Wasps always show up at the wrong time and in the wrong place. In the garden this rule is very often applied and these animals can quickly become numerous and cause a real inconvenience. Let’s see how it is possible to fight against wasps in the garden!
Allergy to wasp stings, risk of swallowing one without realizing it, fear of pain or, quite simply and legitimately, fear for your children are so many reasons to fight against wasps in the garden.
5 tips for fighting wasps in the vegetable patch and garden
If it is sometimes necessary to fight wasps in the houseit is not much more practical or pleasant to confront them in the garden. It is then necessary to take measures to keep the wasps away.
1 – The tomato plant as a wasp repellent
Theoretically your garden should be provided with at least a few tomato plants… It’s not the most consumed fruit in France for nothing!
Pick a few leaves, the bottom one for example, they are older and less useful at the foot, and place them on a table where you spend the most time in your garden.
Fighting wasps means limiting their temptations: wasps greatly appreciate all the fruit left on the ground in your garden © Daniel Requena Lambert
2 – A bowl to drown the wasps
All kinds of fruit juices can attract wasps.. Although many people talk about melon juice, orange juice is also effective, as if the color interests these animals!
Place the bowl where you are Most often, rather than bothering you, the wasps will go straight there and drown.
The only problem is that this trap is fatal for mosquitoes… A natural trick, certainly, but not really in keeping with respect for living things… It’s up to you!
Read also – Are you really eating a dead wasp when you eat a fig?
3 – Hang fake nests
Social wasps are very territorial and will not settle in a place where other wasps have already taken up residence. So make fake nests using a brown paper bag that you will fill with a good ball of paper to give shape to the bag. Hang everything in strategic places where there could potentially be a nest.
Wasps – Did you know?
There are 6,000 species of wasps in France, but only 20 of them live in colonies and are therefore potentially annoying to us. All other species are solitary species..
Whatever their social organization, wasps are above all very useful, because they eat a lot of other insects and caterpillars, limiting proliferation… It’s all a question of balance!
Fighting wasps with an empty wasp nest exposed in a garden © Roman Mikhailiuk
4 – Make a trap
The technique is known: you just need to cut a water bottle in half. Turn the top part over to make a funnel. Insert it into the bottom part after adding very sweet water, why not using fruit juice or honey.
Wasps will be attracted to it and will die without being able to get out of the bottle… But other insects too, as with the bowl trick, so use this type of trap with parsimony.
5 – Spray lemon juice
Where you think wasps might come and spoil your fun, spray a mixture of lemon juice and why not white vinegar. Repulsed by the smell While you are in the garden, the wasps will leave you alone.
Don’t think about spraying them directly though, they might get angry!
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