Beware the insects

[irnsrgn]

all this talk of bugs and flying insects makes me wonder if anyone makes industrial size hanging fly paper and those bottle traps for wasps are good too, then the bumblebees. Sounds like the perfect place to use a fly press, is there any market for bumblebee or wasp oil too.

On the serious side, the best thing to use on bees, wasps spiders etc, is the spray silicone with the straw sticking out, if your aim is good you can hit them in the air. any of the spray penetrating oils do a number on the flying invaders as they breath thru their bodies and if coated with silicon or some petroleum based product they suffocate rather quickly.

[ThomasPowers]

Go to the local feed store and see what they have for fly control in stables! Generally you don't want flypaper too large because you want to trash it often to get rid of the bugs on it.

[jayco]

I was in my shop this evening, using the bench grinder,.....when out of nowhere........This little bumblebee whizzes by me a couple of times and stings me on the right elbow!

Apparently, I had made him REALLY MAD!
It seems that 'once was not enough' for him. He kept diving at me........to the point I had to leave the shop for a couple minutes!

When he finally quit diving and buzzing, I crept back into the shop to see where he had went. He had lit on the backside of my handcrank blower handle.........in a place where I couldn't hit him of course....(I think he knew that!)

I looked frantically around the shop for the wd40, brake cleaner,,,,,,,well anything!

Believe it or not, all I could find was a spray bottle of liquid 'TurtleWax!

YEAH, LIKE THAT'S GONNA STOP HIM!!

Having nothing else, I sprayed him liberally with it, and within a minute or so he stopped moving,........

I guess he died of 'waxy buildup'!

Why can't I just find frogs or little turtles in my shop, like everyone else?

James

[Pault17]

Evidently turtle wax works even on those little amc hornets.

A few weeks ago in the mig class I'm taking, one of the other students came over with the charred remains of a large wasp that happened to fly right into his rod (he was stick welding something) and pretty muched vaporized everything but his shell.

As for the spider by the door. looks kinda wolf spider-ish. I do home inspections and the last place I go is the crawl space. I tell people that I like to save the best for last. the funny thing is, is that I really like going under. The only time I backed out was because the crawl space looked like something from an indiana jones movie. the spiderwebs were so thick, I spent ten minutes clearing out a place to start from. I started smacking spiders on the ground and recognized them as distinctly resembling the brown recluse. I told the seller to fog the basement and have someone else clear out the webs before I went back in. that happened two weeks later.