You guys just give me another reason to fight global warming.
We are so lucky over here to have those cold winters to protect us from them.....

Wanna send me one of those bug bazookas? That sounds awesome! Cliff, you and I are in the same boat, I hate wasps! More than spiders, more than snakes, I hate those little ba$tards! Before I wised up and went back to school I used to do remodeling, I was working on a mobile home that had been brought into town from the country. The belly had a hole in it that was full of wasps, so we busted a hole in the floor (it was rotten anyway) and got a loooooong pole. The guy I worked with poked the pole into the hole to stir them up, then I went after them like Clint Eastwood, one can of Raid in each hand, then we'd run like hell. After we got both of them, the other guy got up enough nerve to dump several gallons of diesel fuel down the hole, never saw another after that. Good times......

i gotta be the first to admit, i couldnt tell a wasp and a hornet apart, if they both bit me in the butt.

but apparently japan has these 2" mean suckers to deal with. and they spit!


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Hornets and Yellow Jackets are basically one in the same.

The biggest noticeable difference between a standard Wasp and a Hornet or Yellow Jacket is their social behavior. Wasps generally just make a honeycomb simple nest, and may have up to 10 wasps take care of the nest.

Yellow Jackets and Hornets make a hive, and can have up to 5000 members in a hive. They are considered very aggressive, and are known to sting multiple times before flying off.

Hey Matt,

If you get a bugzooka, you can come over and we can shoot Recluse spiders for fun :D

Found this in my back yard last summer, 6' off the ground ~ 20' from my patio. Mowed under it every week until my wife noticed it. It took a lot of nerve and hornet spray one night to take it out!!
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Did someone mention spiders??
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Vash,

Your comment about screaming like a girl made me laugh. Last year I tore down a shed on some property I bought. It been there for fifty years and unused for at least twenty, crammed full of junk. Spider webs dripped from the ceiling and coated the walls. Hundreds of lizards, rats, mice, rabbits and ground squirrels. You could practically hear the spiders rustling. I was cleaning out the inside before knocking the structure down and as I was GINGERLY picking up a piece of junk, a rabbit streaked out from under it. I screamed and ran out of there like I was shot out of a cannon with huge and PROLONGED case of the willies. I had bad dreams that night and even looking at the photos a year later makes me shiver.

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P.S. I found alot of possum carcasses

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Here's the possums

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good to know that black widows don't jump. guess i won't act like such a girlie man when trying to kill them.

Came across a few of these when I moved into my house. Should never leave the doors open for a long time when you have many trees over your roof. Not poisonous, but very scary looking.

These were so big, that I couldn't take a shoe to them for fear of splatter. One was found on a shade 2 feet from my bed and head. Yowza. This is called a Wolf Spider.

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I'm there! I get a sadistic thrill out of shooting wasps with raid, those exploding bug bombs would be the ultimate!

I will see what I can do as far as the bugzooka goes. Most of the R&D want into making the capsule proper for the sort of work it had to do. Couldn't use a regular paintball version, they came up with something else. I also think that our wisearses in marketing had them make it so a special gun has to be used and you can't fire it with a conventional paintball gun.

That being said, and knowing our chemical warfare division, bring money!

We have those as well - scary but harmless. My wife killed one last year in our kitchen with her bare foot! The darn thing carried its babies on it's back - the mother was squished and all the babies scattered! It was scary for me but she proceeded to stomp away! (she's an Iowa farm girl and nothing wigs her out - fact I caught a mouse in the garage and she wanted to kill it. Would have squeezed it to death in her hand if it wern't for the kids. I fear her over all others!)

Yikes, is a great idea. I bankrupted a business in 1980 and ended up as a swamper (pipeline tech) taking care of the dozer operators, meaaning whatever. I fueled dozers, I operated dozers (sparing them and getting hours), and retrieved equipment operators abandoned as they disrupted hives. Did I get stung? Oh yes. After a few equipment retreivals, I got smarter than these stinging bas+ards. I would sneak up and kill the motors till I could sneak up on the hives/nests. Is a long story.
I'd never do that again, was stung many times. But I really needed money.
Comparing yellow jackets to hornets just ain't right in my sting factor. I'd rather take 5 yellow jacket stings to a single hornet (I took many stings of each). BUT, I did kill many thousands of each while taking stings of each.. I retrieved equipment, everytime.
That said, back in Alabama, we had some nasty big, red wasps, they were terrible. They hurt very bad, nearly as bad as the last yellow scorpions. Was stung 2" from my sack, these little bas+ards hurt.
A sting is bad, but all are not the same, I somehow am an expert on this fact. Except for spiders, so far.

I reported earlier this week having killed 17 black widows in a little over half a year. Since that last post I've been going out at night, looking in every crack and crevice around the yard I could find wearing a head lamp, and a mapp gas torch in hand. I've killed more then 40 more black widows in less then a week. Those little b@stards fry up real nice! I had no idea we had so many! I'm sure there are more out there still.

Aren't black widows deadly?

deadly
 

Generally they are only deadly to the very young and very old and sickly folks. An average healthy person will just get much pain and sickness such as vomiting and fever from a bite.:eek:

Re: deadly
 

You mean like a Tequila hangover?

A neighbor was bitten in the thumb by a black widow last year. He's a healthy 6'-1" 225 lbs. Said it hurt like crazy. Wife drove him to a local emergency care center where they monitored him for a couple hours then sent him home with Benadryl. When they got home he started feeling worse, vomiting, sweating, then his body seized and he turned very white. Folks had to carry him to the car and now off to the local hospital emergency where he spent the night. His entire arm was in pain for a couple weeks after that. He swears that the pain was indescribable and vows that faced with a similar situation he will hack off his finger before going through pain like that again.

I have 4 dead brown recluse spiders in 2 different traps set around the house. These traps were layed out 1 week and 3 days ago ;) Not to mention, I haven't checked all the traps. That also doesn't account for the 3 that were killed out in the open. I'm sure we've already managed to kill over 50 Recluse spiders in the last 3 months.