Clean and Clutter-free: It's a wasp killer, flea control and more!

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Author Content WUVIE Hulbert, OK (Zone 7a) November 8, 2007 3:46 PM Post #4172254 It's a vacuum cleaner! Yep, that's right. I've been having so much fun with the vac lately. A zillion wasps have tried to make their home in a nook on the front porch. I simply combined a few tubes and stuck the tubes up to the hole, sucking wasps out. After a few minutes of sucking out bugs, I went back inside to do other things. When I returned, there were more wasps. Zoooop! Last weekend many dozen wasps lost their grip. I left the vac on the porch overnight, which stunned them even further with the cold temperatures, so when it came time to dump them into a bag and tie it shut, they were very cooperative. Today I decided the little vac (Optima) has such a good strong suction, that I would attach the brush and brush-vac our Yorkie. She loved it! It not only sucks off fleas, but leaves and such from her fur. Organic flea control! Ha! I then moved on to suck the life out of the dryer lint filter, the vent at the bottom of the refrigerator and every nook and cranny I can find. Lamp shades, table tops, you name it. Having too much fun, I need a real job! Click the image for an enlarged view. MaryE Baker City, OR (Zone 5b) November 9, 2007 5:35 PM Post #4176431 You're not the only one who attacks wasps with the vacuum cleaner. They love my hummingbird feeders, and it can be tricky to pick them off it with suction. Sometimes they are so busy eating that I can get them head first. When they take off they are going to fly forward so that's why I try to get them head first. If they get away sometimes I can get them in mid air. My son and hubby think I'm nuts, but it is great sport! Most of the nests are too high to get with the vacuum, but there have been a few in the right places to take the most exciting trip of their lives. WUVIE Hulbert, OK (Zone 7a) November 9, 2007 6:09 PM Post #4176534 Ha ha Mary, glad you share the fun with me. After shopping today, I arrived home to find some waiting their turn. Imagine being sucked through a tube, then sent whirling in mid air spinning around in circles for a while. I'd be dizzy, too. :-) bedouin Fort Lauderdale, FL (Zone 10b) November 29, 2007 12:42 AM Post #4241856 Wuvie, you are ingenious! I'd not heard of a vacuum cleaner being used as a wasp demolisher! Excellent idea! MaryE, I'd put up with the wasps if I could attract just one hummingbird! sallyg Millersville, MD (Zone 7a) December 4, 2007 9:42 PM Post #4262392 You want fun? Where are your refrig coils? Mine were underneath. Took off the front plastic grill then got a long skinny brush- they make some for this, but minewere a set ofr aquarium tubing cleaning- and go after the dust monsters all around the coils. Very satisfying! Prackly laying on the floor with brush, flashlight and vac tube. WUVIE Hulbert, OK (Zone 7a) December 4, 2007 10:18 PM Post #4262537 LOL, Sally, I have fun with that one, too. I use the leaf blower on the fridge grill. ;-) sallyg Millersville, MD (Zone 7a) December 5, 2007 11:35 AM Post #4263957 HA HA!! I shoulda known you were on to the fridge grills. So satisfying, except nobody (read :husband) thinks you did any housework when you do stuff like that. bedouin Fort Lauderdale, FL (Zone 10b) December 5, 2007 1:12 PM Post #4264266 Oh! I do agree...so annoying! Everyone needs a pat on the back now and then...even the live in maid, laundrylady, cook, cleaner and Jill of All Trades! Doesn't stop me from remarking on how clean everything is and how HARD I Worked!!! Therefore...No dinner prepared due to extreme exhaustion. Choice: clean the frige out or visit a local eatery...:) sallyg Millersville, MD (Zone 7a) December 5, 2007 1:32 PM Post #4264321 hey "Jill", I am with you. It doesn't hurt once in a while for us to remark how nice/tasty/clean something is. I really would clean anddecorate a little better if ANYBODY IN THIS HOUSE CARED. Til then I get to pick and choose!! I am lucky my husband apparently agrees.

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