Hornet Fortress

Hmmm
1) Get your ass tore up by wasps?
2) Set yourself on fire, then blow up, then get your ass tore up by wasps?

meh, #2 it is.....

 

Hand to hand combat. Winner gets the yard. Fight to the death.

 

The #1 is really only suitable for those under 17 years old (ask me how I know)
#2 is best done after dark

 

You swim underneath the surface and come up in a different spot for air. They will hang around for a while

 

Wear some kind of protective clothing and use a shop vac at the entrance

 

I read or saw somewhere that smoke puts them to sleep. Do that and then hit it with a stick. Please record the whole process...for science.

 

I had two like that in my yard the past two years, both were German Yellowjacket nests.

We found one after my little guy went to get a football from a bush. Poor kid got stung three times, my FIL once, so I went all out.

I waited until dark because they can't see at night, dressed in a Tyvek suit with a beekeeper hat, leather gloves, and sprayed a cans worth of wasp killer into the nest.

Nothing for a few days, then a few stragglers came back. Not sure if they had a slumber party elsewhere that night or what?

Dressed up like an astronaut again under the cover of darkness and emptied another can. Problem solved.

Following year I found one while weedwhacking, we stayed away from it and like someone else mentioned, they abandoned it after winter.

Good luck!! Haha

 

This guy is a pro, and if i were you I'd hire a pro. Dangerous, dirty job.

 

I got stung two weeks right on the knuckle of my thumb. Horrible pain.

 

Bunch of killers on here

and yes I have been stung probably over 20 times in my life.

 

This. Just know they are there and don't piss them off. We found some azealia caterpillars on Saturday and while my wife was picking them off a few hornets showed up and started dive bombing them. Pretty cool to see. Bam, suck the guts out and get another one.

 

I’m impartial. I understand @nowayout position but I’m not very sensitive to killing those bastards either.
But, I would hire a pro with out question. Spend the money and don’t chance it.

 

Leave them alone....

 

I was 9 or 10 when me and my cousin John decided it would be a lot of fun to through rocks at the hornets nest and knock it down. Who new those hornets could fly that fast and man they don't stop coming after you either. Hornets one foolish kids zero. Man that hurt for days after that

 

Same here, at about 5 years old the neighborhood kids talked me into smacking a nest with a baseball bat. Lets say that didn't go well for any of us. I got stung around 5 times from that and the other kids got it too. Lesson learned.

 

For somethings yes.....not everything.

 

Ouch!

 

I had a bald faced hornets nest in my attic a couple of years ago. I saw one of them squeeze thru the hardware cloth covered vent under my eaves, went up in the attic and as soon as I saw it I GTFO of there. I didn't want to fall thru the damn ceiling if I started getting attacked. I did some research and found out what a couple of other people have already mentioned, they will abandon the nest in the winter and the queen will move on.
I went back up in the middle of winter in my beekeeping jacket and got the nest down. Sure enough, it was empty.

 

What about a double barrel 12 gauge?

If you try this method, please dear god video it.

 

Except mosquitos...fuck those guys

 

It keeps the aliens from executing us all....they are endangered ya know

 

Omg. Too funny.

 

Wouldn’t touch it with these hands. Leave it cause “dey ain’t hurtin’ nobody’s”.

 

I see you’re familiar with the documentary “Lilo and Stitch”.

 

I just realized he didn’t post again after I suggested this. I assume the hornets were victorious. RIP @BuckWallace you went out like a man.

 

You could go out there at night and saturate the nest with a couple cans of Raid. Maybe do that a couple nights in a row.

 

https://www.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-a-Wasp's-Nest

Step by step buddy! Good luck