Wasps and hornets, which build nests under the roof of the house and in other hard-to-reach places, cause serious problems for summer residents and owners of private houses. Large colonies represent a certain danger to humans. It is extremely difficult to get rid of such insects. Specialized companies will tell you how to remove wasps from under the roof of the house, offer special chemicals and, if necessary, perform all the work.
Neighborhood danger
Wasps and hornets often settle near human dwellings, build their nests in gardens in the ground or inside the roof of the house, causing a lot of problems for summer residents, forcing them to destroy such colonies of these extremely dangerous insects. A swarm can quickly increase in size, and a small nest of a child’s fist can grow to a huge colony of tens of thousands of wasps in just a year and a half.
Wasps are extremely dangerous insects that selflessly guard their nests. Special sentinels attack any alien approaching their colony. Therefore, it is not recommended to approach closer than 2-3 meters to the home of such insects. You should be especially careful with hornets, which look like magnified wasps. These are extremely dangerous insects, a few bites of which will be enough to kill a person.
It is extremely difficult to deal with a large wasp colony on your own. Even after the physical destruction of the nest, these insects will return to their former place, and soon the workers will rebuild everything anew. As a result, you will have to somehow solve the existing problem again. Often, wasps build their nests under the roof, and it will be simply impossible to physically destroy the nest. It becomes problematic to break and destroy it with a stick.
Safe fight against insects
In order to guarantee the destruction and poisoning of wasps, it is necessary to first of all find the place where these insects have made their home. Wasp nests are located in hard-to-reach places, so simply burning or removing them will not work. Often, such insects settle under the visor of the house, in the holes under the slate, in the cavities between the siding and the walls. Depending on their species, wasps can build nests that hang like balls and are attached to the cornice or roof with a small leg. Also, insects can build their homes in any available cavities, setting up improvised honeycombs with brood.
You can chase away or destroy a nest of wasps under the roof using the following methods:
- destroy insects with purchased or self-made traps;
- use poisoned baits;
- burn or physically destroy wasp nests.
The most reliable and effective way to exterminate wasps is mechanical damage to the nest. However, it is necessary to take into account that this is the most dangerous method for humans. It is necessary not only to burn or somehow damage the nest, but also to try to catch and kill insects as much as possible. The ball hanging under the ceiling or eaves is the easiest to destroy at night, carefully approaching sleeping and inactive wasps.
Often, summer residents try to fight wasps and hornets that have built a nest under the roof by simply foaming the entrance hole, hoping to get rid of such uninvited guests.
In some cases, when the dwelling in insects is in a hard-to-reach place and has only one entrance, it is really possible to solve existing problems with the help of such a simple method. However, if there are numerous passages leading to the nest, while wasps can sneak into the house through the roof, then such foaming of the main passage will be extremely dangerous.
Using the simplest traps
Summer residents advise using plastic bags that are pulled over the nest, after which the neck is tied tightly. All insects will be trapped. If dichlofos or any other chemical is poured into such a package beforehand, it will lead to their rapid death.
You can destroy a large colony with the help of polyethylene, when the bag is not tied, but simply fixed with tape. It will also not be superfluous to pour various insecticides into the bag, which quickly destroy such insects. In such a case, it is best to act at night, when the wasps are less active. At the same time, you should work quickly, fixing such an improvised trap around the perimeter in literally 10-20 seconds.
Plastic bottle trap
You can also fight these insects with the simplest self-made traps made of plastic bottles. It will be impossible to immediately destroy a colony of wasps in this way, but it is quite possible to reduce their number. You can make such a trap from improvised means. Most often, plastic bottles and eggplants are used, in which the upper part is cut off, after which various baits are poured inside.
You can use as bait:
- beer;
- sweet fermented fruits;
- kvass with sugar;
- sour jam
It is necessary to place such traps close to the nest of wasps, changing the bait every 2-3 days. Often, summer residents pour various insecticides into the traps, which have no smell and at the same time effectively destroy such harmful insects.
With the help of the simplest devices, the gardener and the owner of a private house can control the colony of insects in the yard, and later in the fall and winter, he will mechanically destroy all the wasp nests that remained on the roof.
Use of insecticides
Various insecticides show the greatest effectiveness in the fight against these extremely dangerous stinging insects. You can use both purchased chemistry and improvised solutions, including boric acid. The latter is odorless and effectively destroys these pests. Boric acid provokes paralysis and death of wasps, but this chemical must enter the digestive tract, so summer residents add boric acid to the baits of all kinds of traps.
Effective insecticides:
- Sinuzan.
- Executioner.
- Tetrix.
- Diclofos ECO.
- Raid.
Treatment with such poison is carried out in compliance with safety measures. It is necessary to wear a tight robe or similar clothing, use rubber gloves, protective glasses and respirators. Poisonous agents are prepared at home immediately before their use, processing the nest and trying to pour the drug right into the entrance hole in order to destroy not only adult insects, but also their larvae. The maximum effect of such chemistry is maintained for two days, during which the wasps die, and those that remain alive leave their old place forever.
Insecticide checkers , which are placed as close as possible to the nest or near the entrance under the roof and at the eaves of the roof, are popular . In the open air, such products retain their effectiveness for 14 days, and indoors – up to 30 days. Insecticides paralyze insects, killing them literally in a few minutes. The advantage of such smoke bombs is the penetration of the substance into all the gaps. This property allows you to effectively use the poison in cases where the wasp family is in the wall, under the floor or in the roof.
Precautions
Destruction of wasps in the attic of the house and in the yard of the country house is not the safest activity. It is necessary to observe maximum caution, taking into account the following recommendations of specialists:
- Nests, even the smallest wasps, should be destroyed at night or in winter during the hibernation period of dangerous insects.
- In cold, rainy and wet weather, wasps will be inactive and lethargic, so you can destroy them even during the day.
- Before processing and destroying nests, you should dress in a beekeeper’s suit, and in its absence – in tight clothes.
- Face protection and gloves are mandatory. You can use various rubberized masks, over which swimming goggles are worn.
- Approach the location of the hives slowly and quietly. Wasps have excellent hearing and can catch any sudden movements, which quickly wake up the whole nest.
- If the wasps still flew out of the nest during such manipulations, you should immediately retreat and wait a few hours in the house.
- To prevent the return of wasps to destroyed nests in the next season, they should be cleaned and treated with an antiseptic.
- After using chemicals, clothes must be cleaned, you must take a shower or bath.
When using purchased insecticides, it is necessary to follow the instructions for a specific product exactly. This will ensure its effectiveness, guaranteeing complete elimination of adult insects and their larvae, so that in the future striped pests do not return to their old destroyed nest.
Today, you can find special aerosol products on sale that have a long nozzle tube for spraying such insecticides in hard-to-reach places, under slate and the roof of the house. The use of chemicals will allow you to deal with these dangerous insects even if their nest is located deep under the roof and it is physically impossible to get to it.
Appeal to professionals
Today, there are specialized companies and private specialists in large and small cities that offer services for the destruction of dangerous insects. If the nest of wasps is located in a hard-to-reach place, in a wooden attic or under the roof of a house, it will simply be impossible to properly treat the colony using effective chemicals. It is easier to turn to professionals, especially since the cost of their services is not too high today.
A professional in a special protective suit will treat the nest with a special powerful chemical and is guaranteed to smoke out the wasps. In each specific case, the cost of such work will vary depending on the size of the wasp colony and the location of the nest. It is absolutely recommended to contact professionals if huge hornets have started under the roof or in the apartment. It is extremely difficult to destroy them on your own. These are dangerous insects to stay away from.