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  • From: <clearviewfarm AT bluefrog.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Insect Pressure
  • Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 09:45:51 -0700

It has been suggested to me, to go in at night when it's cool and the bees/wasps are not active and remove nests.  Not sure if that will help...

Kurt Forman
Clearview Farm
Palmyra, NY 14522
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

--- KAKerby AT aol.com wrote:

From: KAKerby AT aol.com
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Insect Pressure
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 12:34:17 -0400 (EDT)

Sort of a similar situation here that I just learned about yesterday.  We're getting ready for hay season, and the big cab-over-engine flatbed we use to move hay bales is now very much inhabited by either wasps or hornets.  I don't want to go the "wasp bomb" way, but we can't get close enough to tell even where the nest is.  Might be way up in the engine compartment, or they might be flying through a vent to/from the cab itself.  Unfortunately, the windows are rolled up and we can't get the doors open without getting stung to even see if they found some entrance/exit into the cab.  I'm not sure how to proceed with clearing this vehicle other than the so-called bomb.  Any ideas?  If they were honeybees, I'd be delighted to have another hive and I could vacuum them while wearing my bee suit in perfect safety.  But hornet and yellowjacket stingers go right through those suits.  I'm not looking forward to this particular farm project.  Not at all.  Time for an exterminator?
Kathryn Kerby
frogchorusfarm.com
Snohomish, WA
Ruminations - essays on the farming life at frogchorusfarm.com/welog.html
 
In a message dated 5/30/2012 7:54:33 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, barkingcatfarm AT mindspring.com writes:


On May 29, 2012, at 5:29 PM, <clearviewfarm AT bluefrog.com> wrote:

I certainly see plenty of wasps in my greenhouse, though.  Is there a preferred OMRI approved control or just knock ' em down at night?  

Unless they are posing a threat to us working nearby, we leave the wasps alone, as many varieties help with caterpillar and other pest control. If they are posing a stinging threat to humans, we just wait till dusk and knock down the nest. The exception here are yelliwjackets, which are very aggressive. Only OMRI approved control that I know of other than knocking the nest down (which is dicey with them due to their temperament) is to have a licensed exterminator remove them with a vacuum. In our case, we hired a beekeeper after one of our workers found them nesting in our rosemary bush. 

The paper wasps, potter wasps, great golden digger wasps, and red wasps just ignore us. 

Good luck, 
Laurie


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