5/20 - I'm not sure why, but wasps seem to love our house. When we moved into this house in January of 2007, we had no way of knowing that wasps love to build their honeycomb like docking stations in numerous locations around our house. Last summer, after the majority of the wasps had flown the coop, we knocked down all the homes that we could reach & sprayed...but they just keep coming back. Today I was playing outside with Ethan and decided to open the patio umbrella to provide a little shade, which is when I discovered that a few wasps were hunkering down to break ground on a new housing development INSIDE my patio umbrella. 
This umbrella owner wanted none of it, so everytime the wasps would fly away, I plucked the honeycomb starters out of my umbrella & then turn the hose on full boar to wash out any and all evidence that they had ever broken ground. I can only imagine the feelings of frustration those worker wasps must've felt as they returned with their necessary miniature building supplies to find there was nothing there over and over again. ( : What a sweet victory.When Scot got home, I took him on a wasp walk around the house and pointed out all the hot spots we needed to take care of, & then we were off to the Home Depot for spray, refills for our wasp catcher things et. al. I will say that Ethan loved watching the bees at work, thanks to his friends in the Bee Movie. Thank you Jerry Seinfeld for making potentially dangerous stinging creatures seem like funny little flying friends adorned in black and yellow sweaters.
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We have the same problem at our house and are continually poisoning and knocking down hives. I was recently informed by a neighbor that you are supposed to soak the hives with poison, but not knock them down. This should keep them from rebuilding in the same spot. We are going to give it a try.
We tried that last year...and they were resiliant little buggers and stuck around. This year we emptied a better portion of a can of wasp killer on all the hives that we could reach & so far it seems to have worked, but we'll see as we head into summer. So far they haven't returned to the patio umbrella either. ( :
Wasps are an issue here too. McKinley and Sage were both stung by wasps last summer (not at our house even though we had them too)and have since been leary of going outside for fear of the wasps. Sage held a bee between her fingers last summer and brought it to show me. When she let it go, it flew away without hurting her. We like bees. They are actually useful, but we don't like wasps.;)
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