I definitely will not miss the dirt daubers. They are the most aggravating things! They build their little mud houses everywhere. The place that aggravates me the most – behind the mirrors on my car so when I start somewhere and decide to adjust my side mirrors . . they don’t adjust. I keep a metal knitting needle in the door pocket and I have to stop, poke around with that metal knitting needle and break up the dirt house and then my mirror works again.
Vince took an old fan and set it up where he was working in the shop and it sounded like it was about to crash. He took it apart and found this:
See the dirt house in there? It put the fan totally out of balance. Vince broke it up, put the fan back together and continued working in the shop.
I think everywhere we’ve lived has had them but there are zillions of them here.
Joyce says
I have plenty of them here too (in Missouri…) There is no escaping them! 🙂
Susan Nixon says
I don’t think I’ve seen many, if any at all. I could be wrong, but they don’t seem to be in TN at all.
Linda in NE says
We have the darn things in the garage here in NE. Every year when the little ones hatch & grow up enough to fly they come shooting out the overhead garage door every time it gets opened. And every year I buy a couple cans of wasp spray to thin them out. But every year there’s a new crop. It’s amazing too where we find their mud nests. The hubby has some little cabinets with little pullout drawers hanging on the garage wall. I was looking for something and pulled one of the drawers all the way out. Guess what was behind it? Yep, a little mud nest. No wonder we can’t kill them off completely! They’re really good a building nests where no spray can ever reach them.
Stephani in N. TX says
I can’t seem to find any nests like in years before, but I sure have the wasps zinging through my planter shrubs and up onto my patio. They are huge and aggressive. Fortunately they are active in the heat of the day when I don’t want to be in my yard. But I have one that comes on the patio and the nest is hiding under the fascia of my roof line. Spray doesn’t do a thing. I’m about to rip the fascia off with my hands because that particular wasp won’t share my patio with me. I guess I need to buy some stuff and seal off that part of the fascia.