Its interesting timing on this thread......i.e. its all your fault richard for starting this post!
I was working on a baler the other day and I know that wasps love that thing. So everytime I go near it I usually have a can of spray handy... well not this time.
So I open up the side cover carefully, expecting the usual swarm ..... nothing. I look every place they have made a nest in the past being carefull not to stir them up and find nothing..... life is good.
So I pull up the tractor, hook up the baler, open up the back and proceed to spend about thirty minuites of grease gun / lube time.... no wasps. I then go to pull out the brushes that keep tension on the twine... BAM from out of no where one hits me on the arm. I manged to scramble up into the cab as about 10 of these bad boys coming flying out of a little hole in the side of the baler looking for blood. The nest is hidden some place in the inner workings of the baler apparently close to the twine arms.
I beileve they are paper wasps.
The intersting thing is that they a) appear to know where I park the baler, and (b) appear to key into motion. They were stinging away at the tractor.
So what to do with no spray and the brush in hand?
Well I have found that if I drive off about 1/2 mile or so, I can loose them. So here I go driving this baler around trying to loose these little &^%$ so I can put the brushes back and finsih up this job. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
Worked great.
But when I returned the baler back to its usual spot here they come again stinging away at the tractor..... /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
Chemical warfare appears to be the only solution.
By the way of you have this same thing happen benadryl tablets work well. Just glad it was one bite and not 5 or 10.
Fred
