Inspired from this thread
Just last summer my parents' gardening shed grew the BIGGEST wasp nest I've ever seen. It was about the size of a fucking 40" TUBE/Projector TV. That thing was fucking massive, totally covering one side of the wall.
Instead of 'smoking them out', we had a far better plan. We bought 4 cans of wasp killing sprays and we armored ourselves from head to toe: goggles, ski mask, headband, hoodie, winter scarf around the neck, parka zipped all the way up to the eyes, wore like four layers of clothes, ski pants, extra thick socks, ski gloves, etc.
Unless the wasps? stingers were 3 times the length of their whole body, there was no way we could get stung. Dad and I did some simple research and found out they?re pretty much blind at night and you have to expose the inner nest to spray so you really kill EVERYTHING inside and out.
So dad and I, all armored up, went inside the shelter at night. My eyes adjusted to the darkness and saw only a few patrolling wasps flying outside that MASSIVE fortress. I had a good fist-sized rock and I threw it as hard as I can at the nest.
I heard a LOUD CRACK and heard the whole FACE of the nest crashing at the ground. Man.. I still remember? All the 50,000 wasps WOKE UP and soon my ears were covered with deafening buzzing noise. I felt my whole body tingling with ticks and taps as I felt the wasps trying to body slam me with their stingers in ALL DIRECTION. But I did not get stung once.
I sprayed and emptied the whole fucking 4 cans (2x john woo style) in the general direction. Took about a good 10 mins. 10 mins of PURE rush and my heart pounding.
My dad had to get out because he got stung in the poorly protected ankles about 3-5 times. I got stung none.
Next morning I woke up so I can examine the aftermath in full day light. And wow? guess what I saw:
*THOUSANDS of dead wasp bodies ALL over the shelter floor.
*Right below where the nest used to be is a HUGE mound of dead larvae, piled up like a mountain. It literally looked like a 2lb package of ground beef full of dead white maggot-looking larvae
*Fully exposed nest with tiers and tiers of combs.
Man that was sooo awesome. I wonder if they'll come back next year. I really wish I took pics.
Just last summer my parents' gardening shed grew the BIGGEST wasp nest I've ever seen. It was about the size of a fucking 40" TUBE/Projector TV. That thing was fucking massive, totally covering one side of the wall.
Instead of 'smoking them out', we had a far better plan. We bought 4 cans of wasp killing sprays and we armored ourselves from head to toe: goggles, ski mask, headband, hoodie, winter scarf around the neck, parka zipped all the way up to the eyes, wore like four layers of clothes, ski pants, extra thick socks, ski gloves, etc.
Unless the wasps? stingers were 3 times the length of their whole body, there was no way we could get stung. Dad and I did some simple research and found out they?re pretty much blind at night and you have to expose the inner nest to spray so you really kill EVERYTHING inside and out.
So dad and I, all armored up, went inside the shelter at night. My eyes adjusted to the darkness and saw only a few patrolling wasps flying outside that MASSIVE fortress. I had a good fist-sized rock and I threw it as hard as I can at the nest.
I heard a LOUD CRACK and heard the whole FACE of the nest crashing at the ground. Man.. I still remember? All the 50,000 wasps WOKE UP and soon my ears were covered with deafening buzzing noise. I felt my whole body tingling with ticks and taps as I felt the wasps trying to body slam me with their stingers in ALL DIRECTION. But I did not get stung once.
I sprayed and emptied the whole fucking 4 cans (2x john woo style) in the general direction. Took about a good 10 mins. 10 mins of PURE rush and my heart pounding.
My dad had to get out because he got stung in the poorly protected ankles about 3-5 times. I got stung none.
Next morning I woke up so I can examine the aftermath in full day light. And wow? guess what I saw:
*THOUSANDS of dead wasp bodies ALL over the shelter floor.
*Right below where the nest used to be is a HUGE mound of dead larvae, piled up like a mountain. It literally looked like a 2lb package of ground beef full of dead white maggot-looking larvae
*Fully exposed nest with tiers and tiers of combs.
Man that was sooo awesome. I wonder if they'll come back next year. I really wish I took pics.
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