How To Kill Wasps In Walls & Roof Spaces Quick & Easy DIY
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- čas přidán 27. 09. 2021
- I was trying to paint my house when I discovered I had yellow jackets living in my wall. I tried to spray them with a bee killer several times and had zero success and I didn't know what I was going to do with them. One day I was talking to a friend about my problem and he told me to blow some seven dust in there so I did it. I blow 3 lines of seven dust in the hole 1 may have been good enough but I didn't like how they just kept coming in and out like nothing so the 3rd and final line went in after dark as I was hoping to get them all one last time when they were all in the hive. Come morning the yellow jackets were gone I'm not sure if they died or just moved out either way they are no longer there and no longer my concern. If you give this a try stay safe don't breath in the dust don't get stung and if your on a ladder or step stool don't fall off. god speed and good luck
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Great idea and glad to see it worked-You can get "puffers" that distribute dust in order to eradicate too.
Good job man you won the bee fight
That was a good idea I had the same problem in my house they built two nest in the front left and right side corners and I use smoke I put together a lot of papers and make my self a torch light it up and bee's were all gone I wait it until late the next day and seal the holes
Nice man, glad to see in the comments that it worked, clever solution.
Great job! Glad you were able to get them out!
Sevin dust in particular can take 6-24 hours to take effect but it will absolutely eat at the bees exoskeleton until they basically dry out. So just know you inflicted maximum suffering- and I LOVE it 😂
Don’t kill BEES!
Genocide wasps tho.
That's crap. It does NOT "erode their exoskeleton." It's a neurotoxin. If you get it in their "lungs" it'll cause pneumonia basically. It's VERY SLOW.
does DE powder work the same way?
@niajef same way no. But I would give it an 80% chance of working with the little bit I know about DE. I will definitely be trying that in the future.
@@natesworld814 damn...i have a big jar of DE, and i got it cuz years ago, i suspected my dog might have some worms or what not in his stomach, and i was told if i feed DE to him, the powder will dry out the exoskeleton of those worms, and it kinda worked, cuz the diarrhea stopped.
Had the same problem one year so I propped a synthetic feather duster I had taped to a pole then dipped into Home Defense liquid pest spray right over the hole forcing them to crawl over and through it to get into their nest. In a couple of days they were all dead. Seven dust works great when I find their ground nests though.
I have an old shop vac that has an exhaust port. I've used this with Sevin dust for getting rid of wasps, etc.
Put some in the hose, secure it to direct the spray, turn on the shop vac, then go way over to the outlet and plug it in so you are no where near the unhappy "ghost wasps" when they exit .
I would only have done this after dark! You were very lucky!
“Bee smart”! 😂🙌 nice
Instead of dragging out the air hose and trying to load up that other hose with powder. Go to a farm and garden store. Buy a canister with a pump on it. Simply pour 7dust in can. Screw lid on. Aim and pump. Shoots out clouds of dust. Made for gardens and grapevines. But would do same as what you have here just cleaner and easier.
This was a great idea. Sevin Dust air cannon. I attached the blow gun to 1 1/4 vac attachment extension and the skinny nozzle. lit them up! 3 days and gone. It's not instant but they gone. Had one in the 2nd floor soffit. Got the $8 puffer from Amazon. Worked great!
For the ground nests dish soap and garden hose wiped them out fast
Sevendust works great 🤘🏼😎
Great band!
Buen trabajo!👍
Sevin dust works great, easier than Dawn and water for an in ground nest. I use a automotive battery filler, which is a good quality turkey baster.
Nice job!
I’m going to try this method with my sandblasting tool should get a lot of stuff up there the first time… Before I start running. Other sites have recommended the seven also so I am convinced to give it a shot
It definitely worked for me I ripped into that corner this year to work on the trim and there were dead yellow jackets everywhere
I have been trying to eradicate this nest for months, sprays did not work, used this method three times and they are gone. Thanks
Lol that was very entertaining! Glad u got them without gtg stung all up 😂
Can’t stand wasp hornets or Yellowjackets
I am also very glad I didn't get stung considering every time I do the reaction gets worse. I am also glad you enjoyed it 😁
I took out a giant hive in my attic walls with seven liquid, about 6 years ago. Japanese murder hornets, I think, giant guys. I tried many cans of different brands of quick knock out with no luck. The seven liquid worked, but took overnight. All dead.
Awesome man. I'm gonna have to do the same
Beeeeeeee smart! 🤓
It’s a slow process to kill the yellow jackets. You just need to get a few and they will bring it into the nest. Eventually within 24 hours they are all dead. You have to be careful because this is not a knock down treatment but a slow and comprehensive approach
This is so true I did it in the late afternoon and by morning they were no longer coming out that I seen. Today ... a year later I opened up the roof over hang to do some work and there are yellow jackets everywhere
@@natesworld814
As in dead ones? Or they came back?
All dead
I use a small leaf blower, squirting delta dust into the blower, creating a very fine aerosol spray pattern. I spayed areas where wasps hang out. I used it in my barn, several days later, any live wasps stayed away from areas I sprayed. This dust is suppose to last several months.
@@natesworld814I use the Seven and Eight dust when I find them in the ground but a couple of years ago I had this exact situation here at my house. I duct taped a synthetic feather duster to a cane pole then saturated the duster with Home Defense liquid pest spray then propped the duster against the hole so they would have to crawl over and through it to get into the nest. After a couple of days they were all dead.
Sevin works, but it isnt immediate........good for in ground nests too
I have a gravity-fed sandblaster from Harbor Freight. I wonder if the Seven Dust would work in that setup. It would be similar to using the sandblaster for soda blasting (so instead of using baking soda, use Seven Dust). I might have to give this a try! Thanks for the video!
Well I would have to guess if it works with baking soda it would work with seven dust. Let me know how it works if you try it
The harbor freight sandblaster is effective in eliminating yellow jacket hive when using seven dust. I executed this method at night. Directly after blasting hive I then immediately filled the entry/exit with foam insulation.
Keep in mind, This is still dangerous especially if working from a ladder at night. And yes, they are still aggressive during the night.
Used a portable compressor with lightweight 50’ hose
Harbor Freight gravity fed sandblaster
4-8 ounces of seven dust
They will not die immediately, depending on the size of the hive 2-3 days
Be sure to wear proper PPE including respirator. This is poison and you do not want this in your lungs
Just get the little powder puffer works great
You did the right thing attacking it at night and several times. It’s my understanding that the first round will kill the adults and then a week later you might see more action, those are the newly hatched adults and so you need to kill them too.
Also, in the spring, a generous spraying of WD40 in the areas that historically had nests, will deter them from coming back. Let it be the neighbor down the streets problem! I’m trying the WD40 trick next spring as I have nests every year under concrete and inside the bbq / outdoor kitchen walls. One next can contain 1000 yellow jackets so it’s necessary to be equally aggressive.
I would love to know how the wd40 works for you. I've never heard about that but if it works that's awesome.
@@natesworld814 killer bees kills hunsreds if not thousands, then swvin dust, also killed queen & guards with demand duo! Bought enough to do compete perimeter of home! $12 us worth it & its what professionals use!
You used sevin 5% dust which they don't make anymore.... not sure if the new version of dust works on yellow jackets...anyone try the new sevin product?
If it is the ground-type yellow jackets, it's three or six ounces of unleaded down the hatch after dark and they are no more, no more.
I've been using that exact system for years with 100% success --- however --- gasoline is flammable so be sure that there is NO flame nearby.
Also, if they are in an in-ground nest wait until AFTER sunset, quickly pour the gasoline / petrol into the hole and then immediately put a folded up trash bag, a folded tarp or a cloth over the entrance followed ***immediately*** with an old brick or rock. Next morning the hive is dead (including the young larvae). Occasionally a few foragers might over night outside the nest but they will not go back inside and will just wander off until they die naturally.
100% effective, directed, fast, easy and safe (unless you dawdle and don't work quickly). You have been warned to work quickly and not stare at the dead and dying pests.
thank you
I get several nests a year, i found using my SNOW roof rack handle and a leaf blower work good, block off most of the blower with cardboard and pack the handle full of SEVIN, they will be gone in 1-2 days.
That's awesome
I like that idea. I have those tools in my garage. I have just tried the small dust puffer suggested by anther site. I must have a huge nest in there. They said it takes a few days. I'll wait and see how that works out first. If still more show up I'll try the handle leaf blower trick....By the way if anybody has seen the one post where a guy uses a rat glue trap to get them. I tried it and it works I must have caught a hundred of them . But you have to kill the queen. So the dust should work the best.😎
Likewise, with ground nests, sprinkle Sevin dust on the entrance hole (at night preferably). Within a day the nest will be dead. Tip: after you discover a ground nest (ouch!) mark it with a flag or object so that it is easier to find in the dark.
This is great to know. I unfortunately find a nest every few years. Most of the nest I am unable to see so this will make it easier thank you
“Ouch” is right. Hate it when I find that nest with the mower.
toss a clear bowl over the hole and just wait a couple of days does without the chemicals
Good advice. I keep a cheap rag, with a rock tied inside, on my mower and tractor to mark the hole. Definitely come back at night.
Good idea but I think I would have squeezed the airline or turned the pressure right down as it looks like too much air pressure and most of dust is blown away into the air . Chris
Yeah 100psi was probably a bit much but most of it did stay in the wall
Kirby vacuum works great follow up with 1:4 dish soap to water.
Definitely not in this case. I'm sure it works great on what it works for. Thank you for watching
I killed a lot off with that but inside walls i used demand duo! Sevin dust will knock out all but queens & guards!
Interesting it seems to have killed them all here but that may not be the case they may have packed their bags and moved on
Just use a funnel to fill the tube up and a bit of tissue to seal the end, stop the powder dropping out.
I was just using what I had around for low cost and time. I don't believe a funnel would have helped much because of how small the outlet out have to be. The tissue to plug the end tho is brilliant 👏. Thank you for watching and giving me feedback 😊
@@natesworld814 some tricks I am learning using wasp go go in the UK.
I just looked that up. I had no idea some was making a kit to do the job. That's really cool.
@@natesworld814 this one is on sale in the US- I would have bought this one but didn't find it in time and would have taken weeks to deliver to the UK- czcams.com/video/50aJUwAEi78/video.html the great thing is the reach -20ft+
Shop Vac
Really works
🤔 sucking or blowing?
Super cool idea! I wonder if you could load a turkey baster with seven dust and spray it in? My compressor is too big to haul to that location if I can avoid it 🙂 I might give it a try later as I have a nest in a similar position to yours. Thank you for this great tip.
I'm not sure if there will be enough pressure to get the dust out and also be a puff. Would love to have an update if it works or not.
World we live in, unreal!!
So funny thing, I used the compressor, I ended up blowing a large number of yellow jackets so hard, they ended up pouring through a crack in the plaster in my house.
I would almost consider a fireplace bellows or something next time for the portability and because you might not need the intense pressure.
Oh man that's wild. I would have not guessed that's they would ha e ended up inside
@@terryp12345haha, blew them clean through INTO the house. Once you get them all outside and/or killed you should hit that crack with some spray foam to keep them from coming back.
👍👏
I have a 10' pvc pipe wig a blowgun attached just for that.
I dont have savin in my country
Do you remember where you got that hose ? And what brand? I’d like to buy one for a similar issue with hornets
Yes its one of the hoses from a hand pump kit. It would be cheaper to go to a hardware store and buy a piece maybe 2' in length and probably 3/8" in diameter
Bee smart!
Ok 😁
Does anyone know where I can get some kind of a duster to put the insecticide powder in and then spray it into the wasp crevices??
Google "powder duster" there are a few different options
Had Wasps in same situation. soak a rag with Gasoline and stuck it in entrance after dark . Morning come no activity- fumes kill always
Also a huge bomb waiting for a spark.
Any recommendations would be much appreciated!!! Cleaning out gutters for someone, and soon as i went up bees came out everywhere, need something that ACTUALLY kills on spot or something so i can clean this persons gutters, they are elderly and havnet had them cleaned in prob 3 years
I had someone a few days ago suggest a bug bomb foger 🤷♂️ might be able to figure that out
Spectracide from home depot. Kills them even in mid air. Theyre dead in about 3-6 seconds. Everytime
That's a company name. What product are you using
you should ware chemical resistant gloves to avoid contact with seven insecticide. avoid any contact
with chemicals is key due to not knowing the affect on you by the chemicals!
This stuff is hard to find. And Amazon won't ship it to California.
Hi. What setup is needed for a blow gun?
Depending on what you have. I used an air compresser. You could also use a can of keyboard duster and a straw
I think you probably should have done a shorter burst . It looks like you were blowing quite a bit of it back out of tje wall .... So I think maybe after seeing this I'll give it a long blast in order to get it throughout the nooks and crannies... then give it a real short one to let a bunch of it stay inside those nooks and crannies ... you could blow it all out later as moisture didn't get in there.
It blow out the back because I didn't bother to change my 100psi. A lower psi would have kept it in the wall a bit better but at the same time I'm not sure if it would have gotten everywhere. To be honest though I don't think you can do it wrong... if the dust doesn't get to them turn up the are and the amount of dust and hit them again
Onde poso comprar ese wasp kil plese help Portugal
If you can’t find it in Portugal, Just use borax
If I can't see another entrance or exit the bees can get out of I go at night and caulk the hole so the bees can not get out and they will die in just a day or so cause the need food and water .
They’ll find a way out. Every year they drill a small hole in my drywall and help themselves inside. It’s about the size of a straw. Every year I have to plug the hole. This year I’m going to be prepared. I’m no specialist but nature’s will is to survive and procreate by all means necessary.
I also have a similar problem in my balcony, that they enter my home through a hole in the wall. my landlord called a company to deal with it and today they came over and sprayed something similar, a white dust, but the entrance they to my room is still open on the balcony side. i am worried that new ones can still come in, can they? does this procedure need to be repeated?
I would guess that it would be good for at least this year. They probably won't want to live in close proximity to the poison. I haven't had them move back in yet, and that was 2 years ago. Last year I opened up that corner of roof and there was dust everywhere still
@@natesworld814 that's a relief, thank you so much!
@@ppmndwhat's your update
@@thediva.dronediaries hi! had no more problems from that time on. i saw that later on some wasps tried to enter from the same spot but changed their minds as they sensed the dust.
Try alpine insecticide dust works better its what the pest techs use
Did they comeback after all that?
Nope, I haven't seen one even try to go in.
Im going to have to try dust. Ive sprayed the hole in the brick many times with carb choke cleaner killed alot. But i cant get to the nest. You can hear the little bastards buzzing loudly under the wood, under big picture window. I pry I kill them before thry find there way into the house 🥶🥶
Forwarding I here they have changed there mix. Some people are having luck with it and others say it's not working 🤷♂️ please let me know how it goes
Good job! Been having a similar issue here this summer. 'Have vacuumed out thousands with a shopvac. Don't have any Sevin left, but I wonder if diatomaceous earth would work? We use that in the garden and chickenhouse, and it works on most insects.
Not sure if it would work or not. I would love to know if it does or not though because that would be a great nontoxic salutation
Borax is slow acting. But absolute none the less .
That is exactly where you want that stuff. In their nest.
The blowgun has too much pressure its blowing the majority of the dust out the hole.....use a insecticide duster......
No, it's blowing some of the dust out of the hole at 90psi. 90% of the dust is still in the wall and if I were to do it again I would just turn the psi down
What kind of dust?
It's called seven dust
Seven dust is an old school thing used on plants etc to protect them from insects eating your garden up etc!
I heard of that stuff growing up & helping my parents in their garden behind my grandmothers house!
@@natesworld814 Sevin Dust
I hope you caulked or sealed the hole.
Nope it's wood siding so every gap in the siding would allow them access to this area. Also the summer after I made this video I opened up the roof in this area and it was all still covered in seven dust and I can't see them trying to start over in an area the has a deadly toxin hanging out
Use foam fills the whole and kills the bees
Might work for some holes but definitely not in this case. They had access to many other ways out this hole was just the closest and easiest for them
Wat kinda seven dust
Not sue what you mean but maybe you mean what % this is. If so I've been told this is 5% but I've been told they only make 3% now.
NOT a knockdown product.
Takes time
Your not wrong but it's the only thing I could think of that I could get to the nest
@@natesworld814 Not a criticism. Just a comment since in your video you note "these bees appear to not be affected at all"
More a commentary for those who might misunderstand the product, expecting a raid wasp killer spray effect.
Delta Dust (deltamethrin) is extremely effective at getting to nooks and crannies, Sevin appears to be somewhat similar.
If you don't mind performing a little surgery on a Harris products diatemaceous earth duster, you can have a lot more product in hand, getting multiple cracks at once.
Delta Dust is also waterproof ? I believe?
Thank you for the comment and I didn't think it was a criticism I figured you were just stating a fact.
I seen the dusters when I was trying to figure out what I was going to do about the bees. From what I seen I didn't feel confident about the pressure they had to push the dust. I did indeed like the idea of having a larger quantity of dust.
I don't think I've seen delta dust but if I have bees again I'll probably do more research on different dusts now that I know dusting them works
@@natesworld814 surgery on Harris duster:
Drill hole through yellow plate in line with dust channel. Epoxy a short piece of pvc pipe to that side as an adapter, Add a piece of rubber hose to plug your pressurized air into. Glue the outlet stem that comes with the duster into the plate where it normally goes. Attach another piece of rubber hose to that as well for your dust outlet.
It just adds a storage bellows inbetween the rubber hose pieces, that you can press while the air is running.
Hope that description makes sense.
Alternatively, just add the one rubber tube on the drilled side, and just use the duster's plastic tip. Depends on how close you want to get to the cracks where the hornets are.
btw, also consider Drione or Tempo.
Those also work really well
You don't need a hose if you don't have, use a straw and some duct tape
I've got nothing to blow the dust inside. How would I do it with a straw? Just fill it up on one end and blow from the other? Is this stuff toxic for us humans? Any suggestions would be appreciated
Keyboard duster could be used to blow it
@@natesworld814 thanks will try that!
Here's why it didn't work:
1. You had WAY too much air pressure. What little dust you blew in was blown out the other side. You can see it.
All you need is one short, gentle puff. Each particle of dust doesn't weigh as much as a grain if sand, so you really don't need much air. Just a puff, not a BLAST.
2. Seven dust is really slow, not the best for wasps. Use a better insecticide.
🤣 Indeed I didn't need 100psi. It's also funny how everyone thinks most of it came out. Well jokes on you I opened up that corner of the roof the year after I did this and everything was still white with dust.
Also the bees were gone by next morning and have yet to return years later so please tell me again how it didn't work
Wasps not bees
could of used a fogger bomb
It's not a bad idea, but I've never used one. I'm just curious how I would have gotten it into the hole 🤔
@@natesworld814 tube, but likely would need to wear a chemical respirator. soapy water works well to, but in a wall not good.
Sevendust kills a lot of other beneficial insects and frogs so Playing games by shooting it anywhere to test out is not a good idea
Your comment has been taken into deep consideration. I have decided to dust my entire yard in your honor. By doing so I believe I should eliminate all wanted and unwanted pest from my yard and maybe the comment section. What a clown 🤡 I mean really did you feel better after hitting that send button.
@@natesworld814 he’s right. Insecticides are terrible and they are harmful to humans as well, you don’t want that crap in your yard. 🤡
🤣 you anti insecticide people kill me. You people take care of your yards and I'll take care of mine because I'm in no way worried about the very small amount of dust that got on my yard. I really hope you 2 have taken the time to comment on the gardeners that use it to kill the bugs trying to eat their food.
@@natesworld814 no, insecticides kill you. Tell me you’ve never researched the subject without telling me you’ve never researched to subject. Keep lapping it up like a good boy
Just out of curiosity did you watch the video? Did you think of think of a product that you would have used instead of 7 dust? Because right now you are telling me you care more about my health when in comes to the use of the dust but not giving me an alternative to killing the bees that were inches away from the door that my entire family uses everyday.
Ortho chlor
SILLY !! You failed ro shoot foam in the opening so that they cannot enter again in the future. Spend $4.99 next time to get foam and seal it.
Yes I should have waisted $4.99 on a can of foam to block 1 hole when ever opening in the siding would allow them to gain entry back to this spot 🤦♂️ I'll stick with its unlikely they will try to build on the poison that is still there stuck to the wood