How to Get Rid of Wasps

Wasps are insects that are naturally built like space-age fighter ships and a lot of people get them confused with bees. 

The difference between wasps and bees is that a bee dies once it stings whereas a wasp can keep on stinging over and over again, not pretty.

So just how do you get rid of wasps?  Here are a few tips:

Monitor bird nests boxes regularly: To avoid your home becoming a tempting place for wasps to breed, you must monitor nest boxes, at least once a week, especially in early spring. This will deter wasps from moving into nest boxes before the birds gets in.

Cover your hand with thick gloves and with a rod or solid stick, destroy the few nesting wasps and remove the nest. The best time of the day to remove them is early morning when they’re sluggish. But if the box is full of wasps, it’s safer to block the holes, and remove it into freezer or refrigerator for several hours so they will naturally die off. 

Use soap: Try rubbing soap all over the inside ceiling and on the walls and window sills near your windows.  This method is well proven to discourage wasps from coming inside your house.

Clean your fruit trees: Wasps love fruit greatly, so if you have fruit trees, make sure any fruits that fall down rot on the ground. Wasps will naturally gather around this rotten fruit.

Cut down the grass:  Certain species of wasps love tall grasses, and make their nests on the ground, below the grass. So use your mower and keep your grass at low level, at all times.

Poison them: If the steps above don't work, then consider killing them off completely. But careful, because killing wasps can be dangerous if you're not careful. Here's how to do it.

Two popular species are ‘ground dwelling’ and ‘paper wasps.’

For ground-dwelling wasps, move out early evening to the nests, arm yourself with wasps poison, protect yourself with thick cloth and spray it into their holes, directly.

But if they’re paper wasps, go out early in the morning (before sun rise), and spray the hanging nest.

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