I am back from my hiatus; And I've learned a few things while gone (from blogging). We live on another island now and it happens to be a state park, which means lots of beautiful nature and wildlife. With this beauty comes spiders, bees, wasps, snakes, deer, raccoons, alligators, etc. I just found a wasps nest at out front door. I looked up "natural wasp repellent" and found this response to my question.
I found that plain baby powder works better than any bug spray and stays around for months or until it rains. Harmless to humans, great deterrent to buggy bugs of all forms. Ants, fleas, termites, all bugs, will not cross over it, if placed on the floor, near door entries, ant holes, fences, walls, invisible to the eye, but no more bugs, spiders, bees, wasps. Put Powder on your kids hair & skin when camping or at the beach and yourself, in the car, everywhere, it really works. So does garlic and onion plants in your yard, keeps all bug life away, even mosquitoes.
When I puffed some of the powder on the nest, they, as expected, flew away. One or two buzzed around for a while and I puffed the nest again. I let it sit for a while then just knocked the nest down and it bounced into the bushes. I then puffed a few borders around the outside of the doors and windows. Hopefully it works. It definitely felt better than spraying Lemon Scented Raid all over the place!
