• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

Worse than sitting in an electric chair!

Even if he were fully protected, it would be dangerous to the immediate community to disturb something like that.
 
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'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?
 
Wyndru said:
fuego
Click to expand...

From orbit.

Also, this:

Yellowjacket stinger in its sheath in the scanning electron microscope
Click to expand...

Vespula_vulgaris_SEM_Sting_01.jpg
 
Ichinisan said:
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.
Click to expand...

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.
 
rivan said:
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?
Click to expand...

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.
 
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?
 
lxskllr said:
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.
Click to expand...

I'll trade the bees in my area for the bees in your area.
 
rivan said:
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?
Click to expand...

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.
 
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.
 
rivan said:
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?
Click to expand...
Shopvacs at the main entrances to the nest.



Minerva said:
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:
Click to expand...
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.
 
Last edited:
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.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top