Hornets nest

[beerthief]

An FYI for you guys. Brake cleaner in an aerosol can works quite well on wasps.
One blast and they drop instantly dead. Wait til evening when they're all nestled onto their nest for the night and you can give them their final "Nighty Nite" send off.

can you but break cleaner in an aerosol can ?

 

[beerthief]

(Bald face) Hornets, yellow jackets and other wasps can get through most of those bee suits. These red wasps will eat you alive:



I fear your BB guns are not up to the task. I would favor a hit and run with a 12 guage and bird shot, from a good distance with some place like car to escape to.

In my part of the world if i mention red wasp the reply is " you mean the red ones you need to step on at least twice maybe 3 times to kill ?"

 

[3Crows]

In my part of the world if i mention red wasp the reply is " you mean the red ones you need to step on at least twice maybe 3 times to kill ?"

Yeah, the ones in the pic. They are tough buggers for sure. I have a scorched earth policy when it comes to wasps, hornets, yellow jackets. No tolerance at all for them.

 

[rayroz]

12g shot gun , bird shot , done deal . Have fun . Ray

 

[Iowa Airgunner]

I was successful because of preparation . I would not attempt this without the full kit of protection. I have it all in a blue tub. I only used one can so I am ready for the next one. If it was honey bees I would leave them alone. Yellow jackets I can live with from a distance. This nest was right over the picnic table location and I could not have hornets stinging people. I hate to kill anything . But this is Field Target and we don’t take prisoners.

 

[beerthief]

I was successful because of preparation . I would not attempt this without the full kit of protection. I have it all in a blue tub. I only used one can so I am ready for the next one. If it was honey bees I would leave them alone. Yellow jackets I can live with from a distance. This nest was right over the picnic table location and I could not have hornets stinging people. I hate to kill anything . But this is Field Target and we don’t take prisoners.

Im not that brave , i would have called someone, although i did like the idea of a spray can with a lighter attached

 

[Don.Chipmunk-slayer]

I was successful because of preparation . I would not attempt this without the full kit of protection. I have it all in a blue tub. I only used one can so I am ready for the next one. If it was honey bees I would leave them alone. Yellow jackets I can live with from a distance. This nest was right over the picnic table location and I could not have hornets stinging people. I hate to kill anything . But this is Field Target and we don’t take prisoners.

#1 Remind me to never have you trim my trees, you made a mess.

and ...

#2 (and most importantly) You tried to fire, but forgot to take off the safety first

Good job

 

[Matt247365]

Nicely done

 

[BlackICE]

Great instructional video and how to remove harness Nest safely with a proper equipment and planning. However don't find too many of those videos on YouTube because you won't get it as many clicks as if you doused it with gasoline and hit it with a flamethrower. Which can be done in relative safety since it was only three in the outdoors. Although you would have lost more of the tree potentially.

I'm too cheap to buy all that safety equipment. So I would have found some appropriate bait laced with friponil and let them eat the food and take it into their nest and over the course of 24 hours would probably kill them all with no risk and less cost.

 

[Avator]

Like I said. One shotgun shell at close range. Bee guts everywhere.
Might not get every one of them but they won't live in that condo any more.

 

[Iowa Airgunner]

Like I said. One shotgun shell at close range. Bee guts everywhere.
Might not get every one of them but they won't live in that condo any more.

And they criticize my tree trimming

 

[Bngen3]

 

[Old-School]

An FYI for you guys. Brake cleaner in an aerosol can works quite well on wasps.
One blast and they drop instantly dead. Wait til evening when they're all nestled onto their nest for the night and you can give them their final "Nighty Nite" send off.

It does need to be *chlorinated* brake cleaner (red can). The non-chlorinated will also kill them, but it takes longer. If a single drop of the chlorinated brake cleaner gets on them, it instantly disrupts their nervous system!

 

[Trucker3573]

Jinxed myself reading this last week. Now I have bees all over by my pole barn. Big ground nest and another group is nesting in the culvert that runs underneath the driveway. Working on flooding them out. That has worked in the past but it seems everytime I flood the little ground bastards out I end up with a paper nest on the house. No win.

 

[john8]

Now that is a man of my heart.

 

[Iowa Airgunner]

I watched that . If you look at how easy
It was to spray them . I don’t need to burn down the house.
It was pretty cool how it just stuck in there. I did not expect that. But on the house ? Gotta love it.