Operation Wasp Doom has commenced! Skill-It arrived today, put a couple of ounces in just now. I drowned two wasps today while I was in pool, so the number seems to have dwindled. Still, we shall see!
Jerks with Wings
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Yes! Today is the first day since last post that it hasn’t been raining! I tested my water around noon, no wasps. Went outside with dogs around 5:30, and I have four wasps that have met their untimely end! Plus a bunch of love bugs, which is great, a few less to be stuck on my car!
Awesome. I have mine too but am waiting til the morning, post-physio, to treat since they recommend staying out of the pool for six hours.
I only added two ounces. No change to my chemistry. It did foam for a few minutes, then that was gone.
More dead wasps today!
More dead wasps today!
when you talk about the foam, did you add to the skimmer or in front of the return?
I actually have my auto cleaner attached to the return, and I don’t put stuff in my skimmer. So I cast it across the surface and stirred with my brush. It wasn’t a lot of foam, and was gone in a few minutes.
cfherrman
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Love the title, been laughing at it since you started it
Borates can kill the wasps too, maybe after they flown off
Borates can kill the wasps too, maybe after they flown off
In person, I call them a different name, but this is a family show!
My issue may not be any kind of a sting-y anything, but they do just annoy the *#;'% out of you (me).
Maybe they're a local blight here in NE Texas, lucky all you others if so.
Flying ants.
During a certain season - which we just arrived at - they suddenly 'arrive' - sporadically, but on each occasion they do so ALL AT ONCE, and evidently either VERY THIRSTY, or HOT
I'll get to the pool - to monitor, check, test, clean, or, who knows? Swim (ie float and doze!) maybe!
And it'll be covered in them. And the skimmer sock and basket will be full of them. And I'll be all over the pool with a leaf net gathering them up just to turn around and find a bunch more have landed where the surface two minutes/seconds ago was spotless
Does ANYone out there know how to hold them at bay?!
Maybe set up a ring of fire around the pool?!
Maybe they're a local blight here in NE Texas, lucky all you others if so.
Flying ants.
During a certain season - which we just arrived at - they suddenly 'arrive' - sporadically, but on each occasion they do so ALL AT ONCE, and evidently either VERY THIRSTY, or HOT
I'll get to the pool - to monitor, check, test, clean, or, who knows? Swim (ie float and doze!) maybe!
And it'll be covered in them. And the skimmer sock and basket will be full of them. And I'll be all over the pool with a leaf net gathering them up just to turn around and find a bunch more have landed where the surface two minutes/seconds ago was spotless
Does ANYone out there know how to hold them at bay?!
Maybe set up a ring of fire around the pool?!
cfherrman
TFP Guide
I used fire either from a starting fluid can or a weed burner to scare away clouds of flying ants. Not sure if that's safe for home use though
Yeah, we get the flying ant swarms too. Thankfully it doesn’t seem to last long. I just skim, skim and skim some more.
i had the same flying ant problem for about 2 days this year. last year we had to deal with them for about a week or two. it seemed like everyday around 2pm these things would come in for about an hour or so. i did however cut down a couple of trees behind my fence line and have not seen them except those 2 days. dont know if cutting down a couple of trees made a difference but they are not around this year
Many of us in Arizona use swamp coolers which circulate water which attract wasps as soon as you turn them on every year. The best way I found to deter them are just hanging up a dryer sheet here and there. Doesn't seem to matter which smell but I have not had wasp or mud dauber issues in years. I just change them out now and then or maybe once a year.
Dryer sheets eh?
No END to their alternate uses!
Definitely be trying that one ...
(cfherrman I'm not even sure if you're serious ... and I'm not entirely sure I want to know ...)
No END to their alternate uses!
Definitely be trying that one ...
(cfherrman I'm not even sure if you're serious ... and I'm not entirely sure I want to know ...)
cfherrman
TFP Guide
Huh, Monkey! That is interesting! I will have to try that!
(no need for swamp coolers here!)
(no need for swamp coolers here!)
Update...I do have an endless supply of bees due to the beekeeper across the road. The bees since treatment are less inclined to hang out in the pool directly, and ultimately die if the do. But the little morons are now constantly trying to invade the deck box where the wet noodles go to get at the chlorine scent on the noodles.
I need to get a saltwater decoy going in the front yard again.
I need to get a saltwater decoy going in the front yard again.