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This is one of the worst years on records for yellow jackets. They're everywhere, including in our basement. They're taking over. They have our house surrounded. Here's their secret hideout, not unlinke NORAD:
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We've covered that hole in Yellow Jacket killer, but they're still there. We've even flooded the place, but to no avail. Here is their lookout:
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Again, we've sprayed that numerous times, but they're stiill there. We assumed they had a command center somewhere, a mothernest. We thought the one in the underground one in front was it, but no. We just found out that is in our house, in the rafters, just above the foundation. Here's the entrace:
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And here it is. The rafters are 12" girders. The nest is about the size of a football.
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An exterminator will be here in a few days. We're not gonna spray it, because they might swarm!

Shnikeess!
 
what you do, get one of those bug zapper light thingys and hang it up right next to the nest with no other lights on :D smells like burning flesh :crazy:
 
holy jesus! How did it get so bad? that's one hardcore nest. Are yellowjackets like super evil wasps and stuff? That's insane.

Hopefully the exterminators will send those bad boys to hell. I think I would freak out if I was put in your situation. I'm totally allergic to wasps. I commend your bravery and stalwartness.
 
Just burn the house down, and start over.

Jeese, Luise, that's a huge nest! We had them all the time at our old house, but I don't see them that much anymore. They are pretty cool to look at, though.
 
Omnis
holy jesus! How did it get so bad? that's one hardcore nest. Are yellowjackets like super evil wasps and stuff? That's insane.

Hopefully the exterminators will send those bad boys to hell. I think I would freak out if I was put in your situation. I'm totally allergic to wasps. I commend your bravery and stalwartness.
We didn't see anything up in there a week or so ago... We knew there was a nest somewhere around there.

The exterminator will blast the nest and flash freeze the bees, then spray them with poison. Once the nest dries up, they remove it. Good fun. 👍
 
A science teacher of mine had a bee nest bigger than a Cello hanging in her class. It was empty, of course...but it's still MASSIVE.
 
There used to be a 4' diameter yellowjacket nest in one of the trees in the median across the street from us. The exterminators sprayed the hell out of it and just cut it out of the tree. Now there's a bigass hole in it.
 
Using the exclusion technique.
Problem: x + wasps= Extinction
wasps + beef= more wasps
wasps + water= rather exhausting chasing every wasp and squirt it down.
wasps + ground= nest's

wasps + fire= EXTINCTION
x= fire, fire + wasps= Exctinction= Undisturbed racing + Demon Days- CD= Great.


The power of math 👍
 
Urrgh, I really hate wasps. I would go into total panic if there was a nest by my house. :)
 
when i was little we had a nest of oestruses (hopefully its the right translation => babelfish). Firemen with special equipement came to remove the nest, because they can kill you with there sting.
The next day my dad discovered there was a second nest in a straw bundle. Instead of calling the firebrigade, he removed the nest himself, in SHORTS.
He was only armed with a tennis racket(a good thing they fly so slow :) )
He removed the bundle from the garden house, threw gasoline on it and set it on fire.
I thnik he was very lucky
 
can you load up a super soaker with brandy and go to town with that sucker?

You should just buy a sting-proof suit and go have some fun.
 
dustdriver
when i was little we had a nest of oestruses (hopefully its the right translation => babelfish). Firemen with special equipement came to remove the nest, because they can kill you with there sting.
The next day my dad discovered there was a second nest in a straw bundle. Instead of calling the firebrigade, he removed the nest himself, in SHORTS.
He was only armed with a tennis racket(a good thing they fly so slow :) )
He removed the bundle from the garden house, threw gasoline on it and set it on fire.
I thnik he was very lucky

LMAO. shorts and a tennis racket. that's a real man of genius.
 
What are yellow jackets? Even more evil wasps? Nasty. I'd freak out if they were in my house. We've had a wasps nest in our garage before. That was nasty. We got the extermination people in, and they covered it with poison and took it away. That was only in one place though, yours is in like, 3 places maybe more. I also commend your bravery for taking pictures of them, i would never manage that.
 
Those are some bad ass nests. And you're gonna have to do something to prevent teh return.

We had a bees nest in the roof struts before. You couldn't actually see it except for the odd bee going in and out. Still it was pretty concerning.

So we called out teh council exterminators who smoked the bastiges out, quite funny to see hundreds if not thousands of dead bees on your patio floor :D
 
ExigeExcel
Those are some bad ass nests. And you're gonna have to do something to prevent teh return.

We had a bees nest in the roof struts before. You couldn't actually see it except for the odd bee going in and out. Still it was pretty concerning.

So we called out teh council exterminators who smoked the bastiges out, quite funny to see hundreds if not thousands of dead bees on your patio floor :D


We have an ant problem in our garden, not stinging ones, just normal ones, but the other day, they were all swarming. I found their nests, and poured boiling water down some of them, and poison down the others. The next day, our patio was littered with thousands of the dead b****. Happens every year. :lol:
 
Did I ever tell you guys about the time I dueled a roach? that sucker was HUGE. it was like as big as my mouse. anyway, we're walking up the stairs into our condo and I just spot it and go, "Roach, Roach, Roach, Roach, Roach!"

my mom and I hurry inside and then I come back out with my Raid can and a buttload of burning vigor. I'm like, "ROACH! Prepare to DIE!", and then proceed to layeth the sprayeth-down.

I ran up to the side of it and just put the nozzle right to its face and commenced the spray n' pray. it went flying around and I was trying to follow it with the spray. So, i'm kind of just up there flailing my arms around like a moron in the matrix with spray going everywhere. Then, it finally lands on the floor so I crouch down and rush up to it, still spraying. it goes between my legs and it's STILL not dead, so I do a quick 180 to keep spraying it to hell, but wind up slipping and busting my ass from all the spray on the floor. This could not stop me, however. I got up and ran forth to it once more and just sprayed the living hell out of it at point blanc range. It FINALLY started to flip over, so I kind of aimed the spray as to help it do so. It finally flipped and I just went nuts with what remained of the spray. Everytime it so much as twitched, I gave it another good 3 seconds of Raid. yeah.

It left kind of a puddle of bugspray and there was a mark the next day. the roachprint was there, too. lol. I think I kind of overreacted, but at least I accomplished my job. My ass was kind of sore and I had used the whole can, but I think the victory outweighed these two slight misfortunes.

I haven't seen another roach since. 👍
 
Omnis
Did I ever tell you guys about the time I dueled a roach? that sucker was HUGE. it was like as big as my mouse. anyway, we're walking up the stairs into our condo and I just spot it and go, "Roach, Roach, Roach, Roach, Roach!"

my mom and I hurry inside and then I come back out with my Raid can and a buttload of burning vigor. I'm like, "ROACH! Prepare to DIE!", and then proceed to layeth the sprayeth-down.

I ran up to the side of it and just put the nozzle right to its face and commenced the spray n' pray. it went flying around and I was trying to follow it with the spray. So, i'm kind of just up there flailing my arms around like a moron in the matrix with spray going everywhere. Then, it finally lands on the floor so I crouch down and rush up to it, still spraying. it goes between my legs and it's STILL not dead, so I do a quick 180 to keep spraying it to hell, but wind up slipping and busting my ass from all the spray on the floor. This could not stop me, however. I got up and ran forth to it once more and just sprayed the living hell out of it at point blanc range. It FINALLY started to flip over, so I kind of aimed the spray as to help it do so. It finally flipped and I just went nuts with what remained of the spray. Everytime it so much as twitched, I gave it another good 3 seconds of Raid. yeah.

It left kind of a puddle of bugspray and there was a mark the next day. the roachprint was there, too. lol. I think I kind of overreacted, but at least I accomplished my job. My ass was kind of sore and I had used the whole can, but I think the victory outweighed these two slight misfortunes.

I haven't seen another roach since. 👍

Ahahahahaha.
i have to do a major speech at school on.
"What was the best day of your life"

(such a childish topic for a yr 11 major assessment i know), but do you mind if i use that story??. thats classic, lol
 
But, It's MINE. lol. You can credit me for inspiration, but plagerism always sucks.
 
Radicool02
Argh, wasps! They're like the only animal/insect I'm affraid of

Same here. Apart from bees. Wasps more though.


Maybe i should start a hate club for wasps.
 
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