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re: How to get rid of hornets
Posted on 6/27/25 at 8:15 pm to TheRouxGuru
Posted on 6/27/25 at 8:15 pm to TheRouxGuru
I’ve been popped many times over the years by yellow jackets. I hate those frickers. They are relentless. I’ve killed my share of their nests in the ground
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Posted on 6/27/25 at 8:33 pm to lsushelly
How high up is the nest? Can you successfully throw a gallon (bowl or bucket) of hot water and Dawn on them? I have kicked many wasp and hornet nests 7-9ft up by using this tactic. I've never missed. Never been stung. Just walk around and step on them as they suffocate on the ground. Eazy peazy.
Posted on 6/28/25 at 6:24 am to lsufan9193969700
That’s an option. Only about 7 feet off the ground
Posted on 6/28/25 at 2:14 pm to lsufan9193969700
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Depends on how much your willing to spend. I'd get a 4-6 cans of wasp spray. Have them all open and ready and attack those motberfrickers with one of these on. Throw it in a bin if you ever have to do it again. I'd be concerned with how efficient I could be aim wise with a my hand out a clogged windows. Also wouldn't want them to be associating my vehicle with that attack of it doesn't work out well. They might follow you around of you dont kill them all.
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Depends on how much your willing to spend. I'd get a 4-6 cans of wasp spray. Have them all open and ready and attack those motberfrickers with one of these on. Throw it in a bin if you ever have to do it again. I'd be concerned with how efficient I could be aim wise with a my hand out a clogged windows. Also wouldn't want them to be associating my vehicle with that attack of it doesn't work out well. They might follow you around of you dont kill them all.
Posted on 6/28/25 at 3:52 pm to lsushelly
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I’ve been popped many times over the years by yellow jackets.
I've run into more yellow jacket nests than anything else in the wasp world.
The last time I got hit I was walking to my truck in the driveway and just when I got to the door to open it I got hit on my right ear and it lit me up.
I saw where the nest was attached to my neighbor's house and it had been there for a while by the size of it. I walked by that spot a few times a day and never noticed it until I got stung. Then it was on and I took care of them with no mercy.
Back when I was doing a lot of house painting, it was nothing to have to deal with 3-4 of them a house, especially along the eaves and overhangs.
Posted on 6/28/25 at 4:25 pm to lsushelly
Update. Hornets are dead. Couple buddies manned up and went at them with a can of spectracide wasp and hornet spray in hand. No one got stung
Posted on 6/28/25 at 5:27 pm to lsushelly
Did you at least video them trying to nut up to the job?
Posted on 6/28/25 at 5:33 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
I wasn’t there
Posted on 6/28/25 at 5:35 pm to lsushelly
Have a downvote
If i could give you two I would, one for no video and one for nobody getting stung
If i could give you two I would, one for no video and one for nobody getting stung
This post was edited on 6/28/25 at 5:36 pm
Posted on 6/28/25 at 8:04 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
I get it bro. I wish I could have been there to video and cooperate. He said they stood 15 feet away and stood ground. Flooded the entry hole with the spray
Posted on 6/30/25 at 5:48 am to lsushelly
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I wasn’t there
Posted on 6/30/25 at 8:42 am to lsushelly
When we were kids some of my cousins lived in the Jackson Barracks right there on St. Claude where the old Armory Building sits. They had 2 houses on the road that fronted the Armory and both were occupied by my cousins.
One day we were running around the Barracks and came upon a wasp nest about the size of a volleyball hanging from a branch in a tree. One of my less than genius cousins decided it would be a good idea to use his kid's bow with the rubber suction tipped arrows to shoot at it.
He got directly under it and let the arrow loose and it hit hard enough to bust a good size hole in the nest and out they came. Dumb bastard just stood there admiring his handiwork and they lit him up. He had over a dozen stings by our best count and he swole up like a balloon in his head and face.
One day we were running around the Barracks and came upon a wasp nest about the size of a volleyball hanging from a branch in a tree. One of my less than genius cousins decided it would be a good idea to use his kid's bow with the rubber suction tipped arrows to shoot at it.
He got directly under it and let the arrow loose and it hit hard enough to bust a good size hole in the nest and out they came. Dumb bastard just stood there admiring his handiwork and they lit him up. He had over a dozen stings by our best count and he swole up like a balloon in his head and face.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 8:47 am to gumbo2176
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He got directly under it and let the arrow loose and it hit hard enough to bust a good size hole in the nest and out they came. Dumb bastard just stood there admiring his handiwork and they lit him up. He had over a dozen stings by our best count and he swole up like a balloon in his head and face.
Ah, the beautiful life lessons of youth.
These are the kinds of lessons that people should learn while they are still young.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 8:57 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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Ah, the beautiful life lessons of youth.
These are the kinds of lessons that people should learn while they are still young.
He's 2 yrs. older than me, and I'm 72 and he STILL remembers doing that.
Just like I remember being a kid first learning how to ride a 2 wheel bike. I got cocky since I took to it like a duck to water and decided to ride without using the handlebars.
I was so proud of myself as I sped past the house on the sidewalk out front and looking at my friends to the side instead of where I was headed.
BANG, right into a telephone pole and knocked out 2 front teeth and split my lip. Just another day in the neighborhood. My dad's reaction was "Well, that was stupid-------------and damned if he wasn't right.
Posted on 6/30/25 at 11:13 am to gumbo2176
My dad and his brothers grew up in the barracks 1950’s-into late 60’s. The stories he told me about that place. They used to find all kinds of trouble.
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