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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
edited June 2008
My high school mascot was the Yellowjacket. I assume it was too hard to come up with a costume for the Fighting Unoriginal Bastards.
Spoilered for long boring bug advice.
The good news is that since you're from New England, the hive should still be relatively small. The queen should have founded it less than a month ago depending on how mild your spring has been. You're going to be looking for a grey papery object that should be anywhere from fist-sized up to football size. Check all of your trees, bushes, and up underneath the eaves of your house.
Of course, they might have built the damn thing in an underground cavity or (joy) up in your attic. If it's an underground nest, you can try tracking the individual wasps home to find the entrance. Otherwise, the traditional means of locating it is to run it over with your lawn mower and get stung to death.
If you find the thing and feel up to a little warfare, just pick up a can of flying insect killer. Hardware stores and garden shops will probably have a better selection than your local Walmart, and the folks who work there will probably be able to give you some good advice on which one to buy.
Now, a good insecticide should project a coherent stream several feet so that you don't have to get right up in the nest to kill it. Test-fire your weapon away from the nest so that you'll have an idea of your working range. You'll want a shirt with long sleeves and tight cuffs and collar, because you're going to piss them off when you start dousing them with poison. The stuff works hilariously fast, so you're not going to get swarmed if you do it right, but yellowjackets are vicious bastards and a few of them might get through. Gloves and goggles are nice if you've got them around.
Just spray the nest until the entire thing is soaked and your wasp problem should be over. If it's an underground nest just keep spraying the stuff into the entrance until wasps stop coming out and/or you run out of poison.
Of course, there are more entertaining methods of extermination...burning the nest with gasoline or freezing it with a fire extinguisher are popular...but flying insect killer works fast and is highly effective.
What was she like?
"Ordinary. The kind of dangerous, beautiful ordinary that you just can't leave alone. Like an angel from the underworld or maybe a devil from paradise."
"It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation."
I got stung on the upper ridge of my orbital socket. I couldn't use that eye for about two days.
I'm told if I get stung a second time I'm in a shit load of trouble.
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#pipeCocky Stride, Musky odoursPope of Chili TownRegistered Userregular
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Ninja bee is not cute :x
but he was really just trying to give you delicious Honeynut Cheerios?
Hi-5
Spoilered for long boring bug advice.
Of course, they might have built the damn thing in an underground cavity or (joy) up in your attic. If it's an underground nest, you can try tracking the individual wasps home to find the entrance. Otherwise, the traditional means of locating it is to run it over with your lawn mower and get stung to death.
If you find the thing and feel up to a little warfare, just pick up a can of flying insect killer. Hardware stores and garden shops will probably have a better selection than your local Walmart, and the folks who work there will probably be able to give you some good advice on which one to buy.
Now, a good insecticide should project a coherent stream several feet so that you don't have to get right up in the nest to kill it. Test-fire your weapon away from the nest so that you'll have an idea of your working range. You'll want a shirt with long sleeves and tight cuffs and collar, because you're going to piss them off when you start dousing them with poison. The stuff works hilariously fast, so you're not going to get swarmed if you do it right, but yellowjackets are vicious bastards and a few of them might get through. Gloves and goggles are nice if you've got them around.
Just spray the nest until the entire thing is soaked and your wasp problem should be over. If it's an underground nest just keep spraying the stuff into the entrance until wasps stop coming out and/or you run out of poison.
Of course, there are more entertaining methods of extermination...burning the nest with gasoline or freezing it with a fire extinguisher are popular...but flying insect killer works fast and is highly effective.
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This thread is now about Ramblin Wrecks, and helluvan' Engineers.
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"Ordinary. The kind of dangerous, beautiful ordinary that you just can't leave alone. Like an angel from the underworld or maybe a devil from paradise."
"It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation."
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I hope they sting you in the eyes
I'm told if I get stung a second time I'm in a shit load of trouble.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Right in the ass.
DAMNIT TALON BURN IN HELL
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