The enemy has arrived

[Zephod]

Wasps have started to build a nest under my bus. Right where I need to work!


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[CrabbyMilton]

I thought you were talking about North Korea.
Yeah wasps do like to make themselves at home don't they. Some years ago, a family moved in under a vent in my attic. I sprayed some and that "projectile" spray toward their nest. It killed one of them and it died instantly and actually stuck to the next for several months until the nest finally fell to the floor.
As long as you don't annoy them, they won't bother you. If that nest is empty and nobody is buzzing around, you can get rid of it.

[oldmansax]

I was just reading about the what animals you are most likely to be killed by in the US. Deer are #1. Wasps and other stinging insects are #2, and dogs are #3. Everything else is very far behind those three.

TOM

[Dave5Cs]

Those are mud dobbers or meat bees ( yellow and black of the Wasp family) and they don't sting. It feels like a sting but they bit you and it sometimes hurts worse than a sting and the pain site will last days. I get them in my air-conditioners even when I put covers with bungees over them. We hang traps everywhere in the spring and all summer long. They fill up in less than a day. I hate those things.

[edvanland]

Give them the tools and tell them to get to work and earn their keep. If you have a fairly clear I have taken a newspaper and made a torch out of it, set it on fire and run it under the nest. That will burn their wings off be ready to haul @$# away from them.

[bobofthenorth]

Put a little WD40 on the nest when its still small and they'll relocate pretty fast. 

[Geoff]

We get a few mud wasp nests 1 mile up here in Prescott AZ, but the big problem is pack rats. Those bastards will destroy wiring just to floss their teeth.

--Geoff

[Dave5Cs]

They eat any Protein. so I take an old rag and sock it in meat juice from a steak I am ready to put on the BBQ. Then take it out to the back with weed burner in hand. I wait and they come and land on the rag. I hit them with the burner and they have no time to fly away.  effective, LOL

[Zephod]

I sprayed some with ant and roach spray and today went under the bus, added more cable ties and even added an extra cable. When I put my cables I left an extra wire in the bundle for later use if required. It would have been nice to have two extra wires but it is what it is. Today I used that extra wire and connected it to the solar extraction fan setup in the back of the bus. I'll move the battery for it to its new home behind the drivers seat.

That has me finished under the bus... for the moment.

I've put in a new mudguard, cut down from a very big mudguard. I've done all my cabling. If I feel the urge, I could put...
A water inlet
A gas inlet and cooktop
A forced air ventilation unit.

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[HudsonMarine]

Those are mud dobbers or meat bees ( yellow and black of the Wasp family) and they don't sting. It feels like a sting but they bit you and it sometimes hurts worse than a sting and the pain site will last days. I get them in my air-conditioners even when I put covers with bungees over them. We hang traps everywhere in the spring and all summer long. They fill up in less than a day. I hate those things.

Mud dobbers build out of, ummm, mud, not paper as is pictured sir.

[Dave5Cs]

Who said anything about paper? In the ac's they build their Mud huts and fill them with pupi. They also make paper huts as seen in his above photo but are the same wasp family and you will find them in the same areas the Meat bee's and paper wasps actually do sting but the Mud daubers can but don't even when provoked. The traps are plastic and they are attracted to the protein inside. There is a one hole in them and they go in and can not come out. Its like Hotel California.