[Vwdiesel] Wasps (was hydraulic heating)

David Cook vwdieselbunny at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 23 23:27:49 EST 2005


Spiders... ewww!

Wasps seem to like the school busses in the spring
time.  Last year, I killed at least one or two in my
bus before each route in the afternoons.

I did bring a dryer into the house to repair earlier
this fall, (after sitting outside for a year) and
discovered a 4x6 inch nest with 80 wasps in it.

Luckily I had a can of bug spray outside from when I
discovered a nest in a Cabriolet I was parting out.

David

--- slatersfb at aol.com wrote:

> Yup, if any of my carsw sits more than a week or
> two, they build nests in the door cracks & also in
> the side view mirrors. Also, we have around here
> these orb weaver spiders that build giant webs over
> night on the cars. These guys freak me out - they
> are big & very fast. Hairy striped legs &
> unbelievably bold for something the size of a half
> dollar. I'll take the wasps any day. Usually I hit
> the wasp nests with WD40 & they leave in a day or
> two. The spiders I hit with brake clean. Scary
> mothers, man.
>  
> Bob in the Entire State 
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Val Christian <val at mongobird.com>
> To: Shawn Wright <swright at zuiko.sls.bc.ca>;
> vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> Sent: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 06:44:10 -0500 (EST)
> Subject: [Vwdiesel] Wasps (was hydraulic heating)
> 
> 
> > On 20 Dec 2005 at 20:17, Val Christian
> <val at mongobird.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > The same torch is used to blast misquitoes in
> the garage in the summer.
> > 
> > Nah... a can of WD-40 and a bic lighter is way
> easier to grab in hurry! (or 
> any aerosol...) 
> > Found that out real quick when we disturbed a wasp
> nest while stripping my old 
> Jetta in the 
> > garage!
> > 
> >  
> > Shawn Wright
> 
> Shawn, my man, the wasps as something else!  Of all
> the cars I've owned, 
> with all the paint schemes, only two, a 1979 Lemon
> Yellow Rabbit (got
> Lemon Yellow for visibility after someone ran a stop
> sign into my 
> Miami Blue Rabbit and totaled it), and my current 91
> Tornado Red Jetta,
> have the masterful ability of picking up wasps nests
> while running 
> down the road.  It's a constant battle in every
> door, underneath the
> car, and even in the radiator area.  I can't figure
> it out.  It's like
> the cars oooze some kind of pheromone.  The wasps
> even gather at night.
> 
> Anyone else find this problem with VW?  Diesels?
> 
> Val
> 
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David Cook
Red '86 Cabriolet Diesel Powered
Red '90 g60 Corrado 
Brown and White '78 Westy Campmobile "Bear"
and others in various states of disrepair
Pictures here: community.webshots.com/user/superdave5599


	
		
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