I have a medium sized one under my deck. I googled "how to get rid of wasp nest" and came across two methods. One, I can spray it down with a water hose at night since that is when they are least active/aggressive and the other is getting a spray pesticide that kills bees, hornets, wasps....etc... and spraying directly onto nest. Just checking to see if anyone has had experience with this and which one would be the more effective one. I would think just using water would hold it off temporarily than using the poison, but not sure. Thoughts? TIA
I agree K-Bell. I want to use water but i dont want those horrible things coming back again and i cant help but think water wont do much except for destroy the nest for the time being. If we use poison, it will be on the wood and i am sure they can smell it. I know they could easily build in another area under the deck but who knows ... Wasps, hornets, yellow jackets scare the crap out of me! Honey bees i can deal with. Thank you all!
I am allergic and we've tried many methods. The water does not work.
We have resorted to having professionals come every 3 months.
We get at least one nest every summer. We use the pesticide spray. I'd love to just use water, that would be so much better for the environment. Let us know how it goes.
We get them every year. They like to build in the corners of the garage door (in the outside frame of it), where it's protected from the weather but wide open at the same time.
I just use one of those cans of Wasp spray that shoots a stream 20 feet. That's the best way to do it. Stand waaay back, and blast the nest (with them in it, so near dark or reeeally early in the morning). Kills them pretty much instantly. Once you have hit it pretty hard, turn and run.
I have one right now that I have put off dealing with. It's in the upper corner of the frame of the sidelight window glass of my front door. If I wait until night, our garage door is already down, and it's good 40-50 feet around the side of the house to the door inside the garage anyway (safety)... then I have no place to run, except right past them into my house. I don't like that plan.
But it is growing, so thanks for reminding me to do something about it.
I can't imagine anybody suggesting to just spray water on the nest. That'll just make them mad. Normally, they don't do anything unless you mess with them... which is why I still haven't done anything with ours. We use that door multiple times a day, and as long as we don't do anything, it's no problem. I worry they might fly inside, though. :/
My husband sprays them with wasp killer (then runs) and then waits a day or two and scrapes the nest away. Still from a distance. Then once removed, he sprays any reside off the nest to deter rebuilding.
I realize this probably won't help you, but here is how my hubby takes care of wasp nests where he works...
He has a large coffee can attached to a very long stick..... he fills the can maybe 3/4 full of water with dish soap added to it.
He sticks the coffee can (using the long stick) around the wasp nest, gives the nest a tap on the side with the can, (the can is up against the top surface of whatever the nest is hanging from), kind of rotates the can, and that knocks the nest off the eaves of the building, and into the soapy water.... the wasps all drown!
I don't think you can easily do this on the underside of your deck... you would be in too much danger of getting stung... but this works for him getting rid of the wasps in a not so toxic way.
My husband took the pressure washer to the nest and they didn't rebuild.
Google plants that repel them. I've done a bunch of research and I am going to plant both mosquito and wasp repelling plants and flowers.
