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<blockquote data-quote="Alastair" data-source="post: 12316" data-attributes="member: 13"><p>Interesting, I have sometimes wondered if birds will take bees but have not seen it happen. If it was to such a serious extent they were exterminating hives I would be tempted to shoot them with the air gun.</p><p></p><p>Re wasps, simple as to get rid of. As per Mummzie, Vespex. It contains a poison, fipronil, which in quantity requires a qualified person to use it, so before you can buy you have to sit an online test.</p><p></p><p>Here is their site <a href="https://www.merchento.com/vespex.html" target="_blank">Vespex| Merchento</a></p><p></p><p>I did try the competitor product Hawkeye, but found it to be a waste of time. The various traps etc you can buy don't get rid of a significant amount either.</p><p></p><p>However if you do want to trap them here is the best. To do it, understand that unlike bees, wasps do not fear water, they can land in it and easily launch themselves back out of it. So you set the stick with some meat or fish over the bowl of water where wasps will fall into the water. But here's the trick. You put some dishwash liquid in the water. This breaks the surface tension the wasps have on their exoskeleton, and they loose their water repellency. They cannot launch back out of the water and drown.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://postimages.org/" target="_blank"><img src="https://i.postimg.cc/2CHRwy2V/wasp-trap.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alastair, post: 12316, member: 13"] Interesting, I have sometimes wondered if birds will take bees but have not seen it happen. If it was to such a serious extent they were exterminating hives I would be tempted to shoot them with the air gun. Re wasps, simple as to get rid of. As per Mummzie, Vespex. It contains a poison, fipronil, which in quantity requires a qualified person to use it, so before you can buy you have to sit an online test. Here is their site [URL='https://www.merchento.com/vespex.html']Vespex| Merchento[/URL] I did try the competitor product Hawkeye, but found it to be a waste of time. The various traps etc you can buy don't get rid of a significant amount either. However if you do want to trap them here is the best. To do it, understand that unlike bees, wasps do not fear water, they can land in it and easily launch themselves back out of it. So you set the stick with some meat or fish over the bowl of water where wasps will fall into the water. But here's the trick. You put some dishwash liquid in the water. This breaks the surface tension the wasps have on their exoskeleton, and they loose their water repellency. They cannot launch back out of the water and drown. [url=https://postimages.org/][img]https://i.postimg.cc/2CHRwy2V/wasp-trap.jpg[/img][/url] [/QUOTE]
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