Wasps

used to be deathly allergic growing up. Had to take a shot once a week (?) in case I got stung. Then when I started haunting junkyards, I got stung, and was no longer allergic. Now I hunt the little bastards.

They love this chebby!

https://www.foxnews.com/science/ohi...ssive-hornets-nest-from-car-in-shocking-video

We run into them around here too. I grabbed some stuff they use at a winery we do work for here, they say it actually freezes them..works real nice. One thing, be careful if you smash one..their buddies will zero in on the pheromone residue on your shoe (or whatever) with extreme prejudice. I killed one with a paper towel, then threw it away and those little bastards bounced off my trash can lid for 5 minutes..

Choke cleaner/ether and a butane lighter. Instant blowtorch!!

You can become allergic if you get stung enough throughout your lifetime. Ask me how I know.

I used to get stung several times a year, growing up on a farm, working outdoors, constantly around different bees. One year I got stung on my wrist and an hour later the whole side of my face swelled up. I called my Dr. and he said to come to his office right away. He gave me a shot of epinephrine. Makes your heart race like you're running a marathon sitting still. The next day I felt pretty beat.

I bought an EpiPen, the old style which was a regular, two stage syringe. Give yourself one part and if the symptoms persist give yourself the second stage. Well the symptoms are the same as the side effects so how do you know. When that one expired I bought the newer style (spring loaded) Never really used it, $60 every two years and a pita to keep on you. So I just went to the ER each time I got stung. I always seemed to have an hour before I would experience any reactions. They would give me a shot of epinephrine. (Hated that shot)

Well the last time I went to the ER they gave me a IV drip of Benadryl. Made me a little drowsy but I didn't experience the marathon race. They said they didn't use the epinephrine anymore. So now when I get stung I just take a couple of Benadryl.

Now there's a big difference between being born allergic and becoming allergic. Being born allergic you can experience breathing difficulties, swelled tongue ect. and will end in death pretty rapidly if you don't seek medical attention right away.

Becoming allergic comes from being stung enough times that your body can't process the venom anymore. The venom never leaves your system and accumulating too much your organs can't process it anymore. The symptoms that I experience is swelling in another part of my body other than on the bite site and I can feel my liver being distressed, kind of a numbing feeling. Once I receive Benadryl the symptoms cease and all is ok. Not saying that would work for eveyone and I'm still being very conscience about just taking the Benadryl and not seeing a Dr.

This is my story and I would advise trying not to get stung if all possible. It can catch up with you.

these big bastards took over the pool area this year with about 30 or more flying in our faces. They normally dont bother people but there are so many of them we couldnt relax by the pool. Must have been 6 nests under the pool deck concrete. Wasp spray didnt affect them but rat sticky pads over the nest opening caught a bunch. Had to get an exterminator to spray the area and fog the nests. What a pain. I just killed off a yellow jacket nest under the deck...hate them all. Dawn dish soap amd water is very effective on most of them. Every september we are bombarded with paper wasps. Annoying

Glenwood said:

these big bastards took over the pool area this year with about 30 or more flying in our faces. They normally dont bother people but there are so many of them we couldnt relax by the pool. Must have been 6 nests under the pool deck concrete. Wasp spray didnt affect them but rat sticky pads over the nest opening caught a bunch. Had to get an exterminator to spray the area and fog the nests. What a pain. I just killed off a yellow jacket nest under the deck...hate them all. Dawn dish soap amd water is very effective on most of them. Every september we are bombarded with paper wasps. Annoying

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That’s a dirt dauber they are spider killing machines. Not that they don’t but never heard of one stinging.

"Choke cleaner/ether and a butane lighter. Instant blowtorch!! "
WD40 does the same thing

Best thing for all the little flying bastards..

I Approve of this method....

I guess I've been stung at some point by anything with a stinger. Hornets hit the hardest but you haven't lived until a bumble bee goes between your head and helmet on a motorcycle! Yeah, that was fun!
Had more trouble with yellow jackets than everything else combined though. Hateful little sons a guns!!!

If you know what you're doing, a can of WD40 and a cigarette lighter makes wasp killing a lot of fun!

Useing fire can have bad results, especially around a building or a wooded area.

A wasp, hornet, yellow jacket, breathe through their skin. I've taken a soft rag or several cotton balls, soak them in lacquer thinner, gasoline or any fast evaporating cleaner and stick it in their entrance. Do it late at night when they are all home.

One thing to remember is the hornet nest has a guard dog at the hole. He'll come out at night and get you. You have to sneak up on it and be quick about placing the soaked cotton in the hole. The fumes from the solution you choose to use will suffocate them. Ground nest can be done with gas, ect. Pour a small amount in the entrance and cover with something to keep the fumes from escaping.

Another known fact, Co2 (carbon dioxide), what we breathe out, is a threat to any bee colony. When they detect it the alarms go off and they go into attact mode.

khryslerkid said:

Useing fire can have bad results, especially around a building or a wooded area.

A wasp, hornet, yellow jacket, breathe through their skin. I've taken a soft rag or several cotton balls, soak them in lacquer thinner, gasoline or any fast evaporating cleaner and stick it in their entrance. Do it late at night when they are all home.

One thing to remember is the hornet nest has a guard dog at the hole. He'll come out at night and get you. You have to sneak up on it and be quick about placing the soaked cotton in the hole. The fumes from the solution you choose to use will suffocate them. Ground nest can be done with gas, ect. Pour a small amount in the entrance and cover with something to keep the fumes from escaping.

Another known fact, Co2 (carbon dioxide), what we breathe out, is a threat to any bee colony. When they detect it the alarms go off and they go into attact mode.

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I like the flamethrower effect that I get with WD40 and a lighter.

Don said:

I like the flamethrower effect that I get with WD40 and a lighter.

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WD40 was about the only thing that worked on carpenter bees. Black Flag wouldn't faze them. I'd spray it in their hole and a couple of days later they would die.

You just like playing with fire!

khryslerkid said:

WD40 was about the only thing that worked on carpenter bees. Black Flag wouldn't faze them. I'd spray it in their hole and a couple of days later they would die.

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Yes, I've also used WD40 on carpenter bees. That's a cool emoji...fits perfectly!

Thermonuclear warfare...

I was mowing with a 4230 John Deere back in the early '80s on a low lying area that we normally couldn't get to because it was always too wet. Before I could do anything, I saw a grapefruit size hornet nest go under the axle and it came out the back of the mower in about three or four pieces.

Well all of a sudden I had hornets all over the cab of the tractor. They weren't only just on the glass but they were crawling around the edges of the glass trying to get in. I'm thinking to myself how in the world do they know I'm in here, what makes them think that I'm responsible and not the piece of equipment? Are these insects that intelligent to know the difference? Well I went over to the other side of the field for awhile and let them calm down.

Several years later I was watching a documentary on the Africanized bees and this guy was studying their habits. He was wearing a beekeepers suit, had a long piece of hose up through the suit to breathe through and about ten feet of this hose trailing behind him. He walks up to this large hive hanging in a tree and starts to handle them. They act like he's not even there. Then he removes the breathing tube from his mouth and they instantly start attacking him. It was crazy. He was proving that they are sensitive to certain chemicals and Co2 was one of them as I had mentioned in a previous post.

Watching that triggered my memory back to the day I was mowing and the hornets were trying to get into the cab. The cab was pressurized to help keep dust out and they must have been picking up on the Co2 that I and all humans breathe out. I was truly lucky that day that I wasn't on an open tractor. Worse case is if I would have had one or two of the windows propped open and I'd been stuck in there with them.

BeepBeepRR said:

Best thing for all the little flying bastards..

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Now you're talking! Where do I get one?

khryslerkid said:

I was mowing with a 4230 John Deere back in the early '80s on a low lying area that we normally couldn't get to because it was always too wet. Before I could do anything, I saw a grapefruit size hornet nest go under the axle and it came out the back of the mower in about three or four pieces.

Well all of a sudden I had hornets all over the cab of the tractor. They weren't only just on the glass but they were crawling around the edges of the glass trying to get in. I'm thinking to myself how in the world do they know I'm in here, what makes them think that I'm responsible and not the piece of equipment? Are these insects that intelligent to know the difference? Well I went over to the other side of the field for awhile and let them calm down.

Several years later I was watching a documentary on the Africanized bees and this guy was studying their habits. He was wearing a beekeepers suit, had a long piece of hose up through the suit to breathe through and about ten feet of this hose trailing behind him. He walks up to this large hive hanging in a tree and starts to handle them. They act like he's not even there. Then he removes the breathing tube from his mouth and they instantly start attacking him. It was crazy. He was proving that they are sensitive to certain chemicals and Co2 was one of them as I had mentioned in a previous post.

Watching that triggered my memory back to the day I was mowing and the hornets were trying to get into the cab. The cab was pressurized to help keep dust out and they must have been picking up on the Co2 that I and all humans breathe out. I was truly lucky that day that I wasn't on an open tractor. Worse case is if I would have had one or two of the windows propped open and I'd been stuck in there with them.
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When I was growing up and working on my uncles' farms in south Georgia, we had to get the tobacco barns ready for hanging tobacco every season. This included burning out any yellow jacket nests (usually about the size of a double fist or bigger) that had been built inside the barns along the inside roofline, which was about 30 feet off the ground. The approved (and only) method was to tie newspaper off on the end of a tobacco stick, climb the rafters inside the barn to about 6-8 feet away from each nest, light the newspaper, and shove it into the nest before the yellow jackets jumped your ***. The trick was to get the fire to the nest before the yellow jackets smelled the smoke and came off the nest as mad as hell. If you were successful, no problem. If not, well, you were coming out of the top of the barn in record speed!