Hey cat owners is there a safe spray to use for hornets

[LoveMyCali]

in your house that you don't have to worry about using around your cat?

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. Maybe this...?

http://www.biconet.com/flyers/poisonfreewasp.html

[LoveMyCali]

2. Looks like it should be safe

I wonder if you can find it in any stores anywhere. I'm afraid the hornets will take over my house before it can be shipped to me. :scared:

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. Here you go...

Where can I buy VICTOR® POISON-FREE® Products?
http://www.victorpest.com/where_can_i_buy.htm

[LoveMyCali]

8. Thanks

It looks like only the rodent traps are sold in stores but I can always ask at Lowes or ACE.

[Inchworm]

4. I saw a "hornet trap" at Lowes the other day

A first for me and I'm clueless about their success.

:hi:

[csziggy]

5. Hornet traps work pretty good but I don't think you'd want to use them inside

They use stinky bait and they really really stink.

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7. if you must, do traps outside for hornets, a flyswatter in the house...

but if they are wasps please reconsider. wasps are actually very useful and only a very few varieties are aggressive.

when i first moved out in the country (the ozarks) i was scared shitless of all of the wasps here. they were every where and always flew right at my head/face. i would run, screaming, whenever they did that. but what i learned changed my mind...

the fact that in my five years here, the wasps have never attacked ever, or ever stung me once...

eventually i came to understand wasps are just very curious by nature and fly at me just to check me out. (ok, maybe to intimidate me and hear me scream just because they know they can...) *wasps laughing, i get it...*

but most importantly their diet consists mostly of spiders. brown recluse spiders are everywhere here (they! are something to be feared). and that is a favorite wasp "top chef" dealio...


check out and understand the bugs that scare the crap out of you. just because they are scary looking does not mean you should fear them. they may be your secret buds and you don't even know it.

wasps are my secret buds...

[LoveMyCali]

10. It's not their looks that scare me

it's the whole stinging thing. I'm afraid that my boy Cali will go after them and get stung too. I've told him to leave them alone but he never listens to me. :)



OK, so he doesn't look much like a killer here but he could be if he wanted to.

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11. oh, trust me i know. i try to school my little olive about what and what not to do...

i try to tell her every day, in a nurturing manner, in a "just trying to make your life better (from one who has been stung)" kind of way. does she listen? ever? no. never.

kitties...

[csziggy]

22. I wouldn't mind wasps and bees but I am allergic

Not anaphylactic, stop breathing allergic but swell up big time allergic. I was stung on my elbow once and the swelling went up into my neck. If the sting site had been higher, my throat would have closed.

So I don't take a chance with the wasps around the house or the barns or anywhere I have to work. Any nests get nuked by my husband. We try not to use poisons, just things like the traps to capture them. But if need be, poison is our backup for nests in areas I'd be vulnerable.

[barb162]

6. Do you know where the nest is?

Is it inside the walls?

[LoveMyCali]

9. There are some things that look almost like combs

outside of my living room windows but they don't open so I'm afraid that they have somehow gotten into the walls or the attic of the house.

[barb162]

15. Look for a tiny hole in your drywall and then squirt or spray

bug killer in there. Raid or whatever. I had that problem once. Somehow they got into an area of a loft where there was no attic but it was under the wood of the roof. The nest was between the wood of the roof and the drywall. Luckily the hole was spotted with them streaming out of it. I had no idea they will chew right through drywall. Go in the attic and check there too. good luck

[Rhiannon12866]

12. Joe uses a super soaker to eradicate hornet nests

by the garage and by the mailbox. It's just plain water. But that might be a little messy inside the house, and scare the cat...:hi:

[LoveMyCali]

13. My usual method

is to spray them with hair spray so they can't fly at me and then swat them with a fly swatter but there were 3 in my bedroom to day and they are always flying around outside my front door so I want to spray out there.

I don't think a super-soaker would go over big with Cali. I swear he was plotting to kill me in my sleep when I got a tiny little water gun to keep him out of the Christmas tree a couple of years ago. :hi:

[Rhiannon12866]

14. The one by the garage is just outside the front door.

But then he stays away from the area until it's an "all clear...":D

I'd be afraid to try swatting them inside the house. Those I've tried to capture and take outside or shoo out the door. I don't want to piss them off...:scared:

And we tried the squirt gun with Amos. It mostly worked, so maybe I should try it with Jack when he pulls used bandage wrappers and tissues out of the wastebasket. A super soaker inside the house would definitely be "overkill," and would definitely incite the cat...:evilgrin:

[libodem]

16. Good basic public service announcement

as this is helpful to me, too. For some odd reason wasps or hornets whatever they are love my yard! Every year I find the mud geometric cases stuck to the underside of the fence boards. Last year I thought I had wild bees. It was the best hive ever, looked like cardboard toilet paper wrapped into a hive shape. It was hanging just outside my front door. Of course I was reading 'The Secret Life of Bees' at the time. (Yes, I had a psychotic delusion that my intention brought me some bees.) Stupid damn paper wasps.

[Deep13]

17. Your cat has hornets?

I guess I would complain about fleas anymore.

You're asking if there is poison that is safe for pets. No. No, there isn't. In fact, they are not too safe for people either. But you know what is more dangerous than residual poisons? Hornets!

[nuxvomica]

18. I use orange oil cleaner from the health-food store

Make sure it's real orange oil and concentrated. Some mass-market brands in the supermarket are orange colored but don't have so much oil in them. I've sprayed it to oncoming wasps and they just drop. :hi:

[LoveMyCali]

19. Thanks

I'll get some tomorrow. Who knows, I could probably use that as a cat repellent also, Cato used to hate the smell or oranges. I would put orange peels under my Christmas tree to keep her away from it. :hi:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

20. I wonder if cat spray would work...

It certainly repels humans.

[LoveMyCali]

21. It didn't work on my first cat

She was quite the character though, I bought some of that NO stuff to spray around my Christmas tree and had to leave the house because it smelled so bad and when I came back in the cat was sitting right under the tree. :rofl:

I found orange peels were a much better solution.