:
Thanks for the input everyone. She's pretty set on getting rid of them. I'll 
recommend hosing them down with water at night. I think she's going to want to 
go chemical, though. I'd love to hear anyone's experience with sprays damaging 
the backsheet or not.


Thanks,

Dana

Dana Brandt
Ecotech Energy Systems, LLC
www.ecotechenergy.com
d...@ecotechenergy.com
360.318.7646

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Dana Brandt 
mailto:d...@ecotechenergy.com>> wrote:
Hi Wrenches,
I have a client who has developed quite a problem with wasps behind her array. 
Does anyone have experience getting rid of them? I'm afraid of the possibility 
of sprays damaging the backsheet. Is that a legitimate concern?

Thanks,

Dana

Dana Brandt
Ecotech Energy Systems, LLC
www.ecotechenergy.com
d...@ecotechenergy.com
360.318.7646


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Re: [RE-wrenches] Wasps

[Solarguy]

I don't know if smoke stuns wasps like it does bees. That could be a humane
way to distract them while you get the nest off the module so maybe they
will go somewhere else.

Jim

 

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[mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Dana Brandt
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 3:32 PM
To: RE-wrenches
Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Wasps

 

Thanks for the input everyone. She's pretty set on getting rid of them. I'll
recommend hosing them down with water at night. I think she's going to want
to go chemical, though. I'd love to hear anyone's experience with sprays
damaging the backsheet or not.

Thanks,



Dana

Dana Brandt
Ecotech Energy Systems, LLC
www.ecotechenergy.com
d...@ecotechenergy.com
360.318.7646

 

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Dana Brandt  wrote:

Hi Wrenches,

I have a client who has developed quite a problem with wasps behind her
array. Does anyone have experience getting rid of them? I'm afraid of the
possibility of sprays damaging the backsheet. Is that a legitimate concern? 

Thanks,




Dana

Dana Brandt
Ecotech Energy Systems, LLC
www.ecotechenergy.com
d...@ecotechenergy.com
360.318.7646

 

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Re: [RE-wrenches] Wasps

[Bob-O Schultze]

Jim,
Sorry, but that's really bad advice. Smoke doesn't stun bees. It makes them 
think there is a fire and they begin to gorge themselves with honey in 
preparation for fleeing. While they are doing that, they mostly ignore you. 
Might work that way with wasps, but I don't know that for sure and I'm betting 
you don't either. Most wasps don't collect nectar to evaporate into honey, they 
eat meat in the form of other insects. Ya might just piss them off.
Bob-O

On May 6, 2013, at 8:04 PM, Solarguy wrote:

I don’t know if smoke stuns wasps like it does bees. That could be a humane way 
to distract them while you get the nest off the module so maybe they will go 
somewhere else.
Jim
 
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[mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Dana Brandt
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 3:32 PM
To: RE-wrenches
Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Wasps
 
Thanks for the input everyone. She's pretty set on getting rid of them. I'll 
recommend hosing them down with water at night. I think she's going to want to 
go chemical, though. I'd love to hear anyone's experience with sprays damaging 
the backsheet or not.

Thanks,

Dana

Dana Brandt
Ecotech Energy Systems, LLC
www.ecotechenergy.com
d...@ecotechenergy.com
360.318.7646
 

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Dana Brandt  wrote:
Hi Wrenches,

I have a client who has developed quite a problem with wasps behind her array. 
Does anyone have experience getting rid of them? I'm afraid of the possibility 
of sprays damaging the backsheet. Is that a legitimate concern? 

Thanks,

Dana

Dana Brandt
Ecotech Energy Systems, LLC
www.ecotechenergy.com
d...@ecotechenergy.com
360.318.7646
 
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