Hi Anne, I am no expert, but I had the same problem last year. The wasps had made a nest inside my window frame (a common place for them). Somehow they were getting inside my bedroom. They apparently only need the slightest crevice to get in. I found a space in the floor board where I saw one squeeze through. After sealing it up, another had found its way in the next day clearly from a different point of entry.
I contacted several exterminators. Most did not return the calls or pick-up. The one I was able to speak with said they were unusually busy that year (2023), it took a month before they were able to come out. The wasps were still present after the initial treatment, so they came out for a second treatment (a follow up if needed as part of the initial $500 charge). The second treatment did the trick. They explained just using a spray that killed them on contact would not get to the root problem. The treatments they used didn’t kill them on contact but they brought it back to the queen in the nest. I also did research to make sure they wouldn’t return, because they are creatures of habit and they would repopulate the same place the following year. But because they are territorial, if they see another nest present, they will avoid it. The recommendation was to open a brown paper lunch bag and crimp the end (so it looks like an inflated ballon) and place it outside the area where they are entering the house. Apparently it resembles a wasp nest so they will move on. I just closed the window on the crimped end of the bag and it seems to have worked. No wasps this year. I hope this helps… Peter Beacon Driving School > On Aug 11, 2024, at 12:48 PM, Anne Sobol <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've had wasps going in the siding of my house for a while, but they haven't > bothered me and I'm leery of poisons so I haven't done anything until this > past week. An occasional wasp would make its way into the house (I don't see > where this is happening), but again they hadn't bothered me and eventually > they die after banging against the plate glass window in my living room. > > I also have hundreds of wasps buzzing around the star magnolia by my front > door (again so far they haven't bothered me). Turns out the wasps are there > because of magnolia scale. I got an arborist to come and spray something > around the base of the tree which is then taken up by the tree killing the > scale. Apparently not doing something about the scale can imperil the > magnolia. (This is the current problem also with the wasps around the > magnolia at the front door of the Lincoln Library.) The arborist was here > three days ago on Thursday. > > While he was here dealing with the magnolia, the arborist squirted what I > think was pyrethrin at the hole in my siding where the wasps were getting in. > Maybe this treatment hasn't been given enough time to work, but a decided > increase in the number of wasps making it into the house has me concerned. I > suppose I could eventually get stung. > > I've looked at a few videos on youtube, I went to Home Depot and saw some > type of yellow jacket trap which didn't immediately acknowledge it was a > poison. Also saw a long shelf of many aerosol sprays to get rid of problem. > > Does anyone have any advice? This is beyond my dealing with on my own. Any > recommendations for an . . . erk. . . exterminator? > -- > The LincolnTalk mailing list. > To post, send mail to [email protected]. > Browse the archives at https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/private/lincoln/. > Change your subscription settings at > https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/lincoln. >
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