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Post by chils on May 22, 2020 8:10:52 GMT -6
I wanted to share a little bit on my war on bugs this year. My old wellhouse was infested with wasps and impossible to get near in the warm months unless you went out at night. When the builders were framing the new wellhouse there were wasps buzzing them non-stop already trying to nest in the frame.
They immediately found access to the new wellhouse attic space and guarded it all the time. I also had hundreds of wasps buzzing around my house trying to get in any nook and cranny available. They would get in my chimney and come down the pipe and get in my house thru my woodstove.
I drilled holes in the wellhouse ceiling plywood and sprayed a mix of Bifen and Permetherin 10 up there and on all the inside wall plywood. I got >100 dead wasps on the floor over the next 2 weeks. I have not had another wasp in or on it since. On my house I had them everywhere trying to nest in my sidewall trim, under the eaves. I have one hole in my concrete block foundation they've been in for years. I hosed the heck out of that hole. I opened windows upstairs and sprayed all the corner trim, climbed out on my porch roof and sprayed all my eaves and soffit. Done--no more wasps anywhere--total annihilation. It's been ~ 3mths and I haven't seen a wasp anywhere around my house. We live in the woods and also have gnats anytime the weather is warm. I bought an indoor bug zapper from Amazon, an Aspectek and put it on the kitchen sink windowsill. That thing is the bomb. No more gnats or mosquitos in the house. The dog door hung open the other night and we had a bunch get in. I heard the zapper popping a bunch that night. It had ~50 gnats and mosquitos in the tray that would have been buzzing around in the house. Absolutely no bugs in it overnight so it cleared them all out in one night.
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Post by drez on May 22, 2020 9:04:21 GMT -6
I drilled holes in the wellhouse ceiling plywood and sprayed a mix of Bifen and Permetherin 10 up there and on all the inside wall plywood. I got >100 dead wasps on the floor over the next 2 weeks. I have not had another wasp in or on it since.
What was your mix? I have hornets trying to make nest everywhere and I would love to do what I can to eliminate them.
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Post by chils on May 22, 2020 9:10:01 GMT -6
I drilled holes in the wellhouse ceiling plywood and sprayed a mix of Bifen and Permetherin 10 up there and on all the inside wall plywood. I got >100 dead wasps on the floor over the next 2 weeks. I have not had another wasp in or on it since.
What was your mix? I have hornets trying to make nest everywhere and I would love to do what I can to eliminate them. I bought Permetherin 10 and Bifen XTS--separately. Mixed them at 1/3 oz/gal on the Bifen, 1.5oz/gal on the Permetherin. Both in the same sprayer.
So 1/3 oz Bifen and 1.5 oz Permetherin in 1 gallon of water.
ETA: This is the first year I've systematically sprayed everything at once after studying where they were congregating. I hit it early one cool morning before they were active. It was several days of cool weather so they were probably exposed to the spray for an extended time compared to just overnight.
I plan on doing this in the spring every year from now on. It's been nice not having to worry about getting hit when working outside. There was one day early in the spring when I came in the house as it was too dangerous to do anything. I counted 20 wasps just buzzing in the doorway of my garage. Hundreds around the house.
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Post by drez on May 22, 2020 9:30:26 GMT -6
Thanks. I am going to give this a go this weekend.
OR maybe not. My Bifen is i/t not XTS. looks like XTS is much better. I will use what I got and then get some XTS.
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Post by jkor on May 22, 2020 10:58:04 GMT -6
If that works then I'm going to douse my entire property in that stuff. Where do I get these wonderful products?
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Post by chils on May 22, 2020 11:00:01 GMT -6
If that works then I'm going to douse my entire property in that stuff. Where do I get these wonderful products? There's this new place I just heard about you can order it from called "Amazon" I think.
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Post by jkor on May 22, 2020 11:01:51 GMT -6
Never heard of it.
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Post by chils on May 22, 2020 11:06:54 GMT -6
Yeah, you probably wouldn't have...
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Post by Ken on May 22, 2020 11:12:34 GMT -6
I probably shouldn't say this but I have been lucky on bees, wasps, hornets. I do have ants and I have two products for those... Taurus SC and Dominion. I have a small Lifetime shed in the corner of the property and there is a gap at the top of the doors that could be easily accessed by hornets, wasps, etc. They never go in there, remarkably. I have a small eve on my larger shed and wasps have tried making a home there. I just get the tall, black can of RAID Wasp & Hornet (SHOOTS 22 FEET!) and take them out that way. Otherwise I might see some but I don't find their home. Honestly, the worst ones are the small bees/yellow jackets (I'm actually not sure what they are) that will come and buzz around while you're eating outside or just having a beer or something. They seem harmless but they're annoying. Also, check out THIS exotic creature that landed in my beer one day...
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Post by chils on May 22, 2020 11:13:51 GMT -6
I probably shouldn't say this but I have been lucky on bees, wasps, hornets. I do have ants and I have two products for those... Taurus SC and Dominion. I have a small Lifetime shed in the corner of the property and there is a gap at the top of the doors that could be easily accessed by hornets, wasps, etc. They never go in there, remarkably. I have a small eve on my larger shed and wasps have tried making a home there. I just get the tall, black can of RAID Wasp & Hornet (SHOOTS 22 FEET!) and take them out that way. Otherwise I might see some but I don't find their home. Honestly, the worst ones are the small bees/yellow jackets (I'm actually not sure what they are) that will come and buzz around while you're eating outside or just having a beer or something. They seem harmless but they're annoying. Also, check out THIS exotic creature that landed in my beer one day... That could cause a rude shock if you were just chugging w/o looking. Yikes!
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Post by jkor on May 22, 2020 11:16:38 GMT -6
Bald faced hornet. Fecking hate those guys.
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Post by Ken on May 22, 2020 11:17:21 GMT -6
Can anyone ID that thing? It was really big. Sincerely. I poured out my beer and gently got this guy onto the brick wall where he sat for awhile... probably pleasantly buzzed. Eventually he took off and I'm sure there was a little turbulence.
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Post by Ken on May 22, 2020 11:17:48 GMT -6
Bald faced hornet. Fecking hate those guys. Really? I thought those were mostly black or ALL black.
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Post by jkor on May 22, 2020 11:23:39 GMT -6
Nope...
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Post by Ken on May 22, 2020 11:35:34 GMT -6
Ooh, doggie. Yeah, that thing is frightening. I generally DO NOT see these here. I looked over at my beer and saw it and was really surprised. To see some little honey bee or something wouldn't be that weird but this guy? Wow. I mentioned this once before but I went into the big shed one day and I had my back to the door. Something flew into the shed and was hovering behind me. I never saw it but it sounded LARGE and it gave me goosebumps because it was buzzing so loud. I suppose it could have been a hummingbird but if it was an insect... I can't even imagine what it was. Also, for years my wife and daughter told me about some large, black insect that would haunt them in the backyard. It took on Loch Ness Monster-type folklore because I never saw it but both of them did. I should probably come up with a catchy name for it and charge people admission.
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