Millenium Seats and Wasps

[USMA65]

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.

[SeaRay]

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

[Clint]

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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[Clint]

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


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[Lonnie84]

[trypman1]

Interesting! Thanks for the post!

[skeetbum]

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.

[Clint]

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.

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.

["G"]

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.

[Cane Pole]

My enemy is dirt daubers. Messy.