SHOO! FAQ: "When do I start hanging my SHOO! ?"

SHOO! was designed so it can be left outside - in any weather, year-round. So hang it up 6-8 feet above the ground & leave it up. SHOO! will not last forever, but mine have been hanging out in NE PA for 4 years now & still shooing wasps away. If you take it inside during harsh weather months, it will last longer. Rehang early spring.

Your wasp control mission includes checking your home’s exterior. Male wasps die off in the fall after impregnating nearby queens. As winter begins, queen wasps search for a secure and a warm place to hibernate. They will find their way inside through cracks in your siding, foundation, soffits & vents. Making repairs could prevent a wasp colony from building their home in yours.

Check your yard for holes and hollows- yellow jacket wasps tend to colonize in or near the ground, underneath your home or in your foundation. SHOO! will NOT deter ground-nesting yellow jackets.

SHOO! will certainly deter wasps but I can’t guarantee that it will absolutely stop wasps nesting. If you already have wasps nesting, unfortunately for the wasps you will need to have it treated by a pest controller – SHOO! will not make them leave home.

Once the nest is dealt with, a pest controller will often leave the old nest in place to act as a wasp deterrent for exactly the same reasons that SHOO! works. If you are having this done late in the season, make sure there are no hibernating Queens hiding in nooks and crannies.

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SHOO! FAQ: Faking It?

Q: Why don’t wasps realize SHOO! is a fake wasp nest? A: They don’t get close enough to it to realize it's a fake wasp nest. SHOO! utilizes wasps’ territorial nature to discourage & redirect - t hey see a SHOO! from 20 feet away: the shape of a wasp’s nest, the horizontal pattern which makes it look fibrous and layered, and they keep away. Wasps can see for long distances, they cannot see red--good color to reduce your visibility outside & in the garden--and even recognize each other's faces! SHOO! does have to resemble a real wasp nest otherwise it wouldn’t work. A nest can be any color from brown through to silver, depending on what they use to build their nests. SHOO! is best left in one location each season- wasps will remember it's there & may not come back to the area at all. Polistes dominulus. (Photos courtesy of Elizabeth Tibbetts) Wasps Don't Forget A Face www.ikanartware.etsy.com ikanartware on Ebay

SHOO!: Faux Sure!

The queen wasp wakes from hibernation in the spring. She begins to build a nest in warm, dry place like your attics, roofs, eaves, walls, BBQ lids or under decks and she can fly up to 50 miles searching for the perfect nest site. This is a great time to fake it- hang your SHOO!s early in the spring & let those queens know they need to move on! She builds a honeycomb-like cell structure out of wood fiber, chewed & glued together with wasp saliva to form a sort of paper mâché material. In each cell of the new nest, the queen lays a single egg, which takes approximately 28-48 days to become an adult worker wasp force. Sometimes (when the queen is still working alone) another queen tries to steal a nest instead of working to make her own. This is one of the reasons why you may find a few starter nests that were never established. Once the queen has five to seven worker wasps to help her, she stays in the nest and lays eggs...

SHOO! FAQ: You Can Never Have Too Many SHOO!s

Q: How many SHOO!s do I need for my property? A: While there are no calculations or scientific data to figure out how many SHOO! wasp nest decoys you'll need, there are some wasp facts and evidence by experience. Wasps have low-resolution, wide-field vision, can see 20 feet away & they rely on visual cues and a photographic memory for navigation. First, place your SHOO! where you have seen nest building in the past. If it can be seen from different directions, that's even better. I placed my first SHOO! on a SW corner of my house and wasps stopped building their nests in my shed located 50ft away. Yet, they couldn't resist the spider web food source & quieter location (I hardly use the 2nd entrance) on the NE side of the house, so they built a nest. Next season, I hung a SHOO! from the soffit on that side of my house & no more wasp nests! If you leave your SHOO! up in the same location, wasps have a 3D photographic memory that they use to navigate...

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