Hornets in the yard can cause a lot of inconvenience, their bites are dangerous to health, the poison affects the organs of the cardiovascular, nervous system. The poison can provoke anaphylactic shock, an attack of suffocation. Therefore, it is very important to understand how to get rid of hornets in the country.

If insects come to the site for food, in search of honey bees, some pests, they can be left alone. If representatives of the winged family are frequent, appropriate measures must be taken immediately. Hornets are especially dangerous for bees and their hives; they ruin bee colonies, feasting on honey plants. If insects have built their hives away from home, they pose a threat, they must be destroyed.

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You can cope with dangerous insects with your own hands or contact professional services.

How to get rid of hornets in the country

It is necessary to deal with hornet wasps in a country house competently, because some species are rare and can completely disappear with a non-professional approach.

There are 2 main ways to eliminate annoying hornets:

  • Remove the nest from the room.
  • Destroy individuals.

To get rid of an insect nest, you need to find out where it is located. If the fight will be conducted directly with adult hornets, it is necessary to choose the most effective chemical or physical method of elimination.

Be sure to protect yourself with personal protective equipment:

  • Mosquito net.
  • Tight clothing that covers hands, face, neck.
  • Gloves.
  • Protective glasses.

Important! For effective control (in the case of choosing a chemical method of destruction), it is necessary to select a remedy for wasps, because hornets are the largest representatives of this particular genus.

How to poison, how to destroy hornets

How to get rid of hornets

There are basically two main methods used.

Use of chemicals:

  • Dichlorvos. Consumers are offered a wide variety of repellents and sprays, for example, Dichlorvos - the most effective and inexpensive. Using Dichlorvos or any other toxic aerosol, it is necessary to inject the poison into the nest and immediately cover the entrance, cracks with clay.

Dichlorvos from wasps and hornets

  • Poison. It successfully helps if you spread the poison from the Colorado potato beetle near the insect nests. It is necessary to carefully work with toxic drugs so that pets do not have access to them.
  • Meat. An effective method used by experienced beekeepers in apiaries is to train hornets to meat. To do this, you need to decompose pieces of fresh meat with sodium arsenic acid ("Parisian greens").
  • Ammonia. Engage in such activities in the spring, at the beginning of the summer season, when there is only a uterus and a few adults in the house. In this case, you can gently toss the nest with a stick into a bucket or tank and throw rags soaked in ammonia.

Choice of physical methods of elimination:

  • Trap number 1. To prepare a simple trap with your own hands from PET containers, you need to make a cross-shaped incision at the top of the bottle and bend the edges inward. In this case, the hornets will be able to fly into the trap, but it will be quite difficult to fly out. Place in a bottle in a 1: 1: 1 ratio of water, beer and sugar in the form of bait.
  • Trap No. 2. To make a trap, you need to remove the upper part of the bottle, unscrew the cap and insert the upper part back into the main one.Fill the bottle with sugar, water, beer or sweet jam as bait.

Hornet and Wasp Trap

  • If the hornet nest is located away from buildings, living areas and forests (so as not to harm!), You can shove a lighted torch into a hollow in the evening.
  • A simple vacuum cleaner will become a worthy ally in the fight against hornets in the country. Connect 2 suction pipes to the vacuum cleaner. After the technique is turned on, the hornets will react to a loud sound and fly not at a person, but at a vacuum cleaner. Hornets fly up to the device, it sucks inward, hitting the bends of the tubes, insects become non-aggressive, lethargic and harmless. Now you can remove insects from the dustbin and get rid of hornets.

Which remedy works best in the fight against hornets

How to get rid of wasps in the country

Among the modern means of fighting annoying insects, the following chemicals are the most effective:

  • Dichlorvos is the most inexpensive and widely available agent used in the fight against almost all insects.
  • Aerosol "Dr. Klaus "is developed on the basis of an insect paralyzing component. To get rid of hornets in the country, you need to spray a toxic aerosol over the nest (about 10-15 seconds). It is important to do the job using personal protective equipment. In order to surely destroy hornets in the country, the procedure can be repeated.
  • Get capsules for getting rid of wasps, hornets, gadflies. It is necessary to dissolve the drug in running warm water and treat the nest with the resulting mixture. The exterminator has a rather operative action, while 1 poisoned individual can transfer poison to another 8-10 hornets from the hive.

Dichlorvos is the most inexpensive and widely available remedy

  • An effective preparation "Taran" is designed to combat any insect. To do this, it must be diluted in water and processed nests and places of large concentrations of hornets. The effectiveness of the drug lasts at least 2-3 months.
  • Aerosol "Moskitol" allows you to get rid of hornets in the country, working at a safe distance. The advantage is that you can spray the spray from 5-6 meters. The drug immobilizes insects, after processing they stop flying, they can be crushed.
  • There are many quality traps on sale, which are mechanical means of destroying hornets and other flying insects. Compared to aerosols, the effectiveness of mechanical traps is somewhat lower, but during operation, you will not have to spray a toxic substance.

Among the most effective and popular traps are the following models:

  • Wasp Trap SWISSINNO Mukhoyar or simply Mukhoyar is a standard, simple trap made of plastic. The cheapest way to get rid of hornets in the country.
  • Argus Garden Wasp Trap SWISSINNO is a ready-made trap that comes with a bait.
  • “Argus Garden” - the base of the trap is a sweet bait, an effective means of getting rid of hornets.

How to get rid of a hornet nest

Removing a hornet's nest in the house or in the country is a radical method of dealing with dangerous insects, but it is the most effective. It is best to get rid of the nest at the beginning of spring, when they are small, over time, in summer, it will be much more difficult and dangerous for the health to "evict" insects.

How to get rid of hornets under the roof of a house

To get rid of the nest at the initial stage of its creation, it is necessary to show a little observation and track exactly where the insects fly in the evening. When it gets dark, all insects flock to the nest.

Note! It will be much easier to keep track of the female hive, it is easy to recognize her by her significant, large dimensions (at least 2-3 cm) and it will be easy to follow her.

How to get hornets out in the country? There are 3 effective methods to get rid of the nest:

  1. Place the small nest quickly in a bucket and fill it with running water. The nest gets soaked so quickly that not a single adult has time to fly out of there.
  2. At night (when the insects are sleeping), pour polyurethane foam into the nest and quickly close all the holes with clay, putty, tape.Even if not all the insects were in the hive, when they return, they will look for a female - without her they will not be able to exist and will fly away from home.
  3. Spray or douse the nest with gasoline (in the evening, at night) and set it on fire, observing safety standards.

All work must be carried out observing safety precautions, using protective equipment:

  • Dress in tight clothes with long sleeves and cuffs, a sweater with a throat.
  • Be sure to wear a hat, better - a special helmet with a protective mesh.
  • Gloves should be on hands, boots on legs.
  • On the face, choose protective goggles or a special mesh mask.

For such events, it is best to choose a specialized suit in which beekeepers work. If the bites cannot be avoided, an antiseptic and antiallergenic agent must be prepared in advance. You need to think about the "escape", for example, find out where there is a pond or a closed room nearby. Pets and children should be removed from the house until dangerous insects are removed.

Advice! It is very effective to plant bushes of red hot pepper on your garden plot, it scares away "dangerous guests".

Fighting hornets in a summer cottage is a dangerous, but necessary measure, because they pose a great danger, but if there are no inconveniences, it is not necessary to get rid of insects.