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Anonymous
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# Posted: 10 Oct 2010 23:09
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every year I get these wasps in the cabin and in the fall and winter when the wood stove gets 100 degrees these devils go from lathargic to very lively and scare the livin crap out of me. I'm not really trying to pay an exterminator. I haven't tried traps but thats next on my list and I've started fogging before I leave any other ideas? Later this fall when it gets colder I will be caulkin the livin crap out of the place.
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Kithera
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# Posted: 11 Oct 2010 11:23
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That's pretty much it, don't let them in. Seal your place up solid with caulk and spray foam.
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2Dogs
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# Posted: 31 Oct 2010 21:55
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They are probably in your fire wood dormant in the winter. You bring the wood in that nice warm cabin and it's spring time for them.
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MikeOnBike
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# Posted: 1 Nov 2010 15:46
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The last warm day I was at the cabin we killed 22. They were looking for a place to winter. We really need a screen door. I will be making a couple this winter. The windows have screens but the door is usually open when the weather is nice.
The traps work really well at my place in town. I will be hanging them at the cabin in the spring.
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pheasantplucker
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# Posted: 15 Nov 2010 18:19
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I used to live in a cabin and once winter kicked in, and the woodstove got fired up, I'd have wasps and hornets every day. You'd go to pull a chair back from the table and they'd nail you...I shot them with a pellet gun
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SE Ohio
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# Posted: 4 Dec 2010 06:39
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I keep a flyswatter handy. Last weekend I swatted and missed a wasp, and it landed on my bare leg! I got it with another swat before any damage was done.
The female wasps survive the winter in leaves, firewood, and sometimes warm cabins! I think mine have come in through a gap under the door. A new door sweep has been purchased and will be installed soon.
In addition to the wasps, I've had an accumulation of flies. Same entry point, I guess. They died on their own from lack of food/water/warmth.
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TomChum
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# Posted: 14 Jan 2011 13:55 - Edited by: TomChum
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If you have power (or a BIG generator) a fairly safe way to deal with stinging insects is to use a powerful shop vacuum. Duct-tape a rigid 10 foot stick of 2" or 1.5" PVC pipe to the hose (like a wand extension), then you can suck them up from a safe distance. If you get them just as soon as they start to warm up they're fairly easy to catch.
In a different problem (a hive), my sister-in-law had them coming out of an attic hole (a LOT of wasps) so we propped up the vac pipe 1/2' below the access hole and left the house. The vacuum 'collected' everyone who came out for the next 2 hours. At some point the queen gets hungry or thirsty, and when she comes out then that's the end. (I think it works like that). But anyway it got rid of her problem in 2 days with no chemicals.
The impact fence inside your vac will look like the windshield of your car after driving 150mph through a swarm of locusts. As long as suction is good, there can be no survivors. But if you suck one up slowly and airspeed is slow then they could possibly survive (blocking the inlet happens often when waving it around). You will know if there is a loud 'thwack' inside your vac exactly what happened inside. You could also spray a little insecticide into the vac and leave it closed up for awhile.
Be aware that a lot of these insects are necessary participants of the forest ecology. Many plants depend on them, and fruit trees too. You might consider only removing the ones that get into your house, or a hive if it is near your doorway, or if there are kids around.
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beulahfarkward
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# Posted: 7 Feb 2011 10:41
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Wait flies can be dormant in the firewood? So if I left the firewood outside until I am ready to burn it - no more flies in the winter?
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Just
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# Posted: 7 Feb 2011 10:52
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we use a no pest strip, take it outside when we are there ,but it back when we leave. we know it's not tree hugish , {but it works}
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Anonymous
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# Posted: 16 May 2011 09:19
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okay I have done some research - my fly problem is aparantly cluster flies. Little buggers lay eggs outside winter inside in the cracks of the logs. I have been sucking them up with the shop vac for some time now and there is less every time. I am going to try "cluster buster" fly traps - no pesticides (good for my dog!) . I will let you know how it works!
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Scott_T
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# Posted: 16 May 2011 11:07
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I have used these with success - ecofriendly too.
http://www.contech-inc.com/products/wasptrap/
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neb
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# Posted: 25 Jun 2011 20:00
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May not be the best but ether will do the trick.
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