man I opened mine up over the weekend and it was COVERED in black widows. egg sacks everywhere.. counted 11 adults plus two scorpions. I used a whole can of wasp/hornet spray and I'll bomb it again this weekend. Cant stand those things!

Down in Louisiana and maybe South Carolina, the color was called "Haunt Blue" or "haint blue". It was a superstition that the color repelled evil spirits and it did a good job with the wasps too . Many of the homes you see in the older neighborhoods are restoring the eaves and porches with this color. It is, actually, not an 'actual color' though. "Pool Blue" or a "Sky Blue" is about as close as it gets.

Now, understand the entire theory of the paint repelling the wasps was because the old paints used Lye, which is a natural bug repellent. These days, lye is not commonly used, but many folks still swear by the fact the "blue" fools them into thinking they are not in cover... heh. Me, I use it and think it still works :P

It is also good to paint under the hand rails etc.. on porches etc.. had a wasp nest move it's butt down to under the outside edge of our rails and you did not know it till you grabbed the rail :P

Yes, it does deter many wasps, red and yellow jackets. Mud daubers do not mind it though.

Here is a link to the color I use:

POOL BLUE SHERWIN WILLIAMS

Russ

I thought I read on here a while back about painting the ceiling of a box blind to help deter red wasps but I cant seem to find it. Is there a particular color that works best or...any other good deterrents out there? I understand making a blind air tight is best, but its a bit late this year.

I'm going back out this weekend to hopefully slay the rest of them. Last weekend I used 3 bug bombs and a whole can of spray and still haven't gotten them all. I can get some pics this weekend for you guys but the whole front 8' section inside and side 4' section in my blind was nothing but red wasp nests. Other than burning the whole thing to the ground and starting fresh, what can I do to keep them out? Next year i'll work on getting it as air tight as possible.

ProZap no pest strips. Will not keep them out but will kill them all. Leave them in the blinds year round, just put a fresh one in every 3-4 months.

That's OK, by opening day that "tirdy" pointer from the great white North, will show up and, I just remembered! you will be busy anyway fixing up your dads new Colorado place so,, this is working out great

ha! yeah, I'll put ZK on wasp patrol of the new CO place ... LOL