Some Unwelcomed Pests

[Lorena]

Our daughter Larissa decided she wanted to draw with her chalk on our back porch, so she grabbed the chalk and called me into her room. I put our 2 year old's shoes on so we can all draw and as soon as I opened the door, Larissa walked out and screamed. I thought what's all the commotion about and saw 2 hornets. I ask her to get in the house real quick and closed the door. I look up the glass door and holy shit, I see a hornets nest!! What the F? How'd it get there?

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[st.cronin]

I have a hornets nest just outside my front door. I figure if they leave me alone, I'll leave them alone. So far it's been a good relationship.

[Raiders Army]

Ummmm....that's quite a hornet's nest you stirred up. Ba-da-dum.

Anyhow, we had that as well when we moved in. Pest Control came out the day we moved in and took care of it. Are any of your kids allergic?

[Lorena]

Ummmm....that's quite a hornet's nest you stirred up. Ba-da-dum.

Anyhow, we had that as well when we moved in. Pest Control came out the day we moved in and took care of it. Are any of your kids allergic?

Yeah we'll have to call and get that taken care of.

I don't think either of our kids is allergic, but we'll steer clear of the porch until they're gone.

[Kodos]

I hate hornets, wasps, bees. DIE DIE DIE fuckers!!!

(I have a bit of an irrational fear of them)

[Lorena]

I hate hornets, wasps, bees. DIE DIE DIE fuckers!!!

(I have a bit of an irrational fear of them)

I know what you mean; a couple of them came in the house and I grabbed my flip flop and beat the shit outta them... I hate them all.

[Lorena]

dola,

I kept beating them to a pulp to make sure those fuckers were dead. Die mother fuckers... DIE!!!!

[bulletsponge]

what a bunch of little girly-men, buy some wasp spray and blast those f**kers. btw if you leave the nest alone it might just get bigger and bigger.....

[Grammaticus]

Get the clotting spray. When you hit the nest it is a foam that basically clogs the hornets to the nest in a poisonous foam. When they do spring free, they drop to the ground because their little wings won't work when full of foam. Then you can just stomp em.

Have trust, you are smarter than the hornets.

[Fonzie]

I hate hornets, wasps, bees. DIE DIE DIE fuckers!!!

(I have a bit of an irrational fear of them)

It isn't irrational if they're truly out to kill you. :eek:

[Desmond]

If I opened up my door and saw that I would evacuate immediately. All over myself.

[Kodos]

If I opened up my door and saw that I would evacuate immediately. All over myself.

:D Good to see I'm not alone.

If I'm sitting on a chair outside and a bee comes near, I get up and jog away. It's not a full sprint, so some dignity is retained. ;)

[rkmsuf]

what is so difficult about getting some raid and squirting them? unless they have barricaded the only exit.

[rkmsuf]

dola, look at the bright side...it has probably been there awhile.

[Desmond]

what is so difficult about getting some raid and squirting them? unless they have barricaded the only exit.

What's so difficult is that if one gets thru and stings me i'll panic and stop spraying, obviosuly leading to me being swarmed by 100 million of them and being eaten alive. Don't know whats so difficult to understand about that.

It's an irrational fear, but a fear nonetheless.

[rkmsuf]

What's so difficult is that if one gets thru and stings me i'll panic and stop spraying, obviosuly leading to me being swarmed by 100 million of them and being eaten alive. Don't know whats so difficult to understand about that.

It's an irrational fear, but a fear nonetheless.


you give 10 bugs way too much credit

I'd at least make the children do it.

[sabotai]

you give 10 bugs way too much credit

Where there's 10, there's a thousand.

Count me as having a very rational fear of these things (getting stung over and over again on a camping trip when you're a kid will do that to you.)

[MizzouRah]

Get the clotting spray. When you hit the nest it is a foam that basically clogs the hornets to the nest in a poisonous foam. When they do spring free, they drop to the ground because their little wings won't work when full of foam. Then you can just stomp em.

Have trust, you are smarter than the hornets.

Just found a hornets nets yesterday outside our back door, the babies were just about to come out. I pulled out the ol can of the stuff you describe above.. a minute later 4 or 5 dropped to the ground and the rest are dead. I love that stuff. Once acutally started flying away and then crashed and burned.

I'm leaving the nest up to remind any other tenants what could happen to them.

[rkmsuf]

Just found a hornets nets yesterday outside our back door, the babies were just about to come out. I pulled out the ol can of the stuff you describe above.. a minute later 4 or 5 dropped to the ground and the rest are dead. I love that stuff. Once acutally started flying away and then crashed and burned.

I'm leaving the nest up to remind any other tenants what could happen to them.


they will rebuild zion. believe me.

[MizzouRah]

they will rebuild zion. believe me.

..and I will come with foam a blazin!!.. believe me..

[rkmsuf]

..and I will come with foam a blazin!!.. believe me..

I think we are creating a race of super wasps. Only time before they bring their own spray cans.

[bulletsponge]

Count me as having a very rational fear of these things (getting stung over and over again on a camping trip when you're a kid will do that to you.)

hehe, ive been stung a dozen times or sp over the years ( my work has me kill a nest every several weeks) and all it has done is made me less afraid of getting stung. now when i get stung its only a minor annoyance that lasts a day or 2. last time i was stung was on the eyebrow by one of those mean red wasps.

[MizzouRah]

I think we are creating a race of super wasps. Only time before they bring their own spray cans.

You might be right. :eek:

[Glengoyne]

Am I wrong, or are those wasps and not hornets?

In any case get some of the spray. It shoots like ten feet, and the stream serves as a tracer. You really can't miss.

When the nests are away from a structure I use a torch to zap them in the evening when they are all inside their nest. Their wings don't work very well when they are singed off either. Since this is on/under your front porch, I don't think you should use the torch approach. A trip to the store to buy some wasp spray is in order.

[Coffee Warlord]

Ahhhhh. I am brought back to the fond memories of the Great Bee Jihad of 2004.

Now, I am terrified of bees. Absolutely terrified for no rational reason. Anyway, found a bee in my house, we did battle, I won with a combination of a towel and a can of pledge. I immediately went and got real bee killer spray the next day. No big deal.

Few days later, I am in my basement doing laundry, hear the sound of buzzing in the next room. And see...more than a few bees. Hoo boy. 'Three or four of the little fuckers zooming around the basement. Okay. I close that door, quasi sealing them in. Freaked the hell out.

Call pest control, 'cause they are obviously getting in somewhere. Meanwhile, I commence chemical warfare. There's nothing in that room, so I first launch a few volleys of bee spray at the offenders, then set off one of those gas bomb things. Day later, the pest control guys sprays the outside of the house along the basement windows with god knows what.

I check back down there in a couple of days and see bees. Hundreds upon hundreds of very dead bees literally just blanketing my basement floor. A few are still buzzing around, amidst and absolute graveyard of bees.

And still they come. Another volley of bee spray to assault the survivors. I go through two full cans of this shit in the process of a week or so. I make it a point to go down there armed to fight off any further scouting parties. The battle lines are drawn, and no bee shall escape my wrath. I'm too terrifed to clean up all the dead fuckers until every last one of those bitches falls to my power.

Two weeks after the Bee Jihad, there is no sign. The floor is almost black with the fuckers, but they ain't moving. To this day, the bees whisper my name in terror. I am the Bringer of Bee Doom.

[st.cronin]

Ahhhhh. I am brought back to the fond memories of the Great Bee Jihad of 2004.

Now, I am terrified of bees. Absolutely terrified for no rational reason. Anyway, found a bee in my house, we did battle, I won with a combination of a towel and a can of pledge. I immediately went and got real bee killer spray the next day. No big deal.

Few days later, I am in my basement doing laundry, hear the sound of buzzing in the next room. And see...more than a few bees. Hoo boy. 'Three or four of the little fuckers zooming around the basement. Okay. I close that door, quasi sealing them in. Freaked the hell out.

Call pest control, 'cause they are obviously getting in somewhere. Meanwhile, I commence chemical warfare. There's nothing in that room, so I first launch a few volleys of bee spray at the offenders, then set off one of those gas bomb things. Day later, the pest control guys sprays the outside of the house along the basement windows with god knows what.

I check back down there in a couple of days and see bees. Hundreds upon hundreds of very dead bees literally just blanketing my basement floor. A few are still buzzing around, amidst and absolute graveyard of bees.

And still they come. Another volley of bee spray to assault the survivors. I go through two full cans of this shit in the process of a week or so. I make it a point to go down there armed to fight off any further scouting parties. The battle lines are drawn, and no bee shall escape my wrath. I'm too terrifed to clean up all the dead fuckers until every last one of those bitches falls to my power.

Two weeks after the Bee Jihad, there is no sign. The floor is almost black with the fuckers, but they ain't moving. To this day, the bees whisper my name in terror. I am the Bringer of Bee Doom.

See, now THIS would be a cool video game.

[RendeR]

When I was young i took time out to wash my bicycle. after washing it thoroughly I rinsed it with the hose. In order to see if I had gotten all the soap off I turn the hose away (it was in stream mode, not spray), and suddenly I was feeling sharp stabs all over. I looked around and there were hornets everywhere, hundreds of them, stinging me left and right, in my shirt in my hair all over me.

I went running into the house screaming. Mom counted to 50 and gave up counting stings. There were hornets in my socks and even into my underwear.

When we finally went outside to see what happened we found that when I turned the hose away I cut a basketball sized hornets nest in half that was attached to the side of the house. They followed the stream back to me and attacked in force.

I was sick for a solid week and developed an allergy to be toxins. I haven't been stung in well over 20 years and I tend to freak out at the site of ANY bees, let alone hornets....

Bugs suck.

[MizzouRah]

My little one was stung 4 times by a hornet today.. guess those bastards hit the secret button while foam was engulfing their liar.

[kingfc22]

My little one was stung 4 times by a hornet today.. guess those bastards hit the secret button while foam was engulfing their liar.

Kill the bastards!!!!

[Antmeister]

My little one was stung 4 times by a hornet today.. guess those bastards hit the secret button while foam was engulfing their liar.

Geez. How old is the little one? I wonder if this is one that will stay in the memory banks forever.

[MizzouRah]

Geez. How old is the little one? I wonder if this is one that will stay in the memory banks forever.

She's 4... benadryl did the trick and she's back to running around again.

I will Kill those bastards!!!

[Riggins44]

We had some bees swarm a tree outside my work one time. I didn't realize they did this. Apparently they'll hang out for a week or two and then move on.

http://www.golackey.com/i/iceebees2.jpg

[Buzzbee]

I hate hornets, wasps, bees. DIE DIE DIE fuckers!!!

(I have a bit of an irrational fear of them)

Hmmm...good to know.

[Lorena]

Hmmm...good to know.

Nice to see Buzzbee posting in this thread :rolleyes:

[Antmeister]

We had some bees swarm a tree outside my work one time. I didn't realize they did this. Apparently they'll hang out for a week or two and then move on.

http://www.golackey.com/i/iceebees2.jpg

Okay, I didnt know that either. That is just wrong. One bored kid could get a thousand bee stings. Or imagine if someone was a tree trimmer. Damn.

[JonInMiddleGA]

We had some bees swarm a tree outside my work one time.

If my eyes don't deceive me, those are honey bees in your picture. And swarms of those aren't all that unusual
http://entomology.unl.edu/beekpg/beeswarm.htm

[GoldenEagle]

what a bunch of little girly-men, buy some wasp spray and blast those f**kers. btw if you leave the nest alone it might just get bigger and bigger.....

Screw that. I am going in there with just an old sandal.

[stevew]

It's not like you have an army of Bats in your attic. That would suck much much worse.

[Chief Rum]

I think we are creating a race of super wasps. Only time before they bring their own spray cans.

"That board with a nail in it may have defeated us. But the humans won't stop there. They'll make bigger boards and bigger nails, and soon, they will make a board with a nail so big, it will destroy them all!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! YOU EARTHLINGS WILL BOW BEFORE KANG AND KODOS!"

[Riggins44]

"That board with a nail in it may have defeated us. But the humans won't stop there. They'll make bigger boards and bigger nails, and soon, they will make a board with a nail so big, it will destroy them all!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! YOU EARTHLINGS WILL BOW BEFORE KANG AND KODOS!"


Classic. :D Simpsons rule.

[Riggins44]

If my eyes don't deceive me, those are honey bees in your picture. And swarms of those aren't all that unusual
http://entomology.unl.edu/beekpg/beeswarm.htm

Yeah, that's what the bee keeper guy said after he fire bombed them. ;)

[Cringer]

We had some bees swarm a tree outside my work one time. I didn't realize they did this. Apparently they'll hang out for a week or two and then move on.

http://www.golackey.com/i/iceebees2.jpg

Any word on that new honey flavored Icee?

[Riggins44]

Any word on that new honey flavored Icee?

It's a success! ;)