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I'm relatively new to the Pacific Northwest and so am inexperienced at dealing with the wasps (yellow jackets? a little larger and slimmer than a bee, kind of golden colored) who are moving into the eaves at this time of year. Its interested that I had none in my California homes, where you'd think they'd love the mild climate!
I've used spray in the more accessible areas, but I think they'll just move back in since the season is barely getting started, and that still leaves the roof peaks that I can't get to. I assume if I knock them out of the peaks with my pressure washer, they'll move back in next week? Last year I hung one of those yellow triangular wasp traps on a nearby tree, but I think it wasn't close enough to the house so I didn't catch a thing! Would rather not hang one of those not-so-attractive things *on* my house.
Interesting! I gotta admit, I don't have aphids! I guess the areas I have set up gardens are too close to where they hang out, so they do buzz around me. Currently a few are even trying to set up a nest in my car's side mirror casing. I wonder just how I could get them to set up shop further away from the house and my gardening areas.
If they are yellow jackets, you want them dead. They are aggressive and multiply like you would not believe. Get some of that foaming spraay and soak every nest you can find. Follow them when they fly around to find the nest.
Mud wasps are hamless. Except they will put so much mud in your attic over the course of several years that you can have structural damage.
Paper wasps are in between. I prefer to kill them. Ladybugs eat aphids too and they do nto hurt you. Plus they are pretty
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Last year I hung one of those yellow triangular wasp traps on a nearby tree, but I think it wasn't close enough to the house so I didn't catch a thing! Would rather not hang one of those not-so-attractive things *on* my house.
I wonder just how I could get them to set up shop further away from the house and my gardening areas.
