eco-friendly ways to kill wasps

[Matt Gruber]

wasps like my garage door jam. Raid smells bad and i'm almost out. Hmmmm what to do? Open door of microwave and aim at wasps? Nahhh.
So i boiled some water, put it in an ex- jelly jar, put it up to nest, giving them a sauna bath.
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Previously i used a rubber mallet to wack them, but i was wondering what they might do if i missed.
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Post your methods!

 

[Malcolm]

"eco-friendly ways to kill wasps" is an oxymoron, surely?

 

[Lock]

Empty (small mouthed) pop bottles, with a few inches of sugar water in the bottom. They'll find it and crawl right in. For some reason most drown rather than crawl/fly back out.
Enjoy.

 

[Link]

An afternoon with an air rifle and a quick-loader with 10,000 bbs in it.

 

[biohazardman]

Make your own or buy one. These work very well.

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Wasp-Trap

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=yellow+jacket+wasp+trap&revid=869628399&ei=ssVxSsr1PISKswPcnqjTCA&sa=X&oi=revisions_inline&resnum=0&ct=broad-revision&cd=1

 

[Matt Gruber]

bio
thanks! looks like they refined Lock's method.
Sometimes they buzz around here and i cant find the nest.

 

[julesa]

If you have cold mornings, get up early to do battle. They're almost helpless when they're cold enough, can't even fly. Put on some gloves, knock them and the nest into a paper bag, and squish 'em.

 

[dnmun]

try the shop vac and see if they can get out.

 

[Lock]

...looks like they refined Lock's method.

Mehhhh... seems like extra work to me. Only "trouble" I have had is emptying out the bodies every few daze... `Round camp sites etc I usually deploy `em down wind on the theory that like mosquitos (that sense yer CO2 exhaust) they come at you from that direction...
tks