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bluelake
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
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 Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 5:00 am Post subject: Re: Wasps |
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| chris_J2 wrote: |
On a related note, how do foreign teachers cope with wasps in the classroom, buzzing around in front of them, & generally making a nuisance of themselves?
My first attempt to swat & kill them with a slipper, was met with gasps of disbelief & shock from the kids. Lately, I've been shooing them out the open window with a newspaper. Some of the students could be Buddhist, & thus any killing of any living thing, could be repugnant to them. Other ideas? |
I hate the things with a passion (I zapped one today in the office). Every university I've taught at (four in the past twenty years), I've had to swat the little devils (wasps, not students). At my last university, I was successful in getting the university to put screens on the classroom windows. The result? Students would open up the window and the screen. No matter what I did, they let the little evildoers in.
One method I did find useful--I would give extra credit to the students who put wasps out of my misery...  |
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phoneboothface
Joined: 26 Apr 2009
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 5:43 am Post subject: |
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| blackjack wrote: |
At night time (they are inactive), spay the heck out of it with flyspray. Wait a few hours, place the nest in a plastic bag and shove it in your freezer overnight (this kills the eggs) then just throw it out in the rubbish.
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Do you put garbage in your freezer too?
Plz OP don't put that *bleep* in the freezer. |
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JMO
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 9:04 am Post subject: |
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I thinks wasps are in the process of building a nest on the outside of my window. I'm on the 20th floor so there is a little guard rail and on the inside of one of the rails there is an ever growing little brown lump with more and more wasps around it each day. I wouldn't have thought they'd build this high. They are bloody big as well compared to wasps at home.
Tomorrow night, that thing will be sprayed to oblivion. |
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Chambertin
Joined: 07 Jun 2009
Location: Gunsan
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| Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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When dealing with wasps the best thing to do is to kill the larva.
They scrape the side of their capsule and that drives the elder wasps into a frenzy to find food for them. Although I have no concrete data to back it up I believe that passerby wasps (of the same species) may be inclined to feed a foreign nest just because of the sound.
Highly suggest that you heed the "avoid fire" advice, but use any kind of spray you have.
My advice: bleach. That stuff will make most things die, and the rest generally leave the area. Load into a cheap sprayer and blast blast blast. Worked on everything that bothered my Japanese apartment and the neighbors just thought I was removing some stains. |
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ed
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 4:05 pm Post subject: so |
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OP here,
what I did was I went to the market and picked up a can of RAID bug spray.
that night I slowly approached the two nests and hosed them down big time with the spray.
the next morning I took my pressure washer to the nests and surrounding walls and problem solved. |
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Chambertin
Joined: 07 Jun 2009
Location: Gunsan
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| Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 4:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Good Ol' RAID, glad to know problems are solved. |
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Mr. Pink
Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: China
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| Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the laugh. I almost cried I laughed so hard. |
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blackjack
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: anyang
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| Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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| blackjack wrote: |
At night time (they are inactive), spay the heck out of it with flyspray. Wait a few hours, place the nest in a plastic bag and shove it in your freezer overnight (this kills the eggs) then just throw it out in the rubbish.
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Do you put garbage in your freezer too?
Plz OP don't put that *bleep* in the freezer. |
Yes i put food scraps in the freezer sealed in a plastic bag, never got why some people are so against it. The food scraps have come straight from my fridge/plate/kitchen. Food scraps go moldy within a day on the bench at the moment
Why wouldn't you put a wasps nest in the freezer, raid may kill the eggs, but there is a good chance that a few won't die. |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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chris_J2
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: From Brisbane, Au.
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| Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 11:07 pm Post subject: Wasps |
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| ^ PETA activists would have a fit! |
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