# Wasp deterent

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wasp-deterent/821240>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 12, 2018, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wasp-deterent/821240 "2018-09-12T20:25:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wasp-deterent/821240/1 "2018-09-12T20:25:26Z")

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Any good way to deter a wasp from hanging around my front door?

Not sure what the thing is looking for but I have a security camera above my front door under an overhang and a single wasp sets off the motion detector on the camera a dozen times a day or more and likes to land right on the lens.  
When I inspect the area I don’t notice any nests being built and it’s always a single wasp doing it.

Is there something I can hang near the camera that would scare him off?

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**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wasp-deterent/821240/2 "2018-09-12T20:51:08Z")

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use dishsoap or spray on the overhang …… hes a scout looking for a place to build a new nest since the old ones full that way he wont come back because eventually they will build a new one where he picked out ……. wasps like warm places and he can get warm from the light

we get a nest on the overhang above dryer vent every year ……… this year they built a flat nest and we almost missed it ……

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**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2018, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wasp-deterent/821240/3 "2018-09-13T14:28:06Z")

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A small fan might disturb the ‘local airspace’ enough for the wasps to avoid the area.