Let's share our experience about wasps

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06.07.2007 23:02, Konstantin Shorenko

I share my experience about stains for eardrums - it is very convenient, for small wasps, to use measuring flasks (as in the photo). With a narrow neck, you can easily catch them in a net, and the expansion at the end of the flask makes it possible to collect relatively many of them. At the bottom of the flask-cotton wool with ethyl acetate, and a rubber stopper on top. By the way, these flasks are different, and large ones can be used for large operating systems. Pulling them out is also relatively easy - the bottleneck is well overcome with tweezers.

By the way, in order not to throw cotton wool every time, you can insert a test tube (ordinary) of small diameter into the cork. The opening of the test tube is closed with cotton wool (the neck is turned into a flask), and it is filled with ethyl acetate, which gradually evaporates through the cotton wool. Ethyl acetate consumption is much reduced.

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08.08.2007 13:30, Охотник за осами

We have no "hornet's distress" clinics in Almaty that are not ordinary! It's already August,and I've only seen two of them around town! About what kind of suit, take a suit for beekeeping, rubber gloves, a suit made of thick synthetic fabric, and be sure to Raid, teasing the colony, destroy them in portions, a cloud came out-splashed on it, when there are not enough wasps left, start capturing the trophy, it is advisable not to kill the queen, and do not splash inside the nest! to dig it out,take a chisel and a chisel or crowbar, but first put on the work clothes I indicated!Remember, the wasps follow the enemy for 25-30 m! Try to make sure that no one is around,they rush at all suspicious objects!

10.09.2007 15:18, mikee

As recently as yesterday, 2 hours destroyed the colony. We settled in a stone well that I had to repair. Moreover, it is not open, but between the masonry stones. It was +10 max outside with strong wind and rain, yet this whole gang was actively defending themselves. I fought with dichlorvos, there was nothing else in the village shop. I was surprised that there were at least 20 queens in the nest (these are the ones that came out from dichlorvos) with about 200 working individuals. I'm not sure if they were exactly uteruses, but they were 2 times the size of workers. The species did not determine, it was not up to that: -) Specialists, this number of queens can be per nest, or was it just a new brood that did not have time to fly?

25.09.2007 14:33, Охотник за осами

As recently as yesterday, 2 hours destroyed the colony. We settled in a stone well that I had to repair. Moreover, it is not open, but between the masonry stones. It was +10 max outside with strong wind and rain, yet this whole gang was actively defending themselves. I fought with dichlorvos, there was nothing else in the village shop. I was surprised that there were at least 20 queens in the nest (these are the ones that came out from dichlorvos) with about 200 working individuals. I'm not sure if they were exactly uteruses, but they were 2 times the size of workers. The species did not determine, it was not up to that: -) Specialists, this number of queens can be per nest, or was it just a new brood that did not have time to fly?

It's just that the young queens haven't left their nests yet, they won't leave until the frost starts!