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Is there anything you can put in a shooting house that will repel wasps during the summer? Trying to come up with something better than spraying them right before deer season starts.

Nothing I have found. Isnt that what the young kids and rookie members are for? Was when I was growing up.

I've heard moth balls will keep them out but never tried it. What we do is the night before we plan on cleaning out the stands, put those bug bombs in the stands, the kind you would put in your house like to kill fleas, make sure you do it in the dark as wasp dont fly in the dark, most of the time, it will kill the wasps, but always make sure before you get in the stands the wasp are gone, sometimes there may be a nest that did not get a good shot of the spray and they will still come after you. Its still a whole lot easier than trying to spray each individual nest.

Call Billy the Exterminator. He doesn't seem to do so well getting rid of roaches, http://www.tmz.com/2010/04/13/billy-the ... ow-arrest/ , but maybe he can assist you with getting rid of your wasp.

Drakeshead wrote:Call Billy the Exterminator. He doesn't seem to do so well getting rid of roaches, http://www.tmz.com/2010/04/13/billy-the ... ow-arrest/ , but maybe he can assist you with getting rid of your wasp.

Thats funny as he!!. They are rock star staus now. I wonder of Billy got a call from his momma...."BBBBIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.....Ricky's been out cattin with that crazy ex wife again and got busted littering and........smokin the reefer, you think you can run on over there and help him out?" Billy:"Sure mom...i'll get him out of jail and get rid of them roaches with my powerful chrysanthemum based bug spray so it doesnt do any more damage to brothers brain cells."

You can buy yellow jacket traps at Lowe's that might also work for wasps.

A guy that was a self proclaimed "Historian" told me that the reason ceilings on old house's porches were painted baby blue was to mimick (sp?)
the color of the sky and it would keep wasp from building nests on the porch because they thought it was the sky. May try painting the inside of the blind
sky blue and see if it works. Just a suggestion.

Demon w/p leaves a dry powder residue

Use spray foam an seal up all the holes where they are getting in. If you are talking about a true enclosed shooting house.

Thanks for the good replies guys.

We have been using the foggers but you have to open the windows afterward and let it air out for a few days because the smell is so strong. Think I am gonna try to work on some of them and seal up all of the holes big enough for wasps to get in.

Mine has about 15ft of water in it at the moment, got a feeling thats gonna help with the wasp.

insman wrote:Mine has about 15ft of water in it at the moment, got a feeling thats gonna help with the wasp.

15 feet...that must be a tall shooting house if it has 15 feet of water in it.

Pond

Here's my wasp-repelling tip of the day....insecticide cattle ear tags....I use 'em in my deer stands, duck blinds, over my carport door for skeeters, farm shop, you name it....and, they last a LONG time.

Just don't hunt in the summer. Problem solved.

get a couple of the cattle ear tags that are impregnated with insecticide. hang couple in stand, no more wasp or dirt dobbers. use them in wood duck boxes also.