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

[Flabbibulin]

Gotta ask those boxelders for forgiveness. Talk about a silly complaint in retrospect.

[Bigtime]

Is there a way we can kill all the wasps and increase the bee population triple that? Fuzzy bee bois for life.

[Jimmy Stang]

I thought I'd light a citronella oil lantern because some say that it might help keep wasps away. I don't think that it made any difference at all.

Those bag things with the attractant, on the other hand - those things work.

[Nancy]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Just get a couple of these.

Problem sorted.

These are way more affective than any homemade remedy

Dude, you bought the fly traps. Though, they surely will be affective to your mood when they catch no wasps.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Bees are cuter too.

[Brendone]

Made the mistake of eating some hot wings out on the deck the other day. We usually get a couple of the little wasps when we’re outside, but apparently Franks Red Hot is irresistible? Had 10-15 of various sizes swarm me 5 minutes.

Might have to try throwing that #### in a trap

[OutOfTheCube]

They've actually not been too bad in Airdrie, not anything more noticeable than usual.

We went camping with some friends in Pine Lake last weekend though and it was crazy, they were a menace especially anytime you tried to eat anything.

[Zary's-Mustache]

Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube

They've actually not been too bad in Airdrie, not anything more noticeable than usual.

We went camping with some friends in Pine Lake last weekend though and it was crazy, they were a menace especially anytime you tried to eat anything.

That's weird because it usually only takes wasps 10 minutes to get to Airdrie.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Went to the bottle depot, don't think I have ever seen anything like that.

The workers kept on working, but the customers in a battle for our lives.

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang

I thought I'd light a citronella oil lantern because some say that it might help keep wasps away. I don't think that it made any difference at all.

Those bag things with the attractant, on the other hand - those things work.

I haven't had success with citronella oil lanterns/torches for bugs for the last few years, especially if there's even a remotely gentle breeze. It also sucks because they're not allowed in stage 4 water restrictions right now.

I've been using a bubble machine instead. I can say that it does seem like wasps don't really like the bubbles, but only within a few inches of the thing. I took a bubble machine and started blowing bubbles onto them to see how they react. Online says maybe to add some scent to it and they'll dislike it more, but I'm not going to put essential oils into bubble mix. They'll definitely change flight path and avoid colliding with bubbles, but if they're already locked in on some sugar or food or something, it won't be effective unless you're somehow bathing in bubbles.

I haven't gotten to the point of a yellow jacket trap yet (home made or purchased the cheat code one). The cheat code one catches and kills way better than home made by a huge margin. I've been doing the home made ones for years and I know it's not even close.

The other weekend we went for ice cream. I probably spent 10-20 minutes smacking the concrete with my flip flop to kill about half a dozen wasps. I've been telling people to do slow but intentional movements to get the wasps to go away. Quick movements and high pitched sounds will increase the chances they'll probably bite you, although I've been surprised at how often they wasps have been trying to land on relatively calm people this year. That's kinda weird behaviour I haven't seemed to notice before.

[BigThief]

Originally Posted by 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.

After 45 years you'd think you'd be happy with anything crawling up that musty short hole.

[aiy_yah]

I've been lucky. Live in the NW, minutes from Nosehill and have had 2 wasps hover around me on my deck all summer. They land on my cups, plates, arms, etc., but I have not been stung.

One got inside the house a week or so ago and I killed it. Now I have 1 wasp that occasionally hovers around me while I'm chilling on the deck. Whenever I have the swatter out, I don't see it.

[blankall]

Borax and sugar mixed did wonders for the ant and wasp problems I used to have. Not sure if it would help with the late summer wandering wasp issues, but it certainly deters actual nests from forming nearby.

[Goriders]

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 insane

[Fuzz]

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https://i.imgur.com/nC135S3.mp4

I like to watch them clamber over the corpses of their brethren, in a hopeless struggle to get above the bodies.

[EVERLAST]

What about sugar water and purple? Otherwise known as grape drink?