Yep, that's the first thing that caught my attention. All sitting in the kitchen talking. Which included my wife and her sister. So when you suddenly hear something over those two talking, It's like ..WTF
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Should not have asked to put up the picture.
Its easier to ask for forgiveness than permission...
Oh, I didn't ask. She was threatening my daughter first just for sending it to my son. They didn't even send it to me (yet)
Moparvinson
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Just opened the hood on my 71 charger and same thing but didn't get stung. Closest thing I had was a can of carb. Cleaner. Dropped them instantly!
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dartfreak75
Restore it, Dont part it!
I had to kill a nest of yellow jackets in the bed of the truck I just bought! They built a huge nest between the tailgate and bed cover.
Mopar-Mitch
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Friday I went to a friend's and he and his son had tennis rackets fighting bee's that had made a nest in their hay bailer. They finally found the hole they were coming out of and sprayed it with starter fluid. We carry tennis rackets with us when looking at and bringing home old cars, there great for fighting bees and wasp, hornets are a different story, I don't mess with them. My brother called me yesterday and told me I needed to come and get my 73 duster I've had stored up at his place, he got stung mowing around it!
That tactic worked so well for the big cities and the homeless bums...should have the same effect on flying assholes as well.
Apologies to the bug lovers. But not coexisting with this 30ft from my deck and 3ft from my garden. Wife did a good job on it last night, but still had some larvae squirming. Hit them with another shot of spray and bagged it this morning.
JDMopar
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If you haven't whacked em yet....be sure to use GOOD spray like Raid. The generic stuff Wal Mart sells just pisses them off! Gasoline in a bean sprayer works good too.
JDMopar
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zkx14.....Hornets bite you and sting you at the same time! I was 37 years old the first and only time I ever got stung by a Hornet. Got me right in the temple, and I looked like a Klingon for hours! I'm 61....and remember it like it was yesterday! Your wife deserves a medal for assassinating them things!
Your wife deserves a medal for assassinating them things!
It sounds like she has done this before...
But yeh, told wife same when she went to hardware store last night. Got this. Doesn’t say foaming, but it is...Two cans did the job quite well. Cans run out fast, but don’t think any got away. She said a couple flew out, turned around and crashed into the foam.
famous bob
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Once we were flat towing the hemi back from Ft. Smith , a huge yellow and black hornet about 3 1/2" long flew in the window,all were down , dam near had a wreck before that monster got out. Sounded like some one beating on the windows w/ a small bat . Have only seen one that size around here since----------
My daughter was researching them a bit. Said these ‘bald faced hornets’ are actually more closely related to yellow jackets than true hornets. And they really earn their spot on the ID chart posted on page one. Pretty sure they are what landed me to the ER before.zkx14.....Hornets bite you and sting you at the same time! I was 37 years old the first and only time I ever got stung by a Hornet. Got me right in the temple, and I looked like a Klingon for hours! I'm 61....and remember it like it was yesterday!
When you live in the country with wasps and rattlers, copperheads, cottonmouths and the liitle coral snake, you get used to watching for them. The guys in La, and Wa, state, they watch for Bigfoot!!!!!??????
OK so the guy in downtown Baltimore watch for really big rats!?????????????????///
OK so the guy in downtown Baltimore watch for really big rats!?????????????????///
Dartnut
Don't hate me because i'm beautiful
You can't kill one of these..........
jos51700
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My grandpa used to just clap 'em out of mid air. He had carpal tunnel so bad and his hands were so calloused, I never knew if he just didn't feel the sting or if there was a trick to it. I never have had the guts to try it.
Ma used a garden hose to knock them and their nests off site of the house. Water really, really, really, pisses them off.
73 dart custom
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Soooo confession time.... as kids in the country... we used to put firecrackers on the ends of long sticks... light them and blow up wasp nests. Then ran like hell...
Did you accomplish your mission last night?
Absolutely, the raccoon killer turned into a bee assassin
I had small bees and then wasps living in the fender of my 70 Super Bee when I had it.
I always thought "how appropriate".
They always kept coming back.
Never bothered me but would fly at and around anyone other than me who approached the driver's door!
Interestingly I had the same thing happen 20 years later with a wasp's nest outside the back door of my office.
I could come and go as I pleased and even go out back to talk on the phone, right underneath them.
But if anyone ever tried to come up to the back door instead of the front, they would swarm!
I called them my trained attack wasps.
I always thought "how appropriate".
They always kept coming back.
Never bothered me but would fly at and around anyone other than me who approached the driver's door!
Interestingly I had the same thing happen 20 years later with a wasp's nest outside the back door of my office.
I could come and go as I pleased and even go out back to talk on the phone, right underneath them.
But if anyone ever tried to come up to the back door instead of the front, they would swarm!
I called them my trained attack wasps.
dart_68
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I opened the passenger side door on my WIP Duster the other day. As I opened it I let go of the handle and grabbed the top near the rear edge. Almost instantly I felt pain in my right index finger and saw a swarm of wasps. Turns out that the wasps had squeezed between the door and the jamb and built a nest just below the top. I stuck my fingers in the nest when I opened the door. Man, I haven't been stung in decades!
I can assure you that a 3.5 inch 12 gauge turkey load of #4 shot through an extra full choke is very effective on critters like this.
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