Everyone has had to deal with these little pests…Wasps, they’ll sting you, or maybe just build nests all over your porch and house. But have you ever wonder how to get rid of them, or maybe just learn about them? Well I’ll talk about both of those and more in this post!
Anatomy
Wasps are insects, which means they have the following:
1. Six Jointed Legs – All insects have legs with 3 joints, and always have 6 legs, look at an ant or something like it to see a great example of it
2. Segmented Body – Head, Thorax (The midsection of the body) and Abdomen (the tail end) are the main 3 parts of an insect’s body
3. Breathe through tiny holes in their bodies called spiracles – These tiny holes let air in through the exoskeleton and directly to the trachea (The windpipe) and then into the lungs.
4. Antennae/Feelers – They use echolocation to send sound waves that bounce off of objects then come back. Bats and dolphins also use echolocation. They can figure out distance by how long it takes for the sound to bounce back to them.
5. Metamorphosis – What happens when the young body of an animal goes through a radical change in form when it grows up
6. Exoskeleton – An exoskeleton is sort of like a protective armor that insects have. It doesn’t grow with them though, so they have to molt / shed yearly and grow a new exoskeleton.
7. Compound Eyes – Most insects have compound eyes, which means their eye is composed of thousands of tiny lenses.
Natural Replants
Here are some natural replants that will keep wasps away from your house/garden.
1. Get a hose-end-sprayer and fill it with dish-washing liquid, about 1/4 cup.
2. Add water til subs start to form.
3. Shoot the nest from as far away as you can stand, and still hit the whole thing.
4. Do this in the night or early morning, that way all the wasps will be at the nest.
5. Wear a shirt and pants that are long sleeved and thick, just in-case they try to sting you.
Benefits of Having Wasps
Wasps, and yellow jackets will actually kill bugs that will eat your garden, But they come at a cost…Sometimes if people get too close to their nest, they’ll become highly aggressive and try to sting you.
Attracting Yellow Jackets
If you have any apple trees or something like that, you can pick up the rotten apples that have fallen off the tree, put them in a pile near your garden and volia! Yellow jackets will come to your compost pile and eat the rotten apples, while at the same time find the garden and eat some of the bugs inside of it!
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