Worse than sitting in an electric chair!

Minerva

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Abandoned house+chair+yellow jackets!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9I2hSQRTMQ

I've dealt with these fuckers many times in the ground. That's easy. I don't blame the guy for not wanting to mess with this. I'd run away, far away from this.

Unless they said burn the house down!:biggrin:
 

SagaLore

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Even if he were fully protected, it would be dangerous to the immediate community to disturb something like that.
 

rivan

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How the hell do you properly deal with such a thing? I can imagine a house wrap/bomb not really killing a nest that large... or does it?
 

Ichinisan

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I've had some encounters with those little bastards while hiking through the woods as a kid. By the time you're aware that you've disturbed them, you're surrounded by a cloud of black and yellow and they're already stinging.

Anyway, I would expect a good exterminator to have a good bee suit. Does smoke work to make yellow jackets docile like it does for honey bees?
 

rivan

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From orbit.

Also, this:

Yellowjacket stinger in its sheath in the scanning electron microscope

Vespula_vulgaris_SEM_Sting_01.jpg
 

sixone

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It's not abandoned, if someone is planning renovations.

I wouldn't go in there, either. No way, no how.
 

lxskllr

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I've had some encounters with those little bastards while hiking through the woods as a kid. By the time you're aware that you've disturbed them, you're surrounded by a cloud of black and yellow and they're already stinging.

I spent 25 years working outside, and I somehow managed to avoid serious sting incidents. I even drove a stake into a nest once without realizing it, and managed to escape without incident. All my stings were stupid crap, like putting my hand on top of the truck, and catching a bee.
 

GagHalfrunt

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How the hell do you properly deal with such a thing? I can imagine a house wrap/bomb not really killing a nest that large... or does it?

I think it would. Tent the house, powerful bug bomb, goodbye. It might take a guy in a beekeepers suit to clean up a few stragglers, but the vast majority of the hive would be killed outright.
 

JTsyo

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I wonder if the area between the legs is hollow or if the bees filled it all in.
Also, what do you figure is the count for a hive that big? 1000?
 

Ichinisan

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I spent 25 years working outside, and I somehow managed to avoid serious sting incidents. I even drove a stake into a nest once without realizing it, and managed to escape without incident. All my stings were stupid crap, like putting my hand on top of the truck, and catching a bee.

I'll trade the bees in my area for the bees in your area.
 
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How the hell do you properly deal with such a thing? I can imagine a house wrap/bomb not really killing a nest that large... or does it?

A house wrap and bug bomb, in sufficient quantities, should kill every living thing inside. If that didn't do it, you could clean up the remainder with local spraying of high-toxicity poison. Or prayer. Prayer's probably best. Don't want to risk it by getting within a three state radius of that abomination.
 

dud

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I see two possible solutions, the quick or slow solution. The quick solution involves a flamethrower and a lot of collateral damage. The slow solution involves spraying TRANSPORT all over that nest and fogging the entire house.
 

Jeff7

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How the hell do you properly deal with such a thing? I can imagine a house wrap/bomb not really killing a nest that large... or does it?
Shopvacs at the main entrances to the nest.



Abandoned house+chair+yellow jackets!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9I2hSQRTMQ

I've dealt with these fuckers many times in the ground. That's easy. I don't blame the guy for not wanting to mess with this. I'd run away, far away from this.

Unless they said burn the house down!:biggrin:
Clear glass bowl upside-down over the entrance. The nest dies in a few days.


The hard part is finding them before you walk over the nest and get them all pissed off and defensive.
 
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Red Squirrel

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Come to think of it, wonder if you could put a bowl of ammonia in there, if the smell would drive them away. Or screw only ammonia, throw some bleach in there too, and GTFO.

would need to wear a bee suit to go in there or use a robot.