The terrace is the living room of the garden, the transition between the house and the green oasis. Here you want to feel comfortable and enjoy convivial barbecues and coffee parties. It's just stupid when loudly buzzing, tabby stinging insects come along as unwelcome guests without an invitation.
How to get rid of wasps on the terrace?
To reduce wasps on the patio, you can place attractors with overripe fruit or sugar water at the other end of the garden, cover the food and generally leave wasps alone to avoid unnecessary stress.
Wasps that share our culinary preferences
There are an incredible number of species of wasps - but most people in our part of the world only associate them with those that are most present to us. And these are mainly 2 species from the subfamily of real wasps, namely the German wasp and the common wasp. They are the ones who loudly and without much shyness feast on our Danish pastries, our jam rolls and our grilled meat at the garden table.
Unfortunately, these large, social wasps are also the ones that can not only be annoying to people, but also dangerous. Because of their very vehement conservation of species in large wasp colonies, they also behave significantly more aggressively compared to the many other, predominantly solitary wasp species.
To remember:
- Social, more dangerous species of wasps are usually annoying on the terrace
- The much larger group of solitary wasps is much less present
German and common wasps can be particularly annoying at the garden table. The wasp workers have a lot to do with satisfying the hunger of around 7,000 larvae in the nest - and their own - with sweet and savory foods. It is not in their timid nature to spurn a table covered with cakes, fruit and meat.
How to deal with wasps on the terrace?
The basic principle when dealing with wasps is to overcome any possible disgust for them. Because an annoying, dogged fight with animal-harming wasp spray (€39.00 on Amazon) or wild waving around only means stress for both parties. Accept that animals are a normal, natural part of reality that you have to live with.
In order to be less disturbed while eating, you should use passive methods: For example, by distracting the wasps with attractors at the other end of the garden. This could be overripe fruit or a bowl of sugar water. Sweet and hearty-smelling food should be covered as consistently as possible to prevent the scent molecules from getting into the air.
