joe b.
Florida
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The bugs strike again. Last week I was installing a Reese Tow Beast hitch receiver and needed to drop my spare tire for working room. When I tried to insert the crank handle into the tube to crank down the tire, it was a no go. Mud daubers had filled the tube with their cement like mud. Turned into an hour and a half job to get the mud out and be able to lower the tire. Sure glad it happened at home and not discovered on the side of the road with a flat. I have screened my furnace intake/exhaust and water heater. Where else should I do some preventative work to keep the bugs out? They are rapidly rising to the top of my least favorite bug list. LOL
joe b.
South Florida, Stuart
Formerly of Colorado and Alaska
Driving a Dodge/Cummins
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mockturtle
Northwest
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We had hornets build nests in our furnace vent and also our range hood vent. That was fun, when I turned on the vent fan and they all came flying out, madder than, uh, hornets! I sprayed the outside of the vents with Raid and they've never returned. Probably would work for mud-daubers, too.
Husband: Derek
Dog: Bucky
RV: 2000 Aerolite 19RB TT
TV: 1996 Chevrolet Blazer 6 cyl. 4WD
This car used to be our toad, now is our TV!
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Katdaddy
Petal, MS USA
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They got me last summer......twice. We had a trip coming up so I was checking out the camper to make sure everything worked. I turned on the AC and it felt like the camper was going to shake apart. After much investigation I found a nest on the fan blade. Cleaned it off and went on my merry way. About a month later the same thing. They had built another nest in the same location. I put a cover over the AC unit for the rest of the summer.
Little by little, one travels far - J.R.R. Tolkien
There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. - Mark Twain
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Gale Hawkins
Murray, KY
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Last summer my front A/C unit was fine and three days later would just hum. Turned out they got in the motor. As soon as I put some force on it with a wrench it moved a little so I just kept working it backwards and forwards until it turned free and it is still running fine.
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Matthew_B
The boonies near Dallas, Oregon
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I had hornets build a nest in the air intake for the furnace. I didn't notice it until enough of their burned bodies kept the burner from staying lit. At first the furnace locked out but ran again when I cycled the thermostat. The next day it wouldn't stay lit for more than a few minutes.
I pulled out the burner and found a big pile of singed hornets. When I went looking, I found a few lonely hornets left in the nest in the incoming air tube.
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Fisherman
Angus, Ontario, Canada
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For those who have the larger 1/4" square screening on top of the fridge vent, you might want to take a look up there and between the fins of the heat exchanger on the rear of the fridge. Between yellow jackets, hornets and mud daubers, I was busy for a while, now there's slightly smaller gauge screening up there and on the wall side vent for the fridge.
I also found the daubers leaving mud plops on the dash of the truck when the windows were open. I followed their trail into the A/C vents on the dash. Now I jam a piece of rolled up fiberglass mosquito screen between the window and the tracks to keep them out of the truck
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old guy
Oregon (pronounced Or e gun)
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they get into the refrig cover, the hole int he back bumper, any where under the TT and just any place that they can start a nest. My metal shed has then just hanging from the roof in the middle of nowhere.
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