r/WaspHating 6d ago

Question Wasp/Hornet problem

Hi folks! I'm sure this has come up many times before, but I'm looking for some advice. My wife and I live in a house on some farmland near the greater Kansas City area.

This house has a pretty bad Wasp infestation. It's mostly around the soffit of our home because it is in rough shape (this is getting fixed this winter when Wasp activity calms down), and I'm tired of blasting through 1,000,000 cans of spray.

What would y'all recommend I do to mitigate the issue? I put some lures about 15-20ft from the house, and will keep moving it a little further away each week to try and lure them elsewhere, but I'm not sure thats going to work.

Any and all advice is welcome. I don't necessarily want to kill them all because they keep the spiders down, but I don't exactly want them living in my soffit and attic in bulk!

Thank you in advance!

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u/Organic-Addendum1609 6d ago

Honestly everyone just needs to call a pest guy. He hit my whole place for 150 and I've no longer got unwanted spicy flys

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u/Successful_Bag_7257 6d ago

I found that the best solution to an insect problem has been alpine WSG. It basically leave a non deterring layer of residue behind and as insects walk over it they pickup microscopic components and take it home to kill hives. Unfortunately wasps are very quick to reproduce so unless you let them take the poison home you won't ever really solve the issue

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u/Stroking_Shop5393 6d ago

You don't really have a choice, you gotta kill them if you want them to leave