Please help. I have discovered a HUGE wasps nest on my veranda wall. It is wedged between the air conditioner unit and the all. I have tried to destroy it with a broom and water from the hose but it hasn't budged at all! I have informed the agent that it is there and that I am concerned about using anything else to destroy it because of electricity wires running through the wall. Apparently the agent can't do anything about it and I am responsible for any pest issues? Is this correct? I have 3 children who play outside frequently and I don't want them to be stung.
Rental Property and Wasps Nest
AussieDolphin on 08/03/2016 - 10:08
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Release a bunch of praying mantices on them.
There are acouple of ways I know to kill wasps, the two that would suit your situation:
Wait till dusk so all the wasps are home and then spray spray spray. A wide spray is best for this as they (in my experience killing football size ones or bigger on farm I worked) wont fly into spray.
Or the other is wait till most are out in the day, then get a 12 pack sandlewood sticks and light them all, they flee from the large amount of smoke assuming fire, then break the nest.
call a pest control guy if you're freaking out about removing wasps
Pfft do it the manly way.
Get a baseball bat, take a swing at the nest, then quickly go jump on your motorbike and take off.
Come back after an hour, rinse and repeat.
Good advise - id like to add that you need at least a few beers in ya, and best to chuck a mono while escaping from the angry swarm
Just looks cooler that way
Lol to some of the replies.
In roll seriousness, use strong Hair spray. one of the best ways to immobilise any insect.
http://www.bunnings.com.au/yates-350g-blitzem-wasp-and-nest-…
i was put onto this by electricians
works mint
try to hit them whilst flying, even more fun. knocks them down like theve been shotYou would be amazed what taking ordinary flying insect killer for indoor use, nothing fancy, does to wasps. I almost feel sorry for the bastards.
Saturating the nest is more than enough to cause an insect genocide but for the hard to reach nests wait for a warm night and duct tape a torch near the nest preferably hanging off a roof or tree branch and leave it on for a few hours.
Wait a few hours and you will notice that the wasps are having a great time pointlessly headbutting a light and otherwise covering your torch. Now you can enjoy creating insta-mega-deaths and enjoy the show with full stadium lighting as you use the indoor flying insect killer and bring death to them. \o/
I hope a bunch of wasps make a nest at my house just so i can do this !
“Nuke the entire site from orbit—it's the only way to be sure”
Hicks?
You can buy stuff from bunnings to kill them.
Its specifically for nests and real heavy stuff
Who remembers seeing this story and photos get forwarded around via email in the early 2000's (before any social networking sites existed…. even a usb drive was rare!) - reading this thread reminded me of this.
[Sure its bees not wasps, but impressive nonetheless] (http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=49960)
Hire pest control?
Ok…in all seriousness This is what i did a few years back when there was a wasp nest in an outdoor umbrella. Was not too big, about the size if a small football
You need two garbage bags, a hoodie, trackkie pants, shoes and socks, safety goggles, gardening gloves and a dust mask.
Put all the clothes on and tuck everything in so you have a makeshift bee suit - pull the hoodie tight. If you do this right youll have no exposed skin except for maybe a tiny bit of your forehead /cheek. Acceptable risk. Wear a long t shirt or flanny underneath as theyll try to sting you anyway.
Then just walk up to the nest, grab it, and double bag it and toss it in the bin. If its not bin night, good idea to leave the bag in a sunny corner where dogs/ kids cant get to it. (Otherwise if the bag ruptures, youll have some angry wasps ready to attack when you open your bin) This should cook them after a day or two - i was not game to open the bags to find out
A few wasps will be hanging around. When they land just hulk-smash them with your gloves
Could probably blast it with flyspray first - we didnt have any
Then disrobe ASAP as you look like a crazy person, grab a beer, kick back and ponder your dominion over nature.
Havent read all of the above but we have a few around home and all you need is a torch (battery style not Raiders of the lost ark style) with some red cellophane over it (Wasps are not disturbed by the red light) Go out at night (of course) and just spray the nest with Mortien Surface spray. They wont try to attack you but will all die off. Then clear the nest away after a day or so.
Is it just me, or do any non-wasp-invaded readers feel like they're missing out in life?
I want wasps just so I have an excuse to do some of this cool shit
No way the mrs is letting me out of the house dressed as a bee keeper and armed with a torch, a flaming torch and a 6-can-simultaneous-spray-action-contraption I have rigged myself using; hairspray, WD40, fly spray, wasp spray, metho and lighter fluid.
But I may have found an excuse. Anyone know how to attract wasps?
Which state are you in? Checked with a mate in NSW. He told me that the landlord needs to pay for the pest control bill. He even had to pay for pest control to take care of spiders.
Thank you. I live in the Northern Territory.
Had to deal with this problem a while back. No idea whether they were flies, wasps, bees, etc… Went looking online and found a few options but first of all I looked at what junk I had around the house that could do the same job. First part is waiting until the night when it's cooler and the hive is less active. This means you don't need to wear protection or can wear less protection when dealing with possible stings. Then, you drop whatever substance it is into the hive and hope that it works. I tried heaps of stuff around the house including radiator fluid (I thought that since it was toxic to humans it would also be toxic to wasps/bees. Sort of worked but not really. I think they mostly died because they were effectively drowned in their own hive), then I tried hot soapy water (theory is that it dissolves the outer wax on a wasps/bees exoskeleton which causes them to basicaly drown)(Sort of worked but not really. Once again, I think they mostly died because they were effectively drowned in their own hive). Then I kept on seeing stories about gasoline which basically dissolved the wax structure of their hive as well as of their exoskeletons. I didn't have an available petrol canister at the time but I did have a gasoline based product. Fuel injector fluid. I bought it on sale a while back but hadn't used it. Poured two bottles (two for one sale at Autobahn for $5. Hadn't used it because my mechanic was doing it anyway…) down the entrance. Next day the only wasp/bee I saw left was one that looked half drunk at the entrance. Once I used to a shovel to dig down (people tell you that you must get rid of the hive to prevent others from taking possession) I found that all the rest had 'moved on'… I turned the soil over and that was that.
Vinegar and bi carb.
Bikies
Op… if you are in canberra, you should call the wasps busters
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/environment/animals/canberra…
As mentioned above, forget the insect repellant poisons e.t.c.
I live in the Bush and we get Wasps nests all the time. Mud wasps, European Wasps, Paper wasps, we get them all.
Get a cheap can of hairspray! Simple, cheap, less toxic.
The instant you spray the wasps, there wings stick together and they drop to the ground ready for a squishing.
Also leaves few marks compared to spray paint, WD40 e.t.c
And no chance of lighting up your house as your not burning them.
Works every single time. I keep a can around just for that reason alone.Oh and make sure to do so after the sun has set. The wasps will not be so active and tend to come back to the nest.
Flick the ac beaker off in the meter box at the front. Go over to the nest with a can of Mortein in the dead of night (when they sleep) spray the whole can and watch then drop out like dead wasps that died in their sleep, problem solved. Used this method many times for wasp nests that are in a threatening location, otherwise I just leave them bee. They never seem to wake up quick enough to survive and sting you
Play a Justin Bee-ber song.
Long story but….many years ago I found a couple of wasps that were starting to build a nest so I let them get on with it. A couple of weeks later the thing was pretty huge and loads of wasps were in residence. I waited until one night when it was pretty late and they were all inside and asleep and applied a generous squirt of butane lighter gas refill to the entry hole, then applied a match. The whole nest went "whump" and disappeared in a ball of fire. No wasps survived. It was pretty entertaining and fixed the issue :)
Can you contact your tenants union in your state? I would have thought the landlord should take care of it. To my surprise my landlord sprayed for spiders and insects when I had an influx of huntsman spiders. This is a landlord that took 6 years to fix my toilet. So I think it is worth finding out what your rights are.
Thank you. I have contacted a tenancy rights place where I live and they suggested asking the agent again to remove the nest. If they don't I am supposed to raise a breach??? Before this, my property agent told me that it is the tenants responsibility to treat any pest issues.
It depends upon your state. In Victoria it is the tenants responsibility if the pests weren't there when the tenant moved in, except for termites. So the agent is probably telling the truth and there is no breach.
Don't know why you are making this such a drama. According to your description it is a mud wasp nest. There are no guards. Nobody will get stung. Just break it off with a screwdriver or such or just leave it.
Mud dauber wasps are solitary and harmless and don't build huge nests. You do not have mud dauber wasps.
Put red cellophane over your torch. Insects can't see red light.
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