Coleman camp stove fuel, that white-ish stuff. They melt. All of them, wasps or whatever.
Can of Raid, the type that shoots 15 feet. It is not nearly as good as it used to be. Used to insta-gank the things. Now they land, shake it off, and crawl around. maybe fly away if they didn't get enough. But they don;t like the stuff and I have never been attacked using it, plus it is handy it can shoot so far to soak nests.
I don't know about other parts of the country, but in WI honey bees are itty bitty fit on the nail of my pinky finger. Wasps are bigger, like little flying sticks with wings, spindly legs, no meat on them. Honey bees are friendly for the most part and I have never had a nest show up where I cared. They like nature and not my house apparently. Wasps can F off.
Bumble bees though. Bumble bees are the size of golf balls here. You hear them before you see them. You see them, from 50 yards away. Docile is not the right word for them. They won't come after you, I mean, not just to come "get you". They will come after you though, to see what you are about and what you will do. Fly all the way across the yard to buzz around your face until you wave them away. Usually they are just looking for food, or looking for a new nest location, but apparently they can't resist the moving tree in the yard and have to come see what I am about.
I wave them away or shoo them away with the shop broom, they generally flee before fight. But they are not allowed in my space, anymore then the rest of the lot of them are.
