Yep, that's the first thing that caught my attention. All sitting in the kitchen talking. Which included my wife and her sister. So when you suddenly hear something over those two talking, It's like ..WTF lolThey sound like B17 flyin around.
Yep, that's the first thing that caught my attention. All sitting in the kitchen talking. Which included my wife and her sister. So when you suddenly hear something over those two talking, It's like ..WTF lolThey sound like B17 flyin around.
Should not have asked to put up the picture.All done. I don't do well with stings. Got hit multiple times once when I mowed over a nest once. It hurt, but I thought it was over till an hour later when I couldn't swallow water. ER gave me an IV of benedryl and I was OK. Really would be good by me if I never do that again... This round, the wife volunteered. If she gets stung it's usually like a fly bite. But I made sure she didn't. Had her in my Carhartt full suit with hood. Full face mask. Long gloves,etc Everything taped. Taped a flashlight to her arm. Can of spray in each hand.. (Sorry, I am forbidden to post the pics my daughter took. LOL )
Waited till they settled after dark.
Their was no activity when she started. and none when she was done. A whole lot in between. But they were dropping, not flying.
Oh, I didn't ask. She was threatening my daughter first just for sending it to my son. They didn't even send it to me (yet)Should not have asked to put up the picture.
Its easier to ask for forgiveness than permission...
That tactic worked so well for the big cities and the homeless bums...should have the same effect on flying assholes as well.Just open a can of Spam.
Make friends.
How you been. Well I hope.
Sometimes I don't know why I can't wait for summer when it's cold.
Sometimes I think summer is the worst when i run into summers critters.
Went out to put a battery in my car, open the hood and as the hood is going up, I feel pain and don't even have time to think about what happened. I step back in time to see about ten more come out of the grille, and there is a nest under the hood lip.
These little bastards are going to get it tonight.
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It sounds like she has done this before...If you haven't whacked em yet....be sure to use GOOD spray like Raid. The generic stuff Wal Mart sells just pisses them off! Gasoline in a bean sprayer works good too.
It sounds like she has done this before...
But yeh, told wife same when she went to hardware store last night. Got this. Doesn’t say foaming, but it is...Two cans did the job quite well. Cans run out fast, but don’t think any got away. She said a couple flew out, turned around and crashed into the foam.
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My daughter was researching them a bit. Said these ‘bald faced hornets’ are actually more closely related to yellow jackets than true hornets. And they really earn their spot on the ID chart posted on page one. Pretty sure they are what landed me to the ER before.zkx14.....Hornets bite you and sting you at the same time! I was 37 years old the first and only time I ever got stung by a Hornet. Got me right in the temple, and I looked like a Klingon for hours! I'm 61....and remember it like it was yesterday! Your wife deserves a medal for assassinating them things!
You sure it was a bug? LOLOnce we were flat towing the hemi back from Ft. Smith , a huge yellow and black hornet about 3 1/2" long flew in the window,all were down , dam near had a wreck before that monster got out. Sounded like some one beating on the windows w/ a small bat . Have only seen one that size around here since----------
Sounds like something straight out of the coffee threadSoooo confession time.... as kids in the country... we used to put firecrackers on the ends of long sticks... light them and blow up wasp nests. Then ran like hell...
Did you accomplish your mission last night?
Absolutely, the raccoon killer turned into a bee assassinDid you accomplish your mission last night?
I opened the passenger side door on my WIP Duster the other day. As I opened it I let go of the handle and grabbed the top near the rear edge. Almost instantly I felt pain in my right index finger and saw a swarm of wasps. Turns out that the wasps had squeezed between the door and the jamb and built a nest just below the top. I stuck my fingers in the nest when I opened the door. Man, I haven't been stung in decades!I had small bees and then wasps living in the fender of my 70 Super Bee when I had it.
I always thought "how appropriate".
They always kept coming back.
Never bothered me but would fly at and around anyone other than me who approached the driver's door!
Interestingly I had the same thing happen 20 years later with a wasp's nest outside the back door of my office.
I could come and go as I pleased and even go out back to talk on the phone, right underneath them.
But if anyone ever tried to come up to the back door instead of the front, they would swarm!
I called them my trained attack wasps.
I can assure you that a 3.5 inch 12 gauge turkey load of #4 shot through an extra full choke is very effective on critters like this.It's that time of year. Found this in a bush earlier today. maybe 2/3 of a basketball. Almost hit it with the electric trimmer. Bald faced hornets. Still working on a plan of attack to get rid of it...
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