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my wife saw a centipede in the laundry room yesterday, so i had to go on a mission today blasting the whole house with my big gallon insecticide sprayer.
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Scorpions are really fun.........
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oh man I hate bees....Goes back to when I was about 6 or so I got stung like 5 times one day...and anther few times later that week
My yard was always riddles with junk. At one time we had an old pool filter that wasps LOVED to be in. It was perfect....a big bucket filled 3/4ths with sand that culd only be accessed through a few cracks and the two tubes going into the filter. My cousin got stung one day and we exacted out revenge....We had mixed up a batch of rather overchorinated water..By which I mean the water was visibly white with chlorine, and the drips from the water pistols stripped and bleached our thompsons water-seal'd pressure treated wood deck to a white color only matched by that of a fresh pair of fruit of the loom briefs. We also mixed up a bucket of similar concentration. He started with the plan of assult with a few sprays into the filter inlets. As soon as they started to come out, I poured the bucket on them.That prettymuch ended it right there....I mean, you could have easilly killed a horse...farm... with the amount of chemicals we dumped on that thing. ...grass still doesnt grow there come to think of it. Well worth it Oh, tobasco sauce works good too. Just give them a little splash and watch them curl up into a ball and die. my dad had made a soda bottle trap for greenheads, it works great. Greenheads are basicly horse flys on crack. they have green eyes..usually the size of a small bee...and will go in for an attack for hours if needed. When they bite, you feel it. Its like a bee sting without the itchyness afterword... Okay..so yeah, enough with my insect stories from yesteryear...hopefully you can get rid of your wasp problem. Good luck
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Thank you for the great writting! I am stil LMFAO. What people don't know is the bugs pretty much die from the trauma while being sucked in ... If you use a realy nice in home vacum cleaner with an attachable nozzle The bugs actually pass through a fan or cutter. It obliterates them. Thanks again for the great writing. |
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Hey all you guys with the chemical weapons idea remember he has really expensive fish in the pond. He has to use other means to destroy the little beasties.
Not mention he has also mentioned he may be allergic to their stings. If you decide to use the vacum cleaner wear good leather gloves, a long sleeve shirt and jacket, I don't recommend shorts . A ski mask may be in order as well. Also and very important. Do at after the sun sets as Uberoo suggested. They are day hunters. If you get lucky you might even pull the whole nest into the vacum on the first try. |
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During my initial bee-sucking venture, I used a length of two-inch PVC pipe as a vacuum extension. There's another story I can tell about bees - perhaps less humorous, but still interesting: I once had rather large bee hive take up residence on a wooden sawhorse. It seems an unlikely location, but who knows how their planning committees work. Anyway, the nest was uncomfortably close to where I was working, and during August, bees become quite ornery. I attempted to lasso the sawhorse with a long rope and drag it away. My lasso came loose after I'd moved the nest only about five feet. Of course, a cloud of bees immediately filled the air, but I was at a safe distance. Several hours later, the same cloud of bees was still hovering about. That surprised me, but the next morning was even more surprising. There were no bees at all! I didn't understand why they all left, but from my perspective the issue had been resolved, so I put the sawhorse back. ...and within a few hours, the hive was active again. Beesnest as usual. Again, I moved the nest. Again, a swarm that lasted until the next day. And then, again nothing. This time I moved the nest half way back - only about two feet. The bees returned, though more slowly this time. That got me curious. I crept out that night, well after dark and I simply picked up the sawhorse and set it on a sheet of plywood with a rope tied around it. I was quick, and got out of there promptly, but it was easy to do without getting attacked - successfully anyway. (It's hard to tell what's going on at night.) The next day, I slowly drug the sawhorse across the yard about a hundred feet. The sawhorse moved, but the big swarm of bees didn't. The next day, the nest was empty. ...and again, I moved it back and activity resumed. So bees appear to have pretty good navigation systems. I eventually managed to migrate the entire colony to the other side of my yard, but only at about three feet per day. Very strange. As for my bee solutions, I like the violent ones. I've simply held garbage bags below a nest and knocked the whole thing into it in the middle of the night. A few manage to escape, but if you're quick, you can trap the majority of them. The dark really seems to slow them down. I've never been stung at night, nor during my daylight capers, but my late night assaults are considerably more brazen. I thought about simply placing a fan near the opening of a hive to see if I could keep them from getting back in. I've sealed the openings shut before, but they just make new ones. The larger nests often have multiple openings anyway. I've also thought about asphyxiating them with bottled gasses or just car exhaust. Perhaps simply placing an open container of something with noxious and volatile vapors near the opening of the nest would have an effect. I want to try placing a glass container over a nest to see if they can figure out how to go around it. Windows seem to stump them, so I figure they'll keep bumping up against a pane of glass as long as it obstructs the shortest distance between point A and point B. On another note, I've adopted the term "chemical warfare" to refer to the use of mosquito repellent. |
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Good stuff. I have a few bee/wasp stories from both my home and camping trips.
Your writings are more fun to read. My family and I are in no way allergic to them. I used to deliberately step on them (barefooted) and smash them between my two hands when they were in bushes. We all did this when we were kids and on dares of course. Now I have no reaction to their stings at all. So a Blatant out right assault is the tactic I use. But nightime is usually a little easier if you want to get them all. I once watched a documentary on bees. You are right they have a very keen sense of direction. When they find a good area for pollen they go back to the hive and do a dance. The Dance, it has been proven scietifically, describes to the whole hive the route they took. Tubes and baseball bats forever baby! Whoops your rope idea is a good one too! |
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Junebug traps also have the stench after being out in the yard for a month. I always wait until trash day to toss the bag cause if you leave it in the garbage can for more than a day the garbage man might die.
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For a whiff that will straghten your nostril hairs, try a full japanese beetle trap after a weeklong fermentation in the sun.
Ron (been there, done that).
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I saw on the discovery chanel that honey farmers use smoke to calm the bees. They said it was very close to a scent that bees use to tell the rest of the colony that something is coming that they should not attack. I guess that burnt newspapers would work...
Also flame throwers, take any aerosol can and a lighter (stick) burn baby burn! Mahhahahahaha! Man I killed a whole nest like that! they kept on fling at the flame to defend their nest and bye bye! Spray paint too, once their wings get even a speck of paint on them (more is better) they fly away and die (they can't fly as their wings are too heavy or something, ask a painter) Hope that helps
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I ended up spraying raid into a small eye glass cleaner bottle and used it to spray the nest at night. They are still coming back, but not so many. The ghetto traps have caught a couple and with any luck the population will exhaust tomorrow, or they will give up. Thanks again guys.
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