Year of the wasps....what is going on?

[PepsiFree]

Guys just get the weird bag. This homemade nonsense is for children.

[Whynotnow]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Guys just get the weird bag. This homemade nonsense is for children.

Good luck finding one. Next year in the spring I’m buying a case of those suckers. This next week should see them decline quite a bit in numbers.

[Sainters7]

Back when I was 18/19 & still at home, we had a nest under our front step for a bit one summer. It's back when those electric flyswatters that look like tennis rackets first came out.

Sometimes when I was having a couple beers outside in the sun & got a buzz going, I'd grab the hose, spray under the step, then watch em come out and swat em with the electric swatter. I'd take out a bunch of em, it was gloriously white trash fun...I'd imagine it's the wasp version of how Charlie Kelly felt with his new rat bashing stick. I never got stung either somehow.

[bagofpucks]

We’re under full attack out in the Foothills. It’s especially weird because we had pretty much no wasps all summer until the last few weeks and then they’ve been on an all out blitz. We had kept the humming bird feeders up to help out any stragglers on their path back south, but they were just attracting too many of the stingy buggers. The “weird bags” are by far the heroes of the day, but I’ve got a few re-usable ones that are doing well too.

[Zary's-Mustache]

Originally Posted by Whynotnow

Good luck finding one. Next year in the spring I’m buying a case of those suckers. This next week should see them decline quite a bit in numbers.

I've had no issues finding them at home depot.

Dollarama also carries them. They were out last time I looked.

[Mathgod]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Guys just get the weird bag. This homemade nonsense is for children.

Why do google searches turn up nothing?

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Mathgod

Why do google searches turn up nothing?

If you know you know.

But actually they’re called Rescue Yellowjacket Traps and are to home remedies what nuclear bombs are to grenades.

[Looch City]

Feast your eyes - after 2 weeks and just OJ cause I ran out of apple cider:

I dun wanna touch it to empty and refill ahhh

Spoiler!

[krynski]

Originally Posted by Brendone

Are wasps repelled by the overpowering stench of cow ####?

No, can confirm that the wasps are absolutely nuts further south in the province also.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Looch City

Feast your eyes - after 2 weeks and just OJ cause I ran out of apple cider:

I dun wanna touch it to empty and refill ahhh

Spoiler!

Holy Crap.

[chedder]

Originally Posted by Looch City

Feast your eyes - after 2 weeks and just OJ cause I ran out of apple cider:

I dun wanna touch it to empty and refill ahhh

Spoiler!

That's pretty good but we got that in 2 hours with one of the chemical bag traps (rescue) a couple of weeks ago at the lake. Had to replace it the next day it was so full.

On a separate note, I've been diligently putting out the fake paper nest in early June and my yard at home has been almost waspless. A couple showed up this weekend but it really seems to keep them away.

[Reggie28]

Originally Posted by Sainters7

Back when I was 18/19 & still at home, we had a nest under our front step for a bit one summer. It's back when those electric flyswatters that look like tennis rackets first came out.

Sometimes when I was having a couple beers outside in the sun & got a buzz going, I'd grab the hose, spray under the step, then watch em come out and swat em with the electric swatter. I'd take out a bunch of em, it was gloriously white trash fun...I'd imagine it's the wasp version of how Charlie Kelly felt with his new rat bashing stick. I never got stung either somehow.

Haha. Similar situation here. Years ago I had a nest under the front step. I would use the a sprayer attachment set on wide spray. The cold water would knock them out of the air and then I would mash them with my foot. Spray the ones coming out of the hole and spray the ones coming back to the nest. It didn’t take long to eliminate a couple hundred, sometimes you would mash 4 or 5 at a time.

I don’t know if it was the moisture or the cold that would knock them down, but after getting hit they would just sit on the concrete waiting to be squished.

You just had to watch out for a rouge swarm coming from behind, but the sprayer was good for indiscriminate knock downs. One time, I remember thinking sandals weren’t the best footwear for battling a colony of wasps, but it worked out, I was never stung. After a couple rounds with the garden hose and flip flips, they moved on or……something.

[Zary's-Mustache]

Originally Posted by chedder

That's pretty good but we got that in 2 hours with one of the chemical bag traps (rescue) a couple of weeks ago at the lake. Had to replace it the next day it was so full.

On a separate note, I've been diligently putting out the fake paper nest in early June and my yard at home has been almost waspless. A couple showed up this weekend but it really seems to keep them away.

I tried those fake paper nests and it did absolutely nothing. Maybe it's because it was from dollarama and looked nothing like a nest...

[Buff]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Guys just get the weird bag. This homemade nonsense is for children.

My wife coordinates a pancake breakfast during Whoop-Up Days (Lethbridge's lane version version of Stampede). They start buying supplies in June and those bags were sold out all over Lethbridge by June. In July someone went to Calgary and tried to be locate those bags without any success. So doing homemade traps was the only way to go this year. They sucked. I'm sure the person who made them forgot sugar.

[Buff]

Originally Posted by Zary's-Mustache

I tried those fake paper nests and it did absolutely nothing. Maybe it's because it was from dollarama and looked nothing like a nest...

You have to have those out in early spring before the wasps try to make a nest in your yard. They prevent the wasps from starting a nest with a certain distance of those fake traps but if the wasps already have a nest up then yeah those bags are useless.

[Jacks]

^^
Same with the bag traps. The secret is to put one out late April - Early May when the queens are buzzing around, kill the queens and they never get a chance to establish a colony. I only got maybe 20 in the trap this year but I'm guessing they were all queens because I've only seen a few wasps around my house all summer.

[undercoverbrother]

Just get a couple of these.

Problem sorted.

These are way more affective than any homemade remedy

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by Buff

I was stung for the first time in my life, just a couple months shy of my 49th birthday. There goes that streak. I'll never live long enough to beat it. Now what to live for.

That's a heck of a streak, I broke mine 2 years ago at 41, and then another sucker got me a week or so ago in the backyard when I leaned back onto the chair I was sitting on.

[PsYcNeT]

Remember when everyone was complaining that the ground was sticky and leaves were shiny back in May? That was aphid ####.

Wet spring led to a huge proliferation of aphids, and that resulted in a massive wasp explosion.

[Jimmy Stang]

My lifelong streak also ended recently at 45 years. One went up my shorts - thankfully not too far - and got me on the thigh.

I can't remember a year worse than this, to be honest.