Wasps: help still needed

In case Gungahlin Al ever reads this, I don’t have anything against him, he’s tremendous.
If I didn’t like him I wouldn’t talk to him, but he keeps encouraging Government to spend my taxes on his ridiculous “developing Gungahlin” hobby.

I pay taxes so I can grind -my- axes, not his. 😛

Also, don’t use homemade napalm unless you know what you’re doing, and do not punch a wasps nest.

Hero said :

I have checked all around the house for any obvious nest and haven’t found any evidence. I don’t think the nest is on my property. Anyone know how far they usually travel to get their food?

we get so many of them around here that it is impossible to eat outside in summer….
many years ago i worked at coles and found an angry european wasp in the fish case (well, angry after someone tried to beat it with a notebook, inadvisable, i hear) the pest guy was called (or whomever one calls to remove an e. wasp) and he reckoned they love fish (irrelevant but weird) and that they’ll travel a couple of k’s for food…which is really annoying because though we have a waspy problem there seems to be no nest near my house (rivett), so i can’t find the source!
I’d be really glad to know how to get rid of the little bastards.

Hero- Rivett was the worst affected suburb last season, along with the rest of weston and Kanbah.
I would say that the pest controller who told you they travel a couple of Ks is off the mark quite considerably, 1km would be tops, 50m more an average.

Wasps are attracted to movement, aggrevate them at your peril! They are also attracted to bright colours. One other thing, only the females sting…. You guess which is which!

We need a subheading of “Wasps” given how often we have to cross-link these threads…

http://the-riotact.com/?p=4744 Al advocates going in unarmed for the first time
http://the-riotact.com/?p=6555 Gungahlin Al uses the word “pussies” to describe people who won’t have a bareknuckle brawl with the wasps, and still none of us believed they set up nests on awnings
http://the-riotact.com/?p=6583 has picture of a nest on an awning from the ABC (if swallowed seek medical advice), and I refer to them as a bunch of communist pansies for urging people to go to pest controllers. One person goes so far as advocating punching the nest.
http://the-riotact.com/?p=7810 is where Pesty first shows up acting as a voice of reason.

no, i’m absolutely in favour or napalm….acquisition may be a stumbling block, however.
do you have any idea if those traps work?
they sell cute little venus fly trap styley wasp catchers at the nurseries, but they’re crap 🙂

Hero;

If you are a bongo playing hippie try this.

Or see comment number eight in the thread.

I have checked all around the house for any obvious nest and haven’t found any evidence. I don’t think the nest is on my property. Anyone know how far they usually travel to get their food?

we get so many of them around here that it is impossible to eat outside in summer….
many years ago i worked at coles and found an angry european wasp in the fish case (well, angry after someone tried to beat it with a notebook, inadvisable, i hear) the pest guy was called (or whomever one calls to remove an e. wasp) and he reckoned they love fish (irrelevant but weird) and that they’ll travel a couple of k’s for food…which is really annoying because though we have a waspy problem there seems to be no nest near my house (rivett), so i can’t find the source!
I’d be really glad to know how to get rid of the little bastards.

Apparently you also need to get close enough to notice whether they have three little dots on their faces. Good luck!

; )

They won’t be much interested in fruit at this time of the year, it’s when the queans are being raised at the end of the normal season (a very few nests suvive the winter)that they collect more fruit, for the most part its meat, insects, any protein they can get, even to the point of cannabalism! if supplies run out.

They took the little chunks of ham that I laid out for them but couldn’t spot where they flew apart from down the street. They didn’t touch the little chunks of apple at all.

They seem very clumsy too as compared to bees, bees seem to be more nimble at negotiating branches/leaves.

A cube about 1cm^3 (about the length of my little fingernail to a side) worked fine for me.

Big enough to see, but light enough for it to take off and fly with.