The secrets of eradicating a wasp nest without fear
White faced hornets
Black body color with a white face, quite large about the size of a Bic pen cap.
500 to a nest.
They create one type of nest that is commonly seen hanging in a tree, grey paper attached to a branch and about the size of a basketball. Yellow jackets are also out there creating a grey paper nest, but either way both are track stingers (stings more than once). They can be dangerous if hanging to low.
Instructions
Wear some extra clothing for protection if you just hate the idea of a bee sting. Place a dust mask over the nose and mouth and clear goggles over the eyes. For tree and shrub nests find the entry point during the day and dust at night without a light. The man in the moon will shed the light needed. Fill the duster 1/3 full, leaving 2/3 of the duster empty except for air. This prevents clogging and creates a better cloud covering within the inner nest. Don’t disturb or touch the nest while dusting, theres always another night if you upset them.
Its better to take a sting or two than fall off a ladder, so mentally prepare for it, the pain is not that unbearable as long as your not allergic.
A bee sting can be neutralized by using a hair dryer. The intence heat placed on the sting for 30 seconds will kill the venoms affect.
Yellow jackets
A smaller yellow and black stripped body, 500-1500 in a nest. They are creative in their ability to build on or in anything. The same grey paper is used as the outer shell of the nest, but the nest can be built under ground creating a ground nest. These are easily located with a lawn mower, soccor game, or lovely walk in the park.
That’s not all, they build in trees, shrubbs, attached themselves to a wall or even worse inside the wall void of house or building. They are best known for chewing through drywall Alfred Hitchcock style and into an occupied room. This is a very memorable moment and a good dinner table story for friends and family.
Why do the yellow jackets chew dry wall? Remember, drywall is a type of natural clay sandwiched between paper, when the wasp enters the crack in the house she builds her nest on the warm side of the insulation and directly on the surface of the drywall. She quickly sences that there is an everlasting supply of all natural building materal right under her feet. The workers begin scratching away and mixing the dry soil with saliva to form their new home. For this reason many mistakenly call them carpenter bees. The drywall sheet is only ½ inch thick and by mistake they soon punch through, and see the sun light or light bulb. This seems like a new way to the outdoors, but they soon find that a window and screen prevents their freedom. They cant find their way back to the small hole, and soon dehydrate at the window and die.
Instruction
Wear some extra clothing for protection if you just hate the idea of a bee sting. First cover the hole in the drywall with duct tape. Then poke a hole in the tape with a screw driver, push in the duster nozzel only a half inch and puff away. If push in to deep the duster will clog with wet juicy larva. The entire nest is sitting right above the hole. Most of the bees will be dead within hours. During the day study the outside entry point at a safe distance. Decide on the right size ladder, At night Find the entry point outside in the wall. Direct light will bring out the guards to get you. The man in the moon will shed the light needed. Fill the duster 1/3 full, leaving 2/3 of the duster full of air. This prevents clogging and creates a better cloud covering within the inner nest. Pump lightly 3 or 4 pumps in the direction the bees seem to be walking in.
Its better to take a sting or two than fall off a ladder, so mentally prepare for it, the pain is not that unbearable as long as your not allergic. A bee sting can be neutralized by using a hair dryer.
The intense heat placed on the sting for 30 seconds will kill the venoms affect.
The nest will smell if left in the ceiling, for about 3 weeks, then it will dry up. Still it’s a bit scary for the average American who’s not used to sharing their space with insects.
Carpenter bees
The body is black, and kinda oval fat in shape, with a tiny patch of dull yellow on some.
The dead giveaway to their identification is their ability to hover in one place, as if in guard mode, then instantly dart quickly in any direction to scare away a preditor from the face board that they drilled to lay eggs. The holes are perfect in diamator, large enough to poke our pinky in. The babies hatch and cut their way out the side of the face board, over a few years the face board is completely hollowed out and costly repairs are needed. Simply filling the holes with caulk will not prevent them from emerging, and bee sprays rairly stop their invasion.
Instruction
Wear some extra clothing for protection if you just hate the idea of a bee sting. Place a dust mask over the nose and mouth and clear goggles over the eyes. First, spray the surface of the face board with the aerosol spray to prevent new chewing, fill the duster 1/3 full, leaving 2/3 of the duster empty except for air. This prevents clogging and creates a better cloud covering within the inner nest. Then each hole and tunnel must be dusted with a residual powder, using the bulb duster, litely puff a small amount in each hole.
Its better to take a sting or two than fall off a ladder, so mentally prepare for it, the pain is not that unbearable as long as your not allergic.
The face board must be re coated with paint or heavy base stain to prevent new drilling the following spring. Be sure to get the unseen back side of the face boards. They almost never sting or bite, but they will hit us with a HEADBUT and fly away laughing!
Bumblebees
The body is large. Yellow and black, very fuzzy. They fly slowly, usually from flower to flower, then carry the yellow pollen packed on the rear legs to a secure nesting site under a porch, below a shed, in a foundation block or deep in a ground hole. Here they build a bright yellow/orange silk nest and load it with eggs. A sweet honey like substanse is made from the pollen and ready to feed the young as they hatch. A residual dust is the only way to eradicate a colony.
Instruction
Wear some extra clothing for protection if you just hate the idea of a bee sting. Place a dust mask over the nose and mouth and clear goggles over the eyes. Fill the duster 1/3 full, leaving 2/3 of the duster empty except for air. This prevents clogging and creates a better cloud covering within the inner nest. The dust must be pumped deep inside the entry point several times over a weeks time. Walk up slowly and puff the dust bulb 2 or 3 three times into the hole, then slowly back away, the dust must enter the hole. Its better to take a sting or two than fall off a ladder, so mentally prepare for it, the pain is not that unbearable as long as your not allergic.
Sand bees
These bad boys live in the sandy ground. They dig a hole the size of their own body and kick the sand out behind them creating a mound of sand much like an ant mound. within the hole they lay eggs. The bees hover and fly about 6 inches above the ground on sunny days. They first appear in spring and can make 100's of mounds in sparsly grassed areas. The bees scare people, but rarely sting.
How do you treat them?
Take the spray bottle and fill it with the material at the correct measurement add warm water to the top, shake the mixture well. Set the sprayer to a fine mist. Then continue spraying all the mounds lightly on a sunny and calm day. The bees will begin to die within an hour. Retreat again if some bees still seem to be in certain areas the next day. | 
