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Posted by zootal on July 10, 2007, 11:38 pm
I have discovered a bald faced hornet nest in my garden. It is about the
size of a softball so far, but growing. My daughter has already bee
stung by one of them. I'll tolerate paper wasps and honey bees and mud
daubers, but these things have to go. How can I get rid of them without
getting all stung up. Can I just hit them with horner spray after dark?
Or will they be active enough to come after me even after dark?
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Posted by Toller on July 10, 2007, 11:55 pm
>I have discovered a bald faced hornet nest in my garden. It is about the
>size of a softball so far, but growing. My daughter has already bee stung
>by one of them. I'll tolerate paper wasps and honey bees and mud daubers,
>but these things have to go. How can I get rid of them without getting all
>stung up. Can I just hit them with horner spray after dark? Or will they be
>active enough to come after me even after dark?
I don't know what horner spray is, but I get those cans that shoot 20'. I
hit the nest and get away. An hour later, hit it again. Give it an hour
and you can get in close and saturate it.
But then, I am not too bright. Last year I dug a large wasp nest out of the
ground next to my boat dock and threw it into the lake. There were wasps
everywhere, but not one stung me! (possibly they were confused by someone
acting so foolishly) I didn't have any insectacide handy, so I had to go to
plan B.
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Posted by Stormin Mormon on July 11, 2007, 9:55 pm
I've heard large quanities of gasoline helps.
--
Christopher A. Young
You can't shout down a troll.
You have to starve them.
.
Last year I dug a large wasp nest out of the
: ground next to my boat dock and threw it into the lake. There
were wasps
: everywhere, but not one stung me! (possibly they were confused
by someone
: acting so foolishly) I didn't have any insectacide handy, so I
had to go to
: plan B.
:
:
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Posted by Ook on July 11, 2007, 10:02 pm
And a match :-).
In all seriousness...many years I lived on the Island of Guam, where we had
a small dark wasp we called a boonie bee. It was a small paper wasp, and was
actually non-agressive. The problem with them is that they would build nests
*everywhere*, practically overnight. To get rid of the nests, we would take
a rag, stick it on the end of a long pole, put some light oil, turpentine,
etc. on it, light it, and then use it to burn the nest. Worked great.
> I've heard large quanities of gasoline helps.
>
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Posted by Gini on July 11, 2007, 12:06 am
"zootal" wrote
>I have discovered a bald faced hornet nest in my garden. It is about the
>size of a softball so far, but growing. My daughter has already bee stung
>by one of them. I'll tolerate paper wasps and honey bees and mud daubers,
>but these things have to go. How can I get rid of them without getting all
>stung up. Can I just hit them with horner spray after dark? Or will they be
>active enough to come after me even after dark?
==
I sprayed/saturated a large--no, huge--nest after dark and none came after
me.
I was standing as far away as I could get and close to my back door. I had
already
been attacked by this swarm and wasn't taking any chances. Next day there
was no
movement from the hive. They were done.
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