fresh frozen cherries and mint tea - pay attention ...

[journeybear]

They just aren't gonna cooperate, are they?

If you could cool their location you certainly have a better chance.

Dry ice, maybe? Or run an A/C out there somehow?

Here is the down home version of a debugging suit:

[Marty Henrickson]

I'm glad someone finally picked up on the Pigpen reference. I'm too young to have seen him live (unless my parents had been hippies, which they were / are not), but he was awesome. "Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl", indeed.

Like OldSausage, I live in the Deep South, and we definitely have some MEAN wasps, and the heat makes them cranky (just like everyone else)! I wish you Godspeed, and safe exterminating!

On the subject of heat in the Deep South, I am accepting volunteers to come perform some manual labor, levelling off some ground so that I can put up my daughters' new above-ground pool. I will gladly pick out a few tunes and serenade you as you work. And fire up the grill and / or smoker when you're done! Closer to the original topic, my wife makes excellent sweet tea of the Southern variety.

[jaycat]

Here's another thing -- sometimes they make their nests on the ground. Once I ran over a nest with a lawnmower and the results weren't pretty.

[greg_tsam]

I think if you add the wasps to Bill's concoction and allow the poison to marry with the mint you will experience hallucinogenic delusions of mandolin nirvana.

[hank]

Can you close up the space the wasp are in and use a bug bomb room fogger? This has the added benefit of taking any other uninvited guest out as well.

[billkilpatrick]

That used to work for us back in the 60's.

yep - most of the guys i used to get lapidated with, back in the day were wasps ...

[CelticDude]

Well Bill, my problem is that the bag is only partially open, and the nest is not visible. I have a can of the stuff, but I can't see any sure fire way of getting it on the nest without risking an attack on my personal accoutrements.

OS,
As we don't want to risk attack on anyone's accoutrements, it's obvious that a flame thrower is your only option (okay, maybe a grenade or two). Just don't melt the frozen cherries in your tea.

[JLewis]

Sorry for the delay, wikipedia has been unresponsive.

In the photos, the first is what I think of - mostly black, with that disctinctively curved lower body and pronounced waist. Yellowjackets are more yellow than black and have stubbier bodies. The third variety is the one I find most annoying, actually, and can do much more damage, of a more insidious and lasting nature.

I certainly agree with journeybear regarding the wasp variety #3. I seem to have a vague memory that, though the smoke treatment mentioned earlier didn't kill them, it did alter their behavior enough to render them tolerable.

[JEStanek]

Dissolve sugar to taste in vodka, chill through the day in the fridge, add frozen fruit (I'll suggest peach slices b/c of the shape). Drinky-drink up and eat the peaches. They you won't care about the WASPs in your garage or across the street if you have neighbors that resemble... me.

Jamie

[Bertram Henze]

Here is the down home version of a debugging suit:

Who you gonna call?

[journeybear]

No worries, Jamie. We all know you got soul.

Bass player in one of my old bands traced his ancestry back to folks on the next ship that came over after the Mayflower. Guess they didn't quite make the cut. But he sure doesn't look the part - rather roly-poly and gruff. Definitely not named Kip or Trevor or whatever.

As I used to paraphrase late last century:

If the 60s turned out to be the 90s - I don't mind, I don't mind
If all the yuppies grew back all their hair - I don't care, I don't care