Wasps in the country - how to get rid of it yourself

The presence of a large number of wasps in the garden is always annoying. Intrusive uninvited “neighbors” interfere with work and do not allow resting peacefully. They build their paper houses in the most unexpected places for a person. How to deal with wasps at home if these dangerous and aggressive tenants have appeared next to the house in the garden area or in the garden?

Wasps in the country: how to get rid of it yourself

There are many proven ways. The easiest one is to call a team of specialists. If this is not possible, you will have to do it yourself. When the decision is made to destroy insects with your own hands, you need to properly prepare:

• Consider the scope of work in advance and select the necessary tools.
• There should be no bystanders, children or animals at the work site. Be sure to warn the neighbors.
• Clothes, shoes and gloves should be tight enough to prevent biting. Be sure to protect your face. The bites are painful and very dangerous, and one individual can sting several times.
• In summer, nests are destroyed at night when its inhabitants are sleeping, or on a cloudy rainy day.
• You should not deal with removing the cocoon in sunny weather, when almost all the wasps flew out in search of food. Returning "from the fields" and not finding their home, they will rush around the territory and sting everyone.
• It is necessary to remove the nest very quickly, without allowing the tenants to come to their senses.

Wasps in the country

If wasps interfere in the country, how to get rid of it yourself? There are three main options:

• destruction of nests is the safest, fastest and most dangerous option to get out uninvited residents;
• setting traps and gradually catching insects. It will take more time, but the method is much safer;
• using poisoned baits.

When using traps and baits, it will take longer to destroy, but this method is much safer.

Destruction of nests

You can physically get rid of nests in different ways. It all depends on the location of the cocoon.

• If the nest is far from the house and buildings, it is simply doused with fuel and set on fire. The paper cocoon burns out instantly with all the inhabitants. The method is quick, but dangerous. Before applying, make sure that the fire does not transfer to dry grass or branches.
• Nests in the home are usually treated with water. A bucket of boiling water is placed under the cocoon. Very quickly knock down with a stick directly into boiling water, immediately cover with a lid.
• When it is difficult to get to the nest and quickly knock it down, it is covered with a dense bag of cotton wool or rags soaked in insecticide. Keep closed. Wait until all the inhabitants die, then tear off the cocoon and destroy.
• To fight the swarm that has settled in the ground, before destroying the nest, they look for all the entrances and exits from it. Leave one, cover the rest with earth. Pour boiling water directly into the hole in the hole.

Pour boiling water directly into the hole in the hole.

Insecticide etching

This is a reliable and secure way. Although it will take much more time. Modern drugs are highly active, easy to use and have little toxicity to humans and animals. Many of them are also designed to kill other insects, such as ants or cockroaches. Aerosols are usually treated with nests, directing a stream of a poisonous substance into the hole in such a way that all its layers are saturated. By spraying one can of Dichlorvos, you can remove the swarm in five minutes.

Lures and traps

Complete victory can be achieved not only by destroying adults. You need to poison the uterus and larvae. For this, baits and traps are used.

Poisoned baits are usually of two types:

• quick action for baiting adult insects that die immediately after eating a poisoned bait;
• delayed type so that the wasps can fly to the nest and feed the larvae and uterus with poisonous food.

The preparations with which the bait is treated should be odorless, so as not to interrupt the smell of products attractive to wasps. The baits are made from fermented jam, sugar syrup, watermelon peels, meat, and so on.

You need to poison the uterus and larvae

If insects live far away, and arrive at the site only for food, set traps. Such devices are easy to make yourself. The plastic bottle is cut in half, the top is inserted with the neck down. The prepared bait is poured inside and the insecticide is poured. You can poison wasps at home with anything. The most commonly used are karbofos, boric acid, borax.

How to deal with wasps under a roof

The favorite places for the wasp family for building a hive are roofs and attics. Usually "paper wasps" live there. How to destroy a hornet's nest under a roof in a folk way? If the cocoon is hanging high, a stepladder is needed. Collect water in a bucket so that the nest drowns in it completely. Carefully immerse the entire lump and its inhabitants in the water. Support with a stepladder, stand for several hours, then destroy.

When the cocoon is in a hard-to-reach place and cannot be knocked down, aerosols are used or sprayed with a solution of insecticide concentrate and covered with a plastic bag.

You can smoke from the attic using a sulfur stick. It is placed in a basin and ignited. After the checker has completely burned out, wait another 5 hours and ventilate.

You can smoke wasps from the attic using a sulfur checker

How to deal with wasps in the country with folk remedies

If you don't want or can't use chemistry in the country, you can try any folk remedy for wasps. There are a lot of recipes. How and with what folk remedies you can fight wasps in the country:

• Fly agaric bait or trap poison. Finely cut the hats, mix with honey. Dilute the resulting mass with water, boil. The cooled agent is poured into containers and placed over the site.
• The used machine oil is poured over the nest completely. The thick oil works as a sealant here. Wait until all the inhabitants die, remove and burn. The method is effective, but not environmentally friendly.
• Spray with peppermint essential oil. Pour two glasses of water and 30 drops of peppermint oil into a spray bottle. Homemade spray is used indoors and small nests are treated.
• Soapy solution with hot water. When it gets on the wasp, the soap envelops and dehydrates it.

Mint essential oil spray

All these funds are not difficult to prepare with your own hands, but the destruction of insects with their use will take quite a long time.

How to poison wasps on your own to destroy once and for all

First of all, before the start of the summer cottage season in early spring, you need to inspect the buildings and trees on the site. At this time, the old nests are still empty, so you can safely remove them and burn them. If, before summer comes, you regularly make such detours and remove newly appeared nests, the wasps will find other places to live. This means that this season a new swarm will not appear on the site.

Horticultural stores sell wasp nest simulators. These insects will never settle next to "another family", but will choose another place to build their house. They are usually poisoned with preparations for removing domestic insects (Raptor, Dichlorvos, karbofos) and means for destroying garden pests.

Dichlorvos

What are wasps afraid of and how to get rid of them

Wasps do not tolerate strong, persistent odors. You can scare them away by using various repellents, such as Raptor. How else can you scare off these unpleasant guests:

• Do not tolerate smoke. The more "smelly" smoke, the easier it is to poison wasps at home. The method becomes much more effective if you set fire to rubber or plastic. Smoke can drive a swarm out of the nest in one evening. Where it is impossible to make a fire, a smoking spiral with an insecticide is placed.
• They do not like the aroma of conifers. A sprig of pine or fir can be placed on the table to scare them away during lunch.
• Vinegar smell. To prevent them from flying into the room, you can treat the curtains with vinegar.
• They leave their homes if you hang bunches of hot peppers nearby.
• They will not like the smell of oil products, gum, kerosene either.

A sprig of pine or fir can be placed on the table

If uninvited guests decide to keep a company at lunch, you can scare them away by turning on a regular fumigator.

Wasps in the house, how to get rid of folk remedies from wasps in the wall

Before destroying a swarm that has built its nest between the wall and the cladding of the house, or in the depths of the wall, if there is free space, you need to find an entrance. In order to track where the inhabitants of the wasp nest are hiding, they put a bait and track the flight path of a well-fed wasp with prey. Unfortunately, sometimes it is impossible to get close to the wasp dwelling: the aerosol does not get there, the smoke cannot be smoked and the nest cannot be reached.

It remains only to hermetically seal all entrances and exits, and with such materials that insects could not gnaw. If the house is made of stone, it is better to cement the holes, if it is wooden, fill it with a thick layer of polyurethane foam.

In winter, you can try to destroy the nest with a long stick or boat hook, and then carefully seal up all the holes so that next year no one can get there and rebuild a new hive.

How to get rid of wasps in the country: on your own or call specialists to decide for the gardener himself. Regardless of which method or tool is used, it must be used very carefully, observing safety rules. Do not forget, if something goes wrong, these insects, protecting their home, attack with a whole swarm!