B >     The most common wasp killers are effective for about 24 hours.  This 
will
B > help, to a point, with returing wasps.  Unfortunately, after about 24 
hours,
B > their effectiveness is nil and you may find the wasps have nested in 
exactly
B > the same spot as previously. (I'm speaking from experience, in having had 
to
B > remove wasps' nests from under the eves of our house, and from 
iscussions
B > with the man at the hardware store who sold me the stuff.)
Yea, we've found that too - new wasps seem to move in a few days later.
B >     It's best not to wait an entire week to remove the sites of the 
nests, as
B > I tried to do with the hives under our eves.  Wait 24 to 48 hours max, to
B > account for returning wasps, and then do what needs to be done.  If the
B > problem is that the work can only be done on certain days, it only takes 

B > few minutes to apply the spray.  Go out early in the morning, 24 to 48 
hours
Even when we destroy the nests, they come back and start building new ones 
- any long term solution that you know of?
B >     One other thing.  I once removed a century plant from a backyard 
where my
B > family lived when I was growing up.  We found the sap to be both acidic 
and
B > caustic.  Be sure to wear some sort of eye and hand protection and, even
B > though it may be hot, long sleves.  We ended up using an axe to cut 
through
B > the main stem of the plant in order to remove it and the sap sprayed 
very
B > where.  It didn't take much of it in contact with the skin to convince us
B > that it was pretty nasty stuff.
Ouch! Thanks for the warning. We cut some lower leaves off this weekend 
using a hacksaw, but I guess we were lucky. I wore gloves so I wouldn't get 
cut on the spikes as I dragged the leaves away (hubby did the hacksawing). 
Since the weather is still cool, the sap could be "slow" this time of year, 
or maybe because we just cut the oldest, bottom leaves instead of the new 
growth at the top.
We did find some nice offshoots growing in the lowest rotted leaves - they 
even seem rooted already as I couldn't pull them up easily (left them for 
now).
Thanks, Michele
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