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Okay, just from the pictures, let me say what I think is happening:
You clear this up in about a week with a few simple things:
Don't leave standing water around, and make sure that you stay on schedule with the soap spray. Most of this will be cleared in just a week.
Edit: also for the slugs and stuff, you're growing a lot of stuff in a mostly shaded area, so you're just asking for slugs. Line a general area around your plants with Diatomaceous Earth. It's cheap, easy to use, and doesn't harm anything that doesn't crawl. Also, organic.
Double edit: DO NOT spray this black bugs with the striped butts. Those will be ladybugs soon that eat all the aphids. They are good.
Wasps fly a rather straight pattern back to their nest. Find the nest by using some food they like, such as a sugar drink, and see where they fly to when they leave. Move the container closer until you find the nest.
OR, OR, OR...a pheromone trap which I already mentioned many times.
That helps to kill the animals if I understand you correctly. Your last point was to find them. It may surprise you, but I did not research the suggestions you made and don't know their alternate uses. You could get rid of a nest after finding it without also killing the bees in your area (at least, public services handle that and I didn't hear otherwise).
You can find them and get them removed all without shouting :-)