Soapy water plus a spray bottle, plus nerves of steal, plus nimble reflexes, plus some running, screaming and a few expletives, equals a colony of dead wasps. 
After a few years of peaceful coexistence, I took unilateral action and preemptively struck my flying neighbors. The most exciting part was when I opened up the eave under my front porch. A few of my neighbors found my screaming and running quite entertaining. No, I did not get stung.
[UPDATE]
After the initial assault, I preformed a cleanup operation to clear out the remaining insurgents. The total number of dead from both campaigns totaled 74 75. I estimate another 100 to 150 larva were wiped out as well.
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3 comments:
wow! Did they all land like that or were they posing for the picture?
:)
Good exterminating! Were they up in your roof like that?
Dang.. those are those red wasps, too. I hate those things. Mean little boogers.
They were nice enough to pose for me. I would pick them up after they died and put them on my mail box. (I did not want my kids to step on a dead on and get stung). I'm still cleaning up a few stragglers; I've killed another 10-15 since the original post.
You are brave. I just call Mother Nature to come out and kill them. We had our house painted a few years ago and the painters got stung seventeen times. Since Mother Nature came last summer, we haven't had too much of a problem with them.
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