You are lucky you can find the nests to knock them down. If I had known then what I know now, I would have spent more and gotten a greenhouse made from steel and glass instead of this thing of wood and corrugated plastic. Seriously, tho, rubbing alcohol will kill wasps every bit as well as nastier chemicals, but you have to really soak them down with it. Nice thing about it, too, is that when one shows up in the house, as they inevitably do, you can soak them down in a window and not have any nasty residue (well, other than the dead bug, ugh) to deal with.