Time to Spray Already
By Jim Bauer
@porwest (112717)
United States
March 30, 2025 10:40am CST
Luckily, I have some triazicide in the garage I can mix up in my hand sprayer since already I have some wasps buzzing around in the typical areas they tend to want to start nesting, in and around my mailbox and around my main window in the front.
I do not like wasps and absolutely will not tolerate their presence.
Triazicide is just an over the counter pesticide, not nearly as good or as powerful as the stuff I had access to when I worked in pest control many years ago. But it works well enough.
War is on. You have no business here, wasps.
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@2ndchances24 (12188)
• Cloverdale, Indiana
30 Mar 25
yep it's that time of year already
time to gang up on the bug sprays.
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@porwest (112717)
• United States
31 Mar 25
@2ndchances24 Ours will hang around bushes and what not. I spray everything. Around the windows and doorframes, on and around the light fixtures and mailbox, the bushes, near the grill, you name it, wherever they might go I make it poisonous for them. lol
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@2ndchances24 (12188)
• Cloverdale, Indiana
31 Mar 25
@porwest Since we had all the trees around our place cut down
we haven't had any around which is a good thing.
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@lovebuglena (52144)
• Staten Island, New York
30 Mar 25
Last summer we had them (not sure exactly which ones). They were flying in and out of our siding above the front door. Sometimes we’d find some inside the house. Either on living room windows or in window near front door. Not sure if that was only after hubby sprayed outside or not. I do not want a repeat of that. I’m afraid of them.
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@porwest (112717)
• United States
30 Mar 25
I remember the discussions about them. If I remember correctly, they were yellow jackets that you had. Just as evil as the brown paper wasps I am getting now, and I had a bad experience with yellow jackets last year as well as you might recall when they chased me down and stung me multiple times after running over their nest with my lawn mower. lol
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@lovebuglena (52144)
• Staten Island, New York
31 Mar 25
@porwest Yeah I remember that. That wasn’t a fun experience for you. I can’t tell them apart lol but exterminator told me they were yellowjackets. Regardless of who they were I don’t want them or any of their counterparts anywhere in or around my house.
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@porwest (112717)
• United States
31 Mar 25
@lovebuglena Oh, yellow jackets are quite distinct. Even the other varieties are. The brown paper wasps are of course a brown or mahogany color like the one in the picture. Yellow jackets have yellow and black faces and yellow and black striped abdomens. Mud daubers are bluish or black in color and so on and so forth.
Yellow jackets are extremely aggressive. Brown paper wasps are less aggressive but still annoying. Personally, I don't want anything that stings around.
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@kaylachan (84699)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
30 Mar 25
The bugs are back here, too. My feet were itching for no reason the other day.
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@kaylachan (84699)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
24 Aug
@porwest They like my blood for some reason. George used to joke because it's sweet, because I'm a good person in his eyes.
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@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
31 Mar 25
We usually get a horde of ants inside this time of year...The mice are gone...now come the ants. HOWEVER, they don't seem to be as bad this year. Probably because every bit of food is in the fridge or containers because of the mice. They can't find anything to eat. Good luck with the wasps.
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@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
25 Aug
@porwest I'd better not have a mouse this fall.
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@porwest (112717)
• United States
25 Aug
@LindaOHio Yeah, you spent a lot of money closing holes. Fingers crossed. lol
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@terri0824 (5203)
• United States
31 Mar 25
Wasp generally don't bother me....but the ground bees will make me swell up real quick.
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@porwest (112717)
• United States
24 Aug
We have a lot of them outside buzzing around the pool and pump. They really tend to leave you alone, and so I don't make it a point to kill them. But if they are in the house, they won't make it out alive. Even the ones outside, when they are too close and bothersome, that does make me a bit nervous.
