There's a wasp in my basement

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SlitheryDee

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I'm kinda like you when it comes to wasps. Maybe not quite as bad.

My approach would be to get some wasp spray with the long range jet and kill it with that. The stuff leaves an oily residue that you'll have to clean up afterwards, but if you're even fairly accurate you won't get any outside of about a square foot around the wasp.
 

dr150

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I'm kinda like you when it comes to wasps. Maybe not quite as bad.

My approach would be to get some wasp spray with the long range jet and kill it with that. The stuff leaves an oily residue that you'll have to clean up afterwards, but if you're even fairly accurate you won't get any outside of about a square foot around the wasp.

But before it dies, it'll have time to inject eggs in your eye socket.

Couple that with the wasps body that's covered in acid, you'll lose the eye in the process.

I ask you.....is it worth it?.....:colbert:
 

DrPizza

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WRONG!

It takes an average wasp 11 days to consume 20,000 cubic feet of oxygen.

I'm guessing you have a grasshopper infestation down there. Wear a mask.

Hah! Your number is correct, but you forgot that air isn't 100% oxygen. It's about 18% oxygen.

18% of 11 days is 1.98 days. I added the extra day on for the OP, because I think he wanted to be sure the wasp was dead.
 

SlitheryDee

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But before it dies, it'll have time to inject eggs in your eye socket.

Couple that with the wasps body that's covered in acid, you'll lose the eye in the process.

I ask you.....is it worth it?.....:colbert:

Now I can't get the image out of an acid dripping wasp jamming it's ovipositor into my eye while I sleep, and then waking up with wasp larvae boiling out of my consumed eyesocket and boring slowly into my brain. Thanks...
 

pelov

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By the time the larvae begin hatching you'll be a vegetable so there's no need to worry.

Also they prefer going in through the back door.
 

gorcorps

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Jul 18, 2004
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Electrified fly swatter

They exist, I bought one as a gift.

Don't lick it...
 

terry107

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I have two nests outside my office window. This guy was watching me work one day:

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BoomerD

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If you get your little-girl panties in such a bunch over a wasp...I can't wait to see how badly you freak out if you find a spider!
 

Red Squirrel

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Vacuum cleaner. :D

Just make sure you leave it on for a bit while you spray some raid in there. To be extra safe tape the end after you turn it off. It will eventually die in there.

Though usually what I do is just sneak up to it and squish it with my finger. It's easier than trying to use an object and possibly miss. You only get one shot at killing a bug like that. Make it count. When using your finger you want to get the side of the stinger compartment (guess that would be the butt?), not the end. The stinger will come out as it is being squished. Don't go for the head, it may just make the whole thing tilt from the force and stinger will come right at your finger.
 
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SheHateMe

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My secret weapon against bugs is Scrubbing Bubbles. I just like how it foams up and consumes them. Some bugs wont die from it...so you are going to have to get them again.
 

Red Squirrel

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Another options is a sprayer with Javex in it, and a bottle of Windex. Spray both on the wasp at the same time and run. *blendtec guy voice* Don't breathe this!
 

Merad

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Step 1: Get an ignition source. Something like a candle is preferable. Matches or a lighter will work.
Step 2: Get a spray can of carburetor cleaner/paint/etc.
Step 3:

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DrPizza

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My secret weapon against bugs is Scrubbing Bubbles. I just like how it foams up and consumes them. Some bugs wont die from it...so you are going to have to get them again.

Oh sure. No clue about evolution. You miss a couple of the survivors and then they have babies. The babies will be more likely to survive. Simple evolution - don't they teach you guys shit in schools any more? Before you know it, we'll have 3 foot tall spiders that will rip your arm off, all because you guys can't do a job right.
 

Mixolydian

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It's back! o_O Well not the same one, obviously. What the fuck makes these assholes think they can takeover my home? I'm keeping a close eye on this one. So far it's sitting on the window flailing around like its having a seizure.
 

sixone

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It's back! o_O Well not the same one, obviously. What the fuck makes these assholes think they can takeover my home? I'm keeping a close eye on this one. So far it's sitting on the window flailing around like its having a seizure.

Better figure out how it got in. You might have a hole somewhere that needs to be plugged.
 

Kantastic

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A good thing to do is swat it against somewhere that is highly visible and DO NOT clean it up. Let it sit there as a warning to future wasps. From my experience, any bug species that sees its own kind obliterated against the wall will not go near your house again.

Throughout my house I have probably 25 different bug species either stomped on the ground or the wall.

You have sinned and will go to hell for eternity.