How to protect yourself from wasps in the country. Destruction of a hornet's nest

There is such a joke: if a wasp flew into your house, then now this is her house. These insects can live under the roof of a house, behind a lagging wall sheathing, on a balcony, attic, in an old wormhole, and even under the ceiling of a living space. And such a neighborhood will not bring pleasure to the inhabitants.

dangerous neighborhood

In a summer cottage or in a country house, the harvest of sweet berries and fruits is endangered. The peak of wasp activity occurs in the second half of summer, when offspring that need food have grown up.

Wasps love to settle in dry, ventilated places.

Ripe berries, fruits, especially grapes, attract wasps with sweet juice. Insects can cause significant damage to crops. They cause no less damage to apiaries, attracted by the sweet smell of honey. They do not disdain the remnants of food from the table and garbage, along the way, transferring microbes and pathogenic bacteria from the garbage heap.

Wasps can cause significant damage to fruit crops

Wasps are aggressive insects. Having settled in the neighborhood with people, they will protect themselves, their nest and family from a potential threat. Biting for no apparent reason is not uncommon, and if you kill one individual or disturb the nest, you can be attacked by a swarm. The bite is painful, as the wasp injects a poison that causes pain and swelling that does not subside for several days. For those prone to allergies, this can end sadly, up to anaphylactic shock. Bites are especially dangerous for children. Wasps bring a lot of trouble and anxiety to agricultural and domestic animals. Even if the insects are not aggressive, it is impossible to predict at what point they will decide that you are a threat and attack.

The sting of the wasp does not have notches like that of bees, it does not remain in the body of the victim. After a bite, the insect does not die and can use its tool repeatedly.

A wasp sting leads to swelling and is dangerous with allergic reactions.

In war as in war: ways to get rid of wasps

In the fight against wasps, all means are good, but not all are equally effective and safe for humans. You can turn to professionals who will quickly and for little money save you from this scourge. If this is not possible, you can defeat the invaders on your own. The most reliable way is to use chemicals designed specifically for insect control. The principle of operation for most of them is the same. Such drugs are called insecticides.

Professionals will quickly and reliably save you from wasps

chemical attack

The products are used in accordance with the instructions on the package. According to the mode of action, they are divided into two groups:

• for the preparation of baits and traps;
• fast-acting, to destroy all insects in the nest.

Means for preparing baits and traps

The preparations are available in the form of concentrates, liquids, powders or gels. The main requirement for them is the absence of an unpleasant odor that repels wasps.

1. Het is a drug with low toxicity to humans, highly effective against wasps, used for making baits and destroying nests.
2. Boric acid, borax are popular folk remedies used to make baits. They are odorless.
3. Delta Zone, Lambda Zone - concentrated products with a very low odor, suitable for making baits.
4. Otos is a ready-made bait that contains insecticide, sugar and flavoring. It is placed in the trap without the addition of liquid.
5. Absolut, Globol, Fas - gel bait products that are spread on pieces of cardboard or directly on walls in places where insects accumulate.

Some of these agents act only on adult insects, others will destroy the larvae. The wasps bring the poison to the nest, where the larvae and the queen eat it and die. Separately, it should be said about adhesives for insects, such as Alt, Kapkan. They act on the principle of Velcro for flies, insects simply stick to the surface smeared with glue. It makes sense to use them if the wasps do not have a nest nearby.

Glue is applied to a piece of cardboard or paper

Gallery: long-acting insecticides

A wasp nest is built by the queen and workers

Now it remains to get rid of it. This should be done late in the evening or at night, when the insects are in the nest and almost inactive. Then there is a chance to get rid of the whole swarm at once, and with the right approach, avoid an attack. It is also worth taking care of protective equipment. Put on tight clothes with sleeves, leather or thick rubber gloves, protect your face with a net. The best option is a beekeeper's suit.

Starting to destroy the nest, you need to take care of protective clothing

How to Destroy a Nest with a Trash Bag and Insecticide

1. Pour poison into the bag. Karbofos, Get or another similar remedy is suitable. We dilute karbofos with water in a ratio of 1:10, Get - 1:20.
2. We put a bag of poison on the nest and cut off the leg.
3. After the nest falls, we quickly tie the bag and leave it for several hours or burn it.
4. We treat the place of its attachment with a disinfectant solution - potassium permanganate or hydrogen peroxide.

If you can't cut the nest, secure the bag to the wall or ceiling with tape so that there are no gaps through which the wasps can get out. Leave for several days so that all insects die due to lack of air. Before removing the nest, lightly tap it without removing it from the bag. The absence of sounds will be a signal that the swarm has died. Instead of a liquid insecticide, you can use an aerosol. To do this, a small hole is made in the bag and the drug is injected from the balloon through it, then the hole is sealed with tape. In half an hour the wasps will die, all that remains is to remove the nest and burn it or throw it away.

Do not stir up a hornet's nest, do not try to knock it down with a stick or in any other way without destroying the insects. An angry swarm will rush to defend its home, and the destroyer will have a hard time.

Nest flooding

1. Fill a bucket with water and completely submerge the nest in it.
2. After half an hour, cut off the nest, clean the attachment point and treat with an antiseptic, for example, hydrogen peroxide.

The inconvenience of the method is that you have to keep a bucket of water in the air for half an hour if the nest is located high. You can support it from below, put it on a stepladder, but the design will not be stable enough. The method is more suitable for underground nests.

1. Find the entrance.
2. Pour with a garden hose until water appears above the surface.
3. The underground cavity can be quite voluminous. If the water quickly soaks into the ground, add water until the wasps die.
4. Scald small nests with boiling water or cut into a bucket of boiling water. Be sure to close the container with a tight lid.

Earth wasps prefer to build nests in the soil

Destruction of a hornet's nest by fire

If the nest is located away from buildings and combustible materials, it can be doused with gasoline and set on fire. The material of the nest consists of food processed by wasps and resembles cardboard. Doused with gasoline, it flares up like gunpowder. Fire may result if precautions are not taken. This method is suitable if the nest is located on a brick or concrete wall, between stones or underground. Do not use in wooden buildings and residential premises.

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Method using insecticides

It happens that the nest is located under the roof or in the wall. In this case, use aerosol insecticides.

1. Spray the nest with poison.
2. Plug the entrance with a rag moistened with the same agent.
3. Leave for a few days.
4. To be sure, repeat the process several times.

Aerosol products are not recommended for spraying in residential areas, especially if there are children in the house. Toxic substances can cause respiratory irritation and poisoning. If there is no choice, after treatment, the room must be well ventilated until the smell of the product disappears completely.

Before processing an apartment or a balcony, make sure that there are no people in the room, especially children. Animals should also be evacuated temporarily.

This method is also used for underground nests, but a liquid agent is poured into the hole - Karbofos, Get, Lambda Zone and others. Close the entrance with a rag or stone soaked in poison.

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Users recommend using WD-40, an aerosol rust preventative, as an insecticide. It has nothing to do with poisons, but it has a deadly effect on wasps, although the mechanism is unknown. Do not use the product in residential areas and protect your respiratory organs with a mask or gas mask.

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Live bait fishing

If the nest is not located on the site or cannot be found, the wasps will have to be destroyed one by one. The most accessible way is traps. You can buy them ready-made or make your own.

Wasp traps

1. The simplest and most popular are mechanical traps. They are a plastic container with funnel-shaped holes into which the bait is poured. Having penetrated inside, the wasps cannot get out and die. The Argus and Taiga traps work on the same principle - funnel-shaped linings on a plastic bottle with a hole cut in it.
2. Another type of trap is ultraviolet. An electric lamp with UV radiation, surrounded by a grate, attracts insects with light. They sit on the grate and receive an electric discharge. Efficiency depends on lamp power.
3. Glue traps such as Kapkan are also used to catch wasps. They are intended for rodents, which does not prevent wasps and other insects from sticking to the sticky surface.

Gallery: commercial wasp traps

Making a plastic bottle trap is easy with just scissors.

Traps are hung in places where wasps accumulate and are replaced as needed or cleaned. This is the safest way when the wasps are wound up in an apartment or on a balcony.

Fermented foods should be used as bait and honey should not be used. So you will save from the death of bees.

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Poison bait and insecticide dust

Lay out pieces of fish, meat, watermelon or melon peels in places accessible to insects, watering them with delayed-acting insecticides. It is important that the product is odorless, which will scare away the wasps. Eating the bait, the wasps will carry the poison to the nest along with it, treating the larvae and the uterus with it. You will get rid of the whole swarm without approaching the nest. Fermented sweet liquids are also used as bait. Poison is added to them and poured into saucers, lids or bottoms of bottles. Such baits are placed in the house, on the balcony or in the yard.

Liquid bait is poured into suitable containers and placed in places where wasps accumulate.

Sevin 5 Garden Dust insecticidal dust works on the same principle. It is applied to the nest itself at the entrance. On the paws of wasps, she gets inside, and after a while the swarm dies. This method is used for hard-to-reach nests: in the wall, under the floor, roof. Sometimes insects simply fly into the area to feed or are attracted to the sweet smell of fruits or flowers on the windowsill. In this case, it is better not to quarrel with the wasp, but simply drive it away by turning on the fumigator. But do not dismiss wasps: they do not like sudden movements and can attack.

According to reviews, a popular way to fight - spraying with kerosene - also does not bring the desired results. Either the kerosene is no longer the same, or the wasps have adapted to it. It is useless to fill the entrance to the nest with mounting foam: the incisors of wasps are so sharp that it is not difficult for them to gnaw through the foam.

There are also unusual ways of fighting, for example, catching wasps with a vacuum cleaner. But this is long and unreliable: the wasps quickly return.

Informative video: fighting wasps with a vacuum cleaner

Wasp Prevention

Once you get rid of wasps, take steps to prevent them from reappearing.

1. In the spring or early summer, while the new generation of wasps has not yet appeared, treat the utility room with coniferous smoke, which the insects chose last summer. You will need a stove-potbelly stove. For several days in a row, burn branches of coniferous trees and fresh needles in it. Heat the stove in a black way: the smoke should remain in the room. This will scare away the wasps and they will not return.

   Coniferous smoke repels wasps

2. After getting rid of the nest, carefully clean the attachment site and treat with an antiseptic or insecticide so that the wasps do not return.
3. Do not store rotten fruit near your home. Make sure that the garbage dump and cesspool are closed: they attract wasps.
4. Seal all holes and crevices in the attic, repair lagging wall upholstery.
5. Harmala vulgaris is a grass whose burning smoke is very disliked by wasps. In order for insects to fly away, it is enough to fumigate the premises.

   Common harmala is a poisonous plant, the smoke from the burning of which wasps do not like.

Getting rid of unwanted raiders is difficult, but with the help of traps and baits, effective insecticides can be done. If wasps are not a problem, try to coexist peacefully with them. After all, they also bring benefits, destroying agricultural pests.

Wasps are all flying and stinging insects other than bees and ants. Wasps are solitary and social. In our country, paper wasps are the most common, those with black stripes on a yellow body. They are called paper because they build their nests from wood fibers. For humans, wasps are dangerous with bites, and therefore, at their first appearance, it is advisable to get rid of them immediately.

The wasp is a rather annoying insect that you want to stay away from.

Residents of city apartments rarely encounter wasp nests. This is a problem of private houses and suburban buildings. Wasps often build nests in attics, under roofs and canopies. It is dangerous to have such neighbors, because they can attack at any moment. Getting rid of wasp nests under the roof of the house is difficult, but necessary.

What do wasp nests look like?

Paper wasp nests are honeycomb balls. These wasps moisten wood fibers with saliva, turning them into a kind of paper, and gradually rebuild the honeycombs. Then they wrap the nest on top with an additional layer of fibers so that the nest looks like a large rounded cocoon. Sometimes wasps build themselves huge houses the size of a soccer ball.

If the wasps decide to settle under the roof of the house, wooden supports or other elements will serve as construction material. Wasp nest building begins in spring. As soon as the particular activity of wasps was noticed in one place of the house under the roof, it is best to get rid of insects immediately.

If a wasp nest appears inside or near your house, this is an unpleasant situation.

Wasp behavior and habits

Paper wasps are social insects. Unlike bees, they communicate with each other and communication is complex. The wasps feed the larvae on other insects, while the adults feed on the nectar and blood of their victims. In a sense, the wasps that roam the house are beneficial by eating small insect pests.

A wasp can bite a person just like that, the reasons for the attack have not been clarified by science. The sting of the wasp is sharp, thin and, unlike the bee, has no notches, so after a bite it remains alive. The wasp pierces the skin and injects the poison. In addition to the sting for a bite, an insect can use its jaws, but rarely. The place of the wasp sting instantly swells and turns red, sometimes the bite causes serious allergic reactions that require medical intervention. Especially strong reaction at the first sting of a wasp.

Wasp nest in the house, signs and danger

Wasps love to feast on fallen or spoiled apples, pears, grapes, so during the harvest they will inevitably appear in the garden. But if you notice that wasps often fly around the house for no apparent reason, you can conclude that there is a hornet's nest in the house. Wasps choose safe places that are not accessible to the human eye. This place is often the attic. More often than not, it is quite difficult to get rid of insects during the construction of the nest.

To destroy wasps and their nests, many means have been developed, many methods of struggle and folk recipes have been invented.

You can not touch the nest, but kill only those pests that fly into the house. But remember, these insects are dangerous neighbors, they attack for no apparent reason. If a child is left alone at home, he is unlikely to cope even with one wasp, and when there is a whole nest, they can attack in a flock. The child, at a minimum, will get a fright and, at a maximum, a severe allergic reaction.

Before destroying wasp nests in the house, you need to calculate their location. In a private house or in the country, wasps choose:

• any wooden surfaces;
• places where a lot of unused things are lying around, including an attic, rubbish is used by wasps as a shelter;
• niches under the slate;
• gaps between the wall of the house and the detached sheathing.

It is difficult to check all places and find nests, especially if they are under a roof. There is a way to find a nest that has been proven over the years. It is necessary to leave bait for wasps in the form of a piece of meat or smoked fish in a conspicuous place. Insects will definitely want to eat, they will fly back and forth from the nest to the bait, and you will figure out the nest by spying.

When the nest is inside a wall or under a roof in slate niches, it cannot be reached. The main thing in this case is to find a hole where the wasps fly in. This is enough to bring out insects.

Wasp fighting. Basic Methods

To destroy the nest and get insects out of the attic, you need to know a few important rules of behavior.

A timely start in the fight against wasps will help to completely get rid of annoying insects.

Compliance with these rules will save your health:

1. Warn the residents of neighboring houses about your intention to remove the wasps. They should close the windows and try not to go outside for a while.
2. It is important to choose the right clothing so that insects cannot bite you.
3. Perform the procedure in tight clothes, gloves, rubber boots and a beekeeper's mask.
4. Choose the method that is safest for you and those around you to help get insects out from under the roof of your house. There are a lot of methods, but not all are applicable to private houses. It's easier to get rid of with a smoke attack, so you neutralize the insects while the nest is destroyed.
5. You can destroy the nest on your own only at night, at this time the insects are inactive.
6. You can not kill single wasps that have flown out of the nest. When they die, they release a toxin that prompts other members of the wasp family to attack.
7. If all the insects have flown out of the nest, calmly and quickly leave. Repeat the procedure after a few hours, when the wasps calm down.

Methods for removing wasps from the attic

The fight against wasps is a delicate matter and requires a diligent approach; getting rid of these insects is not so easy. The right choice of method and the exact technique of execution will help to permanently get rid of wasps without harm to health.

Burning a hornet's nest with fire

One of the most reliable, but also the most dangerous method. In the attic and under the roof, wasps attach their nests to wooden structures; burning the nest can lead to a serious fire.

Some wasps can escape from a weak flame, so make sure the fire is strong enough

This method is applicable only when the nest is located away from the house, in the garden. In this case, the nest just needs to be doused with fuel and set on fire. It burns out instantly. But even here it is important to ensure that the fire does not go to grass or branches.

Destroying a hornet's nest with water

Wasps can be bred by drowning their nest. This method, when the nest is hanging under the roof, requires special training:

• fill the bucket to the top with water;
• firmly press the bucket of water to the stream at the nest attachment point so that the nest is inside;
• support the bucket with a board or stepladder so that it can remain tightly pressed against the ceiling for a long time;
• soak the nest in water for twenty-four hours.

Dip the hornet's nest bag in a bucket of water and place a heavy rock on top to keep the bag from rising.

If the ceiling is not level enough, then it will be problematic to press the bucket against it, and insects will be able to fly out through the gaps left. So this method cannot be called too reliable.

We apply insecticide

Insecticides are special chemicals used to kill insects. This method is the simplest and most reliable for self-control of insects. To carry out the procedure, you will need an insecticide, which can be bought at the store, a plastic bag and adhesive tape. The essence of the method:

1. Prepare insecticide solution according to package directions.
2. Pour the prepared solution into the bag.
3. Snap the bag onto the nest and secure it tightly to the ceiling with adhesive tape.
4. Leave the bag of insecticide for 3 days. This period is enough to get rid of wasps.
5. Before removing the package after the specified time, tap on it. If no buzzing is heard, then all the wasps are dead, and the package can be removed.

Leaving insecticide-poisoned baits

This method is long, but helps to completely remove stinging insects from the attic. Use sour jam or beer as bait, other insects do not flock to them. Pour the bait into a deep dish and pour any insecticide there, a few grams will suffice. Thoroughly mix the poisoned mixture, and place in a conspicuous place near the nest.

Keep it out of the reach of children or pets. The bait will need to be renewed until the wasps are completely gone. This method is the easiest to perform and safest in that there is no direct contact with the hornet's nest. It will not work to get rid of insects quickly by this method, the struggle will be long, but effective.

Wasp traps

A trap is a bait left in a container from which the insects cannot escape. This method has been tried by many generations of gardeners. It is easy to perform, does not require any cash costs, reliable and safe.

A wasp trap is perhaps the most effective and easiest way to get rid of insects.

1. Making a trap is very simple, for this you need one plastic bottle without a cap, a knife and bait in the form of sour jam or beer.
2. Cut off the top third of the bottle with a knife.
3. Pour the bait into the bottom of the bottle up to a third of the volume.
4. Turn the top over and insert into the bottom with the neck inside.
5. Hang the trap from the ceiling in your attic.

You can use poisoned bait. Insects will flock to the smell of the bait inside the trap, but they will no longer be able to find a way back. The trap must be periodically cleaned of dead insects and the bait replaced in it. After a while, it will be possible to get rid of the wasps completely.

We call a special service

A special insect control service will help to remove wasps under the roof of the house. In this case, you will only need money to pay for the services of the company, and you can safely sit at home and drink tea. Disinsection workers have special suits and insecticides that are safe for humans. Firefighters and SES workers will also help with wasp nests.

Companies provide a guarantee that insects will not appear in the house again, but it is still important to monitor the house and take preventive measures so that wasps do not start at home.

Prevention of the appearance of wasps in the attic

Do not store food supplies and conservation in the attic. In this case, the wasps will not have a reason to fly into the attic. Disassemble the trash, it is better to throw away or give away things that have not been used for a long time. Clean the attic more often, wipe the wooden structures, this will allow you to ensure that insects do not start building a nest. It is much easier to prevent a problem than to deal with it later.

One of the problems that constantly disturb a person in natural conditions are wasps. They, of course, have certain therapeutic effects, but they equally disturb both the inhabitants of the village and the cities. They can arrange their nests in the country house, garden, country house, garage, on the wall, balcony, ceiling, in the basement and entrance of an apartment building. People have to constantly worry about safety measures for children and adults from the bites of these insects. The primary issue is to find, destroy the wasps and how to get rid of the hornet's nest, and this must be done immediately after detection. Of no small importance is the material from which the wasps make their nests. As a rule, this is paper produced by them in the process of chewing wood and other fibers. The nest grows almost throughout the season, especially in summer.

Preparatory work

To successfully fight wasps in an apartment, first of all, you need to find their location, decide how to destroy the wasp nest, and carry out the appropriate preparatory work. Practice shows that these insects usually hide in a dark and inaccessible place:

• Under the eaves of the house. Here they are very similar to a beehive and can be difficult to distinguish from a nest, for example, swallows.
• In attics, well protected from rain and light.
• In the crowns of trees, where it is very difficult to notice. This can only be done in autumn, during the day and in good weather. You just need to stand for a while under each tree. A characteristic hum will give out wasps.
• In earthen burrows, usually wasps build such nests on elevated places.
• In the voids of the walls. The remains of insects on the ground indicate the entrance to the nest.
• In pipes stored on site.

After finding a wasp nest in the apartment that needs to be removed, for its safe destruction, it is necessary to prepare the appropriate equipment:

The main ways to get rid of a hornet's nest

There are many options for resolving the issue of how to remove a hornet's nest. Some of them give a relatively quick effect, while others do not harm insects at all, since their properties were not properly taken into account. The main thing is to choose the method that is most suitable for specific conditions, despite the fact that wasps always attack. To stop the construction of their nest, you can use reliable and proven methods:

• The use of chemicals in the apartment. This is the easiest and most proven way. We buy a chemical agent in a specialized store. We apply the drug directly to the nest. Wasps will eat it, bring it in, pass it on to relatives. As a result, there is a mass disease and pestilence of insects. There are a number of types of specialty chemicals:

- "Troapsil" - a professional insect repellent;

- "Mosquito" - an effective long-acting aerosol that can destroy wasps, as well as their nests indoors and outdoors;

- "Gett" - a modern, specially designed drug;

- "Smelnet" - an insect repellent that does not have a smell. Intended for independent use, including against wasps.

The most convenient products are available in the form of aerosols or dust - Dichlorvos, Raid, Raptor and others.

Before proceeding with the destruction of the hornet's nest at home with the help of chemicals, you should definitely consider safety issues. During the use of a poisonous substance, including in the country, it is necessary to remove everyone from the treated area.

external physical influence. There are several options for its use:

Destruction by hand

1. You need to work according to this option at night, when the wasps in the hive are sleeping. A dense garbage bag is thrown over the hornet's nest, and the entrance is wrapped with tape. Then the nest is torn off from the mount. The package is placed in a barrel and burned.
2. You can knock down the nest with a stick in a bucket of boiling water, then cover it with a lid, leaving it for a while.
3. Plug the entrance to the nest with glue, pouring it over the entire surface and creating a plug of glue at the entrance. Insects will accumulate and get stuck in the hole. After a while they will die.
4. If the nest has formed in an inaccessible place, it can be neutralized by applying construction foam.

How to clean a hornet's nest in other ways

They are also called folk methods

For centuries, improvised means have been successfully used at home against insects. Then they acted as follows:

Preventive measures

Given that the wasps always return to previously habitable and suitable places, it can be prevented from being able to build it again. When the nest is removed, the attachment point, in order not to spoil, must be treated - first with potassium permanganate, then with a chemical preparation used against wasps.

In order to destroy not only wasps, but also their nests, many industrial chemicals, physical and mechanical methods, and folk home recipes have been developed. Each method looks in its own way effective and does not require too much cost. The maximum result is achieved by using these tools in a complex way. But what to do when none of the methods is successful, it is recommended to contact specialists.

In modern city apartments, as a rule, window systems are installed that prevent flying insects from entering the dwelling from the outside. But on the other hand, there are dachas where citizens come to relax and join a healthy lifestyle. Life in the country is like an idyll: fresh air, birds singing, fruits straight from the tree and vegetables only from the garden. It's time to make raspberry jam. Suddenly, a large “paper” nest full of wasps is found in the attic.

And then, quite good-natured and benevolent, at first glance, a person suddenly becomes a vicious and uncompromising destroyer, striving to destroy the hornet's nest at all costs. Dichlorvos and kerosene, polyurethane foam and smoke bombs, soap solution and bags of insecticide, a bucket of water and a plasma torch are used, followed by a call to the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

If you try to stop the panic, you can even generalize the experience accumulated in the irreconcilable struggle.

How to get rid of wasp nests

Before deciding how to remove a hornet's nest, it can be helpful to first locate it, assess the risks, and, if a military operation is imminent, act according to the situation. All methods known to us come down to two options for impact: destruction and forced resettlement. Both, for safety reasons, are best done during a period of minimal insect activity - in the cool season or, in extreme cases, at night. In any case, you need a tight protective suit, gloves, ideally a beekeeper's mask.

Tough measures related to destruction

• A tight plastic bag is carefully thrown over the nest, which is then separated from the surface to which the nest is attached, after which the bag is quickly and tightly closed. The method of destroying the package along with the nest depends on the artist's imagination. Most often, they are burned in an intense flame of a fire or, placed in a bucket and crushed with a load, poured with boiling water.
• Copiously spray the nest with kerosene. Of all petroleum products, kerosene has the best penetrating power. The hornet's nest is made of "paper" - wood, crushed to a slurry and sealed with saliva. Kerosene very quickly soaks both the paper and the chitinous body of the wasp, blocking breathing. Insects that get kerosene die instantly.
• If the nest is in an inaccessible place, from which there is only one exit, use mounting foam. In this case, you need to make sure that the hole is blown out thoroughly and there is not the slightest gap.
• Dichlorvos and other special products work reliably only when the nest can be isolated from air. For example, tightly cover with some kind of container immediately after spraying.

Humane measures involving resettlement

• For the resettlement of a wasp family, the plastic bag method described above is quite suitable. With the difference that the final phase of the ritual murder is replaced by the ritual giving of life by shaking the package. Of course, still at night and having previously moved as far as possible from human habitats.
• A strongly smelling aggressive substance is located in the immediate vicinity of the nest. It can be ground red pepper, a basin with diluted Domestos or used oil drained from the crankcase of a car. Insecticides are also suitable: most likely, they will lead to a fatal outcome of a slightly different nature - the wasps will fly away to another place.
• The best way to safely remove a hornet's nest in a house, especially if the house is a dacha, is to wait until winter. In winter, the nest is carefully separated from the place of attachment (but gloves will not interfere), and is destroyed. There are no live wasps in it anyway. After that, the place where the nest was based, and, preferably, everything around is treated with insecticides or other means. Then in the spring, having returned from memory to their old nest, not finding it and not finding the former place attractive, the female wasps will fly away in search of more favorable conditions.

The role of the wasp in the biocenosis

It would be at least a naive delusion to think that the wasps are white, fluffy, and only busy with cute smiles at passers-by. Yes, no one thinks so, because they still know from childhood that wasps are yellow with black stripes, buzz and sting painfully (if you are not careful). But, which is quite justified for children's maximalism, immediacy and, sorry, primitiveness of perception, it causes regret and annoyance when found in adults.

Approximately in the middle of the time interval between childhood and youth, therefore, at school, a person learns that everything in nature is interconnected. That the same wasps, for example, intensively feed their larvae with other insects, including those that are pests of horticultural and horticultural crops. After all, wasps, although they love sweets, are predominantly predators in their main specialty. In addition, many wasps lay their larvae in the bodies of caterpillars and beetles; and the larvae, having hatched, eat their victims from the inside.

Before the onset of cold weather, female wasps leave their nests and find secluded places for wintering. All other individuals die. True, with the advent of spring, females try to return to their old nests. And the wasp, like all living creatures in this world, is part of the food chain. It is believed that only one bird is the natural enemy of the wasp. No, not a shrike that feasts on bees. This bird is a bee-eater.

As adults, most people forget or don't want to know what they learned in school. Just think, some kind of biocenosis; there is a serious problem: the wasps are overpowering! Therefore, the task is on the agenda: to get rid of wasp nests. Meanwhile, the wasps do not know that they built their nest on your territory, and not vice versa. However, they do not try to attack people unless they are provoked, of course.

Ambition and reality

Evolution is a slow, multi-vector and unpredictable process. At some stage, most likely relatively recently, man decided that he had already evolved enough and now he could declare himself the king of Nature. And at the same time - to make decisions: what in Nature is useful, and what, on the contrary, is harmful. One day, an evolved man saw a wasp near his house. Having thought a little about the prospects of living together (in the neighborhood), the person came to a firm conviction: the wasp hive should be removed.

Someone, tell an evolved person to calm down and stop waving his arms (the wasps are already nervous): firstly, there are no wasp hives. Secondly, since it was impatient to resettle a family of wasps, it is not at all necessary to kill them. Of course, the destruction of one hornet's nest will not destroy the ecosystem. But as a result of the economic activities of the King of Nature, one species from the kingdom of fauna dies out almost daily and one species from the kingdom of flora dies out every week.

If everything continues to go at such a pace, then ... You should not indulge in the illusion that people will eventually remain on the planet in splendid isolation. People will die out, and not the last ones. To prevent this from happening, it would be nice to learn to live in harmony with Nature, that is, letting others live. Don't kill the sedge!

In more or less large cities, apartment dwellers rarely have to deal with wasps. Although if we consider the statistics of pest control visits, then even here homeowners sometimes have to think about how to get rid of wasps on a balcony or loggia where insects make their nests.

If we talk about summer cottages and private houses, then problems with wasps are much more common here, even though these insects, in general, bring certain benefits, destroying small garden pests in large quantities.

Be that as it may, there are certain situations, one might even say - the rules when it is necessary to get rid of wasps. So, it is imperative to get rid of wasps in the house in those cases when they settle in the attic, balcony, under the slope of the roof, near the utility rooms of the summer cottage, that is, in all those cases when insects arrange their nest in close proximity to a person and ways his possible movement around the site.

To some, a hornet's nest, hanging, say, under the roof of a barn, may seem quite harmless. Well, just think, it hangs for itself and hangs, if you don’t touch it, then there won’t be any problems.

But you need to take into account the fact that you can never be sure in advance exactly how the wasps will react to a person who is just a few meters away from the nest. Sometimes they begin to actively defend their home, attacking in a swarm. Now imagine that a small child decided to walk along the path not far from the nest, and even without parental supervision ...

Remember: wherever there is a hornet's nest, a person is in danger of being bitten for no apparent reason. And at best it will be a single insect bite.

In rare cases, wasp dwellings can be left untouched - for example, if the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe site is so large that its owner does not intersect with winged neighbors in any way.

To reliably get rid of wasps, you must first find out the reason for their appearance: whether they fly into the house or on the site just in search of food, or have already made their nest here. Fortunately, this is not so difficult to do: the main sign that the wasps really made a nest on the site or in the house is their consistently large number for no apparent reason (no grapes, fallen apples or pears, raspberries).

It is important to understand that, of course, it is possible to kill several wasps actively flying near the house with an ordinary fly swatter, but this is unlikely to save the situation, since there can be hundreds of them in the nest (or nests). Therefore, in such cases, the only reliable way to get rid of wasps is to destroy all their nests in the country.

However, in order to get rid of the wasps, their nest must still be able to be found ...

Rules for finding a hornet's nest in a house or on a plot

To build their nests, wasps choose, firstly, hard-to-reach places, and secondly, quite closed from prying eyes. In nature, hollows, spaces under tree branches (in the thick of foliage), and sometimes even holes in the ground (""), as a rule, meet these requirements. In the absence of such places, insects sometimes fix their houses directly on the open branches of trees, or even simply build them in the grass.

As for the neighborhood with people, our summer cottages are just ideal places for arranging wasp nests. So, for example, in summer cottages, these insects usually choose:

• rarely used utility or household premises, such as sheds, toilets, attics (here the nests are placed directly under the ceiling, and it is not difficult to get rid of them);
• niches under the slate;
• places where the cladding of the building moves away from the walls;
• balconies, loggias;
• heaps of unused trash;
• dense thickets of shrubs or hedges.

Of course, it is difficult to check all objects suitable for arranging a nest, even in a small area. That is why, for a long time, gardeners have come up with a simple, but no less effective way to track wasps.

The essence of this method lies in the fact that in any open place (for example, on a veranda) a piece of fish or meat is laid, on which insects will readily flock. Further, only attention and observation are required from the owner of the site: most wasps will ply between the nest and the delicacy, and thereby help the person determine where their home is.

“My grandfather taught me to calculate the nests of wild wasps near the apiary. He himself found hornets that way. You put on thick leather construction gloves, catch one of these hornets and wrap a red ribbon around its body. Let go and see where it flies. In 10-20 minutes, he will definitely lead you to the nest. So we managed to find even nests two kilometers from the apiary in the wild forest.”

Andrey Ivanov, Kostroma

It is much easier to find a nest directly in the house or on the balcony. Here, usually immediately, without long-term observations, it is clear where the wasps fly most often: in most cases, they prefer to place their dwellings in the spaces between the walls and the sheathing (necessarily with direct access to the street), in drainpipes and behind air conditioners.

On a note

It is not always possible to get directly to the nest itself - for example, if it is located somewhere inside the wall of the house. Sometimes only the entrance to the space can be seen, somewhere in the depths of which the dwelling of insects is located. However, in order to get rid of the wasps, the detected entrance is quite enough.

Wasps in apartment buildings and on balconies: breeding rules

Wasp nests in summer cottages, in apartment buildings and private houses are destroyed by the same methods. However, there are a number of nuances that you definitely need to know about even before the elimination of wasps:

• it is unacceptable to use fire to burn out the nest when it is located on a tree or in a wooden building (wherever the insect dwelling is located, it will blaze strongly, and the fire can easily spread to flammable materials);
• you need to carefully prepare for the “operation” in advance and dress appropriately (this will be discussed further below), since if something goes wrong, the wasps can seriously bite their offender;
• it is possible to start getting rid of wasps on your own only after the neighbors in the nearest premises are notified about this - it is necessary that for the duration of all procedures they close their windows and do not go outside.

The whole further process is a matter of technology. You just need to choose the most appropriate and safe method and implement it correctly, which we will talk about later.

Burning the nest of wasps

You can get rid of the wasp nest in the country by burning it - this is a very quick and effective method, which, however, is not always possible to implement.

Wasps build their homes from the chewed bark of trees. The structure of this material resembles cardboard, and therefore it takes a few seconds for it to completely burn. All it takes to get rid of a wasp hive this way is to douse it with gasoline and set it on fire.

However, despite the fact that this method at first glance seems very simple, there are serious limitations regarding its applicability. So, for example, it is strictly forbidden to use fire if the nest hangs on a wooden ceiling or is under a combustible sheathing - in these cases, the probability of a fire is too high.

The extermination of wasps in the country by burning their nests is safe only when the insects' dwelling is located in the ground or on a stone wall. Sometimes this method is also used in large warehouses and industrial enterprises, where there are no flammable objects within a radius of several meters from the nest.

Speaking of this and any other contact method of getting rid of wasps, one cannot but mention the precautions. In no case should you approach wasps without protective equipment (see below).

We destroy wasps with insecticides

A universal way to deal with wasps is the use of insecticidal preparations. With their help, you can get rid of wasps in the apartment, house and anywhere else.

So, in order to get rid of wasps with the help of insecticides, you need to "go through" several stages. First, you need to purchase a powerful drug in a specialized store (you can also use the Internet). For this purpose, tools such as:

• Lambda Zone;
• Cucaracha;
• Executioner;
• Aktar;
• Sinuzan;
• Karbofos;
• Diazinon;
• Tetrix

and some others. All these drugs are available in water-soluble form, and to prepare a working solution, it is enough to dilute them according to the instructions.

Next, you should prepare a dense plastic bag of such a size that the entire nest fits in it, and then pour at least 200 grams of a pre-prepared solution of the purchased drug into it.

Finally, at the third stage of getting rid of wasps, the insecticide bag is sharply put on the nest so that the flight of insects is blocked. If the dwelling of wasps hangs under the roof of the house, then the neck of the bag should be glued to it with adhesive tape, and if it is located on a tree, the neck is simply pulled over the nest, and then wrapped with adhesive tape or rope.

The insecticide bag can be removed only after 2-3 days - this time should be enough for all the wasps to die. Nevertheless, for fidelity and your own safety, before directly removing the package, you should knock on the nest through it: if you don’t hear a buzzing response, then the wasps are dead.

On a note

If the wasps have made their dwelling in the ground, in the hollow of a tree, behind the sheathing of the house or in the drainpipe, you should try to pour the prepared preparation into their shelter so that it gets on the nest itself. The exit from the nest must be blocked (for example, with a cloth impregnated with an insecticide solution) so that the insects cannot get out of the trap.

We drown the nest in the water

Using this simple method, you can get rid of wasps if their nest is located in the ground, or hanging under a canopy or under the roof of a house, for example, in the attic.

In the first case, so much water is quickly poured into the “hole” in which the wasp dwelling is located so that it begins to flow out (it is best to use a garden hose for this). In this case, it is not worth using a limited container of water, for example, a pot or bucket, because the hole may be very deep, and there may not be enough water to fill it. After pouring water, the exit from the nest should be immediately covered with a stone.

However, sometimes this method does not work: water is gradually absorbed into the soil, and insects break through a new exit from under the ground.

The implementation of the second option of destroying the nest, when it is under the roof of the house, is more complicated and requires special training. The essence of the method in this case is that the nest is completely immersed in a bucket filled with water, the edges of which are tightly pressed against the ceiling.

From below, the bucket should be supported by some object: a ladder of suitable height or, for example, a board. The duration of keeping insects under water is at least a day.

The difficulty here is:

• the whole structure can be very unstable and fall apart, because of which all the work will go to waste;
• the surface to which the insect dwelling is attached is far from always so flat that a bucket of water can be pressed tightly against it, and if there is a gap, angry wasps will find a way out of the trap.

We poison wasps with poisoned baits

The use of poisoned baits gives very good results, and allows, although not very quickly, but reliably to get rid of wasps in the territory of a summer cottage or, for example, in the attic of a house, on a balcony - wherever their nest can be. This method is perhaps the safest for humans and is quite simple to implement.

The first step is to prepare the bait. For wasps and hornets, beer with sugar or sour jam is ideal, in which a few grams of any of the following insecticidal preparations are added: Get, Lambda Zone or Delta Zone (at worst, you can get by with ordinary boric acid, but the effectiveness in this case will be lower). After thorough mixing, the poisoned bait is poured into a saucer or any other container and placed in a conspicuous place on the site.

An important point in the implementation of this method of getting rid of wasps is that the container with the bait must be placed in places inaccessible to pets and children. The easiest way is to hang it, for example, on a tree branch: the household will remain intact, but all the wasps that will flock to the bait from all over the site will die within a few hours. If the nest is located in the attic, then it is enough to place the container with the bait nearby - and soon there will be a “carpet” of dead insects under the nest.

You can not use honey as bait: bees can also fly to it. Beer (or sour jam) will only attract wasps and hornets.

Poisoned bait should be reapplied every few days until the wasps in the area are completely gone.

Traps from wasps and hornets

A trap for wasps and hornets is, in fact, the same bait (not necessarily poisoned), placed in a special container from which insects that have flown in can no longer get out. Such a device can be bought in stores for gardeners, or you can make it yourself - the effectiveness of the trap will be high in any case.

Making a trap for wasps on your own is not at all difficult, you just need to know the technology. To create it, you need an ordinary plastic bottle, in which the cap is twisted and the upper third is cut off. The bait is poured into the bottom of the bottle, after which the upper half is turned over and inserted into the bottom with the neck down.

In order to get rid of wasps with a trap, it should be hung from a tree or the wall of a house (insecticide or boric acid can be added to the bait poured inside, although this is not necessary). The wasps that crawled into the neck of the bottle, oddly enough, due to the simplest instincts, can no longer find a way back. Therefore, every few days it will be necessary to shake out a large number of dead or still living wasps from the trap and replace the bait as necessary (if there is an insecticide in the bait, it is much easier to shake out the insects - they will all be already dead).

We call a special service

The least time-consuming way to get rid of a wasp nest on the balcony of a city apartment or in a summer cottage is to call a pest control service. In this case, the owners of the house will not have any worries: all work will be performed by professionals who have both the necessary protective clothing and special tools.

Services for the destruction of nests of wasps and hornets cost an average of 1,500 rubles for apartments and 2,500 rubles for summer cottages. As a rule, after the work is done, the exterminators guarantee that the insects will not reappear in the house or garden for at least six months - that is, until the start of the next warm season.

The same companies that provide appropriate services for the destruction of synanthropic insects, as well as rats and moles, will help get rid of wild wasps. In some cases - if there are no such companies in the locality - these works can be carried out by SES or firefighters. However, when calling representatives of the SES or the fire department, you should not count on a quick and 100% exit: assistance in the destruction of wasps is not their direct responsibility, so they provide such services only if they can agree.

“My neighbor and I had problems with these wasps. We have raspberries on both sides of the common fence - they were teeming there. Until the raspberries reached, we did not worry about anything, and when it came time to collect, it was no longer possible to approach the raspberries. A neighbor was stung once, me too, then we decided to take action. His brother works in the fire department. We called, explained the situation, the car arrived two hours later. The guys in their costumes climbed into the raspberries with jokes and jokes, just took the nest, put it in a plastic bag, tied it up and took it away. The whole thing cost 1,000 rubles and a “bubble” to my brother.”

Ivan, Gomel

Personal safety measures when getting rid of wasps

In conclusion, as promised above, we will touch upon the issue of personal protection in the fight against wasps in cases where it is decided to destroy the nest. This topic is really very important, because health is at stake, and in some cases, human life.

So, in order to get rid of wild wasps in the country or in the house and not suffer from their bites, you must follow certain safety rules:

1. All work must be carried out in thick clothes with long sleeves, a beekeeper's mask and thick gloves.
2. The nest should be destroyed only at night, when all members of the wasp family are inside and inactive.
3. During the procedure, in no case should you kill single wasps that have flown out, even if they bite you - when an insect dies, it releases special substances that excite relatives and can provoke an attack by the entire swarm.
4. In case of failure and a massive flight of wasps from the nest, one should retreat without sudden movements, wait a few hours, and only then proceed to repeat the procedure.

There are cases when it is required to drive wasps from the site or from the house only for a while. For example, if they were attracted by the smell of fish while cooking, or flying around a table with fruits and sweets. In such situations, all the methods of getting rid of wasps described above, of course, do not make sense - it will be enough to turn on powerful fumigator repellers, light permethrin-based checkers or special insect spirals.

Often, to drive wasps out of the house, people simply brush them off with a newspaper or towel. However, you should not do this - with a high degree of probability, these manipulations will only anger the insects, and will not at all lead to the desired disposal of them.

Finally, we note an important point: you can quickly eliminate wasps on the site, but if the insects do not constantly bother you and do not pose a direct threat, then it is better not to touch them at all. It makes no sense to exterminate these assistants in the fight against agricultural pests without a serious reason.

Thus, if the wasps did not make a nest on the site, but only occasionally look for food here, it is worth learning to coexist peacefully with them, because in this case they will not bring much harm. If the close proximity to the wasps really is fraught with some kind of threat, then now you are sufficiently prepared to be able to quickly eliminate it.

Interesting video: making an effective wasp trap from improvised means

And here is another interesting option for making wasp traps and a good example of their work.