No Sireee!! No way I’d crawl in!
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DayDay
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Well, they are sleeping.
Oh no no no. May want to set off a couple bug bombs in there, it come back with three or four cans of wasp spray.
Dang, that's a lot of wasps.
JCDEERMAN
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That's a big NOPE here
Black Titan
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As mentioned above couple bug bombs and it's all yours.
These paper wasps were "wadded" up above my head yesterday.... My son brought a spray bottle of water & dawn detergent.... problem solved and the hunt continued.... Hunting on warm days in blinds or ladder stands with camouflage is always an adventure in wasp defense.
I hate waspers.
TNGunsmoke
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This is why I visit my blinds and spray a couple of weeks ahead of season.
My dad has a box stand that looks like that each year. He waits until a cold snap and goes and kills them all.
Bodine270
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I keep wasp spray in my blind. My son was the first to hunt in it this year and thankfully went during the last cold snap we had. It had a big nest covered with wasps right above the door. Close call!
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Ah ha!
Some body else that calls em "Waspers"!!!!
I catch a lot of grief over that and get lectured on language!
"Lol, were you from? Waspers??"
Thank you Dblunger!
I do the same. But I usually go out a few weeks before season opens and spray any nests and kill every one I can find in my shooting houses.
This year, I tried an experiment to see if it was wives tale or fact: I bought some peppermint oil and mixed a ratio of oil and water in a spray bottle. Went out in the summer and sprayed around any small cracks around windows and doors real well. When I checked in October, not a single nest anywhere.
Maybe there is something to that.
I climbed into a shooting house that hadn't been hunted for a while when I was a guest on someone else's property. In the light of my headlamp I noticed a bug bomb or can of wasp spray as I opened the door. I looked up at the ceiling and saw nothing. Stepped in and as I was getting situated I noticed the floor was crunchy like I was walking on corn flakes. The floor was a half inch deep in dead wasps and the bug spray can was empty. Thank God for modern chemistry.
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Good grief… I've never seen so many wasps.
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I'm glad to see I'm not the only one to call them waspers. My wife a retired school teacher has been correcting me for 44 years for saying waspers instead of wasps.
Black Titan
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I grew up calling them waspers but somewhere along the line I shortened it to wasps. Not sure when or why.
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Swampster
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I also try to do that a couple of times during the summer.
M T Pockets 000
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Yea, we have to run off or kill some wasp. But we also have one box shack we have to get rid of a snake or two
BSK
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Hand-made shooting houses may not be air-tight enough for these to work, but gatodoc turned me on to these for Sportsman's Condos. I put one in each condo in early summer, and in September just vacuum out all the dead insects. Nothing alive inside. They supposedly last 6 months.
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Hot-Shot-No-Pest-Strip-Insect-Killer/1000338595
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Hot-Shot-No-Pest-Strip-Insect-Killer/1000338595
Nope, nope no way !!
I paid my way thru college painting billboards. This was at least 45 yrs ago. About my 2nd week on the job, I was climbing about 40' up the back of the board, reached up and grabbed a piece of angle iron to pull myself up. On the back of the angle was a big wasp nest, right where I grabbed. Never before has a monkey climbed down so fast in its life.
When I hit the ground, I counted 12 stings. At one point, a wasp was between my sunglasses and my eye. Guy I was with asked if I needed to go to the hospital. When I said no, he said " you pissed them off, now go kill em'. A cup of paint thinner made quick work of these demons.
When I hit the ground, I counted 12 stings. At one point, a wasp was between my sunglasses and my eye. Guy I was with asked if I needed to go to the hospital. When I said no, he said " you pissed them off, now go kill em'. A cup of paint thinner made quick work of these demons.
