Water as a wasp frightening
Wasps only like water for drinking. Then all the more, because the hard work in midsummer not only makes the insects very hungry, but also incredibly thirsty. Perhaps you have already seen dried-up wasps greedily sipping from small puddles of water on the terrace or by the edge of the pool.
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On the other hand, water from above, especially in large quantities, is more dangerous for them. In rainy weather you will hardly see a wasp flying around. Especially the big, heavy raindrops from summer thunderstorms can cause the flying insects to stumble quite a bit.
In years with a lot of rain in the summer, even entire wasp nests can be washed away and most of the animals drown in severe storms.
Apart from its thirst-quenching function, water mainly endangers wasps in the form of:
- large, splashing raindrops - danger for individual animals in flight
- larger amounts of water during storms - nests can be washed away
How to use water specifically to displace it
A simple and very practical way to drive wasps away with water is the good old water disperser. Such a sprayer can be found in almost every household. By spraying annoying wasps you can fool them into thinking it is raining - so that the hard-nosed and clever animals really seek the distance and stay away, you have to spray properly.
Make sure that you use a clean disperser without any cleaning agent residue that can seriously harm the wasps. Flooding earth nests with sugar water, which sticks together and kills the wasps, is even less animal-friendly and, in some species, even punishable.
