bulm540 Posted August 18, 2006 Share Posted August 18, 2006 (edited) ouch, they hurt. killed 2 of the suckers but had to retreat inside the house. Edited August 19, 2006 by bulm540 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merlin Orr Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 Oh yea.... Could have been red wasps.... Leave a hole like a toothpick. Dayumn.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 Years ago we were hunted and haunted by a damn' nest in our front yard garden at the foot of the stairway to the front door. I got sick of them attacking me constantly for no reason at all, so I filled their hole with gasoline and followed it immediately with a lighted match. Whatta thrill. That fixed THEIR wagons in a hurry. Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMS42 Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 Siggy youra girl after my own heart. Once long time ago in a land far away I used a quarter stick of 40% on a long pole. I got not only the hornet nest, but most of the branches on one side of the tree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBF Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 I feel for you ! Gasoline works well on these little Ba$3&*^ds without matches also . Travis F. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ima45dv8 Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 And yet another good reason to not mow the lawn. (I'd pave mine with asphault and paint it green if I could get away with it) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chp5 Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 I did the same thing. Got stung about 6 times. It hurt for about 4 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 take a Bic lighter and a can of hairspray...like a blow torch....works great.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 "Gasoline works well on these little Ba$3&*^ds without matches also." But the matches really made my day!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Singlestack Posted August 20, 2006 Share Posted August 20, 2006 I did the same thing. Got stung about 6 times. It hurt for about 4 hours. +1 I ran away then I got mad. I went back to retrieve the still running mower and then found the entrance hole to the nest. I snuck up on it with the water hose and stuck the hose in the entrance and gleefully turned it on full blast. "Take that, you @*^@($^ds!!" I proclaimed. Much to my dismay, they had another exit. I was a young man at the time and I could run pretty fast I thought. The angry swarm of Yellowjackets were faster. Later that night, my dad and I poured gas down the hole and burned them. We dug up the nest and it was about 2 feet underground and about 3 feet in diameter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted August 20, 2006 Share Posted August 20, 2006 Yep, gasoline is quick and clean. And damned thorough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 Die suckers die... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bountyhunter Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 ouch, they hurt. killed 2 of the suckers but had to retreat inside the house. Still remember when I was 12, walking in the woods.... one of the guys stepped on a log and the air went dark with wasps as thick as a cloud..... ran like hell, then realized they were hanging on me and stinging the hell out of me so I just stopped running and started smashing them against my body to get them to stop stinging. I think I got stung maybe 30 times, didn't seem to hurt me too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce282 Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 I was in the 5th or 6th grade, living in Winchester Va in an old Victorian house with a turret type outcropping on one side of the front of the house. Under the eves was a huge hornets nest. My bedroom was at the other side of the house and when I opened my window and lifted the screen I had a clear shot with my BB rifle. There was an empty lot next to us so if I missed, there was nothing to hit. Took several hours to chop that nest in half one bb at a time, but it was fun to watch the wasps fly around really pi$$ed off. My father knocked down the top half with the water hose the next day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 Ironically, I got stung in the wrist by a yellow jacket at the local outdoor academy range a couple of weeks ago... GAWDAMIGHTTY it burned and itched for days!!!! Didn't dare scratch it--it'd burn and itch HORRIBLY whenever I did that. Jeez, the yellow jacket sting is way worse than a honey-bee sting. More like a wasp or hornet or something. I don't ever recall being "done" by a yellow jacket. Acckk!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scout454 Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 Yellow jackets are a type of hornet. The venom is essentially ther same and it is apparently cumlative. The last time I was hit was at the 1989 Eastern Primative Rendezvous and I got stung 20 some times. Went into shock and they had to pump me up with benedryl. Now I have to carry a sting kit. Had a nest at my cabin last summer. I didn't want to get close enough to use gas so I tossed a quarter stick in the hole. It apparently worked. They stopped swarming and didn't come back this spring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 The yellow jacket sting really DID bring to mind a multiple hornet attack I endured a few years ago... I reached into our newspaper recycling bin to dump my weekly batch of paper throw-aways and whoa, my wrist (same wrist!) was assaulted and covered with stings!!!---and they just kept after me and stinging my arm even though I backed off and shut the lid on the bin. Crap, I couldn't get rid of 'em!!!! So, here I had this arm full of redness and swelling and bites and ran to inform the landlord/management that we had "a little problem in the newspaper bin." They dispatched the varmints immediately. Me, I sat around with a baking soda poultice on my arm for the rest of the day. No great harm done, apparently. Stayed burny and itchy for a few days just like the yellow jacket sting, though. Not a fun experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMS42 Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 I didn't want to get close enough to use gas so I tossed a quarter stick in the hole. It apparently worked. They stopped swarming and didn't come back this spring. A guy after my own heart. I've found that because of my farming and ranching experiences from my younger days that a stick of ditching dynamite works wonders when trying to solve certain problems. When I was about 9, my younger brother and I were playing in the landlady's garage and I sat in a yellow jacket nest. Those things were still in my hair and stinging when my parents were trying to figure out where they were. Dad finally just slapped all over my head trying to kill them. It was about the only time that I welcomed a good, hearty slap from my dad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AikiDale Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 I didn't want to get close enough to use gas so I tossed a quarter stick in the hole. It apparently worked. They stopped swarming and didn't come back this spring. A guy after my own heart. I've found that because of my farming and ranching experiences from my younger days that a stick of ditching dynamite works wonders when trying to solve certain problems. When I was about 9, my younger brother and I were playing in the landlady's garage and I sat in a yellow jacket nest. Those things were still in my hair and stinging when my parents were trying to figure out where they were. Dad finally just slapped all over my head trying to kill them. It was about the only time that I welcomed a good, hearty slap from my dad. More evidence there are few problems which can not be solved by the application of high explosives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 Yep, between the gasoline and the dynamite, it's the "Get 'er done!" method, I see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eager Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 (edited) At least they weren't killer bees. My mother in law was attacked just a few months ago. She was stung maybe thousands of times. They killed her dog. She had to "scrape them off her face". She escaped by getting in a nearby creek. Of course, she lives in Costa Rica. We were just there a few months earlier. Edited September 10, 2006 by Eager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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