[ARCHIVED THREAD] - I hate Wasps!!!!! (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 4/10/2014 12:47:53 PM EDT
Starting to see them around the farm and they're pissed this year!!! Pulled out the big ladder to change out our outside flood light, that's a good fifteen feet from the top of my car port, so roughly 27 feet down to the ground if I take a spill, and low and behold right above the fixture in the peak of my roof, FUCKING YELLOW JACKETS!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm not happy about heights as it is, but being that high up and getting attacked by a half dozens wasps is a huge no go for me. Next stop, Lowe's for some flying asshole spray.
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Quoted: They're starting around here too. I fight them all summer long. I'm stealing the term "flying asshole spray"  I've been lucky to only have been stung once by one of these shits, but he got me right on the finger, and holy shit  , that wave of throbbing pain turned me into a lifelong advocate of total eradication by any means possible |
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I've got them, too. I just picked up some cans of spray, time to go around the house and wipe 'em out. Last year I found hundreds of them hiding in a gap behind the gutter.
What really sucks is they like to nest in my truck. They get inside the front grill, inside the doors, the gas filler door. Last year I didn't notice a nest in the back corner of the bed. I opened the tailgate and a bunch of them flew out and went all pit bull on my ass. Got nailed on my left arm. The bumps and itching kept flaring up every so often for several months. That's when I declared war on the bastards. 
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I hear ya! The place I rent has a wasp infestation behind the wall of the fireplace. In the summer I come home to anywhere from 5-15 wasps buzzing around my living room. Landlord says:
1.) You live in the country, get used to it. 2.) There is no way for them to get into the wall behind the fireplace. 3.) I would have to take the wall apart to see where the problem is. Too expensive, not doing it. He's the kind of guy that has to do everything himself, so calling an actual professional is out of the question...Hopefully this summer, he comes to the realization that this is an actual problem. I haven't been stung yet, but if/when I do, he's going to get another pretty pissed off phone call/email from me! Sucks, because I love the place and location (quiet, out in the country, good value for what we have on the property), but I'm constantly looking for a new place which sucks even more. |
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One time I had a job for a short while as a paperboy.
My boss would take me through a few neighborhoods Saturday and Sunday mornings in his truck and let me throw them down the driveways. One time I accidentally threw a paper at a HUGE wasp nest in a tree as we rode by. At the end of the street my boss and I stopped at a little girl's bake sale to get something to eat. By then I was hearing blood curdling screams coming from that house, and I knew straight away what happened. My boss and I drove back down there to help. There was an old Lady and her daughter there, the old lady was lying face down on the porch and her daughter was fighting the wasps with a garden hose. Good thing is the old lady survived but I still feel horrible over that incident. |
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Tis the season.
We've got nothing but red wasps here. I reckon they've killed off the robbers and the yellow jackets. There was an old shop on the property that they would completely take over- sons of bitches would run you right out. I waited till the dead of winter to tear that thing down and must have encountered better than 20 empty nests that measured 5" or better 
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You hate White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP)?  Shit beat me to it. Carb cleaner works great on those little flying bastards. Lots of time it's cheaper than Wasp spray. Besides it's always good to have a can of that around. Best time to buy wasp spray is in the fall when the just about give it away Gas in a spray bottle also works good too.
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Had to mow the lawn today and as I was mowing by my Expedition,that we never use, hollllly fuck probably twenty of those bastards started flying out of probably 3 different areas of the vehicle. Already went through 2 cans of spray clearing out my animal stalls and I'll be getting another 4 cans to keep fighting these little fuckers through the season. |
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We have the big nasty yellow paper wasps around here. Aggressive little mothers! I always have 2 or 3 cans of the aforementioned "flying asshole spray" handy. Talked to a pest control guy who told me that a good concentration of dish soap in water sprayed out of a garden sprayer or super soaker works just as well. Said that wasps, hornets, bees and the like breath through little openings all over their bodies. Coat them in soap and they can't breath. I've tried it...it works...drops em like a rock! I'm just glad we don't have these suckers in here in the US! Giant Aisan Hornets...Holy Crap!  |
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I sprayed an entire nest with engine starting fluid & put 'em to sleep.
I pulled the nest down & tossed it in a trashcan & forgot about it. That was until a few days later I saw the trashmen running down the street when it dawned on me they came back to life. Oops |
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When my wife was 8 months pregnant I was mowing the yard in the back and she walked to me (more like waddled) to bring me some lemonade... good days...
At the same time she is getting closer I run over a yellowjackets nest on the ground, one which I clearly did not see before hand. Those mothers were angry as shit... to make matters worse, i could not run away because my wife was standing there. As I'm am getting destroyed I politely ask my wife to make a waddle run for it. After a very long and excruciating minute, I book it as well. I immediatelly take off all my clothes before getting in the house, yellow jackets everywhere. When I take off my underwear inside the house, there were still 3 wasps inside my underwear. So yea, I dont like them either, that day sucked major balls. |
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I hate those fuckers. They have no redeeming qualities. I keep a few cans cases of wasp spray on hand at all times. I have cat walks all around my tank stations. Nasty bastards love cat walks. If I find a nest, I leave it alone, let it grow, and then kill them all at once. Men, women and children. Some of the nests get the size of a loaf of bread. |
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Wusses, I have been around wasps all my life, hornets are practically friendly compared to a wasp. I do kill them because of the wife unit. I have been known to catch them in the car in hand ninja like then throw them out the window. Just shake your hand like you are about to roll dice. |
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We have the big nasty yellow paper wasps around here. Aggressive little mothers! I always have 2 or 3 cans of the aforementioned "flying asshole spray" handy. Talked to a pest control guy who told me that a good concentration of dish soap in water sprayed out of a garden sprayer or super soaker works just as well. Said that wasps, hornets, bees and the like breath through little openings all over their bodies. Coat them in soap and they can't breath. I've tried it...it works...drops em like a rock! I'm just glad we don't have these suckers in here in the US! Giant Aisan Hornets...Holy Crap! https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-JGSiGG_AD2w/U0omKMa2onI/AAAAAAAABNc/LyGx_UE9wVA/s800/hornets.jpg Yep. Regular Ivory liquid is the best though. I just killed a Northern Paper Wasp in the TV room a few minutes ago, in fact---spray bottle full of water with about a teaspoon of Ivory in it. Two squirts, then the wasp fell to the floor and expired in about 30 seconds. Mind you, I like NPWs, and only kill 'em if they come inside. I brought two nests over from where I used to live and installed them on the rear and one side of the house. They got rid of a bee problem we were having, and they prevent yellow jackets from setting up shop in our yard. The one in the side alley is also helpful for burglary deterrence, since that side of the house is the most attractive avenue of approach for a thief. |
| We have the super agressive mahogany, or red, wasps around here. I hate the fucking things. I'm slightly allergic to their sting as the spot swells up pretty good and hurts for a day or two. This year though, it seems I have an ally to help ward off the damn things. Wood bees. Yep the big-ass ones that like to burrow into anything wood. The actually hover outside the doors waiting for wasps. As soon as one decides to try and invade the door space, the bees attack and drive them off. |
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Wasps suck, mean spirited fucks, deserve death via organic chemistry. Even been nailed by a white faced hornet? As a kid one got me on the leg about 2 inches south of my balls. I've never been shot, but I can't imagine that it can hurt much more than taking a hit from those fuckers....I was a kid so my memory may be exaggerated...but it sucked. Fast forward 20 years....I'm driving down the road, first really nice day of spring...window down...hear something hit the mirror on my truck, something hits me in the chest. I look down to see a white faced hornet all squirmy and pissed off with his arse mounted .38 sp just a pumping, on my shirt. In the time it takes for my brain to process this quick series of unfortunate events, the evil bastard rolls off my shirt and plops onto the seat directly under my nuts. Needless to say I have never stopped and exited a vehicle so fast in my life. He didn't get me....but I made scene on the side of the road. Had he nailed me I have no doubt I would have exited the vehicle prior to coming to a complete stop. TL:dr. Wasps suck, white faced hornets are worse.
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| Funny you should mention white faced hornets. I had the pleasure of busting a not fully developed hornets nest in a plumb bush last year while plowing on my tractor. At least a dozen stings with some of those coming forty yards from the scene of the crime with me high tailing it away from my still running tractor. It wasn't over. Sat there and watched it for a while trying to figure out how I was going to retrieve it without getting stung again. I got within 30 yards of it and had another bandit fly in and sting me the moment it touched me, it must have landed stinger first. Kept watching it for another twenty minutes hoping the swarm would settle down. I finally decided to suck it up and go in and accept I would have some more stings. I did have a long sleeve shirt and a turkey hunting head net to put on by it wasn't much protection. I sneaked in from the front and somehow I jumped on tractor and drove off without any more damage. Bad thing is, it really brought back memories of thirty years earlier when I had one decide it wanted to land on my face and sting me INSIDE my nose when I swatted it. |
| Wasps are natures mosquito killing machines. A single grown wasp can eat it's weight in mosquitos every night during warm weather. If you have an aggressive nest near your doors or kids, it is understandable to kill them. But if possible leave them be. They will definitely help with any mosquito problems you have. |