We are selling our dump truck - been sitting four years, and it's chock full of the darn things! In the headliner, under the dash, inside the box structure and radiator housing..... what a project.

I do have a nifty instant-knockdown spray recipe, though, that doesn't cost six bucks a can! In one of the GOOD trigger spray bottles that adjusts from spray mist to a strong stream (cat trainer bottle) put about half a cup of dish detergent, a cup of gas and fill it up with water. Agitate gently (it FOAMS), then set to long distance stream and let fly. This will immediately knock 'em down, and they will not be getting back up to rejoin the battle, either. Works on paper wasps, hornets, yellowjackets, and those awful BIG buggers with the long legs, whatever the heck they are called - BIG wasps.

If you wait til dusk when the air cools down, you can go out and jacklight the nests and get most of them, no stragglers to come back at you like happens in the daytime.

Happy hunting!

The dish soap sure does make it stick, and it foams enough to make it really stay on nests and soak in, or not drip right off overhead surfaces - great for shooting ten feet up in the barn rafters! I think the really good spray bottle is half the battle, though, as you can shoot accurately with it, and adjust it to a wider pattern for those swarm situations, like when you have to be under some trailer or truck part and can't get out quickly! '

Gotta remember to go out tonight and get that big paper nest under the mailbox before out letter carrier gets it!