They sell a fly gun in the gadget shop that might work, but you'd have to put one person on 'wasp duty'.



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

Hee, cool. I volunteer for fly gun duty.



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Do something pretty while you can...

Those guns are cool, if inefficient



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there are also battery operated fly swatters that shock the offending insect and render it either dead or stunned and easier to kill.

No need to use hair-spray to get wasps, which wouldn't be good in a food factory. A good dose of water from a plant spray or a water pistol will clog their wings so they fall and can be squished. This approach can be a bit messy, mind you.

Welcome back, Alison, comment was about the urban myth that the '21' were gnats.

Aha! Now I understand ;)



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I've got one of those fly gun things, but it has yet to be tested. The little blighters will insist on landing on windows...



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

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So shoot the window!



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Those who forget the pasta are doomed to reheat it.

We haven't had wasps this year so far and we've been eating out in the garden every night for the past 2 weeks or more.

Loads of flies though - fly papers up everywhere - and they work! The Dodo and I have found a morbid fascination in watching flies land on the fly papers and not be able to get off. Even better when they accidently get stuck upside down - they wave their little legs about in the air, not realising that the more they struggle, the more they stick. Who cares that there's "nothing on the telly" when you've fly-papers to watch!

Don't talk to me about wasps! I had to get two nests removed within a week from the house, one in the porch and one in the cavity in Sarah's bedroom.

I got rid of them and have now found that rats have chewed a hole into our shed. I've put down rat bait, in a tube so that the neighbourhood cats don't find it, as long as they don't eat any rats, they'll be OK.

The old jam and water in a jamjar, covered with paper with holes in, works for me.

Dave - don't forget Lark's Vomit

I can vouch for Jasper being a local Wiltshire name for wasps (7 miles down the road from Ptolemy)

they don 't like landing on places cleaned with antibacterial cleaner, they along with all other flying things so far die from just landing on it we think



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actually he says peep, cheep, chirrup, squalk,muttermuttergrumblegrumble, oh and now he falls off his pirch whish is followed by a sheepish peek round to see if anyone was looking and a quick scramble back up

Thanks, Pod! And I in turn can vouch for the rats, we have them along the road from you here too (inevitable when you keep chickens, it costs me a fortune in rat bait every year yet the blighters still keep reappearing)

Andrea, are you sure about "all other flying things" dying from landing on bacterial cleaner? OK so my hens don't fly THAT well, but they do try (bless them!), and I use plenty of b/cleaner around the henhouse. And I'm fairly certain they use it on aeroplanes and helicopters too.

OK so I'm joking. Sorry if I didn't make that too clear...

We don't have a major wasp problem in Aus. I think the sheer volume of flies scares them off.

Auntsassy - it's compulsive, but I think that they need to introduce more characters, and the plot has become formulaic...



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There are rats somewhere near where I live, probably in the overgrown no-man's-land that runs behind the four houses in this terrace. I've never seen one alive though, just the dead ones that Navarre used to bring back for me. I was proud of that cat.

We've now got a series of wasp traps. It looks like they work using pheromones - I thought that worker wasps were 'asexual' so does anyone know how pheromones would attract them?

Dunno, but bumble bees crawl over me in summer when I'm wearing sunblock. They really seem to like me. Problem is, I pick them up and then my five year old wonders why honey bees sting him when he picks them up.

KT, I thought wasps were like other bee types and had a queen....if that's the case then the phereomones should work beautifully!

AAC - But shouldn't the only queen that attracted them be their own? Otherwise, wouldn't they just go back to the nearest hive every time they went out? Or is there a generic, all-powerful pheromone??



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