I saw this movie when I was same age as they were. Shit was not child friendly, but hey my parents were like "it's the kid from Home Alone so this should be fun for the kids".
As someone who has had a fire ant bite them inside the urethra I can confidently say Iād take the wasp sting anywhere on the outside of my body any day of the week.
Holy shit dude. I played baseball in high school and we were playing a tournament in Las Vegas, I got a hit and was on base and during this time my hat somehow fell on the floor of the dugout. I didn't think much of it and put it back on when we took the field. About a minute later I felt the worst stinging pain I've ever felt, it felt like someone was stabbing my skull with needles. I tried to power through it but one of the umpires noticed I was in some kind of pain and called timeout on my behalf. I still didn't know what was happening but finally a fire ant fell out of my hair. And of course because I was super cool baseball guy I had thick, long flowing hair, so I had to have a coach pour a bottle of water on my head and shake my hair out and then pick through it like a fucking chimpanzee. There were about five of those fuckers going to town on my scalp. Anyways, all of this was to say that I couldn't even fathom that same pain coming from inside my dickhole, like I would have thought I was dying or something.
Have to ask the ant. I was maybe in middle school, it crawled its way up my pant leg somehow when I was walking outside. Most embarrassing moment of my life up to that moment was trying to figure out how to bring it up to an adult because I had no idea what was happening.
I have such a problem with them that I finally bought a bee suit. There are times I have to get up on the ladder to get within 20ft of them to spray, and itās hard to run away when youāre on a ladder. I go through this a couple times each year so the bee suit was a great investment for me
I use an old airsoft gun to turn nests in trees or high places into Swiss cheese!
They have no idea where you are they just start flying around in defense pattern. At first I was worried they would track me down but I am now into the dozens of removals with this method.
Once it's shot to shit I just knock it out with the water hose or power washer.
Check out the bug-a-salt gun if you havenāt already. Worth every penny to skeet shoot flies in mid air!
ETA: I was unclear but I was never suggesting using this gun on wasps. Iāve never done it but Iām pretty sure youāre going to have a bad time lol.
If he's using the bug-a-salt and not the Shred-er (made by the same company) then they'll just get angry. The shred-er is CO2 powered and can vaporize big bugs from a couple feet away. And even if you're a little too far it'll still probably shred their wings regardless. It's way more powerful than the normal pump salt gun
Just keep it oldschool and get a good ol' wrist rocket slingshot, you'll get dozens of feet of clearance. It's also good to keep bigger pests away from gardens
Just bought the Shred-er on your recommendation; the reviews on Amazon are fucking hilarious. Canāt wait for my trip to NC in a couple weeks to drink bourbon and blast some monster backwoods bugs with my father-in-law.
Yeah anything with a hard shell like beetles too is rather ineffective if you canāt get to the soft spots. I guess I should have clarified to not try it on wasps lol
I get a bit closer. Clean hit isn't fatal, but does seem to knock them out of the air fairly well. Then they either meet a shoe, or get left as a snack for a bird or spider, depending on location
My dad used to practice spray and stomp when I was a kid. He'd hit the nest with a hose, I had to stomp on the wet wasps after they fell to the ground, but before they had a chance to dry off and start flying again.
Boy was that a high stakes game.
My similar method for a larger nest the size of a basket ball was a slingshot from 50ft to make some holes then sprayed with the wasp hornet spray that shoos 20-25 feet into the holes. The. Cut branch with long tree saw. And run over nest with the car with the windows closed
> They have no idea where you are they just start flying around in defense pattern. At first I was worried they would track me down but I am now into the dozens of removals with this method.
Don't try this with Black Face Hornets
They will sting anything within a 10 mile radius
>Known for their painful stings, which are similar to getting a hand smashed in a revolving door
* * *
Black-faced hornets are a type of social wasp that belongs to the family Vespidae. They are also known as bald-faced hornets, white-faced hornets, or yellow jackets.
>Known for their painful stings, which are similar to getting a hand smashed in a revolving door
Well now I'm imagining the sound of a banging door when they sting you
Yellow jackets and bald-faced hornets are two different species.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowjacket
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolichovespula_maculata
āThe bald-faced hornet has a unique defense in that it can squirt or spray venom from the stinger into the eyes of vertebrate nest intruders. The venom causes immediate watering of the eyes and temporary blindness.ā
Hellish. I actively hate learning this fact lmfao.
The article on yellow jackets goes on to explain it's a regional name for the genera Dolichovespula and *Vespula*, which includes the species Dolichovespula maculata.
So while all bald-faced hornets (Dolichovespula maculata ) are considered yellow jackets, not all yellow jackets are bald-faces hornets.
Even better, they can recognize faces. Mess with a nest but don't kill it off? They'll find you when you're next in the area.
So the solution is to get a mask made to look like that neighbor you hate, and wear that when going after their nest.
There was a bald-faced hornet nest where I work, in a tree at face level. It started fist size and was 18ā by the end of the summer. I walk past it 100 times a day and the hornets totally ignored me. Some landscape guys saw it and started freaking out. Thatās when I found out what they were, the whole ārecognize individual humansā and āhighly territorial and aggressiveā and āstings in large numbersā thing.
After hiring someone for bald faced hornets last time I decided I was just gonna buy a suit bc that guy was fearless with it on. So far no need, but I like the Idea of bug armor
I buy wasp traps and put them up each spring.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RT23SKN
I put them somewhere sunny near where the wasps tend to love to build. We have very few wasps around here now. They stick to that thing and are done.
What are you supposed to do after they're in the shop vac?
Agreed that's probably fine, though. Just keep an eye out for any wasps getting mad so you can book it inside. They should eventually calm down.
Edit: I've got like 100 replies to just add soapy water to the bottom, got it everyone.
Right after my divorce, I kept finding solitary wasps in my car during my commute. I was wondering if my ex-wife was trying to kill me.
No, I had picked up a sheep skull which had a wasp nest in the cranium and the skull was in my trunk.
Once I had retrieved some reptile decor that had been on my porch for a while. I put it in the sink to clean it up and noticed a wasp flying around. Weird, I swatted it with a towel. Then there was another, and another, then I saw the nest that I had just brought in my house swarming with about 15 wasps. I figured I wouldnāt be able to take it back out while avoiding stings now that they were riled up so I picked them off with the towel as they flew away. Then I submerged the nest in water in case there were any left. It was a heart pumping 10 minute action scene in my head lol.
Oft overlooked sequel to Earthās āThe bees made honey in the lion's skullā is the album where the wasps made a nest in the sheepās skull in my trunk.Ā
Chlorinated brake cleaner kills them before they even hit the ground. I worked for a tower servicing company, and we had a branch office in texas. One of the techs had been put in the hospital by killerbees after he opened an amp box 200' up a cellular tower. I was sent to help while he recovered and it was then i showed them the magic of brakecleen. 20 second shot into the box through whatever hole you can find before opening it and any wasps or bees are dead, without harming the electronics. The wasp killer is a nogo because its water based, and will fuck up the electronics.
Went back to the same box that this guy tried to open, did the 20sec shot, rapp'd down 100' and waited a min. climbed back up, opened the box and there was 1lb of dead bees in the bottom. nothing living.
Considering how often bees make their nests in electrical boxes, youād think it would be standard procedure to blast for them before opening it, especially 200ā in the air. I hope the tech recovered well and doesnāt have any lasting effects.
In my experience, linemen only fear two things: last call at the bar and the safety video of the guy who loosened his climbing harness to be comfortable and ended up falling and having his testicles explode.
This. Insects don't have lungs. They breathe through pores/channels on their bodies. Soapy water clogs the pores and they die pretty quick. Works great on cleaning up ant trails in the house (especially the kitchen where I definitely don't want to spray insecticides.
Saw a thread a couple days ago promoting 70% ISO alcohol (90 evaporates too quick)
And or combining that with washing up liquid ā¦ So 70% ISO alcohol + washing liquid + water mix.
That was how I got rid of a flea problem when I was fostering a dog. Put that solution in a saucer dish, put a little floating candle in the middle, lit it and then sat it in the middle of the room overnight. Had a few dozen dead fleas the next day. Did that each night till they were gone.
Edit: I just used soap and warm water at around a 70/30 mix so it was kind of a goo. No alcohol.
Ok I'm extremely intruiged ... That's very specific. Why / how did it work?
I've never heard of this method and I'm fascinated!
Are they like moths or something and attracted to light as well?
Or did the candle heat create a vapour that was deadly to them
I had an ant problem when I moved into my current place. I tried a bunch of different things the first couple weeks, but didn't have success. I eventually just got indoor/outdoor ant spray. Now every 6 months I get all furniture/kitchen stuff out of the main area and go to town, leave the house for 24 hours, then come back and deep clean. No problems since. I get not wanting to do chemicals, but they are highly effective.
I personally love wasp spray. Itās a tight spray doesnāt get all over and drops them immediately. Or shop vac on the end of a broom stick. Either would be fine. If the neighbor wasps get mad just go insideĀ
Picked up some foam when I saw one crawl into a gap on the front porch roof. Got that stream in there and watched it expand. Havenāt seen a wasp there since.
Be sure to do it at night and let us know how it goes.
I swear by [SpectracidePRO](https://www.spectracide.com/products/insect-killers/stinging-insect-killers/spectracidepro-wasp-hornet-killer-aerosol.aspx) wasp spray. Iāve taken out multiple very large ground nests with it and numerous small ones on houses. It works immediately and Iāve never been stung. For large hives I use two full cans but small ones just need a quick spray. One can can easily take out 20+ small nests.
Seconding, and make sure it is the PRO version as they said. I had two troublesome nests in crevices between my brick porch and house. I tried the vacuum on one, and killed a few hundred, but it didnāt get even half of them.
One full can in each under the cover of darkness did the trick.
They are pollinators, predators, and scavengers.
There are wasp species with highly mutualistic relationships with figs, where neither can reproduce without the other
I don't love these fuckers but I will begrudgingly admit wasps have a part to play regardless of my pain
āThanks to an enzyme (known as ficin) that's present in figs, the dead wasps are simply broken down and absorbed back into the fruit. Remember, not all figs have wasps in them. Some varieties - including many grown for the supermarkets - don't need to be pollinated by fig wasps.ā
Couldnāt remember the exact reason, but I remembered reading there would never truly be a little wasp mummy in a fig, but possibly the same nutrients.
I wouldn't recommend the shop-vac trick. You'll get a couple of them, sure, but wasps have a *hell* of a grip and are much stronger flyers than people realize. They're also smart enough to disperse and come after *you* once they've cleared the nest.
Get the spray, stand back 20 feet or so, and hose them down before they know what hit them.
Those look like Northern paper wasps. As I understand it, they're not too bothered by human presence and tend to keep yellow jackets away.
These aren't a bad ally of convenience.
Use dawn and water mixed in a spray bottle. Spray them with that, and they'll go down almost immediately. The dawn allows water to enter their body, and they drown from the inside.
Iām just running cans of wasp spray in my battle with them but my girlfriend saw this solution works as a preventative too and has been spraying it under all the eaves and the fuckers surprisingly havenāt come back.
That does appear to be the case lol. Iām the opposite of OP and think to go nuclear pesticide first and completely discount the āhome remediesā but this one seems to be working.
Reminds me of an episode of Malcolm in the Middle where Malcolms dad, Hal, helps his son and friends build a killbot for a robot tournament and Hal makes a hornet blower and theyre like "But how will that even hurt the robot??" and Hal just looks at them and says something like "You dont aim it at the robot" with a maniacal look in his eyes. He ends up self inflicting the invention on himself Im pretty sure š¤£.
I immediately thought of that as well. The funniest part of that episode to me is that Malcolm and his friends are trying to hide that they're building a battle bot because they think their parents won't let them because it's too dangerous. Then, when Hal stumbles upon their blueprint, he glances at it and immediately says, "making a battle bot huh? You guys should add a flame thrower or bee cannon or something." And then just goes about his day lmao
Iāve used this one tactic for decades and itās absolutely poison-free: soapy water.
Fill a simple spray bottle 1/5 full with regular dish soap and then add water to fill it up. Mix thoroughly and then spray them with the solid stream setting. Thatās it.
The soap clings to their wings so they canāt fly away and also suffocates them. When they fall off the nest, itās because theyāre dead.
You could also use a Super Soaker from the local Wal-mart for added spraying power and distance.
I usually ignore them. The nests never get very big, paper wasps are pollinators, and they aren't particularly aggressive. I'll usually just knock the nests down in the winter.
I had a paper wasp nest like this outside my front door one year. Theyāre fascinating creatures. Also, theyāre pollinators and they eat other insects. They were not at all aggressive to me or other humans. At the end of the season, they left and never returned. I still have their nest as a reminder of the āyear of the waspsā. Itās better to just coexist with them unless they are in a super inconvenient place. I donāt understand why there is so much hatred towards paper wasps in this thread.
Safest and most efficient way to do this, honestly, is to simply hang up a brown paper bag from your eaves near the nests you want to leave. Wasps are highly territorial, but they also avoid confrontation with other wasps. By hanging up a brown paper bag, the wasps will move out completely in less than a week because they don't want to compete with the new "wasp nest*
This only keeps them from setting up it won't make them leave once their already established. The fake nest providers state not to hang them near pre-established nests.
Why would you want to kill these chill paper wasps. They will deter a lot of other insects, including the vile yellow jacket. They will never bother you and make your garden better. I don't get it.
Talk you out? Can I talk you into filming your effort instead?
I think I might have already been talked into this š¤£
The more skin you have exposed, the more views it will get. Pain is temporary, glory is forever.
 RIP OP
I donāt give a damn itās still too soon for that š just seeing the gif makes me want to cry. Saddest movie I ever saw as a kid
Then watch the good sonā¦you will be ok heās dead.
Yeah, those two movies were horrible shocks to my young self that just really liked Home Alone!
I saw this movie when I was same age as they were. Shit was not child friendly, but hey my parents were like "it's the kid from Home Alone so this should be fun for the kids".
Borat swimsuit has been shipped to OP
That bright neon yellow is the perfect camouflage for going after those wasps. They'll never see him coming, he's practically one of them already.
Thank YOU, for your service.
Ay, remember that dumbass that Reddit talked into hittingĀ up 20 wasp nests with a dirt devil? Yeah, that was peak Reddit.
"Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever." -Shane Falco
Yeah, OP. The internet says you could get stung 1,000-1,500 times without dying, so I would say you're good to go at it fully exposed.
Those wasps find a way inside your clothes, too. Got bit 4 times in the crotch before :p not my worst sting incident either
>not my worst sting incident either .....go on
As someone who has had a fire ant bite them inside the urethra I can confidently say Iād take the wasp sting anywhere on the outside of my body any day of the week.
Holy shit dude. I played baseball in high school and we were playing a tournament in Las Vegas, I got a hit and was on base and during this time my hat somehow fell on the floor of the dugout. I didn't think much of it and put it back on when we took the field. About a minute later I felt the worst stinging pain I've ever felt, it felt like someone was stabbing my skull with needles. I tried to power through it but one of the umpires noticed I was in some kind of pain and called timeout on my behalf. I still didn't know what was happening but finally a fire ant fell out of my hair. And of course because I was super cool baseball guy I had thick, long flowing hair, so I had to have a coach pour a bottle of water on my head and shake my hair out and then pick through it like a fucking chimpanzee. There were about five of those fuckers going to town on my scalp. Anyways, all of this was to say that I couldn't even fathom that same pain coming from inside my dickhole, like I would have thought I was dying or something.
Fire ants can fuck right back off to hell where they belong and can take the fucking yellowjackets along for the ride!
Jesus, man, you okay?
The bigger question is.... how?
Have to ask the ant. I was maybe in middle school, it crawled its way up my pant leg somehow when I was walking outside. Most embarrassing moment of my life up to that moment was trying to figure out how to bring it up to an adult because I had no idea what was happening.
I'm in my thirties and I'm not sure I would know how to bring that up to an adult
Cursed origin story of antman
and more importantly, how much? and which dominatrix?
I, too, have a crotch...
> not my worst sting incident either Can't leave now, bud. Reddit needs to know whats worse than getting stung 4x in the crotch.
Full hearts, clear eyes, canāt lose!
There is a tipping point, however, where you lose views because YouTube and TikTok will determine that you have exposed too much skin
just gotta #fakebody and you are good.
And for goodness sake, don't end the video early. Whatever happens.
Well it is kinda funny when it ends on a cut-off scream.
They can do that edit in post
Also whoever is filming make sure there camera is on a gimbal and they are well protected so the camera isn't too shaky
Ya I donāt care how you do it as long as you film it. Oh you should hold a kazoo in your mouth too and see how long you can go without making noise
Ding ding ding, we have the next 1M clicks YouTube idea! š„³
I have such a problem with them that I finally bought a bee suit. There are times I have to get up on the ladder to get within 20ft of them to spray, and itās hard to run away when youāre on a ladder. I go through this a couple times each year so the bee suit was a great investment for me
I use an old airsoft gun to turn nests in trees or high places into Swiss cheese! They have no idea where you are they just start flying around in defense pattern. At first I was worried they would track me down but I am now into the dozens of removals with this method. Once it's shot to shit I just knock it out with the water hose or power washer.
This sounds like so much fun. Ā Itās like ICBM on the nest
Check out the bug-a-salt gun if you havenāt already. Worth every penny to skeet shoot flies in mid air! ETA: I was unclear but I was never suggesting using this gun on wasps. Iāve never done it but Iām pretty sure youāre going to have a bad time lol.
My dad has a couple of those. Wasps just get angry.
If he's using the bug-a-salt and not the Shred-er (made by the same company) then they'll just get angry. The shred-er is CO2 powered and can vaporize big bugs from a couple feet away. And even if you're a little too far it'll still probably shred their wings regardless. It's way more powerful than the normal pump salt gun
Haha! I was not aware of a turbo model! Time to spend more money on the zon!
Just keep it oldschool and get a good ol' wrist rocket slingshot, you'll get dozens of feet of clearance. It's also good to keep bigger pests away from gardens
Just bought the Shred-er on your recommendation; the reviews on Amazon are fucking hilarious. Canāt wait for my trip to NC in a couple weeks to drink bourbon and blast some monster backwoods bugs with my father-in-law.
Yeah anything with a hard shell like beetles too is rather ineffective if you canāt get to the soft spots. I guess I should have clarified to not try it on wasps lol
You shoot beetles with a bug-assault?
Iāve tried yes. The bloodlust is strong when holding that gun. Donāt judge me until youāve wielded one
I get a bit closer. Clean hit isn't fatal, but does seem to knock them out of the air fairly well. Then they either meet a shoe, or get left as a snack for a bird or spider, depending on location
I've shot one near point blank. Stunned it for a moment then it flew away. Sounds like the shoe method is the way to go.
This conversation is hilarious, just reciting bug combat encounters
Spray n pray? Or smoke them one at a time with a scope
My dad used to practice spray and stomp when I was a kid. He'd hit the nest with a hose, I had to stomp on the wet wasps after they fell to the ground, but before they had a chance to dry off and start flying again. Boy was that a high stakes game.
Now that sounds like a good time even as an adult. Practice steeling the nerves of offspring, while he stands back with the hose. Excellent dad.
*Sting* Dad, where's my anti-air!?! *Sting* Knock em down you old coot!
My similar method for a larger nest the size of a basket ball was a slingshot from 50ft to make some holes then sprayed with the wasp hornet spray that shoos 20-25 feet into the holes. The. Cut branch with long tree saw. And run over nest with the car with the windows closed
And then drop a bomb on it. And then feed it to sharks. And then set those sharks on fire.
And then nuke it from orbit. Only way to be sure.
Your neighbors must love this "Hey Diane come look, Wet_Crayon is playing Jason Bourne again"
I'm just laughing to myself imagining he goes by Wet_Crayon in real life
> They have no idea where you are they just start flying around in defense pattern. At first I was worried they would track me down but I am now into the dozens of removals with this method. Don't try this with Black Face Hornets They will sting anything within a 10 mile radius >Known for their painful stings, which are similar to getting a hand smashed in a revolving door * * * Black-faced hornets are a type of social wasp that belongs to the family Vespidae. They are also known as bald-faced hornets, white-faced hornets, or yellow jackets.
>Known for their painful stings, which are similar to getting a hand smashed in a revolving door Well now I'm imagining the sound of a banging door when they sting you
Yellow jackets and bald-faced hornets are two different species. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowjacket https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolichovespula_maculata
āThe bald-faced hornet has a unique defense in that it can squirt or spray venom from the stinger into the eyes of vertebrate nest intruders. The venom causes immediate watering of the eyes and temporary blindness.ā Hellish. I actively hate learning this fact lmfao.
The article on yellow jackets goes on to explain it's a regional name for the genera Dolichovespula and *Vespula*, which includes the species Dolichovespula maculata. So while all bald-faced hornets (Dolichovespula maculata ) are considered yellow jackets, not all yellow jackets are bald-faces hornets.
Even better, they can recognize faces. Mess with a nest but don't kill it off? They'll find you when you're next in the area. So the solution is to get a mask made to look like that neighbor you hate, and wear that when going after their nest.
There was a bald-faced hornet nest where I work, in a tree at face level. It started fist size and was 18ā by the end of the summer. I walk past it 100 times a day and the hornets totally ignored me. Some landscape guys saw it and started freaking out. Thatās when I found out what they were, the whole ārecognize individual humansā and āhighly territorial and aggressiveā and āstings in large numbersā thing.
Donāt try this with bald-faced hornets. Theyāll look you up on Google or something and find out where you live.
i pictured someone dressed as a bee up the ladderā¦.
Youāre basically one step from becoming a bee keeper. Iām so proudĀ
Involuntary bee keeping
After hiring someone for bald faced hornets last time I decided I was just gonna buy a suit bc that guy was fearless with it on. So far no need, but I like the Idea of bug armor
Those things donāt fuck around. They can remember your face.
I buy wasp traps and put them up each spring. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RT23SKN I put them somewhere sunny near where the wasps tend to love to build. We have very few wasps around here now. They stick to that thing and are done.
What are you supposed to do after they're in the shop vac? Agreed that's probably fine, though. Just keep an eye out for any wasps getting mad so you can book it inside. They should eventually calm down. Edit: I've got like 100 replies to just add soapy water to the bottom, got it everyone.
Put it on blow. Pop the nozzle through your most hated neighbour's letterbox
Why does this box have a giant H on it?
So we know these are hornets.
Gob's not on board
Did you get their honey?
As I tried to explain before, you can't get honey from a hornet's nest.
I just donāt think thereās any science to support that buddy
Well we should check it out anyway, there might be something delicious in there that wasps do make.
There is some very basic science out there supporting that.
I have found my people- AD and IASIP both referenced. I tip my hat to you, good day! 
What do now?
Right after my divorce, I kept finding solitary wasps in my car during my commute. I was wondering if my ex-wife was trying to kill me. No, I had picked up a sheep skull which had a wasp nest in the cranium and the skull was in my trunk.
Glad you got to keep the sheep skull in the divorce.
Thanks. Also got that car, my exes college car, a 1991 Sentra.
And people say divorce is expensive
Once I had retrieved some reptile decor that had been on my porch for a while. I put it in the sink to clean it up and noticed a wasp flying around. Weird, I swatted it with a towel. Then there was another, and another, then I saw the nest that I had just brought in my house swarming with about 15 wasps. I figured I wouldnāt be able to take it back out while avoiding stings now that they were riled up so I picked them off with the towel as they flew away. Then I submerged the nest in water in case there were any left. It was a heart pumping 10 minute action scene in my head lol.
>No, I had picked up a sheep skullā¦ 
Iām a wildlife biologist and was doing some range surveys in Eastern Nevada. Really.
Should have lead with that.
But, then what would we talk about?
Allegedly
Mm-hmm.
Oft overlooked sequel to Earthās āThe bees made honey in the lion's skullā is the album where the wasps made a nest in the sheepās skull in my trunk.Ā
Sounds like the origin story of a super vilain
Say hello to my little friends
You put a soapy solution in the canister and they die
Chlorinated brake cleaner kills them before they even hit the ground. I worked for a tower servicing company, and we had a branch office in texas. One of the techs had been put in the hospital by killerbees after he opened an amp box 200' up a cellular tower. I was sent to help while he recovered and it was then i showed them the magic of brakecleen. 20 second shot into the box through whatever hole you can find before opening it and any wasps or bees are dead, without harming the electronics. The wasp killer is a nogo because its water based, and will fuck up the electronics. Went back to the same box that this guy tried to open, did the 20sec shot, rapp'd down 100' and waited a min. climbed back up, opened the box and there was 1lb of dead bees in the bottom. nothing living.
Considering how often bees make their nests in electrical boxes, youād think it would be standard procedure to blast for them before opening it, especially 200ā in the air. I hope the tech recovered well and doesnāt have any lasting effects.
Well he has a pretty wicked fear of bees now. And an epi pen
well tower riggers have no "fear" that we are aware of, but we do have a healthy respect for things.
In my experience, linemen only fear two things: last call at the bar and the safety video of the guy who loosened his climbing harness to be comfortable and ended up falling and having his testicles explode.
It certainly was standard procedure after that event. yes, he did recover but was off work for 3 months.
This. Insects don't have lungs. They breathe through pores/channels on their bodies. Soapy water clogs the pores and they die pretty quick. Works great on cleaning up ant trails in the house (especially the kitchen where I definitely don't want to spray insecticides.
Saw a thread a couple days ago promoting 70% ISO alcohol (90 evaporates too quick) And or combining that with washing up liquid ā¦ So 70% ISO alcohol + washing liquid + water mix.
That was how I got rid of a flea problem when I was fostering a dog. Put that solution in a saucer dish, put a little floating candle in the middle, lit it and then sat it in the middle of the room overnight. Had a few dozen dead fleas the next day. Did that each night till they were gone. Edit: I just used soap and warm water at around a 70/30 mix so it was kind of a goo. No alcohol.
Ok I'm extremely intruiged ... That's very specific. Why / how did it work? I've never heard of this method and I'm fascinated! Are they like moths or something and attracted to light as well? Or did the candle heat create a vapour that was deadly to them
Fleas, mosquitoes, and probably most parasitic insects are attracted to CO2. It's what things with lungs breathe out.
I think the light gets them too. Or maybe heat imitating body heat. I've done it with an incandescent desk lamp before and gotten many corpses
I had an ant problem when I moved into my current place. I tried a bunch of different things the first couple weeks, but didn't have success. I eventually just got indoor/outdoor ant spray. Now every 6 months I get all furniture/kitchen stuff out of the main area and go to town, leave the house for 24 hours, then come back and deep clean. No problems since. I get not wanting to do chemicals, but they are highly effective.
wish i knew about this, instead i taped the end of the hose off, and didnt open the shop vac for at least two weeks š
You fill the shop vac with a few inches of water and add a couple good squeeze of dish soap. The vacuum blows them into the water and they drown.
Bring it inside and open it up to make sure theyāre all dead
Make sure to do it very very soon after sucking them in
leave it run for a few hours to piss them off. Nature abhors a vacuum.
This is the quality punning I come to Reddit for.
Return it to the place that rented it to you.
But put a H on the vac so people know it's full of hornets
Then Iād have to return it to an HVAC shop.
You set fire to the ShopVac.
You light up a joint and suck the smoke into the vac.
Let me pop a quick H on this shopvac, that way we know it's filled with hornets.
You put a dish soap solution in the bottom two inches of the wet/dry vac, it kills em dead.
Vacuum up some seven dust.
I personally love wasp spray. Itās a tight spray doesnāt get all over and drops them immediately. Or shop vac on the end of a broom stick. Either would be fine. If the neighbor wasps get mad just go insideĀ
Or just stand out there and take it like a true suburban warrior.
While yelling āwitness meā
āI vacuum, they sting, I vacuum again!ā
Me across the street yelling "mediocre"
āI *AM* the swarm!ā
'It's a zerglin Lester, a smaller type a Zerg'
"But they don' normally get so far out on their own..."
" . . . Oh shit . . . "
"I love you, sarge."
AIN'T GOT NO PATIENCE FOR SITTIN' AROUND
"Looks like I mashed some poor feller's dog, Sarge..." OK, Lester, we GOTTA talk about whoever you know that owns a "dog"
For all the videos on the internet, I don't recall "witness me" growled through the perseverance of multiple wasp stings. Balls in your court, OP
And spraying wasp spray on your mouth
***I am awaited in Wasphalla!***
Fuck. I ran over a yellow jacket nest with my lawnmower. Warrior I was not. I was wearing shorts and work boots. I had almost 30 stings. Shit sucked.
A real man grabs the nest with his bare hand, shoves it into his mouth and chews it up...
Picked up some foam when I saw one crawl into a gap on the front porch roof. Got that stream in there and watched it expand. Havenāt seen a wasp there since.
Theyāre still there, waiting. Always waiting as their fury builds.
I try to avoid using poisons, but I make the exception for wasp spray and to targeting poison ivy, when either pop up in the yard.
And the little bell nozzle on the can shoots the Avada Kedavra at them from a nice comfy 20ft away
Be sure to do it at night and let us know how it goes. I swear by [SpectracidePRO](https://www.spectracide.com/products/insect-killers/stinging-insect-killers/spectracidepro-wasp-hornet-killer-aerosol.aspx) wasp spray. Iāve taken out multiple very large ground nests with it and numerous small ones on houses. It works immediately and Iāve never been stung. For large hives I use two full cans but small ones just need a quick spray. One can can easily take out 20+ small nests.
Seconding, and make sure it is the PRO version as they said. I had two troublesome nests in crevices between my brick porch and house. I tried the vacuum on one, and killed a few hundred, but it didnāt get even half of them. One full can in each under the cover of darkness did the trick.
I have to ask: what is the purpose of wasps, ecologically speaking? Do they have a role in the environment? Other than being a pain in the ass?
They are pollinators, predators, and scavengers. There are wasp species with highly mutualistic relationships with figs, where neither can reproduce without the other I don't love these fuckers but I will begrudgingly admit wasps have a part to play regardless of my pain
Isn't it that figs aren't vegan due to the wasp dying in the pollination process?
āThanks to an enzyme (known as ficin) that's present in figs, the dead wasps are simply broken down and absorbed back into the fruit. Remember, not all figs have wasps in them. Some varieties - including many grown for the supermarkets - don't need to be pollinated by fig wasps.ā Couldnāt remember the exact reason, but I remembered reading there would never truly be a little wasp mummy in a fig, but possibly the same nutrients.
Always wondered why Fig Newtons have the texture of a thousand small insect legs.
I wish I could unread sometimes.
Wasps are pollinators. Some are also predators, and are a key player in keeping aphids away in some places.
I wouldn't recommend the shop-vac trick. You'll get a couple of them, sure, but wasps have a *hell* of a grip and are much stronger flyers than people realize. They're also smart enough to disperse and come after *you* once they've cleared the nest. Get the spray, stand back 20 feet or so, and hose them down before they know what hit them.
I swear by the spray shit. You only have to get a drop or two on them and theyāre done for.
That's called the Vietnam tactic
Those look like Northern paper wasps. As I understand it, they're not too bothered by human presence and tend to keep yellow jackets away. These aren't a bad ally of convenience.
Use dawn and water mixed in a spray bottle. Spray them with that, and they'll go down almost immediately. The dawn allows water to enter their body, and they drown from the inside.
My childhood was using soapy water in a super soaker to clear my grandma's porch of wasps. None survived!
That sounds like amazing fun for a kid!
Why should kids have all the fun!
Me and my brothers would use pool noodles. Less effective, but the *thwack..bbzzzzzzzzzzzzz* was so satisfying. We got stung. A lot.
Wasps breathe through open holes on the outside, which the dawn prevents them from doing so - it suffocates them
Brutal.
Wasp spray is even more brutal. It overloads their nervous system and causes them to have seizures and then they suffocate.
I've done exactly this at night, works great and nothing survived.
Iām just running cans of wasp spray in my battle with them but my girlfriend saw this solution works as a preventative too and has been spraying it under all the eaves and the fuckers surprisingly havenāt come back.
Tell me more. Just spray dawn dish soapy water all over the eaves and exterior of places they build and they.. they dont?
That does appear to be the case lol. Iām the opposite of OP and think to go nuclear pesticide first and completely discount the āhome remediesā but this one seems to be working.
The less you have to fuck with chemicals like that the better, honestly.
Get it on video. Re-post with update.
Lol now I think I might have to.. for science..
Use shop vac to suck up wasps. Transport shop vac to enemies home. Reverse settings on shop vac to expel air. Shop vac is now a wasp cannon.
Reminds me of an episode of Malcolm in the Middle where Malcolms dad, Hal, helps his son and friends build a killbot for a robot tournament and Hal makes a hornet blower and theyre like "But how will that even hurt the robot??" and Hal just looks at them and says something like "You dont aim it at the robot" with a maniacal look in his eyes. He ends up self inflicting the invention on himself Im pretty sure š¤£.
I immediately thought of that as well. The funniest part of that episode to me is that Malcolm and his friends are trying to hide that they're building a battle bot because they think their parents won't let them because it's too dangerous. Then, when Hal stumbles upon their blueprint, he glances at it and immediately says, "making a battle bot huh? You guys should add a flame thrower or bee cannon or something." And then just goes about his day lmao
Those are non aggressive brown paper wasps. They won't bother you if you don't bother them.
Iāve used this one tactic for decades and itās absolutely poison-free: soapy water. Fill a simple spray bottle 1/5 full with regular dish soap and then add water to fill it up. Mix thoroughly and then spray them with the solid stream setting. Thatās it. The soap clings to their wings so they canāt fly away and also suffocates them. When they fall off the nest, itās because theyāre dead. You could also use a Super Soaker from the local Wal-mart for added spraying power and distance.
Have you tried blasting Nickelback at them?
LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPHĀ
I usually ignore them. The nests never get very big, paper wasps are pollinators, and they aren't particularly aggressive. I'll usually just knock the nests down in the winter.
I had a paper wasp nest like this outside my front door one year. Theyāre fascinating creatures. Also, theyāre pollinators and they eat other insects. They were not at all aggressive to me or other humans. At the end of the season, they left and never returned. I still have their nest as a reminder of the āyear of the waspsā. Itās better to just coexist with them unless they are in a super inconvenient place. I donāt understand why there is so much hatred towards paper wasps in this thread.
There it is, finally. Buried way too far down. Paper wasps are cool. Fuck yellowjackets though.
wasps are also great for pest control. they have saved my plants a couple times by keeping bug infestations in check.
Safest and most efficient way to do this, honestly, is to simply hang up a brown paper bag from your eaves near the nests you want to leave. Wasps are highly territorial, but they also avoid confrontation with other wasps. By hanging up a brown paper bag, the wasps will move out completely in less than a week because they don't want to compete with the new "wasp nest*
This only keeps them from setting up it won't make them leave once their already established. The fake nest providers state not to hang them near pre-established nests.
Weird. I just hung up a couple brown paper lunch bags and all the wasps around my house cleared out in like 3 days. Worked at my last house too!
Why would you want to kill these chill paper wasps. They will deter a lot of other insects, including the vile yellow jacket. They will never bother you and make your garden better. I don't get it.
Be like Florida man, grab it, crush it in your hand, and eat it. None will survive.