Millenium Seats and Wasps

I have three Millenium seats in my Lund and have noticed they were "attracting" wasps and hornets. There is a hollow aluminum tube supporting the forward section of the seat and which is under the thigh when you sit down. Into this tube I have seen red wasps and bald face hornets enter. Their particular nesting habits probably preclude them from building a nest in the tube......I hope! However yesterday I noticed one end of one tube was occluded with grass. In fact grass was all over the floor under the seat. What could it be? Hopefully it is this: grass-carrying wasp | Roads End Naturalist
However, I would feel a whole lot better with those holes closed.

I'll have to check mine. Can you fill it with Silicone to plug the hole?

I am a Ham Radio Operator and most of my antennas are made of tubular aluminum. They are infamous for having wasp nests in the elements. I never work on any of them without a can of wasp spray in my hand.


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Also I seal them with spray foam insulation (non-expanding type) when I can.


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Interesting! Thanks for the post!

Didn’t know you were A hamster Clint. I played with two way on the outlaw cbfrequencies. Had lots of fun, made some good friends, and for the junk I was runnin made some great contacts. Never took the plunge and went more in an outdoors direction. A good rig is more than a couple of nickels these days.

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Didn’t know you were A hamster Clint. I played with two way on the outlaw cbfrequencies. Had lots of fun, made some good friends, and for the junk I was runnin made some great contacts. Never took the plunge and went more in an outdoors direction. A good rig is more than a couple of nickels these days.

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Yup - I've been a licensed Ham for over 28 years. As to the price of ham equipment it has recently taken a hugh tumble. Icom came out with a new radio aimed at newer hams for $1000, and that dropped the price of used gear a bunch. The hobby has grown since the Gumint dropped the Morse Code requirement. A lot of the ham traffic today is digital - that is keyboard to keyboard, but voice and CW are still very much alive.

Wad tin foil up in a ball and shove in the end of the tubes on your boat seat. I will have to go look but i thought mine were capped with black plastic plugs.

My enemy is dirt daubers. Messy.

Good info in this thread, y'all have any tips for keeping carpenter bees from crapping all over my boat under my barn!?

Thinking of coating the wood with copper napthanate (sp). Coal tar epoxy doesn't work, neither does paint, also the woodpeckers like to go eat the larva and make more damage...

You can make carpenter bee traps easily and hang them. I've used them in my greenhouse. Look on youtube or online for instructions as there are many ways.

You can get a wetable powder for carpenter bees ...mix with water and spray all the wood. Click here... Carpenter Bee Kit | Cyper WSP

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what about the dirt daubers?

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what about the dirt daubers?

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Go here. Search results for: 'Mud daubers'

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The spays will kill them, but other daubers replace them. I need something to deter them.

Dirt dauber dislike moth balls.

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Dirt dauber dislike moth balls.

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Moth balls don't help...

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Moth balls don't help...

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Yea! Use dirt dauber balls, that'll teach'em.