How to get rid of wasps in compost bin?

[sazhig]

It appears they are attracted to apple cores so shall stop putting them in from now on...but how to get rid of the swarm we now have without using chemicals that will ruin the compost  ???

It's getting a bit hazardous just going near the bin tbh...let alone putting anything in it.

[sazhig]

[SPUDLY]

Try using a small necked bottle. Tie a piece of string around the neck of the bottle and hang on the corner of the compost bin, or a stake in the ground close by. Put some jam in the bottle and mix with a small amount of water. Smear a small amount of jam on the inside of the neck. The wasps will be attracted to the sweet smelling jam and drown in the water/jam mixture

[GrannieAnnie]

Blow torch the nest?

[Robert_Brenchley]

Could there be a nest in there?

[sazhig]

I bloomin' hope not because blow torching it would probably set fire to the compost bin (it's plastic!) LOL. The jam method sounds good Spudly. I shall go and hunt for an old ketchup bottle in the garage tomorrow....

[Mr Smith]

Go down at night and put wasp powder at the entrance of the nest, :)

[lightyears]

dust off and nuke it from orbit...its the only way to be sure

[sazhig]

Well DH bought some Raid this afternoon because nothing was working. The jam just attracted more of them  ::)...

Seems to have done to trick. Not a wasp in sight at all. Feel bad for having to use chemicals...I'll just have to use the compost on the front garden instead of for seedlings or the veg beds.

Ta for the help