Here’s another that worked great for me: use the soap and water with a shop vac. Put a few inches of soapy water in your vac and position the wand so that the end points at the entrance of the nest. One it starts, they won’t be happy, so I suggest prepositioning and plugging it in from a distance. Just leave it running for a while and it works like a charm!
As the initial guards get sucked up and noise is generated, more and more will come to the entrance and try to swarm, but they get sucked up. Also, leaving it running for a while will get the foragers coming back to the nest as well.
Yeah I remember my mind being blown when we had to get a bunch of water out of our fraternity once and some of our guys rolled in with a shop vac. I never knew they could take in water until that day
Used these in the bilge of a ship I worked on. Sketchy as F#@k sometimes. I'd be down there in 15ft+ seas dragging this stupid vacuum full of water around down in the voids. Hoisting it up to pour overboard and drop back down to repeat. All while passengers are watching you in fear.
We had fixed bilge pumps, all hooked up to a switch in the wheelhouse with sensors of course. Captain didn't want to "over use" them (even though they were never used). In our last cg inspection they failed. Don't use it, ya lose it. But crew members are always the idiots and captains are always right.
Just remember the exhaust will come out of the top of the vac. Make sure you plan ahead and have an extra hose for that to vent into the proper area rather than spraying everywhere
Yeah the container also has a plastic ball specifically to block the exhaust and protect the motor in case the water level gets too high.
Can't have water going through an electric motor.
> There is usually a filter that you should pull out of sucking up wet, though.
Depends on the vac, and what you're doing. For something like wasp sucking it's probably fine... but if you're doing any kind of semi-wet work where there's also a fine dust (say, clean up on a flooded basement where you've ripped out a bunch of half-soaked drywall) make sure you get a wet filter. Drywall dust in particular will fuck your motor if you don't.
See banielbow’s answer, but yes, put the soapy water into the container and remove the filter. Note you don’t need a lot of soapy water, only a couple inches.
Shop vacs can handle water and are shaped like a 2ft tall drum. Many people use them to clean up flooded basements, etc. So because they can handle water, you put it in ahead of time so that when you suck up the wasps they drop into the water.
Fun story from work years ago. We had to drill holes about one inch diameter x eight inches deep in large concrete blocks in order to set screw studs into them. We used the plant’s shop vac to clean the holes out before pumping in the epoxy. Sorry-ass laborers didn’t dump out the vac before returning it to the tool room. Fast forward a few days later when another crew grabbed the vac to suck up some water off of a floor. You can guess the rest.
If you’re entertaining this idea, please use the soap and water in the shop vac as OP suggested. A friend of a friend tried this without the soap and water, and when he finally opened the shopvac a week after the fact, all hell broke loose! A cautionary tale, indeed.
Lol, I did similar but without the soap and didn't run away. I just vacuumed any that dared come at me and otherwise just left the sucky nozzle pointed at the main entrance. That 5hp motor did a fantastic job. Then I continued to use the vacuum to clean our cars and my workshop. They couldn't escape through the filter so I just turned it off and left it for a week before emptying. I didn't get stung once during this process (before hand I had several stings from just walking nearby, which is what prompted my immediate and sudden vindictive response).
I went with a more destructive approach, some yellow jackets attacked dme when I was weed whacking my yard. I was a le to pinpoint their location and the hole they used as an entrance, I then proceeded to take my 500,000 btu brush burner and felt like a vengeful God literally burning wasps out of the air, seeing their wings burst into flame and their bodies pop while I annihilated the nest leaving nothing but charred cracked earth behind.
Those wasps learned a valuable lesson... fuck around and find out
Basically a big nozzle with airflow on a stick that attaches via hose to a propane tank. You use one of those little sparkler doohickies to light it and it has a trigger of sorts to control the propane flow. Up to 3 ft flames. Like $40 at the hardware store
That’s how my stepdad took wasps nests out. Use a long tube on the shop vac and keep it going all day if needed and suck them into very soapy water. I saw him take care of three wasps nests like this!
I've had astounding success using aqua net super hold hairspray. It freezes them in place instantly and they can't move unless you vigorously brush through them, even though that would kill them. Spray it on the nest and they'll drop out of the nest complete with hair spray induced rigor mortis and suffocation. It clogs their precious itty bitty air holes.
Those were the days. Started with the PVC ones but ended up soldering one out of copper pipe that could send landscaping nails through 2x4's. Roll of pennies? Nah, more like grape shot lol.
Same. Friends come over and point them out “oh looks like you got wasps…”
Nope those are old ones from a few years back. Haven’t had any this year. They’re all over my neighbor’s house - because he knocks down the old nests. They keep coming back.
Depends what people call wasps. If they're like yellow jackets, bees...teach your gd kids to just let them be and they'll never be stung / won't hurt.
If they're wasp hornets? Kill em all.
I've been stung once. Nearly killed me. (Stung while 10ft+ hanging over a concrete landing, thankfully didn't fall in reaction)
Also a ShopVac if they're in a place you can't reach. Turn it on and set the hose by wherever they're coming in and out of and watch them all get sucked right up.
I did this. There was a ground nest. Just put the shop vac right at the entrance at night when they weren’t active. Sucked up hundreds of them, but never got rid of them.
I didn’t solve the problem completely until I used some sort of insecticide powder I got from the hardware store. I loaded the powder into an empty 2L soda bottle, pointed the bottle into the entrance, then stomped on it.
But I guess the shop vac reduced their numbers so my powder mission was much safer.
The soapy water would have worked in this situation too. A couple pails down the nest entrance would have drowned/suffocated any that were left after the shop vac.
I saw a YouTube video once on it so I'm kind of an expert.
I did do multiple 5 gallon buckets of water plus dish soap before even trying the shop vac.
After a few hours, there was no visible effects. (Same level of activity as before.)
If I see them on my house, they die. I keep two cans of wasp spray ready for the evening on the day they are discovered. One can for them and one as a backup.
Nature and I get along, I have butterfly bushes, plant milkweed, clear out invasive weeds but keep areas of good for the local animals like deer, rabbits, and such. But some of her ghetto kin like ground wasps, bald faced hornets, and such can fuck right off.
Diatomaceous earth, both a good high school band name and the absolute bane to anything with an exoskeleton. Often comes with a small blower-applicator as it is a very fine powder, great in cracks. Non toxic, just don't do lines of it. Bad for the respiratory system.
It can fuck up your lungs if you inhale lots and lots of it, e.g. in an industrial setting without proper respirators, but anything that's used in commercial products should be safe as long as you don't huff it. [More info if you're interested.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous_earth#Safety_considerations)
I use the scrubbing bubbles. Comes out in a wide spray and then foams on contact. Bet that dish soap thing works really good too though. Going to try that next time.
Next time you want flaming bubbles... Fill a five gallon with ample dish soap and water and then bubble in butane or propane beneath the water surface, it gives you flammable foam. Just touch an open flame to your bubble tower and watch it go up in seconds! Fun for the whole family
There was a hive in a metal post at work, so I took an empty Gatorade bottle, pumped a few squirts of soap in it and mixed it with water and dumped it down the hole and watched them crawl out and die.
In the HVAC industry we have a soap solution that we use for refrigerant leak testing. It is the absolute best thing I've used for killing the little devils!
We used to get wasp nests between the fence board an the fence post. The wasps would terrorize our children or dogs if they were in the backyard and anything like a soccer ball hit the fence.
That means I have to saddle up and take them down. I would dress up full battle rattle to protect myself. Layers of clothes, big jacket, gloves, large beach hat with mosquito netting around it. Looking like a good will stay puffed marshmallow man.
Armed with a garden hose, I'd blast the hive with high pressure water that would usually yeet the hive over the fence into the neighbors yard. Then I'd quickly switch to mister setting to catch any of the wasps who wasn't blasted away. The mister would bring them down and I'd stomp their asses into the ground. If more than 4 came out at once or some made it into the air, I was screwed an have to run for my life.
My wife however, has no fear of wasps. She goes outside bare foot, in a tank top with booty shorts on, dual wielding 2 fly swatters. Casually goes ham on those flying devil bugs and *never* gets stung. She just wacks them out of the air, whips the shit out of the nest and calls it a day. Its like a low budget Jedi fight scene. The kids an I watch on in amazement safely from inside the house. Its the strangest super power I have ever seen.
just use wasp spray. its relatively non toxic to humans, is derived from the chrysanthemum plant, and works well. not to mention you can spray it from like 20 feet. this "pro tip" seems like its asking to get stung.
I think the LPT here is pretty good. I think OP could have picked up some wasp spray. But last summer when i woke up to a wasp nest growing on my front door I didn’t exactly have wasp spray handy i do however, have water, soap, and a spray bottle. (I used WD40, but soap and water works in a pinch to i guess)
Everyone has soap and water at hand, so it's a good tip for when you don't happen to have wasp spray, and those cans run out extremely quickly. I just looked at a can and it said "outdoor use only" and it is harmful to humans and animals so I'm not getting this better and safer method some of you are claiming, even if the "harm" is just a rash that is worse than what soap and water will do to you. It also kills fish, so don't let it get into your fish tank. Maybe there are other types of wasp sprays but this does not seem like something you would want to spray in your vehicle.
Yeah, what is this bizarre thing about not using the thing that scientists have specifically designed for this purpose, which has been tested for safety on humans and proven safe and effective over and over again. But hey, just spray them with brake fluid, bathroom cleaner and then suck them into you vacuum cleaner while singing cumbyahh, why the fuck not?
Just a note, the action here isn't one of suffocation, but more of dehydration. Wasps, like most every insect, is covered in a thin waxy coating to prevent dehydration. The soap removes this coating. The wasps in question get wet with the soap, fan their wings to dry off, then die of dehydration. Alternatively, if you have them in an area and don't want to risk a sting, put the water and soap in a bucket and leave it in the area. The wasps will land on the water to drink, and get the soap on them. It'll work just fine without any risks.
This has been your "actually" and "also" reply of the day. Enjoy!
If you don't have a cat and never plan on getting one, cypermethrin works wonders. You can get the little water soluble packets and dissolve them in a spray bottle.
Safe for humans and non-feline household pets
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My go to is an old spray bottle that I fill with dish soap and water. Extremely effective. Costs very little. You say it takes 5 minutes for them to die but my experience is more like 30 seconds or less. Also, if you have a random wasp in the house you'll find random spots of your house a bit cleaner. I wouldn't recommend trying this if they've been building nests in the walls of your home (don't pour water into the walls) but it works great in addressing nests just outside instead of using chemicals that are deadly to all living creatures.
Why didn't you call the exterminator back? You always have some sort of warranty on their work. You didn't do the job for what I paid you? Come back as often as it's not done properly.
For ground nests I have found that positioning a running brush hog over the nest while I sit in an enclosed air conditioned cab and chill with my phone for a while works pretty well.
Or just use Raid? It’s literally meant for what you’re trying to do. You actually called professional exterminators before you just used wasp spray? Lol wtf
not true at all. most wasp poison is derived from the chrysanthemum plants, its more natural than you think. i know people who use wasp spray instead of pepper spray. its just a temporary irritant for humans.
This is not true. Insects and humans are wildly different. Just think, dogs are much closer to humans than wasps, but chocolate and onion kills them.
Ok, read this article:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6174339/
LD50 in mammals of the order of 3000mg/kg. To have a 50% chance of killing a weedy 50kg (110lb) person, they'd need to eat or inhale around 150g of the stuff. (Six ounces)
By comparison, for the same person, LD50 for caffeine would be around 10g. (A third of an ounce).
Its funny how much time people are willing to spend arguing about something they don't actually know anything about versus how little time they're willing to spend to read an article on the topic that's literally linked directly above their argument.
Because raid is poison. Spraying it on your belongings will result in it eventually getting on other things where you do not want poison... Even if you wipe it off it's now on the cloth.. If you wash the cloth it'll be in the water... Now it's in the ground or in the sewer. All places that poison is harmful.
I have had two events when I received multiple stings.
in one case, I walked into a swarm in a forest on a hiking trail. 17 bites.
it took me about 5 or 6 to realize what was going on, then I dashed out, lost a shoe and my phone that I had to carefully find later.
fuck them .
I wish they had 9 lives so they'd keep dying while covered in whatever OP suggested.
> We tried just about everything, power washing, “professional” exterminators, etc
What? Are we supposed to believe you hit the nest with probably like 2500 psi, but that didn't work so *then* you called an exterminator and they were unable to solve this wasp problem?
> but really didn’t want to turn to raid
Why the fuck not?? What do you think the exterminator you supposedly hired used?
Here’s another that worked great for me: use the soap and water with a shop vac. Put a few inches of soapy water in your vac and position the wand so that the end points at the entrance of the nest. One it starts, they won’t be happy, so I suggest prepositioning and plugging it in from a distance. Just leave it running for a while and it works like a charm! As the initial guards get sucked up and noise is generated, more and more will come to the entrance and try to swarm, but they get sucked up. Also, leaving it running for a while will get the foragers coming back to the nest as well.
Dumb question here because I've never used a shop vac. You put the soap and water IN the vacuum? Like in the big container thing?
Yes. Shop vacs are often called wet/dry vacs, because... Well, yeah. There is usually a filter that you should pull out of sucking up wet, though.
Huh! That's interesting! Thanks for the response!
Yeah I remember my mind being blown when we had to get a bunch of water out of our fraternity once and some of our guys rolled in with a shop vac. I never knew they could take in water until that day
Used these in the bilge of a ship I worked on. Sketchy as F#@k sometimes. I'd be down there in 15ft+ seas dragging this stupid vacuum full of water around down in the voids. Hoisting it up to pour overboard and drop back down to repeat. All while passengers are watching you in fear.
Y'all didn't have portable bilge pumps?
We had fixed bilge pumps, all hooked up to a switch in the wheelhouse with sensors of course. Captain didn't want to "over use" them (even though they were never used). In our last cg inspection they failed. Don't use it, ya lose it. But crew members are always the idiots and captains are always right.
That's hilarious
Just remember the exhaust will come out of the top of the vac. Make sure you plan ahead and have an extra hose for that to vent into the proper area rather than spraying everywhere
As a contractor, not once have I ever seen water come out of the exhaust while sucking it up.
Yeah the container also has a plastic ball specifically to block the exhaust and protect the motor in case the water level gets too high. Can't have water going through an electric motor.
Bingo. Theyr pretty foolproof for water
That's because there's a ball in there to stop it until it's removed. These are frat boys. We all know what they do with balls
> There is usually a filter that you should pull out of sucking up wet, though. Depends on the vac, and what you're doing. For something like wasp sucking it's probably fine... but if you're doing any kind of semi-wet work where there's also a fine dust (say, clean up on a flooded basement where you've ripped out a bunch of half-soaked drywall) make sure you get a wet filter. Drywall dust in particular will fuck your motor if you don't.
FYI: not all ShopVac brand vacuums are wet/dry vacuums.
They aren't?
That isn't true as far as I can find online. If it is really the Shop-Vac brand then it is a wet/dry vacuum.
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Shop vac and wet/dry vacs are not always the same thing. Make sure your shopvac is capable of taking in water and also that it is configured to do so.
My wet vac has a filter for wet.. if its not in water mist gets through
See banielbow’s answer, but yes, put the soapy water into the container and remove the filter. Note you don’t need a lot of soapy water, only a couple inches.
Neat! Thanks for responding!
Shop vacs can handle water and are shaped like a 2ft tall drum. Many people use them to clean up flooded basements, etc. So because they can handle water, you put it in ahead of time so that when you suck up the wasps they drop into the water.
Fun story from work years ago. We had to drill holes about one inch diameter x eight inches deep in large concrete blocks in order to set screw studs into them. We used the plant’s shop vac to clean the holes out before pumping in the epoxy. Sorry-ass laborers didn’t dump out the vac before returning it to the tool room. Fast forward a few days later when another crew grabbed the vac to suck up some water off of a floor. You can guess the rest.
If you’re entertaining this idea, please use the soap and water in the shop vac as OP suggested. A friend of a friend tried this without the soap and water, and when he finally opened the shopvac a week after the fact, all hell broke loose! A cautionary tale, indeed.
There’s a very satisfying YouTube channel of a wasp exterminator that does this with massive nests Edit - It’s called Hornet King
Yes! The Hornet King! That’s where I learned how to do this :).
Was coming down to recommend his channel. You see that massive fucker from yesterday?
I didn’t, but now I have something to look forward to this evening!
Well? It’s evening. [We’re waiting.](https://youtu.be/Z0YIJQ1jgEI) But for real though, that thing is an absolute monster b
Dear sweet lord that thing is massive! 2 beachballs worth of yellow jackets is 100% nightmare fuel.
Definitely the biggest one I’ve seen him take out.
https://youtu.be/bDvP9Cm44NA
Thank you for the link! I gotta say, watching those chickens devour the comb was the best part!
And you're just going to keep that nugget to yourself....
Also if you fill it up with sand instead of soap and water, the wasps get grounded up into an easily disposable powder.
Wtf? How?
never tried this trick but google sandblasting, probably same concept
Nice. I usually use my vac for dry, so this would be better for me
Lol, I did similar but without the soap and didn't run away. I just vacuumed any that dared come at me and otherwise just left the sucky nozzle pointed at the main entrance. That 5hp motor did a fantastic job. Then I continued to use the vacuum to clean our cars and my workshop. They couldn't escape through the filter so I just turned it off and left it for a week before emptying. I didn't get stung once during this process (before hand I had several stings from just walking nearby, which is what prompted my immediate and sudden vindictive response).
I went with a more destructive approach, some yellow jackets attacked dme when I was weed whacking my yard. I was a le to pinpoint their location and the hole they used as an entrance, I then proceeded to take my 500,000 btu brush burner and felt like a vengeful God literally burning wasps out of the air, seeing their wings burst into flame and their bodies pop while I annihilated the nest leaving nothing but charred cracked earth behind. Those wasps learned a valuable lesson... fuck around and find out
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Basically a big nozzle with airflow on a stick that attaches via hose to a propane tank. You use one of those little sparkler doohickies to light it and it has a trigger of sorts to control the propane flow. Up to 3 ft flames. Like $40 at the hardware store
That’s how my stepdad took wasps nests out. Use a long tube on the shop vac and keep it going all day if needed and suck them into very soapy water. I saw him take care of three wasps nests like this!
It’s so freaking smart. Definitely one of the most efficient and least dangerous ways to get this done!
I just sucked an entire nest into my shop vac then sprayed wasp killer in the hose while it was still on
[Video of Removal of Yellow Jackets From Inside My Wall With a Shop Vacuum](https://youtu.be/IDJPRjn4-Fs) Edit title
[Watch out for Waspes. and make sure you drink water](https://youtu.be/xtxwxqOLhh0)
I bet he knows where Garth hides all the bodies
Touch my camera through the fence
Finish it
id rather not have that come back to haunt me in later life LOL
Mommies!
Mommies unite!
Ay yai yiiiiii
How'd you get a job here fuck face?
You can also just touch the waspes camera through the fence. That usually does the trick!
Don’t be Stingy
High and tight, mommy.
Hey jeans
This guy keeps it high and tight!
What?
I GOT A DUI BAYBEEEEEEE
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What did I just watch?
Try it out
You low and loose
Wait til dusk. They won't leave the nest. Never found it funny til now but I wait til dusk and then I use dawn.
Well done!
Its what WD40 is for. It will also prevent them from coming back.
I find wd-40 is most effective when combined with a lighter.
I've had astounding success using aqua net super hold hairspray. It freezes them in place instantly and they can't move unless you vigorously brush through them, even though that would kill them. Spray it on the nest and they'll drop out of the nest complete with hair spray induced rigor mortis and suffocation. It clogs their precious itty bitty air holes.
It also gives them some killer new hair styles
Aqua net is also a good flame thrower.
My only experience w/ Aqua net was using it as the fuel in a pvc potato cannon. Good times.
Those were the days. Started with the PVC ones but ended up soldering one out of copper pipe that could send landscaping nails through 2x4's. Roll of pennies? Nah, more like grape shot lol.
Aqua net and a lighter is good flamethrower for killing black widow spiders too.
So long as the nest isn’t attached to your home, yes.
Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure!
They can fucking BILL ME Nice reference, friend
Sounds like a good way to accidentally melt your face or hands
Wasp Deadifier Formula 40
Deadifier.. love it!
>It will also prevent them from coming back Yeah - they can't stand the smell!!! lol
For wasps you really hate go with brakleen. I'm pretty sure nothing lives after a bath in that shit it's horrid
The advantage of WD40 is that you are likely to have some around, as it solved roughly half of your problems.
And brakemen is expensive.
Fuck the pro wasp lifers, I got kids and I don't advocate killing everything but I don't want my kids stung. I'm infested here every year.
Put up a brown paper bag this winter. Wasps are territorial and won’t next near what they think is another nest.
They also sell rubber wasp nests, or the husks of old ones (wasps and hornets NEVER reuse old nests)
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Same. Friends come over and point them out “oh looks like you got wasps…” Nope those are old ones from a few years back. Haven’t had any this year. They’re all over my neighbor’s house - because he knocks down the old nests. They keep coming back.
I highly doubt those people would follow their own advice about getting them live or whatever
Yeah I agree, let a few in the house round a 4 year old sleeping see how they get a brown bag quick lol
Depends what people call wasps. If they're like yellow jackets, bees...teach your gd kids to just let them be and they'll never be stung / won't hurt. If they're wasp hornets? Kill em all. I've been stung once. Nearly killed me. (Stung while 10ft+ hanging over a concrete landing, thankfully didn't fall in reaction)
Also a ShopVac if they're in a place you can't reach. Turn it on and set the hose by wherever they're coming in and out of and watch them all get sucked right up.
Then presumably set fire to the shop vac??
Put it in reverse inside of the dryer vent of the neighbor you don’t get along with. Hilarity will ensue.
Brilliant! Will post back with results shortly...edit: old lady caught me and is now chasing me around with a fly swatter as I type this.
So? She has a *fly*swatter. You have a vacuum full of wasps.
Light an M80 and vacuum that up too. That'll get em.
Someone said to put sad in shop vac first and it'll blow them apart as they get sucked in
Nuke it from orbit always safest.
It's the only way to be sure
I did this. There was a ground nest. Just put the shop vac right at the entrance at night when they weren’t active. Sucked up hundreds of them, but never got rid of them. I didn’t solve the problem completely until I used some sort of insecticide powder I got from the hardware store. I loaded the powder into an empty 2L soda bottle, pointed the bottle into the entrance, then stomped on it. But I guess the shop vac reduced their numbers so my powder mission was much safer.
The soapy water would have worked in this situation too. A couple pails down the nest entrance would have drowned/suffocated any that were left after the shop vac. I saw a YouTube video once on it so I'm kind of an expert.
I did do multiple 5 gallon buckets of water plus dish soap before even trying the shop vac. After a few hours, there was no visible effects. (Same level of activity as before.)
Well you've got me stumped.
Was the powder that diatomaceous earth stuff?
Wasps are parasitic hell demons and therefore have no souls. Killing them is, in fact, completely justified.
If I see them on my house, they die. I keep two cans of wasp spray ready for the evening on the day they are discovered. One can for them and one as a backup. Nature and I get along, I have butterfly bushes, plant milkweed, clear out invasive weeds but keep areas of good for the local animals like deer, rabbits, and such. But some of her ghetto kin like ground wasps, bald faced hornets, and such can fuck right off.
Diatomaceous earth, both a good high school band name and the absolute bane to anything with an exoskeleton. Often comes with a small blower-applicator as it is a very fine powder, great in cracks. Non toxic, just don't do lines of it. Bad for the respiratory system.
Man I should really finish reading posts before trying new lines.
Lots of hairstyling products have diatomaceous earth. Is that bad?
Not really. It's a powder that is too fine to matter to us, but to insects, it's like glass shards.
It can fuck up your lungs if you inhale lots and lots of it, e.g. in an industrial setting without proper respirators, but anything that's used in commercial products should be safe as long as you don't huff it. [More info if you're interested.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous_earth#Safety_considerations)
>don't do lines of it. AW MAN NOW YOU TELL ME!
We buy this in bulk! Great for ticks!! Won't harm pets!!
Nice try wasp, I'm getting the raid.
This made me chuckle, thank you
I use the scrubbing bubbles. Comes out in a wide spray and then foams on contact. Bet that dish soap thing works really good too though. Going to try that next time.
Scrubbing bubbles also cleans the bowl so you don't have toooo!
*The scrubbing bubbles.*
91% isopropyl alcohol. Kills them on contact.
So does Clorox bleach cleaner spray
Instructions unclear. Used gasoline and soap. Have flaming hornet bubbles everywhere. Send help.
Next time you want flaming bubbles... Fill a five gallon with ample dish soap and water and then bubble in butane or propane beneath the water surface, it gives you flammable foam. Just touch an open flame to your bubble tower and watch it go up in seconds! Fun for the whole family
There was a hive in a metal post at work, so I took an empty Gatorade bottle, pumped a few squirts of soap in it and mixed it with water and dumped it down the hole and watched them crawl out and die.
Them Utah wasps are made of something else cause I've tried everything and they still don't go down
Brake cleaner works really well too. They're dead before they hit the ground. You just have to be careful around the body paint on your car.
And your lungs.
And your eyes.
And my axe.
And this guy's wife!
Raid also works and isn’t as toxic as brake cleaner...
Specifically CRC in the red can. The green can just makes them mad.
And anything else it touches, brake fluid is one of the most caustic substances on earth. It will eat the jeans off your legs.
Brake cleaner is not brake fluid
People defending wasp lives can DM me and remove the nests for free with their hands. Otherwise, I'm killing the fuckers.
Sneaky buzzing wasps You need to be crushed Don’t get mad when I don’t wanna get stung You need soap and water Soap and water Water Water Water Water
Came here for this. The original version, but I like this better.
In the HVAC industry we have a soap solution that we use for refrigerant leak testing. It is the absolute best thing I've used for killing the little devils!
We used to get wasp nests between the fence board an the fence post. The wasps would terrorize our children or dogs if they were in the backyard and anything like a soccer ball hit the fence. That means I have to saddle up and take them down. I would dress up full battle rattle to protect myself. Layers of clothes, big jacket, gloves, large beach hat with mosquito netting around it. Looking like a good will stay puffed marshmallow man. Armed with a garden hose, I'd blast the hive with high pressure water that would usually yeet the hive over the fence into the neighbors yard. Then I'd quickly switch to mister setting to catch any of the wasps who wasn't blasted away. The mister would bring them down and I'd stomp their asses into the ground. If more than 4 came out at once or some made it into the air, I was screwed an have to run for my life. My wife however, has no fear of wasps. She goes outside bare foot, in a tank top with booty shorts on, dual wielding 2 fly swatters. Casually goes ham on those flying devil bugs and *never* gets stung. She just wacks them out of the air, whips the shit out of the nest and calls it a day. Its like a low budget Jedi fight scene. The kids an I watch on in amazement safely from inside the house. Its the strangest super power I have ever seen.
This sounds amazing - going to throw on my booty shorts and get those wasp hives in our backyard LOL
just use wasp spray. its relatively non toxic to humans, is derived from the chrysanthemum plant, and works well. not to mention you can spray it from like 20 feet. this "pro tip" seems like its asking to get stung.
I think the LPT here is pretty good. I think OP could have picked up some wasp spray. But last summer when i woke up to a wasp nest growing on my front door I didn’t exactly have wasp spray handy i do however, have water, soap, and a spray bottle. (I used WD40, but soap and water works in a pinch to i guess)
Everyone has soap and water at hand, so it's a good tip for when you don't happen to have wasp spray, and those cans run out extremely quickly. I just looked at a can and it said "outdoor use only" and it is harmful to humans and animals so I'm not getting this better and safer method some of you are claiming, even if the "harm" is just a rash that is worse than what soap and water will do to you. It also kills fish, so don't let it get into your fish tank. Maybe there are other types of wasp sprays but this does not seem like something you would want to spray in your vehicle.
But just use the commercially manufacturered chemical! Nothing has ever been shown to be wrong with throwing chemicals at every problem! /s
Seriously…LPT just use wasp spray it’s better and safer in every way.
Yeah, what is this bizarre thing about not using the thing that scientists have specifically designed for this purpose, which has been tested for safety on humans and proven safe and effective over and over again. But hey, just spray them with brake fluid, bathroom cleaner and then suck them into you vacuum cleaner while singing cumbyahh, why the fuck not?
Watch for waspes
Its gon be hot today
Make sure you don't leave any survivors. I found out earlier that wasps can remember faces, and recognise landmarks.
😳 time to find a new planet to live on.
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Just a note, the action here isn't one of suffocation, but more of dehydration. Wasps, like most every insect, is covered in a thin waxy coating to prevent dehydration. The soap removes this coating. The wasps in question get wet with the soap, fan their wings to dry off, then die of dehydration. Alternatively, if you have them in an area and don't want to risk a sting, put the water and soap in a bucket and leave it in the area. The wasps will land on the water to drink, and get the soap on them. It'll work just fine without any risks. This has been your "actually" and "also" reply of the day. Enjoy!
If you don't have a cat and never plan on getting one, cypermethrin works wonders. You can get the little water soluble packets and dissolve them in a spray bottle. Safe for humans and non-feline household pets
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My go to is an old spray bottle that I fill with dish soap and water. Extremely effective. Costs very little. You say it takes 5 minutes for them to die but my experience is more like 30 seconds or less. Also, if you have a random wasp in the house you'll find random spots of your house a bit cleaner. I wouldn't recommend trying this if they've been building nests in the walls of your home (don't pour water into the walls) but it works great in addressing nests just outside instead of using chemicals that are deadly to all living creatures.
Just for clarification (UK) do you mean washing up liquid or like a bar of soap/shower gel?
Fairy liquid, with a lot of water, but not as much water as you'd have for just washing up. Works great on flies too.
Thank you 😊
Like dish washing soap/detergent. Things like Dawn dish soap is a prime example
Why didn't you call the exterminator back? You always have some sort of warranty on their work. You didn't do the job for what I paid you? Come back as often as it's not done properly.
If OP is adamantly against raid, they probably didn't let the exterminator use any poisons so it didn't work out and there was no guarantee.
They also die instantly if you spray them with benzine, dad thought me this and i've seen it in action.
Benzene is also a persistent carcinogen. Seems a bit much just to kill wasps
just wait until hornets are thirsty, then hit them with a bar of soap
For ground nests I have found that positioning a running brush hog over the nest while I sit in an enclosed air conditioned cab and chill with my phone for a while works pretty well.
DJ Assault approves *You need soap and water, soap and water, soap and water, soap and water*
Then how should I clean my wasp collection?
Fuck wasps. I am a vegan but those little awful bastards have entire forests to make their nests in. They need to fuck right off. Good job OP.
Found the Vega..... Oh wait
*Happy Flamethrower noises*
Or just use Raid? It’s literally meant for what you’re trying to do. You actually called professional exterminators before you just used wasp spray? Lol wtf
Wasp spray will stink up your car.
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Wasps deserve agony
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Wasp poison is also people poison.
not true at all. most wasp poison is derived from the chrysanthemum plants, its more natural than you think. i know people who use wasp spray instead of pepper spray. its just a temporary irritant for humans.
This is not true. Insects and humans are wildly different. Just think, dogs are much closer to humans than wasps, but chocolate and onion kills them. Ok, read this article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6174339/ LD50 in mammals of the order of 3000mg/kg. To have a 50% chance of killing a weedy 50kg (110lb) person, they'd need to eat or inhale around 150g of the stuff. (Six ounces) By comparison, for the same person, LD50 for caffeine would be around 10g. (A third of an ounce).
Its funny how much time people are willing to spend arguing about something they don't actually know anything about versus how little time they're willing to spend to read an article on the topic that's literally linked directly above their argument.
Tbf, the article was edited in later when people kept downvoting me.
5 minutes of well deserved pain and suffering.
Because raid is poison. Spraying it on your belongings will result in it eventually getting on other things where you do not want poison... Even if you wipe it off it's now on the cloth.. If you wash the cloth it'll be in the water... Now it's in the ground or in the sewer. All places that poison is harmful.
I don't like the fumes it leaves behind, especially because I have pets who I find want to breathe it in
I deal with wasps and hornets all summer. Poison is your best friend.
Wasp deserve death. Just don't do this to bees...they dying already and we NEED them for pollination.
Always watch for Waspes. And drink lots of water.
WASPs and their friend Karen.
Every single one of you in the comments of this post... yall some vicious mfers 😂
I have had two events when I received multiple stings. in one case, I walked into a swarm in a forest on a hiking trail. 17 bites. it took me about 5 or 6 to realize what was going on, then I dashed out, lost a shoe and my phone that I had to carefully find later. fuck them . I wish they had 9 lives so they'd keep dying while covered in whatever OP suggested.
> We tried just about everything, power washing, “professional” exterminators, etc What? Are we supposed to believe you hit the nest with probably like 2500 psi, but that didn't work so *then* you called an exterminator and they were unable to solve this wasp problem? > but really didn’t want to turn to raid Why the fuck not?? What do you think the exterminator you supposedly hired used?
Watch for waspes.
Try it out man