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yorkie_chris
13-06-09, 06:18 PM
There's a nest of the little sods in the garden.
The last one got a gallon of petrol over it and the problem was solved. However, this one is in a bird nesting box thing against the fence, which means the usual firepower solution isn't going to work.
So; where can you buy something to knock these things out for long enough to get the nest box off the fence and get some petrol onto it?
http://www.bearsmart.com/images/supersoaker.jpg
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ster0171/socks/plus_sign.jpg
http://www.haggul.com/ProdImage/25%5C499662.jpg
THEN
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http://greenasathistle.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/match.jpg
PS. I will not accept any liability for any forest fires which may start using this method! :)
Smoke a couple of hamlets. Helps if you have an outside privvy to smoke them in........
yorkie_chris
13-06-09, 06:29 PM
Last time I simply used a garden sprayer and a gallon of petrol and old engine oil. burning rag next to the nest. Pump sprayer up... go nuts. By the time it went "WHUMPH" they had started to come out of nest wondering why it was raining napalm, but they all frazzled.
HOWEVER. This nest is on a wooden fence which I can't burn or blast to pieces!
Smoke, just start up a curvy next to it ;)
Can't you shoot the nest down, then burn it?
Don't you get into trouble for killing wasps from MYC? :)
the_lone_wolf
13-06-09, 06:31 PM
Wasps kill off lots of other nasties in your garden like mosquitos etc
They also provide food for the Honey Buzzard*
So if they're not bothering you then leave them... bee
:smt043
*anyone else find themselves watching "springwatch" earlier this week?:rolleyes:
Jamiebridges123
13-06-09, 06:32 PM
Just put petrol in a watering can, pour it over and throw in a match. Let them burn!!!!!!!!!!
yorkie_chris
13-06-09, 06:40 PM
Read the thread, I can't burn it in situ.
The nest is right next to patio thing where all sorts of important business is conducted. Namely sat about drinking when the weather is pleasant!
the_lone_wolf
13-06-09, 06:42 PM
Read the thread, I can't burn it in situ.
The nest is right next to patio thing where all sorts of important business is conducted. Namely sat about drinking when the weather is pleasant!
ah, in that case we got rid of one a few years back with a roof felt flamer, provided surprisingly accurate heat application and gave you the chance to singe the wings off the stragglers as a detterent to others...
yorkie_chris
13-06-09, 06:43 PM
Flames you say. could use the gas-axe. Hmmm.
Alpinestarhero
13-06-09, 06:49 PM
can you get a bag around it, then fill it up with CO2 form a fire extinguisher?
Sounds a bit of a silly idea actually
yorkie_chris
13-06-09, 06:53 PM
No, can't get a bag around it really. If I could get a bag around it I could burn it.
I could pick it up and put it in a bag, but it's full of wasps. Could just put my leathers on but don't know how to keep them out of my lid!
boiling water.....
and lots of it.
Alpinestarhero
13-06-09, 07:16 PM
No, can't get a bag around it really. If I could get a bag around it I could burn it.
I could pick it up and put it in a bag, but it's full of wasps. Could just put my leathers on but don't know how to keep them out of my lid!
som mesh stuff!
skeetly
13-06-09, 07:24 PM
Petrol; but not like you think.....
Wait until its late enough that you can get close enough wihtout getting stung.
Put a cup, filled with petrol right next to the nest entrance.
They try and clean it up, get it all over themselves and take it with them into the nest.
could just call the council and they will come sort it out.................wheres the fun in that though!
I would favour a big stick like object+swinging action+running+burning when they have given up stinging everything in sight=one burnt wasp nest.
yorkie_chris
13-06-09, 07:25 PM
Does it poison them? Or does it need to be lit when they've distributed it for you?
You could buy some really small throwing stars and take the wasps out ninja style.
skeetly
13-06-09, 07:43 PM
Does it poison them? Or does it need to be lit when they've distributed it for you?
Poisons them.
I guess you could use diesel or paraffin but petrol has worked for me in the past.
It doesnt have to be lit :)
Sorry to put a damper on the pyromanic tendencies ;)
GeneticBubble
13-06-09, 07:56 PM
1 simple word...
Hoover!
Can't you wait till they've all quietened down for the night, remove nesting box from fence, then proceed as previously advised.
B&Q have/had a foam wasp nest destroyer, used it before on a nest buried in a hedge, worked very well :)
yorkie_chris
13-06-09, 09:35 PM
How dormant are they at night? Will they swarm out if box is picked up?
Seggons
13-06-09, 09:40 PM
How dormant are they at night? Will they swarm out if box is picked up?
Go try it but make sure you have a video camera running first. I hear £250 is alot of money to you peeps up north. :lol:
How dormant are they at night? Will they swarm out if box is picked up?
just hit it off with something and youll be able to get to it in a few hours/the morning
leesh00
13-06-09, 11:43 PM
bin bag over your head and go in swinging rambo syle :rambo:
ethariel
14-06-09, 12:00 AM
1 simple word...
Hoover!
Oh lord, a Dyson and a couple of hundered really really angry wasps!
Failing that you could try a can of Raid while in full leathers, lid and a really really thck scarf.
yorkie_chris
14-06-09, 12:25 AM
You'd be OK to empty it though, they'd all be too dizzy to draw a bead on you...
Jamiebridges123
14-06-09, 12:28 AM
You'd be OK to empty it though, they'd all be too dizzy to draw a bead on you...
Definatly, with your 8 suction tubes! You bagged hoovers don't stand a chance. :cool:
punyXpress
14-06-09, 10:34 AM
Chris - didn't you use some instant freeze stuff on the exhaust stud?
Lob some of that in, should sort the little feckers.
err chris i wouldnt **** them off too much a full swarm may actually be able to finish you off get an expert in.
Paul the 6th
14-06-09, 11:29 AM
Get an mp3 player and some small speakers with dizzee rascals album and leave it outside the nest, this will draw them out to get jiggy, then all you have to do is get a can of lynx deoderant & a lighter to create a flamethrower.
Alternatively just fill the nest with lynx then ignite, this should be enought to create a small explosion but not enough to stay on fire?
(if dizzee rascals album doesn't work, try that macclesfield/Mansfield band you had on last time I was at yours - apparently wasps will listen to any old shiite :razz:)
Specialone
14-06-09, 01:41 PM
Yc, I can recommend the spray foam wasp and bee killer you can buy from b&q etc. You can spray it from 5 ft away !!! :)
BanditPat
14-06-09, 01:45 PM
50% Pentaerythritol (PETN) tetranitrate and 50% Cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (RDX) and something to make it more manageable (maybe wood pulp would work?) a coupple of peices of wire and a 9 volt battery. Put your mixture next to the nest at night then hook up the battery ;]
Smoke them out, then when they are away because of the smoke put the nest in the bin and they have no where to return too. Job done.
Smoke them out, then when they are away because of the smoke put the nest in the bin and they have no where to return too. Job done.
Need to be more violent than that..
What about putting some alcohol/petrol outside the nest, so you have drunk but poisoned wasps? :)
dizzyblonde
14-06-09, 02:08 PM
Blow torch on full tilt.
Get a tennis ball, cut a small hole, buy a box of matches, snap off the heads, place all heads in the tennis ball, wire up a fuse.
Place in or around nest, and ignite.
Simples.
Or download Anacircists Cook Book for more explosive ideas :D
timwilky
14-06-09, 02:35 PM
I had a nest under the lads bedroom floor.
sprayed lots of killer round the hole they used to get in/out. wrapped up in lots of clothing, helmet on, visor down, scarf sealing round neck etc. sweating like a pig I cut through the floorboards and lifted.
a nest about 2 ft*18 inch between the joists. bought some nest killer and sprayed it all over, waited a few hours and sprayed again. put a dustbin bag round it and ripped it out.
I have burned out a few land ones in the past. But brother got stung on the lip and anaphylactic shock. Face swelled like a balloon. Quick off to hospital. So no longer disturb them unless really necessary.
Specialone
14-06-09, 04:28 PM
This was sent to me a while ago and i finally found it, this was in oz but our nests seem kinda small in comparison
Couldn't be bothered to add all the text as it explains the series of photos but you can get the jist.
yorkie_chris
14-06-09, 04:29 PM
Or download Anacircists Cook Book for more ways to remove parts of your anatomy
Anarchist cookbook is overrated and most of it more dangerous than useful.
Explosives are not an option in this case.
Specialone
14-06-09, 04:32 PM
more......
Anarchist cookbook is overrated and most of it more dangerous than useful.
Explosives are not an option in this case.
I know was only messing around :)
Figured out what you're going to do yet?
CO2 fire hose thingy(technical I know) could be you're best bet, as said by A*hero.
seedy100
14-06-09, 09:27 PM
This has worked for me when we had a nest under our floor behind an air brick.
Buy a "Vapona" type hanging fly killer, the sort that you hang in a kitchen or conservetory and slowly poison yourself with.
Stick that in the birds nesting box with the wasps nest (Do this at night)
Two days or so later remove dead wasps and nest.
xXBADGERXx
14-06-09, 11:45 PM
How about ....... getting an old Helmet bag , sneak out at night when it`s cold and those buggers are Dozy . Plop the bag over the bird box and pull the drawer strings tight . Next day go out in bike gear (just in case) and unscrew that box off the wall and drop it in the freezer , that`ll kill them all and preserve the Bird box too :)
OR ........ Big can of that Yellow Builders Foam , run up to the hole and fill that up quickly and seal the rest of the box with it too around the back and sides , they`ll die off after a bit of suffocation or something .
injury_ian
15-06-09, 01:29 AM
Silly suggestion, I know....
Leave them alone?
Jamiebridges123
15-06-09, 03:14 AM
Silly suggestion, I know....
Leave them alone?
they'll get complacent and stay! killing is the best course of action! :smt021
BanannaMan
15-06-09, 04:43 AM
Get 2 cans of brake cleaner (for cars) that is NOT the new non-clorinated type.
With the little straw on, it will spray a good 10 to 15 ft.
Amazing stuff... Kills bees instantly.
Have both cans at the ready.
Stewart.C
15-06-09, 10:10 AM
Fill the nest with boiling water. that should stop them.
How about ....... getting an old Helmet bag
make sure you remember which one it is tho! Or you might forget and in another couple of years we'll see a thread entitled "my helmet seems to be full of dead wasps" :rolleyes:
Owenski
15-06-09, 10:53 AM
Is this nest in the bird box, so its only kind of 300mmx300mm in size?
What about: I'll come round and we'll get so smashed that we're at that invincible stage. Then go out full bike gear + scarf armed with a bin liner. Chuck bird box into the bin liner and close the end around the nozzle of some flamable gas container (I have butaine cylinders and hose) inflate the bag then tie it off and take turns at chucking matches at the bag from a safe distance :D when it blows up they'll be hundreds of fire-wasps flying around it'll obviously need video'ing so we'd need a 3rd willing volentier oh and a camera. :D
yorkie_chris
15-06-09, 10:53 AM
Butane? We could fill it with oxyacetylene. First wasp in space?
Owenski
15-06-09, 11:01 AM
Rofl, I'm up for that although prob best we keep the bike gear on for the match chucking too :D
Drew Carey
15-06-09, 12:11 PM
This thread has had me in stitches.....it reminds me of being a kid where you just want to set fire to everything!!!!
Drew Carey
15-06-09, 12:13 PM
On a serious note.....why not just burn the fence panel completely with bird box in situ and buy a new fence panel......or nick one. (I do not condone theft and accept no responsibility for any actions taken in response to this advice).
GeneticBubble
15-06-09, 03:24 PM
Oh lord, a Dyson and a couple of hundered really really angry wasps!
on the plus side you could switch it to blow and have a wasp machine gun!
MCN_LiamM
15-06-09, 03:59 PM
A Sparkler bomb.
I'm sure if you google it there's hundreds of sites where you could make one.
Make one, light it, stick it in the hole and then feel all macho when you shout: "Fire in the hole!"
...feel all macho...
No, macho would be belting it with a baseball bat and shouting "come on then! i'll take you all on..." before running like you've never run before :pale:
BanditPat
15-06-09, 04:37 PM
Explosives are not an option in this case.
Explosives are always an option and if fire is undo able then they then become the only option ;]
Have you thought about inviting them round for scones and honey and maybe discussing the issue?
xXBADGERXx
15-06-09, 04:49 PM
Chuck bird box into the bin liner and close the end around the nozzle of some flamable gas container (I have butaine cylinders and hose) inflate the bag then tie it off and take turns at chucking matches at the bag from a safe distance :D when it blows up they'll be hundreds of fire-wasps flying around it'll obviously need video'ing so we'd need a 3rd willing volentier oh and a camera. :D
Chances are , there would be a dull "Pop" as the bag whimpers open and then a Swarm of some seriously cheesed of Wasps looking to take some attitude out on the nearest person ...... I say you take this bag over to your nearest Member of Parliament`s abode (The First home not the one they have paid for with our money) .... and do it there , right after knocking on the door and running away ........... Run Away , Run Awaaaaaaaay
punyXpress
15-06-09, 08:59 PM
Couldn't you just keep this thread going until mid-November when the frosts come & kill the barstewards off?
It's nature's way
punyXpress
15-06-09, 09:36 PM
Yet another remedy!
Wasp larvae (badgers often dig out wasp nests so that they can eat the larvae). Rather curiously, badgers have been seen to almost ignore a wasps nest over a period of several weeks, and on one particular night decide to go and open up the nest and eat the grubs inside. It is thought that the badgers picks a particular night to try a maximise the number and size of wasp grubs inside. The badger digs through the top of the wasps nests, tearing the layers off to get to the grubs. In doing this is avoids the worst of the attacks from the guard wasps at the entrance
Yes, our old friend xXBadgerXx
Tempt him to yours on the way up to GM II, Chris
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