over the counter wasp repellent?

[RAPPLEBY2000]

Hi just wondering, I'm a Gardener/Bushcraft instructor and wasps have been a problem in the past is there a smell or spray they stay away from.

I can't use chemicals/poisons, wasp "beer" bottle traps, smoke, or fire to burn them on other peoples property.

I don't take any food/sweet drinks with me to work and I don't use sweet smelling soap or deoderant so they aren't usually attracted to me, but sometimes they just seem to hang around, or I have to work in the same area.

 

[jimford]

As with ants I usually try to work _with_ them, rather than against.

I'd try leaving a big dollop of jam away from where you're working, to distract them and keep them happy.

Jim

 

[Bushwhacker]

Have you been stung yet?

 

[Shewie]

Try googling "natyral wasp repellent" Richard

A couple do come up but this one looks quite good ...

http://shop.packyourbags.com/acatalog/Wasp_Repellent.html


And this one wins the best name award

http://www.waspinator.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=53&Itemid=77

 

[stooboy]

there is an old tale ive never tried where if you tie up a brown paper bag nearby they think its another wasp bike and stay away, or alternatively a can of lilt some 20feet away do the trick.

a woman walks into a garden center and picks up some wasp killer, and asks the clerk "is this any good for bee's" he replies " no it kills them to"

 

[Opal]

In Greece, to keep them away from yer table the tavernas put some Greek coffee on a saucer and let it smoulder, kept the wasps away from us, needless to say I brought a bag home. Havent had the need to use it yet.