Look What I found in my Plant!!!

jcas004 · Aug 10, 2021

So I went to check my plant yesterday and found these guys! Now they keep swarming around looking for their nest, hoping not trying to build another!

mysticepipedon · Aug 10, 2021

Those bastards.

One of the products using essential oils as an insecticide/repellent might help repel them. I tried Ed Rosenthal's mixture recently, and if I were an insect, I believe I would find it repellent. But wasps are hard to convince.

Maybe you should hire some murder hornets to deal with them. These look like mere involuntary manslaughter hornets.

socks4free · Aug 10, 2021

You guys should be leaving the wasps alone, I have a wasps nest right next to my plants. They are beneficial to your garden, they eat the bad insects.

Kanzeon · Aug 10, 2021

These are just paper wasps. Not super aggressive but their sting hurts like a mofo. They're also pollinators, so very useful to have around outside.

I'd honestly let them build as well. If you're around enough without threatening them they'll get used to your presence and you can just trim the buds around the nest when it's time. If you really don't want them on your cannabis plants, then move the built nests to somewhere they can keep building safely.

I used to have them on an old front porch. When they'd get stuck in my rain water collection containers I'd scoop them out and give them a place to dry off. Usually they'd just sit on my hands or on a finger and groom themselves to get the water off, then fly away after a few minutes. Honestly it's kinda cute.

LexLuthor · Aug 10, 2021

I wouldn't let them build a nest on my plants, destroy it and let them build a nest somewhere else. They will still remain close by so you get the benefits of them eating insects without the possibility that you have wasp larvae inside your buds.

socks4free · Aug 10, 2021

Kanzeon is right about being pollinators but if you don't have any males anywhere near by it shouldn't be an issue. They definitely get used to your presence I stand right in front of their nest all the time and have never had any issues they generally only get aggressive when provoked.

socks4free · Aug 10, 2021

LexLuthor said:
I wouldn't let them build a nest on my plants, destroy it and let them build a nest somewhere else. They will still remain close by so you get the benefits of them eating insects without the possibility that you have wasp larvae inside your buds.

There is no need to be worried about wasp larvae in your buds, I don't think you understand how wasps lay their eggs. The female lays the eggs inside of their nest in the pods they are making.

LexLuthor · Aug 10, 2021

socks4free said:
There is no need to be worried about wasp larvae in your buds, I don't think you understand how wasps lay their eggs. The female lays the eggs inside of their nest in the pods they are making.

Yes, I do. Wasps are very diverse, there are over 2 dozen different types of wasps and hornets and they have different types of nests and lay their eggs in numerous ways. They build nests on and in all types of things. IMO medicine shouldn't have wasp nests and larvae all over it or inside it.

socks4free · Aug 11, 2021

LexLuthor said:
Yes, I do. Wasps are very diverse, there are over 2 dozen different types of wasps and hornets and they have different types of nests and lay their eggs in numerous ways. They build nests on and in all types of things. IMO medicine shouldn't have wasp nests and larvae all over it or inside it.

Wasps are beneficial to your garden I'd rather have wasps on my plants than chemicals

ComfortablyNumb · Aug 11, 2021

Unless you are allergic to the stings.

jcas004 · Aug 12, 2021

Well the came back and built another in the same location only they are building on a dead leaf, so I hope it stays as long as they need, I decided to leave them bee lol

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