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Re: wasp problemb
said by mityfowl  :I don't think they bite!
I was once on a fishing boat anchored offshore, where yellowjackets were flying in from the shore, and they would land on our caught fish, and chew the meat up to take home.
A guy on the boat had binoculars.
We sat waaay back from the meat, and observed.
Those fuckers have teeth.
I am not exaggerating, or joking.
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said by wilbilt :The European variety that is infesting us here in Nor Cal is not red, but black & yellow. They are colored similarly to yellowjackets, but are different physically and in their behavior.
That's the nest I killed a couple weeks ago, just over my front door. Black and yellow. Paper wasps.
Even after the inhabitants were dead, the nest did not come down easily. Neither a broom, nor the hose, brought the nest down, it was very well built in.
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said by cacroll :said by mityfowl :I don't think they bite! I was once on a fishing boat anchored offshore, where yellowjackets were flying in from the shore, and they would land on our caught fish, and chew the meat up to take home. A guy on the boat had binoculars. We sat waaay back from the meat, and observed. Those fuckers have teeth. I am not exaggerating, or joking. Dude, I think you were watching this thing bite, I know they have teeth 
And they are incredably expensive to get rid of! |
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said by jchambers28 :the problemb is there are hundreds of them. That is a key piece of information that would have been handy to initially post when you started the thread....
Wasp killer spray, then. You might not get them all in one shot but find where the bulk of them are and go after them. When you find more, go after them as well. After multiple applications you should be able to eliminate the entire hive. |
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said by cacroll :said by mityfowl :I don't think they bite! I was once on a fishing boat anchored offshore, where yellowjackets were flying in from the shore, and they would land on our caught fish, and chew the meat up to take home. A guy on the boat had binoculars. We sat waaay back from the meat, and observed. Those fuckers have teeth. I am not exaggerating, or joking. Apparently they do bite, those are some nasty little bastards.
»www.getridofthings.com/get-rid-o···kets.htm
Yellow jacket stings are particularly nasty because yellow jackets don't just sting; they bite and sting, and sting, and sting, and sting until there's no more stingin' to be done. --
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Reading these posts remind me of when I was a child. I stayed the summers with my Grand-parents in South Carolina and used to take old broom sticks hurl them at the nests and Haul A** my Grandmother God rest her sweet soul would tell me that if I didn't quit one day the Wasps would get me but being the young stubborn guy I was I didn't heed her advice. So one hot day I saw a "HUGE" nest hurled my old broom stick and ran and lo and behold a few of those rascals got me on the left side of my face just below my eye-Well that was it for me Never again did I do the broomstick trick!! Anyway if you have as many as you say you do I'd hire a professional who knows how to get rid of them and let him take care of it. Many companies won't charge you again if those rascals come back again. |
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Re: wasp problem
That doesn't work worth squat. I had wasp and paper daubers even though I had those up. |
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| said by Warzau :That doesn't work worth squat. I had wasp and paper daubers even though I had those up.
That is a hornet nest (or a fake one). Those are real bad news. The southern expressionMad as a wet hornet. refers to those things. You don't mess with hornets, even with a broomstick.
Or, with yellowjackets.
Yellow jacket stings are particularly nasty because yellow jackets don't just sting; they bite and sting, and sting, and sting, and sting until there's no more stingin' to be done. »www.getridofthings.com/get-rid-o···kets.htm
Mud Daubers and Paper Wasps are mosquitos, compared to hornets and yellowjackets.
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Re: wasp problemb
said by robbin :I keep these handy for just such occasions. They work really well on wasp stings. Unfortunately, it seems that I may have progressed to the level where I need a full-blown Epinephrine kit 
Beware - venomous insect bites can be a cumulative thing. The more you get stung, the faster and more severe the NEXT reaction can be.
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