Wasp in shooting house

[hbg1]

how do you keep wasp out of your shooting houses in the off season? Someone posted that they put something in theirs that kept wasp out but I can't find the thread.

 

[ronnycl]

no pest strip from home depot.

 

[skipperbrown]

I don't use mine in the off season. In the fall, I'll throw an aerosol bug bomb like a grenade in each of them and a couple of hours later all the wasps, spiders, and other creepy crawlers are dead. I turn the chairs over beforehand because it does leave an oily residue.

 

[BSK]

no pest strip from home depot.

THIS!

I put them in around the end of May and take them out a week or two before season opens.

 

[backyardtndeer]

no pest strip from home depot.

Haven't tried them yet, but bought some of these. Hoping they work as well as others have said because I hate wasps.

 

[Patrick H]

The pest strips work great!!

 

[CATCHDAWG]

I put a bomb in mine. Can't recall the brand but it last three years before I have to do it again.

 

[kckndrgn]

My wife crocheted a fake hornet nest that we keep in our wood shed and chicken coop, keeps the red wasps and carpenter bees away.

 

[7mmWSM]

I put a bomb in mine. Can't recall the brand but it last three years before I have to do it again.

I do the same. I use Raid. Works great. But I'm trying the pest strips this year.

 

[tellico4x4]

Cow pesticide ear tag, easy peasy

 

[6.5swede]

I've seen people put a brown paper sack up so it looks like a hornet's nest and they say it works very well.

 

[CATCHDAWG]

I've seen people put a brown paper sack up so it looks like a hornet's nest and they say it works very well.

I hang one underneath the shooting house and it keeps the carpenter bees away.

 

[BigAl]

no pest strip from home depot.

This has worked for me also.

 

[redblood]

Just throw a couple bug bombs in it around first of October- make sure to do it after dark

 

[BigAl]

Just throw a couple bug bombs in it around first of October- make sure to do it after dark

I've gotten hit when trying to put bombs in. Best to wait til its cold. The no-pest strips seem to be working for me.

 

[TNGunsmoke]

I've gotten hit when trying to put bombs in. Best to wait til its cold. The no-pest strips seem to be working for me.

Do it on a cooler evening right at dusk when they are on the nest. They are less likely to fly at that time of day, and the cooler evening time makes them more apt to stay on the nest too, so they won't get after you.

 

[BigAl]

Do it on a cooler evening right at dusk when they are on the nest. They are less likely to fly at that time of day, and the cooler evening time makes them more apt to stay on the nest too, so they won't get after you.

That's what I usually try to do, but in the fall it gets harder to find days where you can get to the lease on a cool evening/morning.