Wasps
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Topic: Wasps
Posted By: 200Tom1
Subject: Wasps
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2019 at 10:17pm
Anybody else over run with the darn pests this summer? I think I've been stung more times by these darn pests than my honey bees. Every time I move something that has set more than 2 weeks I find them. We haven't had many mosquitoes, ticks, or fly's but these silly darn things are all over. I think I've used up a dozen or so cans of the 99 cent wasp and hornet killer. 
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Posted By: festus51
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2019 at 10:28pm
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I used to have them real bad around the house. Now in the spring first sign of them I kill them or through gas on them before they have time to multiply. I have cut down on the the numbers significantly. ------------- We the unwilling Led by the unqualified Doing the impossible for the Ungrateful |
Posted By: FloydKS
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 6:48am
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Had to 'shoot' some at the front of church ... someone said there are more around this year, or more people are talking about them. ------------- Holding a grudge is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 7:24am
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We've seen a bunch of them this year too. According to my father in law, if you hold your breath they can't sting you because your skin isn't breathing. He claims he used to do this when he would hit a yellow jackets or wasps or hornets nest when he was doing a lot of grading. Claims when he saw them come up he would hold his breath and put the dozer in reverse and start knocking them off of him. Don't know how true it is. Never tried it ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 11:49am
I don't know about the wasps,but that idea has to do with honey bees. In nature bears where the cridder that is the hardest for them to chase away from the hive. So they go after the carbon monoxide/or the warmer air the bears are exhaling as there nose is about the only thing there stinger can do damage to. I have disced up yellow jacket nests ( ground bees,meat bees) and seen a few that must have been using this idea as they dive bomb the tractor exhaust pipe. I have held my breath and got lucky,other times not so much.
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thendrix wrote:Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 3:07pm
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I walked around the house last week and killed three nests up under the overhangs. Last time I got stung my hand swelled up for three days. Went to doctor and told him I have never been allergic to them before. He said "You are now".🙄 ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 3:27pm
| Can relate, had a slight reaction to a Paper Wasp(Bald Face Hornet) a number of years ago, doc told me if EVER Stung again head to the ER and tell them as will most likely have a reaction SEVERE, next time. |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 4:17pm
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Wasps seem to be greater supply this year.. I kill them every week... Use to you did it a couple times a year........... and we got plenty of SPIDERS also.. Daily chore to clean cobwebs and spray the ones you see.......... Not so may flys, nats, or others. ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: Wayne180d
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 4:36pm
| I hauled three tractor carcasses to the junkyard today I will them deal with them Wasps were in all three. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 4:53pm
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I hung 2 of those 99cent store 'paper wasp nest' by garage and NO real wasps in sight !! No bees either !! Best 2 bux I've spent all summer..... sorry I lied, I replaced one after a BIG wind storm came by.... so 3 Canucks... Jay ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 8:31pm
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I got chased down bu a swarm of those bald faced hornets the other day. Not too bad, only got bit 3 or 4 times, and I can't run very fast at all. I wished they had to put flashing lights on those things! I've got caught off guard twice now because I didn't see the nest. ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: 200Tom1
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 9:08pm
| I went and got a back treatment from our Dr. I ask him if they'd had much trouble with them this year. He said people have had a lot of trouble with them. |
Posted By: Ken in Texas
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 9:33pm
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Yesterday I went to pull a battery core out of a old suburban. Stirred up a BIG red wasp nest when I opened the hood. Got away quick without getin stung. Went back early this morning in the dark with a flashlight and pulled the battery. I woke up 3 just as it was getting light enough to see them and mashed them to jelly with my flashlight. I figure the $18 for the core was worth the chance of getting stung. |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 10:06pm
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Next time you get stung go get a cotton ball or some toilet paper and put some bleach on the sting. It'll stop hurting and won't swell. Or mine don't anyway. I don't know that it'll do much for those that are allergic but it really helps me ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2019 at 6:40am
| Fresh slice of strong onion does too, found that out when was a kid. |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2019 at 8:48am
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Great post for the info,,!! I too have seen many more Black Widows this year, so I keep a jug of Home Defense in the garage. Our latest Grandson goin on 4 just loves to stick his hands into any dark hole he sees BUT,,,he come runnin out the garage SCREAMIMG one time holdin his hand out and he had a little spider crawlin on his hand so I knocked it off and chewed him out,,,again,,,but it did not bite him as it did not swell up,,,but Chit,,, 2 hours later there he is again,,,he ain't gonna believe me til he gets bit and he experiences the pain I'm thinkin Great ideas on the antidotes,,,,
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Posted By: Sugarmaker
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2019 at 12:22pm
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Folks, Brush hogging with the D17 this morning and made a circle around a tree and drove away when a bee/wasp/hornet nailed me in the back of the head. I have been stung many times and it still hurts! No idea what it was, and did not see a nest in the tree? Maybe ground bees? Regards, Chris ------------- D17 1958 (NFE), WD45 1954 (NFE), WD 1952 (NFE), WD 1950 (WFE), Allis F-40 forklift, Allis CA, Allis D14, Ford Jubilee, Many IH Cub Cadets, 32 Ford Dump, 65 Comet. |
Posted By: allis g
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2019 at 12:31pm
| lots of yellow jackets on the hill this year |
Posted By: Alberta Phil
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2019 at 10:16pm
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Haven't seen a single one here this year. Must have all drowned as it has rained just about every day since June 2. Raining again now. |
Posted By: LionelinKY
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2019 at 11:46pm
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Seems like more here this year too. We bought our house in 2006. Have always had a few show up around the porch every year. Spray em and smash em whenever I see them and has not been any worse than that until this year. I've had the WD and WD45 here since 2015 and not an issue with them either until this year. Noticed wasps around the toolbox and air intake on the WD one day. Sure enough they had a nest built inside the toolbox and inside the air intake cap. Took care of them and their nests then figured I'd better check the same on the WD45. They were in that toolbox too but not the air intake. Thought I was done with them for awhile. Just a couple days later I was getting the WD45 ready for a local tractor show. My preparations included hooking up my utility trailer to the WD45 so that I could haul 2 of my L&G tractors to the show too. As I was doing so, I had placed 1 hand on 1 of the WD45's lift arm latches and immediately got stung on my thumb. Retreated to the house to treat the sting. When I went back out, there was still a couple wasps hovering around the lift arm. Sprayed them and when they hit the ground, they got the blow torch. Waited a few minutes and after not seeing any more, I opened the lift arm latch to discover a nest inside that but no more wasps. Hit that with the torch too. That was a couple weeks ago. Just the other day while walking the dogs, I noticed a couple more flying around the 190XT which has only been here for a month now. I have yet to investigate and eradicate this latest sighting. ------------- "My name is Lionel and I'm an Allisoholic" |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 31 Aug 2019 at 8:25am
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Is it the orange color or what that attracts to these tractors? ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 31 Aug 2019 at 11:36am
 Must be the color cause the HD5 carcusses I was given all had many wasp nests. The good, possums or skunks or something has been taking the nests apart. The bad  the case one has a 3/8 inch wide crack with wasps going in and out, don't think the other critters will get that nest. |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2022 at 3:29am
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Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2022 at 4:48am
| Have carpenter bees here, aggressive, look similar to bumble bees but bore into exposed wood to make a nest, absolute brutal on cedar decks. |
Posted By: Scott B
Date Posted: 03 Apr 2022 at 7:48pm
Came across this down at the farm over the weekend. Was laying near the road. Amazed at what a bunch of insects can build. ------------- D17 Series 1 Allis B- 1939 Allis B- 1945 |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 03 Apr 2022 at 10:08pm
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we always called them BORE BEES.... for drilling holes.
------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 04 Apr 2022 at 4:41am
| Bald faced hornets or ‘Paper Wasp’ nest, ugly little buggers built one nest at the farm on a bus window, could see them working in it when first spotted it, then they miraculously went away, used wasp and hornet spray on the nest at first light. |
Posted By: ErinHenry552
Date Posted: 01 Jun 2022 at 8:03pm
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Pest control is a nightmare. Once we called a special service to get rid of parasites. It seems like all the chemicals should have worn off in 2 days, but half a year later we still smell this terrible smell. |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 01 Jun 2022 at 8:21pm
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Different people used to call my Dad to come get rid of them wasps, yellow jackets and bumble bees,,he didn't have no secret but had a lot of respect for em,,He would wait til after dark and get a coffee can bout half full of gasoline and walk up to the nest and just give em the whole can of gasoline,,!! You could hear them hitting the ground all around and by morning that was all gone,,,, |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 02 Jun 2022 at 1:42am
| spray them with hair spray...it weights their wings down and they can't fly...and if they do fly before you hit them....ad a bic lighter to the spray...that always gits them! |
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Date Posted: 02 Jun 2022 at 2:39pm
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