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How to Kill Wasps and wasp nests.
There are some beneficial wasps, and there are the
others that maraud our ripe fruit, and insist on gate-crashing the
afternoon tea on the lawn! We are more inclined to want ways of killing
wasps than preserving them!
Wasps are feeders on soft, ripe, fruit, and on most
things sweet - cream buns, ice cream all manner of puddings etc!
They are not the easiest of creatures to control, and
simply swatting about with a newspaper - other than when you have the
wasp trapped on the window - is usually fraught with more problems for
the wasp swatter than the wasp itself.
They actually do a little bit of good in the garden -
feeding on aphids being one of their more desirable character traits. We
rarely see this good side to them, especially if the wasp nest is nearby
or even attached to your house in some manner - usually up under the
eaves!
The most effective method of dealing with wasps, is by
dealing with the nest. A chemical wasp-killer. BUT, do it at dusk, or
get the local pest destruction team in to do it for you. If you decide
to do it yourself, then wrap up and try to avoid any bare skin areas.
The wasp-killer chemicals are usually in a puffer pack, so can be
squirted a few metres into or on to the offending nest.
READ the container, and if in any doubt whatever, then
get the local expert to do the job for you. |
