[Rhodes22-list] Mud/Wasp/Dirt "Dawbers"? Mark - read Robert Skinner's Reply

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Mark,

Mud dauber wasp are prolific on Lake Hartwell.  There is a lot of red mud
for them.  I have used the no-pest strip with great sucess and ease for
years.  

I tried to convince Elle to use them but because I suggested it, she tries
other high falutin methods that are a PITA.

The price has gone up on these yellow strips, and they do emit an odor, but
they work.  Nuff said.

Sometimes they are hard to find.  You get all kinds of sorry excuses for not
finding them.  But like space aliens, they are out there.

I have seen them in ships stores that are independent and want to serve
their customers.  I have gotten them in independent variety stores. 

BTW if you use microsoft it spell checker would recommend the correct
spelling...  I wondered where you kept your boat when I parked recently
south of the Lincoln Memorial and saw boats...

Ed K
Greenville, SC, USA
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No-Pest strip comes to mind.
Put it outside when you are sleeping in the cabin.

/Robert
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mputnam1 at aol.com wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have one of my once-every-four-months questions.? 
>
> I haven't been able to be on the boat much of this summer for work reasons
> and I recently went down to check on it and found that it has become
> "infested" (maybe too strong a word) with mud dawbers (or wasp dawbers or
> dirt dawbers, depending on who you ask) ... basically the wasps hover
> around the boat and inside I found two mud/dirt cocoons filled with larvae
> growing into more of the buggers.? 
>
> One cocoon (I don't even know if that is the right word, but it's a large
> clump of mud about three inches long stuck hard and fast to the side of a
> wall) was on the outer wall of the battery compartment next to the head
> and the other was under the sink.? There are probably more hidden
> elsewhere that I can't see ... when I had my engine serviced over the
> winter, apparently they found one inside the engine.
>
> I don't know if I'm even spelling "dawber" correctly.? Ed, I tried
> searching the archives via google and could find nothing, but maybe I'm
> misspelling it.? 
>
> Anyway, I'm wondering if any of you have any advice about how to deal with
> this infestation.? I was told the wasps are not particularly aggressive,
> but that they are hardy and have a good memory for where they were born.?
> Are there any treatments or traps you would recommend?? Have any of your
> dealt with the same problem?
>
> I figure this is either something that all of you already know about and
> I'm just way behind the curve and have missed any emails on it?... or
> maybe it's just something unique to the swamplands of the Potomac River.
>
> Any advice on how to catch/eliminate these dawbers would be much
> appreciated.
>
> All the best,
>
> - Mark P.
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