Now now, they’re not THAT bad.
From The Wizard of Id:
Rodney: “Sire! The peasants are revolting!”
King: <sigh> “I know.”
[Sorry. We now return you to our regularly scheduled thread.]
[Pedant hat on] Like bees, the worker-wasps are non-reproducing females so they’re just bitches. [P h off]
We had some who had discovered a hole into a power outlet in our outside wall. I was able put some electrical tape over the hole and secure it, which pissed of the little bitches to no end.
The ones inside were separated my less than a mm from those outside and there was nothing they could do.
sorry, a couple of years ago they built a nest in one of the walls of my apartment bedroom, leading to some unpleasant surprises in the middle of the night. I’ll use whatever bad words I can to describe them.
I had a nest in my mailbox (Well, in a hidden gap between the mailbox and the wooden post). I got stung 3 or so times while getting the mail before I realized that that was where they were coming from. I didn’t even realize that I was allergic until I got stung the next year, again, so I tried to self-treat it each time with ice packs. The second year it happened, it actually got infected and had to go to the doctor, and he was the one who told me I was allergic and that I should have come to him as soon as it swelled up (I thought that was normal for wasp or yellow-jacket bites, whatever they were).
We had what must have been the world’s stupidest wasps repeatedly try to build a nest in the gas-fired grill. Hubby woykd shut the lid and turn on the flame. Fried wasps. The few out foraging then tried to rebuild the nest with the same results. Took quite a few grill fires before they gave up or we cooked them all.
You have to be wary of dead bees. When walking barefooted, for example, the sting you receive is as serious as the one given by a live bee, all the more so if the bees as a group were agitated. I myself have experienced this many times.
Obligatory reference to “To Have and Have Not”.
I tried to find the first part, with Walter Brennan, but only found the Lauren Bacall part; hereyou go.
I did the same thing at a house I rented years ago. Except I skipped the bug spray part, I had a caulk gun handy already so I filled up the hole in the cement foundation with it. A few of the guys on the outside hung around trying to get back in but eventually left and I didn’t see any more yellow jackets after that.
Did you read the thread?
“Oldzilla Approaching…! Oldzilla Approaching!”
“Honey… did we give away all those micro-machines the kids used to play with when they were little?”
“I think they’re in the basement somewhere. Why…?”
“…No Reason…”
Yes, I did. Why?
The first part is right there…more or less.
Are you referring to your post? It was not clear to me that you were referring to the film. Maybe my humor detector is broken.
It is the speech you are looking for, word for almost word. I looked it up.
Sorry if you were not amused. I, for one, was.
Are you telling me Walter Brennan says “wary” and “agitated”?
Sorry for the hijack, OP.
Heh I just had to remove another wasp nest - bald faced hornets in a tree. The nest was dangling over the driveway/sidewalk. The nest was hidden in foliage but we noticed it because my wife got stung - just standing on the sidewalk. Obviously we couldn’t leave it, because just walking down the sidewalk was enough to trigger them.
Thing is, I didn’t want to use the poison spray because the neighbourhood had lots of kids and pets running about. So I used the ‘sneak up on them at night, bag them, then drown them’ method.
I first put on an amateur bug suit - windbreaker, heavy gloves, head net, etc. Then I filled a bucket of water, put a couple of bricks aside, snuck up on the nest and slipped the pillow case over the nest - clipping the nest free of the tree. I held the bag closed and drowned it in the bucket, putting the bricks on top.
Worked well, but a very neve wracking procedure.
This am I saw a lone survivor attacking one of the gloves, which must have been sprayed with a pheromone.
Granddaughter pointed out a large wasp nest hanging from the eaves on the garage. Volleyball size. I had just run a lawn mower under it an hour before and never noticed it! Soaked it good with wasp spray for two days running and then trashed it. Hates the bitches!
Shop Vac like Machine Elf says. I have never put water in them, just use an already dirty vacuum or put some dust in it. The dust incapacitates the wasps effectively. Obviously best if you can suck up the whole nest but if you can only reach an exit they are using it will suck the buggers up.
Used a bunch of times, never been stung, always been fast, easy and non toxic. I have never opened the vacuum right away, always waited until the next day.
Here’s a yellowjacket nest you definitely do not want to tackle unless you are a pro:
Woah.