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My painters gave me homework. I decided to also remove an ancient alarm bell/box. Opening it up a wasp flew by and went into the slots. Rut roh. I opened it up yo peek in and a few fly out. I could hear the buzz. Not sure how I got off that ladder but I was gone! I think my screwdriver levitated for a few moments until it realized I wasn't holding it anymore.

Gah. I admit. Scared of wasp.
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Yes, very very nasty critters... If you didn't already know Home Depot sells wasp spray, the type that squirts a stream about 8-10 feet so you don't have to get close and kills on contact.

I'm not too worried about bees. I still don't mess with them, but they don't scare me. Wasps, hornets, yellow jackets, don't like those at all.

We had a wooden privacy fence down the side of the house where the garbage cans sat. One year, some wasps made nest on it. I hadn't noticed and walked out to put a bag in the trash cans when one decided I was too close. I felt it hit one of my knuckles. I turned around and ran. The gate to the back yard was closed. I had my hands out in front of me to open the latch before I got to the gate. I guess that was inadequate. I literally went through the closed gate. I flattened it and then ended up on the ground myself.

But I didn't get stung again. I'm pretty sure I heard the wasps laughing as I was laying on the ground.

And deal with them at night. Much safer.

Yeah get the can of wasp killer that comes with the 3X9 scope mounted on it. Make a game out of it, see if you can take them out of the air before you go after the mother ship

Excellent point! I hit them first thing in the morning when it is nice and cool... and little or no wind... that spray is some nasty stuff!

Wasp stings are no worse than a doctor's needle to me, although the venom they inject makes it hurt longer. I've only been stung by mud dabbers(often) and also a very giant blue one while picking blackberries.

I have some great close ups of them from when a yellow 944 I had was loaded with their nests.

I also while taking apart the engine in my other 944, found a nest under the AC compressor bracket.

Bee stings though, or yellow jacket nests - I care not for! Kinda funny how diff people react to diff things.

A person I know who has to deal with "the public" keeps a can of wasp spray on his desk. He can hit an undesirable from 10" away and they will retreat, fast.

^^^ this

and +1 to morning or evening

worst thing to do is run. I'll knock down a big nest with my hand and stay still until they settle down, swat each wasp down and step on them. never get stung. they attack anything that moves. stay still and the wasps won't bother you

I'm no fan of hornets, aggressive and painful. But some are carnivorous, and while it can pose a danger, a big white-faced hornet's nest is very effective at reducing garden pests and such. Like I said, I've never been a fan, but I don't destroy a nest unless it is likely to pose a risk.

John, you're more of a man than the rest of us put together.
Clif - You can buy a wasp trap at HD equivalent. They include a plastic canister shaped trap with liquid attractant. you can hang it next to the area where the wasps are or out in the open to trap wasps in the surrounding area. I had a large number of wasps around my house a few years ago (didn't know where the nests were) & put out one of these traps. It would fill up with wasps, I'd empty it, restock the attractant & do it again. I had fewer wasps the next year, set the trap up & had none the following year.

I'm VERY disappointed in ya Vash...I was expecting some GoPro video of a swan dive off the ladder with little girl screams and all you give us is are still pictures :D?

I also use the spray that shoots 20' too...great stuff...early morning and preferably when it's raining/damp....get's 'em all drop dead NOW. I keep a can in my truck...a great way to difuse a "situation" that won't get a second glance like pepper spray, etc. What I hate and have more problems with are yellow jackets with nests underground. Sprays don't work well from my experience....locate the nest entrance, then take a 12 oz. plastic bottle half full of gasoline and simply invert it and stick it in the hole right before dark when the activity has subsided...the fumes will wipe out the whole nest.

Yeah, easy for you to say that.
The rest of us aren't protected by 85% scar tissue. ;)

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Those 8'+ cans work well as flamethrowers too just in case chemically killing the wasp nest isn't enough and you want to incinerate it too.

So I've been told. ;)

better than pepper spray and completely legal

Yeah, Vash.... What's the point in asking for ideas on how to use your new GoPro, if you don't use it???? Go back and do it again tomorrow...

Lame. :rolleyes: :D

Yep kill them, they are mean. Yes they will eat other insects, if you sep on one another will come along and eat it set on that one and two more will come to eat them and so on. Must I suggest the spray. Yes after dark when they are home is best but don't bring any artificial light with you. Look like you got the bell down so they will be looking for it on the wall for day or two then make a new nest near by.

I'll defer to the "Masters" expertise and I forgot to mention THAT in a previous post. I "shot" one down 'bout a week ago during the rain and after dark. Got 'em all except "one" lingerer flying around the next day looking at the nest and all the "bodies" laying around...I do LIKE that spray stuff :D

Just be happy you don't have Texas red wasps (a kind of paper wasp).

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They are big, mean and aggressive and will even go after and kill a tarantula.

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a gopro vid of a wasp attack would be pretty funny.

no thanks. i was kinda scared. wasps scar me..they are like Spiders that fly!!

the night time attack thing..would have been good to know. i went in at noon!

I hate hate hate spiders but wasps and bees have never bothered me in the slightest and I have been stung plenty - wasps, yellow jackets, bees...no biggy but a spider of any size allows my manhood to escape!

I maintain that spiders are not of this world...

I was stung on the right ear lobe by one just a couple days ago in Waco. It hurt at first but was really no big deal.

Made me laugh.

Wasps are the bane of my existence. I carry a can of the green-can-good-anti-wasp stuff with me everywhere. Better living through chemistry.

You sure that's a wasp nest and not just some bees?

Don't ask, don't tell:cool:

His advice has worked for me pretty well. All the times I've been stung I've unknowingly moved into/onto the critter. Leaned agaisnt a building wall one was sitting on, etc, reaching in bushes to pick berries and not see one taking some shade, etc.

I have had wasps/bee's crawling over me, I remain calm, and haven't gotten stung. I think if you have a specific allergic reaction in the pasts from stings, I can see it being *much* harder to be calm.

I also find when I know there is a bee/wasp in the room, that I get imaginary tingles like one is crawling on my skin. Super super annoying.

Yes that is a wasps nest. Look at the comb it is made out of plant based product, wood trees. Honeybees use wax from their body's.

Here is a piece of bees wax http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1407761969.jpg
It is hard to see but it has two sides, the bottom of one side is where the 3 walls of the other side come together. Witch is what makes it so much stronger and being made from wax. Oh and the reason you don't bring a light with you to spray them is if they see a light they fly to it

I accidentally chain-sawed part way through a wasps nest many years ago. Thank god it was a pole saw...which was dropped at the same time I began screaming like a wet, slippery fan belt and headed out of Dodge.


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That's worthy of a Vash thread :D. A couple of years ago, one of those nests was up in a tree at my parents' house...I was about 25' away spraying lighter fluid to start a grill....one took offense and ZAP, right on the forearm....NestNOmo.

ps: Paul, I purchased my first pole saw earlier this year (you may recall the thread)...an 8' Stihl (commercial grade)....got it home and had second doubts about my purchase. Took it back the next morning and got their top-of-the-line 13'er. It's been on hiatus for the past couple of months...injuries, and better suited to cooler weather. I've ran several tanks of gas through it though....how I EVER lived without one is :eek:. I wouldn't take a couple of grand for it now (if I couldn't replace it) :)

A neat trick for getting birds/insects out of the house is to turn off all the lights, close drapes and other rooms, open a window, and get them flying around.

They fly to the light.

I've only been stung once in the past few decades but didn't think much of it.
If I got stung a couple times away from a hive, yeah I'd probably find the source and destroy it too.
Until then I l leave them alone.
So far so good.

My garden has bumblebees, honeybees, and yellow jackets in the garage.
Never a problem.
If I'm being stalked, I just wave my hand fast like a bigger bug.
Tell them in bug language to buzz off.

Don't swat unless there is an attack happening.
If you get riled up, they smell your adrenaline and take it as a threat.

If I didn't need to eff with them I would have left them alone. The ones flying back in went by my head as I was unscrewing the lid. Like I wasn't even there. But that alarm box needed to go.

When I pryed the inner lid open , they rushed out and I was running.