European Wasps

Hi Lilac, not sure how you are going with your eradication program but I turned up some info for you I thought might be handy. http://www.monash.vic.gov.au/community/wasps.htm I hope you can stay safe sweety.

Firstly, I'm not a smart MyLotter - one of the dumber variety, but I do attend your discussions regularly & hopefully can help in this situation. I'm not sure how it is where you are, but here, at least some years ago, if you found European Wasps on your property, especially a nest, you called a certain government agency & they came over to get rid of it for free. At the time, the government must have been very bent on erradicating anything "unAustralian" - so the stuff they used sometimes killed off dogs & cats, which didn't bother them because they weren't Australian anyway! You could ask the local hardware store what they would recommend. If you had protective gear you could do it yourself with some of their chemicals. Here we have the European Wasp Control Program, which is a shared responsibility of State & Local Governments (nothing to do with me!), while where you are, it's DIY. http://www.lga.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=283 These wasps only go where there's meat or fallen fruit. Since I started cleaning up after my fruit trees, I stopped having this problem.

around here we get wasp sprays, find the nest and spray the heck out of it!

My grandmother was cleaning up in the rafters of the garage and came into contact with a nest of them. They stang her in the forehead and I remember she nearly fell off the ladder she was on. Her forehead Here is a step by step that seems to make sense. If it doesn't let me know and i will find something else for you.

You need to get a wasp and hornet spray that has a jet spray of so many feet.I used to sell the stuff to municipalities, so it worked quite well. Just make sure you get a jet spray and one that says it kills on contact. Don't want them to be able to fly around mad after you spray them or their nests.