bombarded by wasps whilst eating

LostFound


Joined: 03/08/2009
Posts: 387

Message Posted:
07/08/2010 09:48

Any tips on how to keep wasps away from outdoor dining, had 8 round my plate the other evening.

MartinM


Joined: 03/10/2009
Posts: 166

Message Posted:
07/08/2010 09:56

Its a real problem sometimes with outdoor dining. I try and encourage them away by leaving a piece of melon near the table but not on the table if you see what I mean. A kind of bribe to stay away from me. Success depend upon the level of belligerency of the wasps

malsancak


Joined: 23/08/2009
Posts: 2874

Message Posted:
07/08/2010 11:16

I've read that if you kill a wasp other wasps pick up the scent and swarm around you. Don't know if it's true as I don't kill them.

Tenakoutou



Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
07/08/2010 12:08

OK - How to keep flies and wasps away from the dining table:



1./ Depending on the size of the table, take one, or more, drinking glasses and place strategically around the table.



2./ Take the same number of paper serviettes and place in the glasses.



3./ Then spray the paper serviettes [in the glasses] with fly spray, or preferably the stronger cockroach spray.



You will be surprised how effective this method is - and don't forget a 'Kiwi' told you 'how to'!!!



It's called 'Kiwi Ingenuity'!!!

daisy dukes


Joined: 06/09/2008
Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
07/08/2010 12:32

or you could just make up an extra plate for them and leave it a way away.....works for me every time!





DD

booitsme


Joined: 04/02/2009
Posts: 667

Message Posted:
07/08/2010 13:06

Chop up an onion and put it on a plate on your table - it works a treat

Tenakoutou



Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
07/08/2010 13:32

.......................Or, don't worry about a few little friendly wasps - they won't eat or drink much!

the butler


Joined: 22/06/2007
Posts: 1958

Message Posted:
07/08/2010 13:38

I once read on this forum to swab down the table with listerene mouth wash prior to setting it. it is supposed to keep every flying insect away.





The butlers wife

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
07/08/2010 14:31

I read somewhere that you should 'blow' directly at a wasp and if will go away. The worst thing you can do us to try and hit it either with your hand or something else.

janjin



Joined: 10/04/2008
Posts: 488

Message Posted:
07/08/2010 17:59

Is that any flavour of Listerine?

swannee7


Joined: 21/08/2009
Posts: 394

Message Posted:
07/08/2010 18:20

No.1 (msge.9) Wonder if that works only if the 'blower' suffers from pungent halitosis ?? lol



Usually something sweet (solid or liquid) seems to tempt them away, but wasps/hornets also like meat.

Blackbird



Joined: 11/08/2009
Posts: 1432

Message Posted:
07/08/2010 23:32

No1... what if you have a cold or throat infection, will that affect the wasp?

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
07/08/2010 23:35

Blackbird. I never thought of that. Wouldn't want to pass a cold onto a wasp )

brend


Joined: 20/01/2009
Posts: 149

Message Posted:
07/08/2010 23:43

You can now buy a fake wasps nest and no wasps will come near it as they keep clear of other wasps nests!!

spider


Joined: 03/01/2009
Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
07/08/2010 23:53

I just hate them but I must say we do not seem to have any around our place and this thread has got me thinking..how strange what no wasps ! I just have to run like hell all me legs a going.I am a just like that with Spiders.





Spider,X

jock1



Joined: 06/01/2008
Posts: 3786

Message Posted:
08/08/2010 12:45

Tell them to BUZZ OFF............

racoonchic



Joined: 17/11/2008
Posts: 3223

Message Posted:
08/08/2010 13:00

i hope no one lights a fag after dinner fly spray listerine and gassy onions i think theres serios cause for concern here on a brighter note the explosion should kill the flies and wasps

LostFound


Joined: 03/08/2009
Posts: 387

Message Posted:
08/08/2010 16:21

ha ha!



Tenak.....

I tried your temedy and it worked, but I ate after 8 so maybe wasps go when the sun goes down.

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
08/08/2010 16:38

Swannee. It's probably the halitosis that kills the wasps. )

deputydawg


Joined: 30/03/2010
Posts: 1727

Message Posted:
08/08/2010 22:07

My neighbour has a small plastic bat about the size of a table tennis bat which is electrical (I believe batteries). He does not swipe at the flies/wasps, simply holds the bat up, and when they settle on it they are instantly zapped ie it is like a small version of the electric bulb thingies seen in some food stores. It is effective enough to instantly kill bees but he chooses to spare them. It came from UK but I do not know the source. I doubt it is expensive. If anyone wants details I can ask him and post his reply. For myself and me horse, when we eat on the patio, I simply leave a bucket of dung in the hallway except when my big brother joins us as the bucket is then rendered superfluous (attempt at a crap joke but you aint met me big bruvver whose shortened nickname in the family is Denzil, Methane, Gutbucket ) !

dave456


Joined: 09/08/2010
Posts: 26

Message Posted:
09/08/2010 14:08

jock1 you beat me to it

kaiserphil


Joined: 14/12/2008
Posts: 1096

Message Posted:
09/08/2010 14:33

Agree, the battery-operated bat is great.