Ingenious idea for pest control.

[Bird]

Wife is a fanatical bird lover, especially hummingbirds. 

We have a very large population of hummingbirds which requires 20oz of nectar per day, 4 feeders. 

 

Just this past week paper wasps invaded the feeders and were very aggressive towards the birds. 

Wife is upset " what are we going to do ? " feeders covered in wasps. Lol

Obviously we can't spray the feeders with wasp spray. 

 

So this morning I came up with a very effective game plan......a shop vac.

Yes, stood outside for 15 minutes with weapon in hand and sucked up the whole colony of workers.

Hummingbirds thanked me.

[Jigfishn10]

Great idea!

 

BTW: You may want to be careful when you empty the shop vac. Perhaps create a flood and vac the water first...LOL

[Bird]

4 minutes ago, Jigfishn10 said:

Great idea!

 

BTW: You may want to be careful when you empty the shop vac. Perhaps create a flood and vac the water first...LOL

Yep, thought of that to. 

Stuffed a sock in the end and just leaving it outside for awhile. 

The ones that got sucked up won't starve to death as I accidentally sucked a feeder dry. Lol

[roadwarrior]

[Jig Man]

It would surprise me if they weren’t all dead.  I sucked up a bunch of ants once and all were dead inside the vac.

[TnRiver46]

Bird feeders keep me in business 

[N Florida Mike]

We do that with Honey bee removals. We then let them loose in the woods  or give em to a bee keeper.

Yellow Jackets now… we take no prisoners!

Wasps usually aren’t numerous enough to vacuum so we kill em with wasp freeze and knock down the nests.

 

 

[jimmyjoe]

   I hate hornets like the Demon Horde. I accidentally found out that there are many things you can use brake cleaner for.           jj

[Bird]

The saga continues. 

This must be a catholic colony, very large family. 

I've ran the shop vac every 2 hrs and well over 100 wasps have fallen. 

 

I'm up for the challenge. 

[Jigfishn10]

Sorry, it all I can think of…?
 

[TnRiver46]

15 hours ago, Jigfishn10 said:

Sorry, it all I can think of…?
 

Freeze gopher!!!!

[Tennessee Boy]

I live out in the country and we take our trash to a county solid waste center that has dumpsters for trash,  large items,  and recycling.   I noticed last time I was there that the aluminum can recycling dumpster had an enormous number of bees, wasp and other stinging insect in and around it.  They really like sugar water. 

[TnRiver46]

11 minutes ago, Tennessee Boy said:

I live out in the country and we take our trash to a county solid waste center that has dumpsters for trash,  large items,  and recycling.   I noticed last time I was there that the aluminum can recycling dumpster had an enormous number of bees, wasp and other stinging insect in and around it.  They really like sugar water. 

I used to work at a golf course cleaning the carts. Procedure was pour out the beer , throw the cans away, and hose it down with pressure washer. That trash can full of empty beer cans was a constant swarm of yellow jackets 

[Tennessee Boy]

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

I used to work at a golf course cleaning the carts. Procedure was pour out the beer , throw the cans away, and hose it down with pressure washer. That trash can full of empty beer cans was a constant swarm of yellow jackets 

constant swarm of drunk yellow jackets.

[desmobob]

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constant swarm of drunk yellow jackets.

 

Constant swarm of happy yellow jackets.