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Wasps are nasty basterds
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Not wasp/hornet related but yer wan texasbeeworks on Instagram is worth a look at. No suit or anything going around the place removing beehives. Always says how ‘friendly’ the bees are and she scooping a handful of them up in her hand
There’s a whole hape of people getting the life stung out of them following her example. Some species are very docile and then you smoke she probably smokes the bejaysus out of them beforehand. You wouldn’t want to try it with our native offerings
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Walked into the kitchen on Tuesday afternoon to be greeted by three wasps. When I opened the door to the utility room there were 7 more there. Yay!
Whatshername, the wife, had mentioned that she had seen a few wasps in recent days. Had a look around and found wasps moving in and out of an inaccessible deadspace between our house and the next door neighbour’s shed. When we looked that night when they had gone quiet it looked like the wasps had some kind of structure down the bottom of the narrow 8ft deep gap. So we sprayed the shit out of the deadspace. Came back the next morning and zero difference had been made.
I watched them for a bit more and realised they weren’t actually going to the bottom of the deadspace they were flying in under the windowsill at the top of the deadspace. So Wednesday we sprayed that heavily as best we could. Next day it looked a little quieter initially but was back in full swing by lunchtime yesterday.
The windowsill is very awkward to get at. Hard to explain, you have to reach down a small narrow gap and spray upwards underneath the windowsill, while lying on the sidewall of a shed. Awkward bastards. The wasp nest spray wasn’t working well because of how awkward the spot was, so we changed up to try be a bit more accurate. We spent about half an hour yesterday evening dousing with hot water and fairy liquid in 750ml bottles that could be easily sprayed up at the spot. We also doused the windowsill in a load peppermint oil. Apparently the oiliness of the fairy liquid fucks them up and they hate the smell of peppermint. There was definitely a reaction to this. There were dozens of them flying around after we did this.
Had a few looks this morning and barely a sign of a wasp. 
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We’re inundated with the bastards atm. Cant open the windows…killing a couple of dozen a day. I found one nest and destroyed it, no idea where the rest are coming from
This guy fucks.
For those of you with apiphobia