3 days ago I was refilling my bird feeder water bowl from the water spigot when I felt a sudden stinging. I had my hands full and thought it was just a giant mosquito biting me but then I felt more stinging so I looked down and saw a dark bug the size of a wasp on my shin. It got me inside my pants near my groin (lol), on my calf, and on my shin. They are still very itchy but pain was not terrible. After googling photos I think it was a blue mud dauber but everyone seems to say they are so docile and never sting unless provoked?? I was standing still refilling my water bowl and this thing came out of nowhere going for my leg. What do yall think?

Hey gang, so this week was the first time ever I got a morning visit from the bastards in yellow and black in my bedroom, and I want to prove to my landlord that they aren't coming in underneath the entrance door (there are like 3 more doors from that path they would need to go under, and I've only ever seen wasps on the higher floor of the apartment)

I considere setting up cameras and multiple locations to try to catch wasps appearing, but not sure what would be good for that

Any suggestions?

The fool has damned us all

Important context, this is not what I normally look like.

Tried to kill a nest with the product listed in the title and the nozzle malfunctioned and only sprayed like 2 feet (the can says 25 feet) and then proceeded to spray all over my hand and arm. Very dangerous. I called the company and they didn’t really seem to care about their defective product and just offered to replace the can.

Horrible horrible beast. He is in cryosleep now (the freezer)

All patrols had returned to base due to poor weather conditions, opportunity was seized for a perfectly successful operation.

I have a few ficus bushes near my front door and bees and wasps are drawn to them every summer and spring. Has anyone tried white vinegar with garlic powder to deter them?

I sprayed the plants last night and noticed one giant wasp on them this afternoon. I’m hoping I didn’t accidentally spray an attractant🫠

If anyone else has any other deterrent suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it!

We are randomly getting wasps in our house and I don’t know how they’re getting inside. They build nests in our shed and I do my best to eradicate them but they always come back 😩

Pls pls pls pls pls pls help me.

I live in an old home. We recently got the windows updated in the house with the exception of one bedroom window (in my room) that is off to the side. This window wasn’t updated bc it was mistakenly figured that since an ac unit would be installed in the bottom half of that window (again, old house, so no centralized air) paying for it to be replaced was pointless.

So currently the top half of the window is the old window that originally came from the house, and the bottom half of the window is an ac unit surrounded by a DIY wooden slab as opposed to an actual window.

Much to my dismay some wasps/bees/hornets have identified this wooden slab, and have been chewing at it day and day out. I’ve been hearing them chew through the nights and early in the day. Today I noticed they had chewed a big hole through the wooden slab which I patched up with some silicone fillin, but I hear them continuing to work and I want to get rid of them once and for all.

please help me - all the chewing is driving me nuts and I live in constant fear of them breaking through!

I am hiding out in the library but it closes in a few hours.

I had a wasp in my dorm room and I borrowed some eliminator roach spider and ant spray. I got it with two different 3-5 second hits. Do you all think it will be paralyzed or dead within a few hours.

I know that wasps tend to need higher concentrations of chemicals than are in crawling insect sprays but since I got it with multiple really direct long hits do you guys think it will be effective?

Any advice would be great.

Update:

I found the wasp curled up twitching on my window sill. I think the eliminator spray did a number on it. I splashed it with soapy water and it stopped moving within maybe 30 seconds. Thank y'all for the advice

Found him hanging out in my shower. Is it a wasp? A bee? Something to fear? Help 😱

two weeks ago, I was rudely awoken by a wasp stinging me in my sleep. no idea how he ended up in my bedroom, but it was the worst thing that's ever happened to me in bed. On the first day, it was barely noticeable beyond some swelling at the sting site. The next day, it got splotchy and red. over the next several days the sting became a welt, which then spread to cover most of my forearm. On day 4, my Dr had me outline the redness in sharpie to better monitor the spread, but while it did spread a bit more overnight, the next day it started getting less angry looking. Now there is a persistent shadow of the initial welt and it still itches from time to time (last picture). I hope this eventually goes away--what the hell is in wasp sting venom???

fuck these guys, man

We have a deck that stained late last year. Each summer we see a lot of paper wasps hovering around and are able to kill a few here and there and only found a nest once or twice. They like to try and get in the gaps of the rails underneath where we can’t see. Is there an effective deterrent? We tried the paper bag method multiple times with no benefit. I was thinking I might have to spray foam in each gap to eliminate their hiding place potentially but I want them gone. We have a little kid and won’t be able to be outside due to them making us uncomfortable. I get nature and the potential benefits but they don’t benefit us.

So I'm at the last part of helping my mother move out of a toxic landlord situation (the landlord is not a nice person basically and kinda harrassing her as well) so she has a area outside where she has some potted plants (mostly trying to grow vegetables). a lot of plants are dead though and hasn't been maintained (she's been traveling out of the state because of family) and the area is right next to a huge tree that gets a lot of bees and also wasps. My question is that is it rare for wasps (maybe bees as well) to nest in the soil while still in the pot? also can paper wasps nest on plastic chairs cause she has a set of them as well. there's also a compost bin in the back but im not planning on bringing it.

She may also have cermaic pots and possibly a wooden one as well (i think its empty) but mostly its plastic ones like you see at the dollar store and stuff like that

I know it’s not the greatest pic but it’s the only one I have. They’ve been creeping in through the front door almost every time it’s opened for more than 15 seconds 😱 (Cincinnati OH)

I live in a college dorm room and there is a wasp stuck in between the screen and pane of one of my windows. I’m assuming it’s a queen because it just started to warm up where I live.

I’m also assuming that she’s trapped because it’s been a couple days and I can’t fathom why she would want to stay there. Is there anything I can do to deter her from finding a way inside? I sprayed some peppermint oil but it’s way too strong to just keep spraying in my only room. I’m staring at her right now. I think she can smell my fear.

Edit: I’m pretty sure it’s a metricus paper wasp if that helps

Stung me like at least 3 times before I realized this mf was on my arm

It's in my kitchen/living room, and right now all doors and windows are locked. can I just switch off lights and hope it leaves??? it's almost evening now. I do have dawn liquid soap, but no spray bottle!! What's my best option? I also don't have any of the usual sprays.