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I received a call to replace a shingle roof on a garage. At first glance the job looked pretty simple but then i noticed the bottoms of the eaves on all four sides of the garage are covered up with what looks to be like thousands of red wasps. They were coming out and going in numerous places and to be honest ive never seen this many of the red wasps in a single garage before.
If im not mistaken the majority of you guys on these forums are from up north and if you arent familiar with red wasps you would swear they are straight out of the pits of hell once you got them stirred up. You definitely dont want to go beating and hammering over the top of their nest. It doesnt take many of them to put a full grown man in the hospital and they can also cause a person to fall off ladders or off roof tops.
The problem is they will always go in through an exterior hole or crack and then travel six or seven feet and through a second interior hole and then build their nest a few feet away from the second hole. The problem is not being able to get to the nest to kill them so they will keep sending new soldiers out to get you.
How do you guys handle this kind of problem? Im wondering if there is any other way than hiring a professional exterminator to get rid of them.
I was thinking about the possibility of carefully pouring some bleach and ammonia into the bottom of a shop vac and attaching a garden hose to the exhaust and attempting to fumigate them.
If im not mistaken the majority of you guys on these forums are from up north and if you arent familiar with red wasps you would swear they are straight out of the pits of hell once you got them stirred up. You definitely dont want to go beating and hammering over the top of their nest. It doesnt take many of them to put a full grown man in the hospital and they can also cause a person to fall off ladders or off roof tops.
The problem is they will always go in through an exterior hole or crack and then travel six or seven feet and through a second interior hole and then build their nest a few feet away from the second hole. The problem is not being able to get to the nest to kill them so they will keep sending new soldiers out to get you.
How do you guys handle this kind of problem? Im wondering if there is any other way than hiring a professional exterminator to get rid of them.
I was thinking about the possibility of carefully pouring some bleach and ammonia into the bottom of a shop vac and attaching a garden hose to the exhaust and attempting to fumigate them.