On Thu, 06 Sep 2018 11:37:59 -0400, Dan Espen
wrote:

Andy writes:

On Thursday, September 6, 2018 at 8:30:18 AM UTC-5, Dan Espen wrote:
Andy writes:

I am trying to stop red jackets from habituating my gas grill.

Then stop buying red jackets and putting them there. Perhaps you mean
"yellow jackets"?

I don't want to use poisons.

I have sprayed them with a soap solution, but they keep coming back
and building nests.

You have a pile of jackets on your grill and they are building nests?
The soap was to clean the jackets? If there are actually bees in your
grill were you trying to clean them?

Anything I can put in there that they won't like being around?

Turn on the grill. Even if you have a pile of red jackets on the grill
they'll burn up. If they are actually wasps or some other kind of bee,
they don't like flames and one fully heated grill will do them in.

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Dan Espen

Not yellow jackets. Red jackets is the common usage in my area even if it isn't the scientific name.

Look up home made wasp spray to see what soap solution means.

Your ideas are rather silly.

You think turning on the grill is silly?

I did a Google search for red jackets.
Saw lots of jackets, no bees.

There is a lot of confusion about bees, wasps and hornets, even among
people who should know better. You really need to see the nest to sort
them out if you are not willing to actually catch and examine the
insect.
Even then a google search will give you conflicting opinions about
what they are.