4 Ways to Keep Wasps Away

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In a normal situation, a wasp sting is painful but manageable. In a survival situation, it can be much more dangerous, especially if you’re allergic to bee and wasp stings. Fortunately, there are natural ways to keep wasps away without running to the store for bug spray. Try out one or more of these and see how much the wasp population around your home or camp decreases.

Wear Muted Colors

Like bees, wasps are attracted to flowers and brightly colored plants. You can avoid being mistaken for a wasp’s natural feeding ground by wearing more muted colors.

Don’t Wear Sweet-Smelling Perfumes or Colognes

We doubt you’ll be wearing a lot of designer perfumes or colognes in a disaster anyway, but just in case, don’t risk attracting wasps with these sweet smells.

Use Peppermint as a Natural Wasp Repellent

At the same time, wasps are naturally repelled by strong-smelling herbs like peppermint. You can plant mint around your campsite and/or rub some peppermint oil on your skin to keep wasps away.

Hang a False Nest

Wasps are very territorial. They don’t like building nests near one another, so if you can hang a false nest near your camp or home, you’re not likely to get any new wasps moving in.

You can make a false nest by killing an active nest and then hanging it wherever you want. You might want to go ahead and find an active nest now and kill it with wasp spray. After you’ve killed the nest, you’ll want to make sure that there aren’t any unhatched wasps in it so you don’t have trouble later. To do this, just submerge it in a tub of water for a few minutes. Then hang it to dry, and you’ll have your very own false wasp nest to keep wasps away.

 

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8 thoughts on “4 Ways to Keep Wasps Away”

  1. I like making wasp and fly traps out of old juice bottles.
    Cut the top off using a straight razor or a sharp pair of scissors invert it and use your hot melt glue gun and glue the two pieces together. You can glu4e a string to each side to hang it in a tree or you can set it on the ground behind flowers and I pour about 1/2 inch of soda in the bottom or what works really well for flies is a small piece of fish. Where we live there is a lot of farms and animals around and zillion of them pesky black flies that just wont leave you alone or your food if you’re going to throw a BBQ. A few of these traps will rid your area of them for good.

  2. My wife seems to have attracted wasps that have built nests around our house and if she has any ideas of doing any work around the house, she has to wear long sleeve shirts and long pants, a sun hat as well as garden gloves in order to avoid being stung by those pesky wasps. For some reason, they leave me alone but with her, she attracts them like bees to honey/ I will definitely try the peppermint idea and see if that works or not and will follow-up next week after she does her weekly yard work. I would do the yard work, but I am partly disabled and cannot get around in the yard too well. Or I would be doing the yard work myself. Wish I could as I really used to enjoy doing it.

  3. To kill an active wasp nest, Spray it witha good wasp killer spray(it doesn’t spray, but squirts a solid stream of foamy insecticide over the entire nest, so, none of the wasps can escape,(BUT DO THIS AT SUNSET WHEN ALL WASPS RETURN HOME TO SLEEP) In the morning, all wasps will be long dead. If you want to soak it in water as above for extra measure, fine, if it was already in your target area, anyway, just leave it–if you want to take it to your next campout, let it dry, then pack it up for travel, & use at your destination

  5. Does this work with RED wasps TOO??? I’m in Central East Texas and haven’t seen a yellow jacket in a few years.
    But RED wasps??? YIKES, Very agressive!!!

  6. When you do get stung;
    1. Walk calmly but quickly away (agitated movement makes them sting more)
    2. When you are safe in a protected area, take one of your plastic cards out of your wallet, hold it perpendicular to the skin behind the area of the sting, and scrape the edge of the card over the sting area.
    This will remove the barb and poison sac, keeping more toxins from entering the skin and alleviating the pain within seconds. This was tested by me only a couple of weeks ago, so it works. No,I did not get stung deliberately!

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