How can I keep wasps out of the shop??!!

I heard something about painting any entrance areas blue or using brake cleaner w/out the flame it jusst sucks the life out of them.

 

If you're outside and the wasps are around tie a fish head
a foot above a bucket of water.The wasps gourge themselves
fall into the bucket and drown.It works good.

 

Yup - incremental, and it keeps getting worse.

As for gettin stung on the bikes...I usedta ride about 6,000 miles a year (it's michigan, and there are days in the winter that it's too cold to ride) and every bike sting I got was a result of a glancing blow. The bug would hit something first (like my face shield) and drop into my collar. Last time around, the bug hit the edge of the helmet , dropped in my shirt collar, and came to about 5 miles later - stung me twice at the base of my spine.

While at the hospital, the nurses told me they had a guy as old as me (!?) in a few weeks ago. Gave him the epi, and he had a massive heart attack. Don't need that kinda drama, so I ditched the bikes and went back to cages.

I'd finally saved up enough money for a Scout, too.

If yer gonna hunt wasps - do it in the morning and the evening. I find 'em in the eaves, in vents, and under the bumpers of cars that have been sitting a while. The Chrysler had nests in each of its four dagmars.

A nest story...

Back when I was a kid, wasps built a HUGE nest at the peak of Pop's cabin up north - it was biggern' a basketball. We went up there on a fall day - it was butt cold - and I knocked the nest down. Threw it inna garbage bag, tossed the bag into the trailer, and we went home. I took the bag to school the next day for science class...

Didn't think this one all the way thru. There were a few thousand wasps in that nest; the warmth of the school woke'em up, and they got real busy once the bag was opened...

We all went home early that day.

 

Our farmers coop or tractor supply has them ( wasp traps) depending on the wasps you put raw meat or sugar water in the traps...they pile up and die inside....almost as much fun as killing fire ants. Hang the traps on all 4 corners of your shop.

 

I got e-mail that went around a couple years, about "BOUNCE" fabric softener, stole a few sheets from the wife as a test, tied one to the back (that would be the front for you youngsters!) of my ball cap and went out and picked blackberrys. None of those little bastards came within 3 feet of me. then I went out and bought a box of my own and early in the morning when it was still cold(they don't move around much then) went out to my toyota ranch truck that was parked in the pasture right where I bailed out the year before when a swarm of the bastards started flying out of the defroster ducts (the keys were still in it haha) stuffed a couple sheets of bounce in defroster duct also open the doors and stuffed a couple quick ones in the fender wells another inside the gas door. little fuckers were everywhere then I ran (as fast as these gimpy old legs would carry me) I've got over 30 vehicles at my place and have not found one nest (an occasional varmit usually dead) since I started using it! I haven't tried it in my shop. but I think I'd start with a couple boxes and a staple gun. funny thing two years later those crusty dried up sheets are still working. I don't have a clue why it works. but it did for me

 

I googles "what wasps hate" and found a lot of complaining about "those dang furriners..."

But this came up from a story from Norway. where they must've had some kind of wasp problem last year.

A tried and tested method is to put ten crushed cloves in a saucer with some water. You can also pierce a lemon with a number of cloves. Apparently, wasps hate the smell and stay away. Tell the landlord of your favourite pub or always carry a bag of cloves with you just in case.

I suppose you could start smoking the fruity clove cigarettes also.

 

Tracking down the nests can be tough sometimes.
If you have a deck that's close to the ground it can be hard to check underneath for nests.
In desperation last summer (lots of wasps were hanging around the shop; and I'm alergic to the bites too)
I hooked a hose on the exhaust pipe of my truck and stuck the other end under my deck. (it's covered with plywood; 35 x 30 feet and only 12 inches off the ground)
Fired the engine up and at at a fast idle; poured some carb cleaner down the open carb. Did this three or four times; and so far this year, NO WASPS! (so FAR! )
(if your going to try this trick; close the house windows, and advise your neighbours to do the same!! )

 

WD-40 and a lighter...
Ether if you want to be sporting about it,make 'em feel good for an instant,then torture at your leisure...
I think the reason the USA uses so much oil is the amount of gas I've poured into fucking yellow jacket holes over the years...

 

call the mosiquito abatment i think they will dispose i know they do bees