Author Topic: Hornets Everywhere (Read 1484 times)

A8balls · « **Reply #15 on:** September 28, 2007, 05:09:11 PM »

Wire a length (25 feet or more) of hose to the exhaust of your lawnmower or car. Place the hose into the hole, crack or crevase and seal as best you can with rags. Start the mower/car and kill them with carbon monoxide. Make sure nobody stays in the house and air it out before going back in. This method works great for ground hogs and most other pests.

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #16 on:** September 28, 2007, 05:15:45 PM »

Birchwood Casey gun cleaner in an aerosol can works very well. It killed them instantly for me.

I kinda like Curvs idea though. Post video though.

texasmom · « **Reply #17 on:** September 28, 2007, 06:54:33 PM »

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Originally posted by Curval
Find the nest, grab it, throw it to the ground and stomp on it.
Post results...with pics.

No! Don't follow the alt-f4-style advice here!!!!

Call an exterminator & let them take the chance of being stung instead of you!!!!

Dichotomy · « **Reply #18 on:** September 28, 2007, 07:09:01 PM »

Airscrew are these hornets or wasps?

As mentioned above you want to get to them at dusk or sunrise and hose the whole colony down with your choice of knockdown spray then you want to destroy the nest.

I had an infestation of wood bees a few years ago and, after applying various poisons in the entrance of their nest with no result, I got stung by one of them. Down to the local organic nursery I go where I meet the very nice, loving, kind, woman who I would soon traumatize.

"I need something that kills bees"
"oh we don't have anything that kills them we have a very good bee man that will come move them for you"
"lady you don't understand I don't want them moved I want them dead ALL of them. Their baby bees all the way up to their queen I want them D-E-A-D. I want the rest of the bee world to think my house is the quadrant that the borg collective lives in"

And out I walk... I finally settled on gasoline and a match. Not the best choice I admit but I was angry and they were not in or on my house. Looking back I'm surprised I'm not on the Darwin Award list.

JB73 · « **Reply #19 on:** September 28, 2007, 07:24:33 PM »

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Originally posted by Dichotomy
..."lady you don't understand I don't want them moved I want them dead ALL of them. Their baby bees all the way up to their queen I want them D-E-A-D. I want the rest of the bee world to think my house is the quadrant that the borg collective lives in"...

borg collective

Halo · « **Reply #20 on:** September 28, 2007, 07:47:26 PM »

I've had good luck with Ortho Hornet and Wasp Spray fighting nests of yellow jackets in the front lawn nesting in old tree roots and a couple nests of wasps in the gutters, but never anything like hundreds of hornets like you mention.

Still, I'd think several cans of Ortho or comparable over several evenings when the critters mass might do the trick. Make sure you shake it well and it foams like shaving cream; I found not all cans were as consistent as they should have been.

I've also had good luck blowing wasp nests away with a high pressure stream of water from a regular hose. They don't seem to get as agitated because they probably think they're just in a rain storm.

You definitely need good water pressure and a nozzle that focuses the stream.

Frodo · « **Reply #21 on:** September 28, 2007, 09:20:52 PM »

A spray can of Gumout carb cleaner, works better than anything you can buy. Try it and you will be amazed. It will discolor plastic, and paint so be careful.

Best time to hit the nest is daylight. The colder the morning the better, and a heavy dew helps slow them down.

( Hates the little bastige hornets! )

Frodo

whiteman · « **Reply #22 on:** September 28, 2007, 09:34:19 PM »

In the roof, oh man. Is this the first time or does it happen every year? We had bees around our house for years, last spring they remodeled the house and when pulling the old wood trim off there was a gigantic hive in there. Turned out our house is right in their migratory path. we got a guy to come out and take the hive and the bees.

AKIron · « **Reply #23 on:** September 28, 2007, 09:42:17 PM »

Texas has never had a shortage of winged stinging insects. 99 times out of 100 they will not sting you if you don't swat at them. I have been stung those 10 times out of a thousand though.

Speed55 · « **Reply #24 on:** September 28, 2007, 09:49:56 PM »

KO Blaster .

Used to clean small condensing coils, and you can buy it at grainger.

Don't get it in your eyes. It'll literally freeze them where they stand.

Reschke · « **Reply #25 on:** September 28, 2007, 11:03:32 PM »

Daylight or dusk is the best time and post the video after you start stomping on the nest. I would love to watch that one on youtube.

Airscrew · « **Reply #26 on:** September 29, 2007, 12:51:55 AM »

OK, no video, but a couple of pictures. I made two quick passes with the Ortho Hornet/Wasp spray I had.... no nest, they're just on the side of the house. I think they are getting in the roof, maybe found a hole where the satellite cable comes in..

this is just one corner, I found another one on the back side of the house too...

I told the missus to video, she hit the wrong button. So you miss the part where I run like hell with hornets swarming above me...
I'll check it in the morning and see how many came back

68Wooley · « **Reply #27 on:** September 29, 2007, 04:27:08 AM »

My God - those aren't insects. Those are pterodactyls.

Burn your house to the ground and save humanity before its too late.

Ghosth · « **Reply #28 on:** September 29, 2007, 06:41:03 AM »

Are you sure those are wasp's or hornets? Looks like an Africanized honey bee swarm, in which case, buried under all those bugs is the queen, and they are looking for a new home.

For yellow jackets aka Hornets I do like the vacuum cleaner.
But the first thing is to dress for success.

Put on a pair of hard boots (not tennis shoes) Pull pants legs down over boots, ductape the seam so they can't crawl up your legs. Heavy shirt tucked into your jeans. Gloves, duct tape them onto the shirtsleeves, again for leak protection.

Finish up with hat, a hand towel around your throat, and mosquito headnet.
This year I had one get inside the netting that slipped through the Y of my shirt.
So wrap a towel around neck, and make sure headnet is pulled well down over it. No gaps = no stings quick, hasty or careless = pain.

I suspect in that location that Carb Cleaner, spray brake cleaner, or such would work just fine to knock them down. BTW consider a 10' extention for the vacumn, 1 1/2" pvc would be my first choice.

Once you have them IN the vacumn, spray some flying insect killer down the pipe with it still running. Then let the vacumn partially suck a plastic grocery bag down the pipe. Idea is you do NOT want them coming back out again. Turn it off, let it sit for a few hours, and LISTEN!

If they are dead, it will be quiet, if they are alive, they HUM.

red26 · « **Reply #29 on:** September 29, 2007, 06:46:15 AM »

Ok those are ether Bald Face hornets, Yellow Jackets, or Red Wasp. Gas will work but like you did you will have to make a pass the they cant stand the smell of the gas plus its very toxic to them. get a large cup or a small pale put a little gasoline in it and hit them. Usually they wont even come back to the spot were you put the gas. or the other thing to do is wait till a very cool morning go out and get a C02 fire extinguisher and spray them like hell this will freeze them this is what my step uncle uses with his bee hives to kill African killer bees that wonder in. Let me know how it works RED25

Oh ya and I still recommend stomping them and putting the video up LOL J/K