[Rhodes22-list] Mud/Wasp/Dirt "Dawbers"?

[Robert Skinner]

No-Pest strip comes to mind.
Put it outside when you are sleeping in the cabin.

/Robert
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mputnam1 at aol.com wrote:
> Hi everyone,
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> I have one of my once-every-four-months questions.? 
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> I haven't been able to be on the boat much of this summer for work reasons and I recently went down to check on it and found that it has become "infested" (maybe too strong a word) with mud dawbers (or wasp dawbers or dirt dawbers, depending on who you ask) ... basically the wasps hover around the boat and inside I found two mud/dirt cocoons filled with larvae growing into more of the buggers.? 
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> One cocoon (I don't even know if that is the right word, but it's a large clump of mud about three inches long stuck hard and fast to the side of a wall) was on the outer wall of the battery compartment next to the head and the other was under the sink.? There are probably more hidden elsewhere that I can't see ... when I had my engine serviced over the winter, apparently they found one inside the engine.
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> I don't know if I'm even spelling "dawber" correctly.? Ed, I tried searching the archives via google and could find nothing, but maybe I'm misspelling it.? 
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> Anyway, I'm wondering if any of you have any advice about how to deal with this infestation.? I was told the wasps are not particularly aggressive, but that they are hardy and have a good memory for where they were born.? Are there any treatments or traps you would recommend?? Have any of your dealt with the same problem?
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> I figure this is either something that all of you already know about and I'm just way behind the curve and have missed any emails on it?... or maybe it's just something unique to the swamplands of the Potomac River.
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> Any advice on how to catch/eliminate these dawbers would be much appreciated.
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> All the best,
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> - Mark P.
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