[Rhodes22-list] The definitive Get-Rid_of_Wasps_Bible

[elle]

Mark.

Yes, I had wasps (mud daUbers) and the other, more aggressive ones, living aboard my boat. After being badly stung twice, I decided that it was me or them, & it wasn't gonna be me....

First thing I did was keep two cans of wasp spray (one that shoots a stream & one that sprays a broad area) in a Rubbermaid container under the cockpit seat. When I went aboard I got it out first. I'd zap any that decided to check me out when I boarded...and it was usually about a dozen.

I also put mothballs in bags everywhere they could hide...in the cubbies in the coaming, on the engine life, in the laz, in the cabin. It stunk to high heaven for a while but that was the point. Insects hate the camphor.

Then I bought a cheapie plastic painter's tarp and Raid low-residue foggers. (Make sure they are low residue....so there's not a lot of powder to clean up.) They come 3 or 4 in a pack.

Keeping the cockpit and laz open (pick a time when there's no rain forecast!) I sealed the plastic tarp over the cabin , cockpit & laz area...including the cubbies, leaving a space for me to go in to set off the foggers. 

Then I took a couple deep breaths, went under the plastic, set one fogger in the cabin, then one on the cockpit floor & got the heck out.

I left it overnite & into the next day. 

I swept up the wasps that littered the cabin & cockpit floor, then got the spray that shoots a long stream & sprayed up behind the cockpit seats & as far up behind the coamings as it would go. Any nests that were there hopefully were saturated w/spray.  

That was a month or so...i saw one circling the boat the last time I was out...so they may be coming back.... 

elle






We can't change the angle of the wind....but we can adjust our sails.

 1992 Rhodes 22   Recyc '06  "WaterMusic"   (Lady in Red)


--- On Tue, 7/15/08, mputnam1 at aol.com <mputnam1 at aol.com> wrote:

> From: mputnam1 at aol.com <mputnam1 at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] John Lock, the illustrious, review Mark  Putnam's problem [Mark, study details contained therein
> To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
> Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 10:49 AM
> I was afraid that this would be the case -- that someone
> would have raised the same issue and I would have missed it
> because I can't read everything that's circulated
> and I wouldn't be able to find it in the archives.?
> Elle, did you save any of the emails that you could forward
> to me about daubers?? Thanks,
> 
> - Mark P.
> 
> P.S. I'm trying to figure out how Ed is going to
> chastise me over this one.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Lock <jlock at relevantarts.com>
> To: The Rhodes 22 Email List
> <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:36 am
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] John Lock, the illustrious,
> review Mark Putnam's problem [Mark, study details
> contained therein]
> 
> 
> 
> At 05:24 AM 7/15/2008 -0700, you wrote:
> >Earlier this year, Elle, posted this question and had
> many replies.  Yet
> >neither Goolge or Ask search engines find these posts. 
> Does this issue have
> >to do with the change in servers?  Or has
> 'Elle' edited herself out of the
> >archives?
> 
> Nope, shouldn't have anything to do with change in
> servers because 
> that was very recent.  Hard to say what Google or Ask might
> have 
> missed or why.  If you absolutely positively need an
> accurate 
> archive, use rhodes22.org or nabble.com.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> John Lock
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> s/v Pandion - '79 Rhodes 22
> Lake Sinclair, GA
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
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