Homesteading & gardeningEula Hatfield If wasps keep coming back this branch trick is why they stop for good!
If wasps keep coming back this branch trick is why they stop for good!
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Published Jul 31, 2026, 12:08 PM · 2mo ago
Eula Hatfield
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Description
🌿 Save $3,000–$5,000 a Year with My Complete Appalachian Home Methods I teach at: https://eulahatfield.com/
You are standing on your porch at dusk when you hear it — that low mean hum coming from up under the eave. Wasps, working their way in and out of a gap in the soffit. You back off slow, and inside, you already know how this goes. A nine-dollar can of spray that does nothing but rile them up, and by August, a second nest has gone up somewhere else on the house. My grandmother never sprayed a can of anything in her life. She hung a sponge from a tree, and that was the whole trick. Today I show you exactly how she did it.
What is in this video:
🌿 The Everyday Sponge Trap — the simple sugar, dish soap, and warm water mixture my grandmother soaked into a plain kitchen sponge, how to hang it right, and the one detail that decides whether it actually works
🌿 The Vinegar-Boosted Sponge Trap — what to add for a bad wasp year or a hornet problem, and why the vinegar keeps this stronger version safe for your honeybees while it still pulls in the wasps
🌿 The Clove-Citrus Sponge Sachet — the gentle, sugar-free version to hang near the porch or the picnic table, for keeping wasps out of a spot without trying to kill anything there
⚠️ Honest limits on all three — what this method can do and cannot do, and exactly what to do instead if you already have an active nest built and established. The honest word, not skipped.
💰 Where to find everything and what it costs — a couple of dollars in sponges, soap, and sugar you likely already have, versus $300–$1,200 a year for a pest control contract that never touches the real nest anyway. There is no company that can patent a kitchen sponge and a spoonful of sugar. That is the whole story.
Tell me in the comments — where do the wasps get worst on your property? The eave, the woodshed, the trash cans, the garden? How many sponges do you figure you will need? I read every single one.
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- Published
- Jul 31, 2026, 12:08 PM
- Length
- 18:01 (1,081 s)
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- Long-form
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- People & Blogs
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- EN-US
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- HD
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