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Wasp

crazered — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 17:35:12 GMT

This may seem a strange question but I am sure someone can help

every year we get wasp. Not sure where they come from. This year we have had lots. I am still killing them and I am in Mo. Where it's cold. Has anyone ever had this issue?

We think they maybe coming from the vents on the side of your home not sure what they are called or our fireplace. We do have fireplace closed but they are slim I am sure they can come on in.

how can we get rid of them?

Thanks

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ChynnaBlue — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 17:42:37 GMT

I get one or two a year that build a nest on my patio and I use the wasp spray to kill them.

If you are getting a lot of them, I would contact an exterminator.

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ladyroxanne — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 18:08:07 GMT

yes, you definitely need an exterminator. they will find out where they are coming from.

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itsmagic — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 18:21:20 GMT

I wonder if they somehow get into your attic and build a nest up there and then come into your home? I also think an exterminator would figure it out.

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sidsmom — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 18:23:15 GMT

Agree with the exterminator call.

I saw one of those reality exterminator shows on A&E.

It was so bad the owners said their house had a 'hum' all the time.

The exterminator pulled off the siding of the house...EEPS!!!

Zillions..everywhere. Scary since so few where flying around.

Hoogy!!

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hoosieroriginal — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 18:35:36 GMT

I get them too - in the spring and fall - in the spring when they area coming out of hybernation - I find them crawling on my floor - they can't quite fly yet. Same thing in the fall - I don't know where they come from either, they just show up - some years are worse than others.

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fthunt — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 18:48:18 GMT

They can build a nest anywhere - especially like in back of exterior window shutters if the front of the house faces South, it's warm in there for bees, hornets and other nests. You or an exterminator has to first locate the nest - then BOMB them. (I had an ant infestation for years - finally hired an expert - all gone for 4 years now)

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scotnovel — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 18:50:34 GMT

The siding on my house is yellow and when I first moved into the house I had wasps everywhere, including inside my screened in porch. The exterminator said they are drawn to certain colors, like yellow, which is why I had them and my neighbors didn't. It turned out I had two nests one very large one tucked into an area of the roof that I couldn't see from the ground and another near my dish antenna. The exterminator took the nests away and also sprayed but to supplement, I bought spray wasp killer and whenever I saw several of them, I would spray them (especially when they were on the porch). After about two seasons, I got rid of them.

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gloriajean — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 22:28:05 GMT

We moved in our apartment in September and wasps were in our decks, and they are screeened in! Don't know where they come from either.

Maybe wasp spray? My husband was swatting them like flies.

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scotnovel — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 23:10:35 GMT

@gloriajean wrote:
We moved in our apartment in September and wasps were in our decks, and they are screeened in! Don't know where they come from either.

Maybe wasp spray? My husband was swatting them like flies.

I had a screened in porch and they were all over it. I saw them coming up from underneath through the small slots between the floor/deck boards.

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Nataliesgramma — Sat, 13 Feb 2016 00:33:52 GMT

My brother had a nest in his fireplace chimney....he called an exterminator when he couldn't get rid of them after a few days...

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hckynutjohn — Sat, 13 Feb 2016 00:44:08 GMT

Not sure if wasps are like bees. One day in our townhome, we moved in 2000, I killed bee in my basement. Then I saw another than another. We had a "cat door"opening in our basement door, so I immediately plugged it up.

By then I could a whole swarm of them. I called a private exterminator because the BIG companies said 2 days. We would have to leave the house and take our many cats with us.

When he first came in he sprayed the swarms that had formed by then. Told me he had to find and kill the Queen bee or there would be more of them. I guess he knew which one was the Queen and killed her.

He came upstairs and said it was ok to come to the basement. The floor was covered with what looked like thousands of dead bees. He then told me had traced where they had gotten into the basement.

The hose that ran off the outside AC unit and to our furnace, had a hole the size of a big pin head. He put some type of putty, looked like clay to me, that hardened, thus blocking the hole.

It would have been a nightmare had my sister not known this man. She was in real estate and worked with a contractor that built new homes. I was pleasantly shocked when he charged only $100. It was late night summer and he was there over 2 hours.

That's my bee story and I hope we never see one again.

hckynut(john)

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sissel — Sat, 13 Feb 2016 01:53:28 GMT

We live in a warm climate & every year the same thing with wasps. They seem to keep going to the same place every year. If you catch it in the beginning with spray or knocking down the newly formed nest. I see them flying by & watch to see them going in the corner OK get the spray out. Keep it under control in the beginning then they will leave.

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RedTop — Sat, 13 Feb 2016 22:01:33 GMT

I am in southern West Virginia, and we are currently in the deep freeze of winter with arctic temperatures. Two weeks ago we were killing HUGE flies in the house. My guess as to where they came from? I think the eggs were laid in my Christmas cactus that is on the front porch from June to October. The cactus winters in the basement, which is heated during the coldest parts of our winter. I think the heat hatched the eggs, and some of the flies found their way upstairs. Many dead flies are in the window seals in the basement.