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Wasps? In my porch light? It's more common than you think.
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Just two minutes ago I found two mini wasp hives in my porch light. Turning on the light doesn't get the fuckers out, and I'm not about to reach in there myself (nor are my parents).
1.) Are wasps very aggressive? Will they attack if you just pass?
2.) How do I tell if it is an abandoned hive?
3.) How would I go about getting the fuckers out? If I have to.
I have a HIGH phobia of bees/wasps/hornets/spiders based on an event I wrote about in the S&E thread on D&D. So this highly unnerves me to the core.
I pass by this light daily taking the dogs out and just leaving the house in general. My parents feel my phobia of them is silly but fuck them, this is serious to me.
1.) Are wasps very aggressive? Will they attack if you just pass?
2.) How do I tell if it is an abandoned hive?
3.) How would I go about getting the fuckers out? If I have to.
I have a HIGH phobia of bees/wasps/hornets/spiders based on an event I wrote about in the S&E thread on D&D. So this highly unnerves me to the core.
I pass by this light daily taking the dogs out and just leaving the house in general. My parents feel my phobia of them is silly but fuck them, this is serious to me.
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You and me both.
Buy a can of wasp killer from Wal Mart, wait till dusk and spray the fuck out of the nests. By dusk, all the wasps will be back in their nests and they won't come out, so don't worry about that when you spray. Wait a day or two and destroy the nest (it's just dirt with holes in it).
Problem solved. If I can do this, anyone can.
Observe the nest for a few days....if any activity, spray again.
Basically any number of 'wasp and yellow jacket sprays' that come in usually bright aerosol-like cans. Usually boasting something along the lines of 'kills from x feet away!'
Use this in early, early morning, or late at night.
Rest easy, for you are now feared by them.
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Where do they even freaking go at night/winter? Do they even sleep?
At night, the wasps are in their nest, presumably dreaming about stinging things. In winter I think they go dormant/hibernate.
I've had to deal with wasps in a similar, but more extreme situation than you've got here, and the advice people are giving is good.
The wasp killer sprays will usually let you spray from 10-20 ft away, so they're really pretty safe to use.
Now all my wasps are dead, and it's a little disappointing. I still have a lot of spray left, and it's pretty fun to hose those things down.
As to the aggressiveness of wasps, I'm pretty sure they are the least aggressive bee. They won't sting you unless you're swatting at them or something*. But whatever, they're still bees right?
*Hosing them with wasp poison.
Good Sir, Wasps are not Bees. I will direct you to Wikipedia where Bees are from the family Apidae and Wasps from the family Vespidae. While they are on the same order, so are ants, and everyone knows that an ant is VASTLY different from a bee or wasp. Example: I can step on an ant and most will not sting me, while poking a beehive with a stick in my back yard will illicit a very loud buzzing followed by a lot of screaming and my dad laughing at me.
*Gets off soapbox*
I usually stand about 15' away when I spray the nest and I have yet to be stung by wasps while killing them.
I used to get stung all the time because they liked to build nests underneath the deck of my grandmother's swimming pool, and somehow I always managed to be the only person to disturb them.
Okay, this whole bees versus wasps debate is getting pretty tired. The wasps have been lobbying to distinguish themselves for a long time, but what does it matter? We're gonna spray both of them with the same can of poison in the end. I find the idea that we should be paying the wasps respect with any special nomenclature completely outlandish. In fact, I'm going to take the opposite stance. We should just call everything "bugs". You heard me wasps! I can't tell the difference between you and the ants! I will indescriminately squirt bugs with bulk cans of liquid death purchased on sale at Home Depot!
I'm still wondering if the hive is active though, I would expect there to be a ton more wasps. Thus far I've only seen the one, and apparently the fucker is fast at building.
What do you mean? You mean when I spray them they're going to react or do you mean they'll be flying all around looking to sting a bitch?
I'm guessing that's what you have by how you describe it.
You're probably only dealing with 4 or 5 wasps, but it can reach up to 50+ depending on the size of the hive.
Does it matter if the color of the wasp is different? Cause the ones I have are brown. Also, if I'm not allergic to bees in that I can still swell (my right ass cheek can attest to that) but not die, does that mean I'm not allergic to wasps as well?
Same basic nest too, usually surrounded by some layers and built in shaded areas.
Oh God.
Okay, well I'll talk to my dad when I see him.
It's so weird, before I got stung in the ass I thought they were faeries and tried to get as close as possible to them. Now I just want to kill them all.
A little soak in that chemical will fuck them up though. Don't worry, they won't even come out if you wait until like 11:00 ish (they're still out during daylight hours).
I will (hopefully) update when he gets home and when we proceed with the genocide of the evil fuckers.
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The wasps leave pheromones on and around their nest to attract other wasps, whether to mate or just establish a community. If you kill the wasps the nests belong to and knock the nest down, you will still have wasps coming back and building on that same spot. So either keep a can of spray handy or find yourself some residual pesticide (the kind that you spray on once and it sticks for months) that will kill any wasps landing in that area.
A lot of the pesticide laws have been really relaxed, so sometimes you can find the stuff to buy at a dedicated store. I know in Texas you can buy damn near everything. I'd recommend finding either Demand or Crosscheck. You can mix it in water (about an ounce or so to a gallon) and it'll dry and stick for a long time.
Fun fact: Cicada Killers, despite their massive size and fearsome name, only sting in defense of their ground-based nests, and behave more like flies than other vespids.
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Alternate post, re: the fairy thing: Get close to them and say, "I don't believe in fairies!" and you won't need spray.
Actual advice: Spray them at night.
It's the only way to be sure.
That particular bug is also impaled on a needle :P
That said, I watched one of my high school science teachers pick up a black widow and carry it out of the lunchroom. I'm certainly not brave (or foolish) enough to do that.