I have a shed roof that I have opened up the top end to do some wiring.
There are few old wasp and mud doper nest in their.
The way that it is constructed it is not that tightly sealed and I am not going to trying and restructure it.
Is there any thing worth doing to stop them. Does seem to be that big of a problem. But while I have it open I thought that I would check.
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can't help on the flying thing. I just spray em when they are out of hand
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Squirt them with WD40, the universal answer to everything. It does seem to discourage them from coming back.
Unless they are migrating into the interior of the house or congregating in places where they are dangerous to you and your family, forget it. You could soak the wood in each rafter bay with wasp-killer spray, but it would only keep them away for a year at most. By next spring the esters in the poison will have evaporated and they'll start moving back in.
The only way to keep them out long-term is to do what you said you don't want to do: seal up the roof cavity tight.
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Not a permanent solution, but what I tried this year at the back peak of my garage is mothballs.
Last year I had a couple large brown wasp nests in the overhang right at the gable peak. I took a handful of mothballs wrapped in an old nylon stocking from my wife, & stapled one on each side of the ridge board. A few bays down from the peak there was one nest just starting that I knocked down, but it seems to have been pretty effective so far. Long term, a hook and some sort of mesh basket would be pretty easy to replace - will probably need to replace a couple times a year, I'd guess.
Wouldn't suggest it near inhabited space because of the smell.
Don
Bill,
I spray Sevin which is pretty safe and works well but it degrades pretty quick. For longer lasting control you need to bump up the nasty a bit and use something like Demon or Demand. Diamataceous (sp) earth would work also.
KK