Thanks for the reminder! I should check mine for that very thing today!
Thanks for the reminder! I should check mine for that very thing today!
I get one of those aerosol room foggers, crack open the door, and roll it in. Come back in an hour with a putty knife and scrape the mud Dobber nests off.
I go in with leather gloves, a ball cap in one hand, and a can of wasp spray in the other. I've knocked out some red wasp nests that were the size of a dinner plate on several occasions. Only had to bail out once.
Checked mine today ... all clear. Mine is pretty much 'air tight.' Went to great expense and trouble to make it that way. I have had a wasp's nest built on the underside of the shack, but nothing inside yet. I've killed a few stray wasps inside over the years, but only a few.
I built mine wasp tite as well, but it left me a blind spot where the door was. Cut 1/2" off the top of the door to give a slit to look NE. I duct tape it after season, but it always falls off by fall.
Those little black spiders are really pesky as well. They live in a little bundle of web and go out to spin webs everywhere.
Hate getting in there before daylight to a face full of webs.
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I go into my shooting house after dark with a red shield over my flashlight and a pump up sprayer loaded with soapy water and hose down the wasps. Wasps do not see red and remain docile until I spray them with Dawn and water. It immediately starts raining wasps. The Dawn encapsulates them with soap and they suffocate. Never fails and is a heck of alot cheaper. 2 healthy squirts of dawn in a gallon of water. I have done the same on my feeders, just spray it up the bottom hole.
Thank you makeithappen. This solution is so simple, easy to make and inexpensive. BEST PART.......... it works.
Yeah, rolling a bug bomb into the blind and bailing down the ladder with the critters swarming your head is much more exciting.
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