How to get rid of wasps in a summer cottage, useful tips
Nothing and no one can overshadow the summer vacation in the summer cottage, the joy of harvesting and preparing it, like biting and stinging insects, such as wasps, which are very dangerous for life and health. What is the danger of wasps for people, animals and crops, and how to deal with these winged aggressors in the infield, if a peaceful existence is completely impossible, we will tell in our article.
Content
- Wasps in the infield: harm and benefit
- Wasps in the country: what is the danger
- Household Wasps: Control Methods
- DIY trap for wasps video video
Wasps in the infield: harm and benefit
Every person, whether it is the owner of a country house or city apartment, has repeatedly come across such ubiquitous and annoying, as well as very dangerous creatures wasps.
The peak of the wasp invasion of apartments, houses and orchards was in the second half of summer, beginning of autumn: it was then that the hornet family, which had grown over the beginning of summer, came out, like us, to harvest (apples, pears, grapes). Plus, wasps, along the way, encroach on all our food: meat, ice cream, pastries, preserves and compotes will not relax near the pool, on the veranda. That is, it would seem sheer harm!
But, since these creatures were created by nature, it means there is benefit from them, moreover, benefit for the garden garden.
The benefit is that wasps in the area around the country house, in the garden, in the beds, in the first half of the summer actively fight with numerous garden pests and their larvae: as a predator, wasps use other insects and their larvae to feed their offspring. Thus, they not only increase our yield, but also help to keep many plants healthy and strong.
But such harmony reigns until that moment, until a person intervenes and then, wasps are not just harm or benefit, but real danger!
Wasps in the country: what is the danger
At first, it is a danger to remain completely without a crop of apples, pears, plums, grapes, strawberries and other fruits and berries ripening by the end of summer.
No, of course, they will not be able to completely eat all the fruits on a pear or apple tree, but they will spoil if the swarm is large, and wasps are territorial creatures and hunt around their nests, almost everything. After that, you can simply forget about storing these fruits in the fresh season in winter. After all, damaged fruits are not stored! But the small berries of the wasp can eat clean.
Secondly,if there are beehives in the summer cottage and you are engaged in beekeeping, then the invasion of wasps can affect the number of bees, because wasps are predators and eat all insects.
Thirdly, a wasp sting for humans and domestic animals is at least unpleasant, but at least fatal due to the development of a possible allergic reaction (edema, intoxication)!
Household Wasps: Control Methods
Wasps, how to get rid of the issue of concern to all summer residents and rural residents for a very long time.
That is why various methods and methods of combating wasps arose, based on knowledge of the behavioral characteristics of these animals.
How can I get rid of wasps in the house and in the garden:
- wasps have a very delicate sense of food smells:do not throw away or leave any food (animals and humans) in an accessible place for them. That is, the leftover food should be disposed of either in a trash can with a tight-fitting lid, or, if you use them as compost, drip them with earth. And the room itself, in which you live and cook food, eat is equipped with nets for the windows and an insect curtain on the magnets on the door. This, of course, will not help to completely get rid of wasps in the country, but it will minimize your meetings with possible collisions and bites in the country house.
- wasps constantly live in the same territory, near the nest, which is built under the roof, in the attic of a country house or in outbuildings, therefore, there are many ways how to get rid of the nest of wasps, thereby fundamentally eliminating the danger of colliding with them. This should be done in early summer, when the hive has not yet grown, in the dark, when insects are not active. If the wasp nest is an isolated hanging object, then gloves and a durable plastic bag of suitable sizes can be dispensed with.
But, if the hornet’s nest is built into the insulation or is located in the slots and openings under the roof, in the walls, etc., it is better not to take risks and call specialists to remove it or to fight the wasps directly in other ways, such as, for example, wasp trap
- wasp trap this is the best way to preserve crops and distract wasps from home and other food sources.
There are many options and designs for wasp traps:
- those bought in stores are very attractive in appearance, functional, but, nevertheless, they cost money.
- trap for wasps with syrup an open container filled with viscous odorous and sweet contents that attract wasps. Free option, but in such a trap for wasps there is a chance to slip away after a generous treat.
- a trap for wasps from a bottle accessible for independent execution even by a child, a functional and completely free way to distract and eliminate wasps in a summer cottage.
DIY trap for wasps
Wasps how to get rid of folk remedies? Set home-made traps for wasps from a bottle in places of their greater congestion on garden trees and shrubs, in the backyard of a country house, where there are fewer people.
And making traps for wasps from a bottle can be quick and easy:
- we take a plastic, preferably transparent bottle or a bottle for water (any volume),
- cut off the upper narrowed part of the bottle, the funnel, turn it over and fasten it to the lower bowl.
- we fasten these two parts with wire or rope, with a cord, while creating an impromptu pen (in case we need to hang a trap).
- Pour soap water, syrup, compote, etc. into our trap for wastewater.
- set a trap in a place where there are many wasps
and change its contents (liquid with a large number of wasps every 2 days, it is possible more often if there are a lot of wasps). Cleaning such a trap for wasps will require skill, it will be necessary to bend the edge of the funnel.
There is another option for a wasp trap from a bottle, but for such a trap you will need to buy special caps caps:
And as a result of using a trap for wasps from a bottle, only such friendly wasps will be found on a summer cottage
