Hornets

[Jstpssng]

You guys must have tougher hornets out there. My preferred method is to go out at dusk, stand back and start spraying the entrance with Raid. Hornet and Wasp. I usually have a spare in case the first one fails. The hornets get good and soaked as they exit and fall to the ground. Another method on smaller nests is to take a 4' stick of firewood about 6" in diameter and crush the nest. Then there was the time that they had nested in the business section of my mower... when I engaged the PTO there wasn't much left of them.

 

[Einthewoods]

Had to share this. What NOT to do :laughing:
Michigan man burns down garage after trying to use fireworks to remove bees' nest - NY Daily News

 

[CalG]

I use the shop vac.

A couple of hours without any attention, and the hive population is safely smashed in the canister.

Hard on motor brushes I suppose, but I've had the vac for over 40 years, and it still flips on with the switch.

 

[aczlan]

A weed burner torch works nicely as well. As they try to fly out of the nest to attack you, they get roasted.

Aaron Z

 

[CalG]

A weed burner torch works nicely as well. As they try to fly out of the nest to attack you, they get roasted.

Aaron Z

That's hours standing there with a weed burner. They don't all come out at once if ground nesting.
That's the same trouble with chemical "wasp Killer" sprays. They only kill by contact with the liquid. Once the spray is dry, nothing comes of it. Some times those nests go deep.

 

[aczlan]

Sorry, I was thinking of the ones that make a paper nest in a tree, not the ones that nest in the ground.

Aaron Z

 

[check]

I got stung by one of those ground wasps once while driving on my BX 25. After I figured out what had happened, I saw where the holes were, and covered it with dirt and drove over it a few times. That was the end of that!

 

[check]

The little buggers also took to nesting inside the wall cavity of an old cottage on our big property. I kept spraying the wall knot holes where they were coming and going, and it took quite a few applications. I must admit it was fun shooting them down as they arrived at the hole. It’s kind of like you’re sitting there with a machine gun and you got your wasp spray which shoots out 6 feet or so.

 

[check]

They also like to nest under any overhang, such as the eaves of the cottage. I use wasp spray that shoots out a long ways, and usually get them all eventually. However, I never knock down the nest after, because apparently they will not nest in an area where there is another nest. You can even buy these cloth nest looking affairs to hang up around the cottage, which fool the wasps into thinking there’s another colony there.

 

[charlton289]

I remember as a kid we had one of those white faced hornet's nest about 20' in a tree my dad took and made long pole out some 2x2 and put a rag soaked in diesel and old motor oil and when it got dark he lite it and lite the nest on fire and when they come out of the nest it looked like planes being shot down as they crashed and burned. And we also had some small fires start as they crashed in the dry grass.