Maria Lukyanenko/ article author
Identification of pests, work with insect cultures, micrograph of insects, bibliographic studies.

How to destroy a hornet’s nest, even in a remote place

Vespiary insects can justify on a land plot, under the roof of farm buildings, in the attic, in the garage, greenhouse, walls of a residential wooden house, on a tree in the garden, under the floor. How to get rid of an aspen nest depends on its location.

Appearance of the nest

To calculate pests correctly, you need to know what the hive looks like. Inconvenience to a person is often delivered public paper or wood wasps. They live in a swarm, build nests of different sizes. The bite of a regular wasp is dangerous with an allergic reaction of varying severity, in severe cases it can be fatal. Especially dangerous wasp venom for little children, allergy sufferers, people with pathologically weak immunity.

Building material workers are extracted from wood. The process is entertaining, exciting, amazing. The wasp spits out a special secret, after a while it scrapes a thin softened layer with powerful jaws. Belongs to the nest, chews until an adhesive mass is formed. It builds new cells from it, envelops the outer walls of the nest.

Outwardly, the structure resembles a sphere. The cocoon is oval, gray or brownish in color. It can be hung under the roof or placed under the floor, in the wall, in the soil. The average size does not exceed the size of an apple, but in some cases reaches 50 cm in diameter.

On a note!

The complex structure serves as a summer house. With the onset of cold weather, the swarm leaves housing. Fertilized young females seek refuge for wintering in the wood, the old uterus, working individuals die. In spring, females have the peculiarity of returning to their former place, organizing a new swarm. To avoid this, you need to remove the empty hornet's nest, destroy it in any convenient way.

You can find a hornet's nest in an inaccessible place by observing insects in the early morning or evening. At the end of the day, working individuals return to the hive for the night, with dawn they fly out on their own business.

Hive on the land

Wasp hive
Wasp hive

To destroy the hornet's nest in the ground, use several proven methods.

  • Burning. Pour with combustible substance, fill holes in a hole. Use gasoline, kerosene, engine oil. Set on fire. Even if not all members of the family are in the hive, they will not continue to live there, the elimination of pests will end. Working individuals die within 1-2 months.
  • Pouring boiling water. In this way, you can fight a hornet's nest in a greenhouse, greenhouse, garden, or garden. A bucket of boiled water is poured into the hole. The next day, you need to fill the hornet's nest again. Then destroy. They dig it out, take it out, throw it into the river or burn it. Or they are bombarded with earth in large quantities to remove entrances and exits.
  • You can smoke a hornet's hive with caustic smoke. In the immediate vicinity make a normal fire or set fire to a piece of rubber. It will smolder for a long time, filling the hive with caustic smoke.
  • The use of poison. To eliminate the family, poison in the form of a powder is poured into a mink or near the entrance or a solution is poured insecticide. Dusts have a contact-intestinal effect, remain valid on the surface for up to one month. The destruction of pests occurs gradually.The family dies out within 1-2 weeks. The action of the solutions lasts for several days, but they kill the family much faster. The solution is also added to the bait, which is placed directly at the entrance.

Means for destroying wasp nests located in an inaccessible place should be odorless so as not to scare away wasps ahead of time. Effective preparations. Clean house in the form of a powder, Lambda Zone, Get, Delta Zone - concentrates for the preparation of a solution.

Important!

The destruction of hornet's nests in the open air should be done early in the morning or in the evening. Be sure to be careful. Act clearly, quickly. Protective clothing should be worn so as not to become a victim and not to receive numerous bites.

Hive under the roof

Wasp hive under the roof
Wasp hive under the roof

There are several ways to remove a hornet’s nest. Each of them requires caution. Be sure to protect yourself from possible bites.

  • It’s easiest to remove the hive from the attic after flooding it with water. Use hot or cold. They fill a bucket, pre-set a ladder to make it easier to get to the hive. Gently immerse the hornet’s house for several minutes. To increase the effectiveness of the method, a little soap is added to the water. After half an hour, they remove the cocoon, destroy it in any way.
  • You can kill a hornet's nest in the attic with poison. In this case, use a poison bait. Wasps love juice, kvass, jam, honey, lemonade, beer, sugar syrup. Odorless poison, boric acid, is added to these products. Poured into saucers or make a home-made trap from a plastic bottle, suspended near the hive. In the first case, insects bring poison into the nest, feed the larvae, the uterus. In the second, they come across themselves.
  • In a wooden house, you can get rid of the family, you can ruin the hornet's nest in the barn using an ordinary vacuum cleaner with a bag. Turn on the vacuum cleaner at full power, tighten the wasps inward until they remain inside the house. The bag is carefully removed, immersed in water. After half an hour they get rid of the contents.

Remove the hornet's nest on the balcony can be done in similar ways. The situation is simplified by the fact that the hive is located at a low height, it is easier to reach it. To remove the housing of wasps from the window, you must first fill it with hot or cold water.

Hornet's nest in hard-to-reach spots

Insects often show ingenuity, build housing in the most incredible places. If the slot is not available, there are several ways to use it.

  • In the wall of a residential building, close the cracks with any suitable material. Often use polyurethane foam.
  • You can remove insects from the cracks in the wall with a vacuum cleaner, but in this case there is no guarantee that the uterus will also get there. If it stays in the same place, the insect colony will quickly replenish. There remains a small percentage that the female will leave her former place of residence, considering it life-threatening.
  • In an inaccessible place, the easiest way to poison a hornet’s nest. Poison baits are laid out in the place from which insects fly. It is necessary to take into account the fact that adults eat juices, sweets, lemonade, honey, jam, larvae prefer meat, fish.

With the help of poison get rid of pests under the floor, in the wall, on the roof.

On a note!

You can gradually remove the hornet's nest in the house with boric acid. The powder is poured into the cracks or added to the bait. To prepare a solution, a bag of powder is diluted in 1 liter of water, thoroughly stirred. Pour into the bait no more than 1 tbsp. spoons. Otherwise, the taste will be bitter, wasps will not eat such food.

The fight in the garage

Garage wasp jack
Garage wasp jack

To clean the nest of wasps in the garage, use different methods suitable for pest control outdoors, indoors.

  • A fire is laid out nearby, where they burn a long smoldering material. Often used to smoke rubber. A few hours of gas attack, wasps will begin to leave the hive.A couple of days of such procedures, the hornet's nest is completely empty.
  • Another quick way to get rid of pests in the garage is to fill with mounting foam. It quickly hardens, does not give a single chance to survive. The same method is used if the nest is in the wall.
  • Standard method with water. Dip in a bucket or pour boiling water. You can neutralize the family in half an hour.
  • To destroy the family using a vacuum cleaner. It is possible to exterminate pests in such a popular way quite quickly.
  • To neutralize the entire population, get rid of wasps as soon as possible with the help of poison. Often use poisonous bait. Hang traps from plastic bottles or pour treats into saucers, lids.
  • They scare them away in the garage with engine oil. Pour it into the nest, process the wall, floor, where insects were seen.

An effective remedy for wasps in the form of a powder is Clean House, Baigon, Trianon, Global, Tiuram. The best drugs in the form of concentrates are Get, Delta Zone. Aerosols with a pleasant aroma - Raptor, Combat, Clean House. Especially popular Mosquitall.

If the hornet’s nest is located outdoors in the back of the garden, at the end of the garden, you can do without deliverance. Wasps on the site in the summer destroy many pests, so they benefit from their presence.

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