Question about Wasp Nests

[Bucks_Boy]

Question for those of you knowledgable about wasp habits...

I have a Top Bar that was vacant last year ( 2 swarms have been hived into it and both left within 24 hours) and left as a "bait hive" -- in August I found a Wasp nest in it just bigger than a cricket ball which was suitably dispatched.

Opening it up this weekend (thinking of either getting rid of it or else "baiting") I found 2 small nests being built.

The question is : Do Wasps leave pheromones that prevent this box being usable for bees ? Do I now own a hollow table ?

thanks in advance for any advice..

 

[badguy_goodguy]

There will be no problem to use it for bees.

Actually, many people when they unify swarm for bee families (in the case of queen loose,etc), they add a juice of lemon and onion, or even perfume... and that's a strogger smell then the wasp "pheromones".

Even if there will be a smell from the wasp queen , the bees will get familiar with that smell. Beekeepers sometimes keep the bees separated by a special frame, so they will exchange the same smell...so they won't fight each other in the case they will unify them. And they don't.

I hope this helps