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Wasps!!!

Posted By: Birdog62

Wasps!!! - 10/30/16 11:03 PM

I'm sitting in the blind, it's 86 degrees outside according to my phone. I'm sweating like a rented government mule, and I can't open a window because the wasp are swarming the blind. Any suggestions to deter them?
Posted By: scalebuster

Re: Wasps!!! - 10/31/16 12:26 AM

Gasoline.
Posted By: Jkd106

Re: Wasps!!! - 10/31/16 12:43 AM

I take a squirt bottle with water and dawn dish soap, gives me something to shoot at while I sit! Lol
Posted By: Simple Searcher

Re: Wasps!!! - 10/31/16 12:47 AM

I just knock down their nest. They freak out for a while, but go away eventually.
Posted By: Deerhunter61

Re: Wasps!!! - 10/31/16 01:43 AM

Originally Posted By: Simple Searcher
I just knock down their nest. They freak out for a while, but go away eventually.


This...lol...and pray they don't sting the %#@&$ out of you!
Posted By: Lotto

Re: Wasps!!! - 10/31/16 02:43 AM

Wasp are really bad this time of year all around...especially panhandle area...if there is any kind of opening or crack they can infest a house or cabin or blind really fast...
Posted By: KG68

Re: Wasps!!! - 10/31/16 03:08 AM

https://www.amazon.com/Durvet-5019510-ProZap-Insect-Guard/dp/B00061MSR6

Hang them in your blinds in July and you won't have wasp in October.
Posted By: Txduckman

Re: Wasps!!! - 10/31/16 06:57 AM

With this heat, they swarm no matter what you have in the blind. We have ours covered with deterents and one of our guys was harrassed all weekend. We just need cooler temps. They are preprarng for the winter which is hopefully coming. The strips are awesome then but before they just want in.
Posted By: Western

Re: Wasps!!! - 10/31/16 12:34 PM

Might try a wasp trap or 2, there are many easy DIY if you google, or you can buy one. Hang one or 2 10-15 yards from the blind.
Posted By: texas wetlands

Re: Wasps!!! - 10/31/16 01:45 PM

KG68 is correct. We use the same thing and it works ProZap
Posted By: BigBucky2014

Re: Wasps!!! - 10/31/16 02:02 PM

I use hanging wasp traps under my feeder. Caught about 200 last week. Crazy.

Last year, I killed 68 in one evening sitting in the blind. I probably looked like a fool if someone had had a camera on me.

Keith
Posted By: tth_40

Re: Wasps!!! - 10/31/16 02:21 PM

Originally Posted By: Jkd106
I take a squirt bottle with water and dawn dish soap, gives me something to shoot at while I sit! Lol


Yup. I do the same thing when the wasps are thick.
Posted By: Las Colinas Hunter

Re: Wasps!!! - 10/31/16 06:34 PM

i was out this past weekend doing final check on stands and blinds. I was checking out a tripod to make sure the the seat swiveled. Noticed earlier in the summer that it was binding pretty hard. I also needed to replace the seat cushion. I'm up 14', I lift up the cushion and there is a wasp nest and must have been 1000 wasps just under the cushion. I nearly fell backwards as they swarmed out. Fortunately they came out and away and not towards me. If I had a lighter, I would have torched the cushion. But all i had was spray lube which took care of the remaining wasps.

Now I have a drenched tripod that smells like oil, but at least its wasp free. I probably wont be hunting that spot for a few weeks and heavy rains.
Posted By: Upland007

Re: Wasps!!! - 11/01/16 03:10 AM

We went and checked the cabin this weekend walked in turned on the AC and left for a few hours while it cooled off. Came back and there were literally thousands of wasps on the ceiling and around the light fixtures trying to find a place to get warm. Being so cold in the cabin it was very easy to kill them as they could barely fly anyways but we have no clue how they got in there. We sprayed foam sealant throughout the edges of any AC units they could possibly squeeze through and TAPED the air vents on the window units with duct tape. Hopefully we will not have to worry about them anymore inside the cabin. They were all over the inside of our shop also. I bet we used about 12-16 cans of wasp spray within a couple of hours.
Posted By: el_cazador713

Re: Wasps!!! - 11/01/16 03:50 AM

Tag
Posted By: TGalyon1

Re: Wasps!!! - 11/04/16 12:31 AM

Try this no smell and Cheap
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Pic-WTRP-Yellow-Jacket-Wasp-Trap/19241194
Posted By: Frio County Hunts

Re: Wasps!!! - 11/04/16 04:23 AM

This is fun but too loud for the deer blind. I have killed dozens of flies, a couple wasps, and one scorpion with this.
https://www.amazon.com/Bug-A-Salt-2-0-In...ords=bug+a+salt
Posted By: snake oil

Re: Wasps!!! - 11/05/16 04:11 PM

No Pest Strips...I'll garantee they work, just hang one inside the stand.........
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