Effective remedies for wasps: an overview of drugs and the nuances of their use

Let's start with the fact that the biochemical processes occurring in the body of various insect species are largely the same and are based on similar principles. And wasps are no exception. Accordingly, an effective wasp remedy is an insecticidal preparation, which in most cases will be equally effective against other insects: cockroaches, ants, flies, etc.

In other words, most modern insecticides have a very wide spectrum of action, so you should not get too hung up on some kind of “magic” remedy that would destroy wasps. Various advertising materials, online stores and their managers can quite seriously sing their drugs as powerful remedies for wasps and hornets (and often this is true), although at the same time the same drug is already in another store or even just in another section of the same store is positioned as an excellent tool, for example, against cockroaches.

But what really should be emphasized when fighting wasps is the important nuances of the correct use of the appropriate insecticidal preparation:

1. To achieve a 100% result, if there is a nest in a summer cottage or a balcony of a city apartment, you need to be able to destroy both adult wasps, and larvae, and the queen in the nest. In this case, fast-acting insecticides are well suited.
2. If insects simply fly to the site to feed, they must, firstly, be attracted to the poisoned bait, and secondly, somehow forced to eat it. Accordingly, in this case, it is better to buy a drug that does not have a strong repulsive odor so as not to interrupt the smell of the bait.
3. When using insecticides for wasps in the garden or vegetable garden, you need to be able to do it safely both for the crop and for all the inhabitants of the site.

Generally speaking, today it is not a problem to buy a remedy for wasps, since almost any hardware store has a more or less wide range of various insecticidal preparations. However, many of them will be far from the best choice due to the strong unpleasant odor, relatively low efficiency and danger to human health.

Therefore, let's see what types of insect repellents exist today and which ones should be preferred when fighting wasps.

 

Types of funds from wasps

According to the method of application, anti-wasp agents can be divided into two types. The first type combines preparations intended for the preparation of poisoned baits and traps.

Such funds must meet the following requirements:

• do not have a strong odor;
• be highly toxic to wasps;
• not pose a high danger to warm-blooded animals (humans and animals).

The second group of drugs is the means by which you can quickly, reliably and safely destroy all insects in the nest for your health.Here are the main requirements:

• high speed of action of the drug on insects;
• ease of use (aerosol or spray);
• low toxicity to humans.

Depending on the form of release of the insecticidal preparation, there are:

1. Concentrates for dilution and subsequent application as a spray - some of these wasp control products are very effective and at the same time quite economical. Concentrates are well suited for both the preparation of poisoned baits and the treatment of wasp nests (after diluting the preparation according to the instructions).
2. Aerosols sold already completely ready for use (in spray bottles). They are usually treated with insect nests.
3. Insecticides in the form of powders that dissolve in water or are poured directly into the bait in order to obtain a poisonous treat. This group includes, for example, borax and boric acid - perhaps the most famous folk remedies for wasps.
4. Special gels with insecticides, which were originally created as good baits for insects (primarily for cockroaches and ants).

And also note insect adhesives, to which wasps simply stick.

Poisoned baits for wasps can also be divided into two types: the first are intended for baiting exclusively adult insects, and the second, oddly enough, for larvae as well.

The action of the baits of the first type is based on the taste preferences of adults: they will never "pass" past the available sweet syrups or fermented jam - in our case, poisoned with insecticides. Wasps willingly flock to them, and after feeding they quickly die.

The action of poisoned baits of the second type is not aimed at the immediate destruction of insects - they must first bring poison to their nest and feed the larvae and the uterus with a “delicacy”.

For example, meat treated with a suitable insecticidal preparation is laid out in a conspicuous place, and very soon attracts the first "victims". The poisoned wasp bait is carried to the nest, where they chew it hard themselves, and then feed it to the larvae, which leads to the death of both adult insects and brood. The queen of the hornet's nest also gets a treat.

To date, there are quite a few different insecticidal preparations suitable as a remedy for wasps. Below we will talk about the most effective and successful ones in practice.

 

Get from wasps

The drug Get (Get) is widely known as a powerful remedy for bedbugs and cockroaches, however, as a means of killing wasps, it also shows very decent results. Geth is of little danger to humans, and, which is very important, it has practically no smell. This tool can be used both to destroy the nest itself, and as a poisonous substance in wasp baits.

To destroy the nest, Get is diluted in water at a ratio of 100 ml of the drug (one bottle) to 2 liters of liquid. Next, the product is poured into a large plastic bag, which is thrown over the nest at night, and its neck is either tightly wrapped with tape (if the insect dwelling is hanging on a tree branch) or glued to a flat surface (if the nest, for example, is suspended on the ceiling of any room) . You can remove the package only after a couple of days, when all adults are already dead.

The nest, located in the ground or in a hollow of a tree, is simply filled with the same solution of Get, as in the previous case, and the exit is clogged with a cloth soaked in this solution.

To prepare a poisoned bait in beer, fermented jam or kvass, Get from a bottle is added in a ratio of 1:10, mixed, after which such a bait with poison is poured into plastic bottles. You can also treat a piece of meat with an aqueous emulsion of the drug, which is placed near the hornet's nest.

Due to the fact that Get is odorless, wasps absolutely calmly eat baits based on it. The drug has been repeatedly tested by many people in practice, and in general it can be described as a fairly effective poison against wasps.

Perhaps the main drawback of Get is its relatively high price. This drug costs about 800 rubles per 100 ml bottle and is sold mainly through the Internet.

Review

“The wasps appeared with us at the beginning of spring, and then there were an awful lot of them. It turned out that they built their nest near the toilet. Even then, we didn’t know how to poison wasps, we went to the neighbors, and they recently poisoned cockroaches, and they still had poison. We bred it, my husband took a sprayer and processed the entire nest in the evening. In the morning there was a whole carpet of dead wasps under him, but the living ones were still flying. Then we finished them too.”

Irina Vitalievna, Volgodonsk

 

Boric acid as a component of poisoned baits

Boric acid is perhaps the most famous folk remedy for wasps. As part of various baits, it is also widely used as a poison against cockroaches and ants.

The main advantages of boric acid:

• sufficiently high poisoning ability in relation to insects;
• relative harmlessness to humans (previously boric acid was even used to disinfect wounds);
• complete absence of smell;
• availability and low price (you can buy it at any pharmacy).

Usually, boric acid (as well as the Get tool described above) is added to fermented jam or beer, after which the prepared bait is poured into a suitable container. You can also treat pieces of raw meat with a suspension of boric acid and lay them out near wasp nests.

On a note

Borax is also a fairly well-known remedy for fighting wasps and other insects. By chemical nature, it is the sodium salt of boric acid, which has almost the same insecticidal properties as the acid itself.

 

Fighting wasps with Dichlorvos

Dichlorvos against wasps was used even when it was practically the only means of salvation from domestic insects. This aerosol product is still used today, although the active ingredient of the drug has long changed since Soviet times (now pyrethroids are used instead of organophosphorus substances in different brands of Dichlorvos).

Dichlorvos, as a rule, treats the nest of wasps. When choosing this tool, you need to understand that you will have to approach the nest and spray it from a spray can more than once. Each treatment will lead to the death of a sufficiently large number of insects, and in a few days it is possible to achieve the destruction of the entire wasp family.

When using Dichlorvos (however, like any other remedy), do not forget about precautions. The nest should be destroyed only at night, when insects are inactive.Be sure to wear tight clothes with sleeves, thick gloves and a beekeeper's mask.

You can buy Dichlorvos of various brands (Eco, Neo, Varan, etc.) today in almost any hardware store. The drug is inexpensive, and in most cases one cylinder is enough to destroy the average hornet's nest.

You can replace Dichlorvos with other similar aerosol insecticidal preparations: Raptor from crawling insects, Raptor from moths, Kombat, insect aerosol Chisty Dom, etc.

 

Delta Zone

Delta Zone Concentrate is another well-known and very effective drug that can be successfully used against wasps and hornets. A characteristic feature of this tool is the presence of a very faint smell, which makes it quite suitable for the preparation of poisoned baits.

A bottle of the drug for 100 ml costs about 650 rubles. In general, the effectiveness of Delta Zone and Get against wasps is approximately the same.

 

Karbofos

Karbofos is an insect poison known for its effectiveness and low price, although it is somewhat outdated. It is sold in the form of a powder, or in the form of a concentrate for the preparation of an aqueous emulsion. The latter form of this tool is more convenient for the preparation of wasp poisoning compounds.

Karbofos is also famous for its very sharp and unpleasant smell. That is why it will not work to use it as part of poisoned baits - the smell of the product will simply scare away most insects.

You can use the tool in two ways:

• dilute 100 ml of a concentrated solution of Karbofos with a liter of water, pour it into a large plastic bag, and then (at night) pull it from below onto the nest;
• or simply spray the nest with the resulting emulsion (in this case, the procedure sometimes has to be repeated more than once).

 

Traps and the drug Otos

Traps are widely known folk remedies for dealing with wasps. They are usually made from plain plastic bottles by cutting off the top and inserting it upside down into the bottom half.

Jam, beer, mash or kvass are poured into the finished trap. Get, boric acid, Chlorophos, or any other suitable odorless insecticidal agent can be added to the bait to increase effectiveness.

Such a trap can be used even without the upper part - wasps flying out of it will still die. In the case of a standard design, the presence of an insecticide in the bait greatly facilitates shaking the insects out of the bottle - by this time they are all dead (otherwise, you might have to think about how to quickly destroy a hundred grams of live wasps in a crowded trap).

Otos can also be used as a poisoned bait - both insecticides and flavored sugar have already been added to it. The drug is sold in a ready-to-use form. There is only one problem - you can not buy this remedy for wasps in every store.

 

Gels from cockroaches to fight wasps

You can also get rid of wasps in a house or in a summer cottage with cockroach gels. The peculiarity of insecticidal gels is that they are both bait and poison, so to speak, in one bottle (although such bait is not as attractive for wasps as it is for cockroaches and ants, but it often works too). In addition, gels are convenient to apply on almost any surface.

In the case of wasps, it is especially effective to apply gels to different places near their nest - this greatly increases the likelihood of insects detecting the product.

Almost any gels from cockroaches are suitable for the destruction of wasps, for example, Absolut, Globol or Fas, which are smeared either on a sheet of paper and laid out somewhere near the nest, or applied directly to a wall or tree trunk.

 

Glue for insects and traps based on it

And in conclusion, we note another effective type of wasp repellent - special adhesives, which are also used to catch cockroaches and ants. A piece of cardboard is smeared with glue, and a sweet bait is placed in the very center of the resulting sticky spot - for example, a piece of meat or watermelon. Wasps flocking to the treat naturally stick to the cardboard, and can be destroyed without any problems.

Glues such as Alt, Apcoll, Kapkan and some others can be used against wasps: there is not much difference between them, they all have approximately the same efficiency.

When using glue as a wasp repellant, there are two things to consider:

• it will take more than one day to fight insects, since all the inhabitants of the nest cannot be destroyed at once by this method;
• In addition to wasps, other insects can also fall into the glue trap.

In general, if the wasps do not terrorize the inhabitants of the site and do not particularly harm it, it is not worth fighting single specimens of insects. It must be remembered that they are of great benefit in destroying agricultural pests, and therefore the thoughtless destruction of wasps can lead to the fact that part of the crop will be endangered. Be prudent and use the appropriate means only when it is really necessary.

 

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