bees nest - best way to kill the bastards ?

[asphaltgambler]

I guess you wouldn't be using that drone flame thrower on that........

[dad911]

I have 2 cans of spray, going to hit it with both barrels. Hesitant, as there isn't a good escape path.

House has a recent insurance claim, not sure I can get another paid. Previous owner had pipes freeze, water damage, their insurance co paid them off, and stripped it to the studs.

[RWebb]

get some thick plastic garbage bags & duct tape - make a burkah for yourself and SEAL ALL gaps

Good Luck!

[Rusty Heap]

You Pusssys.


Can of WD-40 and a Lighter.


or road flare. (WORKS GREAT FOR MOLES)


OR Black Powder Cannon?







my man card is fully intact, thank you very much.

[KFC911]

Dey sed...that boyz gonna be a Heap of trouble when he grows up....

So don't !

[Jims5543]

Had one in the peak of the roof over my garage door on my vacation home.

My BIL, Beer and I decided one night late to take care of the problem.

We had a great escape route, as we could run into the garage and into the house closing a storm door with a screen on it behind us.

We went out giggling and armed with a can of foaming wasp spray each.

We emptied on the nest for as long as our nerves could stand, they could not find us at first but they were pissed we could hear the roar of them all buzzing.

When we started to empty the cans we ran for the screen door and closed it behind us with the wasps chasing. None got in with us.

I decided to do an experiment, I exhaled hard through the screen and they all attacked that spot on the screen. If I moved lower or over and did it they would move their attack to that spot.

It was quite unnerving.

The next morning the garage floor was covered with 100's of them. We had 1 more can of spray and hit the next for good measure then knocked it down that evening.

What I found most fascinating was the attacks on the screen where I exhaled through it.

[asphaltgambler]

Apparently carbon dioxide lights them up. Not sure why but I stumbled across a video of a bee keeper and am repeating what he said.

[Jims5543]

Originally Posted by asphaltgambler

Apparently carbon dioxide lights them up. Not sure why but I stumbled across a video of a bee keeper and am repeating what he said.

That was my deduction. I work outside, around houses and in the woods.

Now when I stir up a nest while working in the field I suck in a good breath and hold it until I am far enough away from them. I figure it will help me escape and make it hard for them to find me.

I have a really bad phobia about bees.


One time back when the economy was crap and my wife would go out and help me I was cutting through some brush with a machete, she was following me. I had warned her to not follow too close, if I find some wasps or bees I move VERY fast.

Well, the inevitable happened, I hit a palm frond with a nest under it, the wasps exploded out and I ran as fast as Hussein Bolt..... backwards!!

I collected up my wife as I was running backwards and we both went tumbling end over end together. I clobbered her and I felt horrible.

I can run pretty fast, I can run really really fast when wasps are chasing me.

To this day I have not loved that one down.

[KFC911]

LOL...."lived"..."loved"....what's the difference ?

You funny Jim!

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Jims5543

I can run pretty fast, I can run really really fast when wasps are chasing me.

We used to have wasps build nests on a fence on the side of our house where the garbage cans were kept. At the end of the house was a gate that was really old and decrepit. I went out one day to put a bag in the garbage cans and apparently one of the wasps thought I'd gotten too close to home and tagged me on the hand. As you can imagine, I did an about face and sprint. I was headed for the old gate with both arms extended to try to grab the latch to open it at a full run. That didn't work out, I ran right through the gate which ended up flat on the ground and I was just a few feet past it. I felt like a character out of a loony toons cartoon or maybe the koolaid man after someone shouted "Hey, Kool Aid!"

[Jolly Amaranto]

In the summer of 1967, I worked on a cattle ranch on the island of Tinian just north of Guam. The operation involved turning loose beef cattle into the thick vegetation that had taken over the island after the US Army Air Corps abandoned the B-29 runways after WWII. After fattening up on the "jungle" growth they did not taste too wonderful so had to be rounded up and placed in feed lots to eat a mix of peanuts and potatoes that were grown there on the island. One of my tasks was to ride in the roundup on one of these horses through the trails, that the cattle had created through the brush, to herd them into the feed pens. I was following one of the native "cowboys" down a trail when he bumped a hornet's nest hanging over the trail. My horse knew what was going on and did not want any part of it so dove into the heavy foliage aside the trail. I got knocked off and landed on my butt. I was then the target but I followed my horse down the newly bulldozed trail he created. It was still tough going but the branches that I was crashing through did brush the critters off before I got too many stings. I was still in a world of pain.
Here my 9th grade buddy, who's dad was running the operation, is tending the horses in their coral.

[fintstone]

Originally Posted by dad911

My turn:

Yep, those are hornets. They are aggressive.

[svandamme]

Over here, Euro hornets are less agressive then wasps.
They are slightly bigger, bot much calmer



I'm not going to let em walk on me, but for the most part they don't worry me when i see em around the house
They don't go for sugar like wasps do.
I f'ing hate wasps..




lately we've been getting reports of Asian hornets invading, but also quite easy going.
Asian hornet , not the Asian Giant Hornet which kills people in China and Japan