How to Get Wasps Off Your Deck or Patio

I got tired of chasing wasps from our back deck with a sprayer filled with insecticide. The insecticide seemed to harm us more than it harmed the wasps, whcih would soon return. I also became tired of having wasps chase (and sting) me. So I did some research and came up with the following environmentally safe advice from an HGTV garden expert:

Wasps are territorial, so a natural way to remove them from your deck or patio is to make them think that another wasp nest is close by. A simple but effective way to do this is to take a used paper lunch bag, fill it with air, tie it at the bottom with string and hang it from a branch .