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If you mean directly in front of the entrance, yes, there will always be a bunch of wasps waiting for their turn to get in. And, yes, do not get too close to that spot unless you know what you are doing. In particular: know their flight paths and do not stand there.

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So when they built a nest near my back door, I'm just supposed to surrender my back patio so them so I can stay out of their flight paths?

As I wrote before, if you want to get rid of them, there are ways to do so (and keep them away) without killing them.

But to answer your question more directly: We have happily surrendered part of our terrace to wasps. Their right to live tops our desire for convenience. A nest lives for one year. If we do not want them to use the same spot next year, there are ways to make sure they do not.

I'm not surrendering "part of my terrace" to wasps - I'm talking about the rest of my family being unwilling to open the back door because there are always wasps flying near it. I'm not willing to surrender my back door to wasps for a year in hopes they find new flight patterns next year.

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