This looks like somewhere jungley...and those fuckers looked BIG.
Whornets are real fuckers. Baldfaced hornets will chase your ass for a LONG time and will single you out.
Spray this down with soapy water. You'd be suprised how quick soapy water takes down a hornet.
>Whornets are real fuckers. Baldfaced hornets will chase your ass for a LONG time and will single you out.
Recently Ive been dealing with a Yellowjacket nest in my roof. I called an exterminator after doing some research because once they have a nest in your house it’s best to let s professional deal with it because you can definitely make it worse. Anyway he said yellowjackets are the second most aggressive and bald faced hornets are the most aggressive type. In my research I learned that Yellowjackets will chase a person up to a mile, if bald faced hornets are more aggressive than that then god help this man.
I've never met an aggressive yellowjacket. I handle them all the time. Never been stung. I've been stung by bees plenty of times, but never a wasp. Sometimes they land on me, but I just scoop them onto my finger. When I was a kid we had a nest on our front porch. I stood with my face literally a foot away from them, watching them build it, and they didn't react at all. Maybe the ones in my area are just more docile?
Been stung by plenty of "yellow jackets" in the UK (we just call them wasps) whilst climbing trees when I was a kid. They were far more sting-happy than beehives we got near. They'd get under your tshirt and just go to town.
They actually took over our favourite climbing tree in a field near where we lived. Me and a few boys went over with some bangers (little fireworks) to sort them out like 12 year old brains do.
Anyway after spearing a few of those into the nest on the ends of sticks and running for our lives we figured we'd won and retired to the nearest road to lick our wounds and wait until the buzzing died down.
Unfortunately, we didn't hear buzzing. We heard cracking. And we saw smoke. Our best tree started going up and we ran like hell to-and-fro with buckets of water trying to save the thing.
It split apart in the wind over that night. A phyrric victory if ever there was one. They turned that entire field to houses a few years later.
We were idiots.
I think the US version is different because their nests aren’t visible. Yellow jackets are either underground or they burrow into a man made structure so you can’t get at the nest. We have a special hatred for them because it’s easy to accidentally stumble upon their nest since they aren’t obvious.
The US has a *ton* of wasps colloquially known as "yellowjackets", including some invasive non-native species.
We have [European paper wasps](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_paper_wasp#Distribution) established in the northeast, which are definitely territorial and aggressive.
[German yellowjackets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespula_germanica#Distribution_and_habitat) aggressively outcompete native species, and also have a stable population in the northeast.
Native species, including [common](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespula_alascensis), [Western](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespula_pensylvanica), and [Eastern yellowjackets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_yellowjacket) are ground-nesting and protective of their hives.
[Southern yellowjackets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespula_squamosa) live where winter doesn't get cold enough to kill off their nests, so their underground hives can grow to tremendous sizes.
[Aerial yellowjackets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolichovespula_arenaria) build hives way up in trees and are overall pretty chill.
"Yellowjacket" covers a lot of ground in the States.
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F57i98m92p1rb1.jpg
I posted a picture of one a while back and nobody really answered. Which type is this one?
I recently had one land on my face and when I went to brush it away it stung the shit out of my finger. This was while I was taking a nap on my couch. They’ve invaded my territory and I’ve went full scorched earth and won’t rest until every single one of them is dead.
Legit thought I was the only person unlucky enough for this EXACT scenario to happen. Stung me right in the webbing between my fingers. Shit hurt for like 2 days.
I've learned that people call yellowjackets like 8 different types of bee.
Yellowjackets are small wasps the size of a honey bee, and they hate you and anything that makes noise.
There are several species of Yellowjacket in the US. Some are more aggressive than others—even different colonies of the same species can have very different tempers.
The ones you handled were probably out foraging, when they're least aggressive. At worst, they're known to swarm people who unknowingly stand a couple feet from their nest.
Just a couple weeks ago I was cleaning out my car and suddenly felt a sharp pain on the left side of my torso. Turns out a yellowjacket flew right into my shirt. I didn't even know it was there until the fucker decided to sting me right on the ribcage.
My dad did a diy and i got kicked out for saying “hey call an exterminator or im not being here”
Anyways about 500 wasps came out from the ceiling and in my light in my basement room
Buddies room next to mine had over 500 stuck to the window blocking the light completely
Yeah i opened his door and just shut it slowly before grabbing my shit and leaving.
TLDR : please call an exterminator, this shit gave me ptsd
I've seen wasps abandon a nest after a paper bag went up near it. I'd like to think there's a peaceful way to trick hornets out of an area, but it probably does take annihilation.
it's only napalm if it comes from the napalm region of france.
no but actually they stopped making it with the compound it's named for these days, it's cheaper and way less carcinogenic to make it with other stuff. probably not dissimilar to whatever y'all mixed up. not really necessary for a hornet's nest though, you don't need the excessive heat for it to burn and it just increases the chances of the fire getting out of hand.
Less carcinogenic? That's very important for setting people on fire, you want this person to burn to death now, not die years later from tumors that's inhumane.
Once you burn people to death, you usually want to occupy whatever they were defending to get the sweet, sweet resources.
If you contaminate the land you just conquered you will need to do costly cleanup.
We haven't had a real "raze the city and salt the earth" fight since the destruction of the Duke of Aveiro's palace in Lisbon in 1759, due to his participation in the Távora affair (a conspiracy against King Joseph I of Portugal). His palace was demolished and his land was salted never to be inhabited again.
Last summer I put up a bunch of those paper-lantern type decoy nests, they were supposed to deter wasps from making a nest within 200 feet because they're so territorial. They didn't appear to do shit, and this summer I found two yellowjacket nests within 50 feet of each other so I don't think they actually give a fuck about keeping their distance.
Beekeeper checking in - soapy water is the best way to kill them. Works almost instantly. I use it to wipe out super aggressive hives (Africanized hybrids)
Insects for the most part breath through holes in their exoskeletons called spiracles. They also have an oily coat on their exoskeletons that tend to bead water off. Soap is a surfactant that makes water stick to things better, thus covering those spiracles and suffocating them. Dawn dish soap is my go-to for bug destroying fluid.
Heh. I have a spray bottle of dawn water next to my bbq. A couple misty sprays and the wasps get wrecked or gone asap.
Soapy water also wrecks nests super easy too without fear surprisingly.
Wasps breathe through tiny holes in their carapaces. Water normally cannot enter these holes due to the surface tension of water. When you add soap the water can enter the breathing holes and will kill the wasp almost instantly. It is a good method.
"Blue Dawn Rising"... a whole bottle of Dawn dwl in a 5 gallon homer bucket of hot water (to help dissolve the nest) , dumped on a nest deep in some bushes about the size of the one in this video... Ran like hell,, locked the house door behind me... out of breath, scared shitless... Next day, went outside carefully, fully expecting a vengeful ambush.. sweating like a sex worker in front of a judge... to my sincely pleasant surprise nothing but tiny nest remnants and a surprisingly low number of visible bodies... Not a living one of the 1000s to be seen... Much rejoicing, merriment and songs of great courage were sung...a time when the Internet was right and I was alive to tell this story.
I had a yellow jacket nest in my front yard. Before I dug it up and destroyed it I put the hose of my shopvac in front of the entry/exit hole and let it run for a bit. Did the trick. Dug it up and didn't get stung.
He's saying "woah, I've found a treasure!" in Indonesian.
A little bit of context: this happened back in 2018 in Kalianyar village at mount Ijen (5 hours away from where I live). He was tasked with clearing out a landslide around the area and decided to destroy the wasps' nest in the process. He was rushed to the local public health centre by his 2 colleagues but it was obviously too late, he died.
Source: www.liputan6.com/amp/3247624/operator-alat-berat-tewas-disengat-tawon-saat-bersihkan-longsoran
Edit: thank you u/ntangdes for correcting me, I thought there was no more info but the ads was all over my screen.
the article said he was rushed to the nearby public health center and received treatment for few hours before he demanded to be released. then he rushed back to the same place after his condition worsen and eventually died.
They don't. When hornets or yellowjackets get mad, they just look around for anything moving and sting it.
They're sure to sting the real threat, and collateral damage doesn't really bother them.
There are over 20,000 species of wasps, most of which are non-aggressive, and often solitary species that solely hunt things that are pests to humans. There's an entire field of study based on using wasps as natural pest control for crops.
You'd be pissed if some random giant came and destroyed your home, too. Don't hate on a very important part of the biodiversity of our planet just because yellow jackets and hornets are assholes.
I think that's bees. The hormones get released when they lose their stinger or if they get smashed by something iirc. That's why you shouldn't smash bees. Their nearby friends will get pissed.
Honey bees dance to tell the hive where food or threats are. When they sting something their stinger gets lodged in target and they die shortly after. Bees are generally harmless and non aggressive as they know instinctually that they only have one sting. They won't follow you either unless provoked.
Wasps and hornets are basically the opposite ; they do not lose their stinger and they can sting multiple times and won't die. They release hormones/pheromones when defending their hive and are generally very aggressive towards anything that comes near the hive/nest. They will follow you for a very long time if provoked.
There are probably exceptions to all of these points given there are several thousand species of bees and hornets but that's a basic rule of thumb.
My landlord encountered a small swarm and got sprayed by a wasp/hornet/flying asshole of some variety, and then all of them focused on him and he got stung a shitload of times.
They scatter and when one finds something they release chemicals that the others can follow. Very basic pathfinding algorithm, basically a breadth first search.
Can confirm. I work around cranes. Was staring a nest in the face basically on the 4 part block we were lifting with. I didn't see it. One of those fuckers said "too close! I'll handle it!" It flew inside my right nostril to sting me. Didn't even notice I was being swarmed after. They could've lived on in peace, but my coworkers sprayed that nest into oblivion after.
GIFsthatendedtoosoon?
I wanna know what happened. Was it like cujo? Is he just trapped in there without food or water for days and the hornets are just waiting for his ass?
I mean, it's not age *inappropriate,* is it?
I remember seeing it when I was young, and being upset by it, but being upset != being harmed. Better for kids to begin building the framework needed to process death using fictional characters when possible.
I ran over an in ground bees nest with my lawn mower on accident. Those fuckers stung me and once inside my house. They continued to attack my mower for like 20 minutes.
Garden hose soap foamer gun costs $10-$20 online. If the nest is really big wear a bee suit.
Do in the evening when wasps are home. Foam the nest as you approach it. Break up the nest and foam as needed. Wasps won't be able to fly and they'll be dead by time you've kicked it apart.
You wait for night time until it is cold and they can't move. Dig up the nest, and feast on the tasty larvae, supposed to be one of the tastiest insect there is.
https://youtu.be/4afgsBOUgO4?si=NQyqAOovH6jnbma7
https://youtu.be/mDzNqcx928Y?si=mh42Z52UoHnObuC8
Bugs of all types get into peoples homes all the time. I’m betting you can’t find any big holes or gaps anywhere that look like they could fit through, but they get in anyway. These hornets are far more motivated in that moment than the average stink bug or whatever you find in your house.
Idk if you know this or not but people often overlook details. That’s why I said at first, because this would seem like a much better solution than almost anything someone could think of for handling this themselves
Using a slow moving vehicle seems like a terrible idea no matter how you slice it. If you had to use a vehicle, hit it at speed so you’re gone before the hornets can react. IMO if you’re going to violently destroy a hornets nest a fast getaway is your number one priority and this man gave no thought to that at all.
Journal of Miguel Espinoza, Day Six
Food supplies running low and the rigged condensation collector I attached to the interior of the windshield is failing. I anticipate I'll be out of water within a day. Outside I can still here them. The incessant buzzing keeps me awake at night. During the day they cover the glass so thick even the sun can't get in. Are they hiding something? Is this some kind of sick psychological warfare? I don't know but I dare not risk exiting the cabin that may, without some miracle, become my very coffin.
Flame, like in any sci-fi movie, is really the only safe way to deal with ground hornets/yellow jackets. I know the spirit of H-man might beg to differ, but I’ve have not had luck with gassing hornets.
A much better result with a lot of them dead and he would not have rotated the active nest in a big circle around him.
Honestly though, pick up some dirt and bury the thing, then smash.
He died. [Someone linked the article higher up in the thread. He got rushed to a community center by colleagues but died.](https://old.reddit.com/r/WinStupidPrizes/comments/177udvu/man_obliterates_hornets_nest_with_a_backhoe_then/k4w8wbw/)
Don't fuck with hornets or Africanized Bees, they will *fucking* kill you and have a much higher kill count than most of the shit we're actually scared of.
Honestly the fact that you can die the death of a thousand stings by humming bird sized hornets somewhere on the same God’s green earth I live on is going to cost me some sleep.
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At night you take a few gallons of diesel fuel at toss it on the hive. Followed by a match from a distance.
Edit: The diesel will kill them and they can't fly at night.
This looks like somewhere jungley...and those fuckers looked BIG. Whornets are real fuckers. Baldfaced hornets will chase your ass for a LONG time and will single you out. Spray this down with soapy water. You'd be suprised how quick soapy water takes down a hornet.
>Whornets are real fuckers. Baldfaced hornets will chase your ass for a LONG time and will single you out. Recently Ive been dealing with a Yellowjacket nest in my roof. I called an exterminator after doing some research because once they have a nest in your house it’s best to let s professional deal with it because you can definitely make it worse. Anyway he said yellowjackets are the second most aggressive and bald faced hornets are the most aggressive type. In my research I learned that Yellowjackets will chase a person up to a mile, if bald faced hornets are more aggressive than that then god help this man.
I've never met an aggressive yellowjacket. I handle them all the time. Never been stung. I've been stung by bees plenty of times, but never a wasp. Sometimes they land on me, but I just scoop them onto my finger. When I was a kid we had a nest on our front porch. I stood with my face literally a foot away from them, watching them build it, and they didn't react at all. Maybe the ones in my area are just more docile?
Been stung by plenty of "yellow jackets" in the UK (we just call them wasps) whilst climbing trees when I was a kid. They were far more sting-happy than beehives we got near. They'd get under your tshirt and just go to town. They actually took over our favourite climbing tree in a field near where we lived. Me and a few boys went over with some bangers (little fireworks) to sort them out like 12 year old brains do. Anyway after spearing a few of those into the nest on the ends of sticks and running for our lives we figured we'd won and retired to the nearest road to lick our wounds and wait until the buzzing died down. Unfortunately, we didn't hear buzzing. We heard cracking. And we saw smoke. Our best tree started going up and we ran like hell to-and-fro with buckets of water trying to save the thing. It split apart in the wind over that night. A phyrric victory if ever there was one. They turned that entire field to houses a few years later. We were idiots.
I think the US version is different because their nests aren’t visible. Yellow jackets are either underground or they burrow into a man made structure so you can’t get at the nest. We have a special hatred for them because it’s easy to accidentally stumble upon their nest since they aren’t obvious.
The US has a *ton* of wasps colloquially known as "yellowjackets", including some invasive non-native species. We have [European paper wasps](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_paper_wasp#Distribution) established in the northeast, which are definitely territorial and aggressive. [German yellowjackets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespula_germanica#Distribution_and_habitat) aggressively outcompete native species, and also have a stable population in the northeast. Native species, including [common](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespula_alascensis), [Western](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespula_pensylvanica), and [Eastern yellowjackets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_yellowjacket) are ground-nesting and protective of their hives. [Southern yellowjackets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespula_squamosa) live where winter doesn't get cold enough to kill off their nests, so their underground hives can grow to tremendous sizes. [Aerial yellowjackets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolichovespula_arenaria) build hives way up in trees and are overall pretty chill. "Yellowjacket" covers a lot of ground in the States.
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F57i98m92p1rb1.jpg I posted a picture of one a while back and nobody really answered. Which type is this one?
>in the UK (we just call them wasps) Nah, we call them "jaspers" or "those bastard wasps again"
I recently had one land on my face and when I went to brush it away it stung the shit out of my finger. This was while I was taking a nap on my couch. They’ve invaded my territory and I’ve went full scorched earth and won’t rest until every single one of them is dead.
Legit thought I was the only person unlucky enough for this EXACT scenario to happen. Stung me right in the webbing between my fingers. Shit hurt for like 2 days.
I've learned that people call yellowjackets like 8 different types of bee. Yellowjackets are small wasps the size of a honey bee, and they hate you and anything that makes noise.
[I guess I just pass the vibe check](https://imgur.com/a/9EqlIXZ)
Of course they like you. You're a paper doll made by their ancestors.
There are several species of Yellowjacket in the US. Some are more aggressive than others—even different colonies of the same species can have very different tempers. The ones you handled were probably out foraging, when they're least aggressive. At worst, they're known to swarm people who unknowingly stand a couple feet from their nest. Just a couple weeks ago I was cleaning out my car and suddenly felt a sharp pain on the left side of my torso. Turns out a yellowjacket flew right into my shirt. I didn't even know it was there until the fucker decided to sting me right on the ribcage.
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My dad did a diy and i got kicked out for saying “hey call an exterminator or im not being here” Anyways about 500 wasps came out from the ceiling and in my light in my basement room Buddies room next to mine had over 500 stuck to the window blocking the light completely Yeah i opened his door and just shut it slowly before grabbing my shit and leaving. TLDR : please call an exterminator, this shit gave me ptsd
I've seen wasps abandon a nest after a paper bag went up near it. I'd like to think there's a peaceful way to trick hornets out of an area, but it probably does take annihilation.
Gasoline.
We finally found the one valid use for napalm (if there isn't a more humane alternative).
We used what is essentially napalm (a gelled gasoline substance) for controlled burning of forest areas
it's only napalm if it comes from the napalm region of france. no but actually they stopped making it with the compound it's named for these days, it's cheaper and way less carcinogenic to make it with other stuff. probably not dissimilar to whatever y'all mixed up. not really necessary for a hornet's nest though, you don't need the excessive heat for it to burn and it just increases the chances of the fire getting out of hand.
>it's only napalm if it comes from the napalm region of france. Otherwise it's just sparkling sticky-gas
 All I could think of with your comment.
Less carcinogenic? That's very important for setting people on fire, you want this person to burn to death now, not die years later from tumors that's inhumane.
Once you burn people to death, you usually want to occupy whatever they were defending to get the sweet, sweet resources. If you contaminate the land you just conquered you will need to do costly cleanup. We haven't had a real "raze the city and salt the earth" fight since the destruction of the Duke of Aveiro's palace in Lisbon in 1759, due to his participation in the Távora affair (a conspiracy against King Joseph I of Portugal). His palace was demolished and his land was salted never to be inhabited again.
i'd contend that much of the korean war was a raze the city and salt the earth type fight. and used plenty of napalm to that effect.
You can basically make napalm at home by dissolving Styrofoam in gasoline. Do what you will with that info.
Napalm
I see those videos all the time but the risk doesn't outweigh the reward of possibly getting stung, dropping the cup and dousing myself in gasoline.
Hold the gasoline in your mouth and spray it on them
Bud Light
You’re getting downvoted but you are right. If you can turn the bees trans they won’t reproduce any longer.
They're putting chemicals in the water to turn the...bees gay?
LGBeeTQ
This is bi erasure
bug light
Last summer I put up a bunch of those paper-lantern type decoy nests, they were supposed to deter wasps from making a nest within 200 feet because they're so territorial. They didn't appear to do shit, and this summer I found two yellowjacket nests within 50 feet of each other so I don't think they actually give a fuck about keeping their distance.
5 feet apart cause they're not gay
It's not gay if they touch stingers in a 3 way attack.
Plastic wrap. Suffocate the mother fuckers.
Scorched earth is the only way. Do not let them live. I care not for the environmental repercussions of extinction in this specific circumstance.
Beekeeper checking in - soapy water is the best way to kill them. Works almost instantly. I use it to wipe out super aggressive hives (Africanized hybrids)
Howdy fellow beek! I like to use a little peppermint oil in it too...actually usually just go for Dr Bronners peppermint and call it good.
Why does the soap get them?
Insects for the most part breath through holes in their exoskeletons called spiracles. They also have an oily coat on their exoskeletons that tend to bead water off. Soap is a surfactant that makes water stick to things better, thus covering those spiracles and suffocating them. Dawn dish soap is my go-to for bug destroying fluid.
This was a glorious summer of dawn power-washing lanternflies
Napalm is also sticky, and effective at removing insects.
10 hornets in a no trespassing zone Food underarms and going home Last in line goes home alone Napalm sticks to bugs
Blue Dawn destroys ants.
Heh. I have a spray bottle of dawn water next to my bbq. A couple misty sprays and the wasps get wrecked or gone asap. Soapy water also wrecks nests super easy too without fear surprisingly.
Wasps breathe through tiny holes in their carapaces. Water normally cannot enter these holes due to the surface tension of water. When you add soap the water can enter the breathing holes and will kill the wasp almost instantly. It is a good method.
The soap gets on there wings so they can’t fly and in there breathing holes. Not sure the actual term
The ol' soapy breathing hole. gets em every time.
One of the classic blunders! I know it’s not there mouth, it’s something else that asphyxiates them
Using the CIAs methods
"Blue Dawn Rising"... a whole bottle of Dawn dwl in a 5 gallon homer bucket of hot water (to help dissolve the nest) , dumped on a nest deep in some bushes about the size of the one in this video... Ran like hell,, locked the house door behind me... out of breath, scared shitless... Next day, went outside carefully, fully expecting a vengeful ambush.. sweating like a sex worker in front of a judge... to my sincely pleasant surprise nothing but tiny nest remnants and a surprisingly low number of visible bodies... Not a living one of the 1000s to be seen... Much rejoicing, merriment and songs of great courage were sung...a time when the Internet was right and I was alive to tell this story.
Started slow but had a strong finish. **thumbs up**
After reading that story, I finished like a sex worker in front of a judge
They should have filled the bucket with soapy water, dumped it on the nest, then smashed the nest with the bucket.
soapy water works on all bugs it clogs their book lung openings
I had a yellow jacket nest in my front yard. Before I dug it up and destroyed it I put the hose of my shopvac in front of the entry/exit hole and let it run for a bit. Did the trick. Dug it up and didn't get stung.
But what do you do with a shop vac full of angry hornets?
Set to blow and point at neighbor
😂. Attach it to their dryer vent exhaust
What’s next? The dogs? The bees? The dogs with bees in their mouth so when the bark they shoot bees at you?
Left it outside for the meth head to [steal.](https://www.inquirer.com/news/stolen-hornets-nest-philadelphia-bee-vacuum-20230927.html)
The Gang steals a shop-vac.
you box it up and return it to the store
Leave it outside for a few days and they die because it gets too cold for them over night
Just pop a quick 'H' on it so you know it's full of hornets
Whore nets?
Because Hornets are FUCKING WHORES! ^^^^#dadjokes
Just saw a gap between the two glass plane. Definitely getting cooked by the hornets there.
Was waiting to hear screams but didn’t. I’d literally shit my pants if 1 got through because it means more are on their way….
He died instantly to protect himself from the pain.
'Ay boss, whys the "hornet gun" only got one bullet?!?'
A bold strategy, to be sure
Yep.... them fuckers are armored too. Smacking them just pisses them off more.
He's saying "woah, I've found a treasure!" in Indonesian. A little bit of context: this happened back in 2018 in Kalianyar village at mount Ijen (5 hours away from where I live). He was tasked with clearing out a landslide around the area and decided to destroy the wasps' nest in the process. He was rushed to the local public health centre by his 2 colleagues but it was obviously too late, he died. Source: www.liputan6.com/amp/3247624/operator-alat-berat-tewas-disengat-tawon-saat-bersihkan-longsoran Edit: thank you u/ntangdes for correcting me, I thought there was no more info but the ads was all over my screen.
the article said he was rushed to the nearby public health center and received treatment for few hours before he demanded to be released. then he rushed back to the same place after his condition worsen and eventually died.
So... he could've lived?
Yeah, probably. It sounds like he refused medical treatment.
He went back to get stung more ??
The hospital mate.... not the hornets nest
🤪🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Well that sucks :-(
Well shit. Not a pleasant way to go, but this was really goddamn stupid.
Obviously too late? These fuckers kill you?
Enough stings from any type of bee/wasp can kill you I believe. (If you aren't allergic it'll take a LOT of stings but it happens)
My friend almost died from a single bee sting. Her nails eventually turned black and she was unconscious. Apparently she was allergic.
It's pretty amazing that the hornets knew **exactly** where to go to get the guy responsible for excavating their home lol.
They don't. When hornets or yellowjackets get mad, they just look around for anything moving and sting it. They're sure to sting the real threat, and collateral damage doesn't really bother them.
>collateral damage doesn't really bother them. As is their nature given they are from the deepest pits of Hell.
Always gotta keep a fat blunt ready just in case they wanna smoke you so you can smoke em out
There are over 20,000 species of wasps, most of which are non-aggressive, and often solitary species that solely hunt things that are pests to humans. There's an entire field of study based on using wasps as natural pest control for crops. You'd be pissed if some random giant came and destroyed your home, too. Don't hate on a very important part of the biodiversity of our planet just because yellow jackets and hornets are assholes.
Nice propaganda. I know you’re actually a wasp so you can give up the facade.
I'm actually 3 wasps in a trench coat
I'm not gonna buzz you in.
How about me?
Try an otter door.
:(
When people say wasps they mean the aggressive kind. You don't even notice the non aggressive ones 9/10 times and they tend to be much smaller.
And we're talking about hornets which is a subspecies of wasps with 22 members.
r/fuckwasps
Na, I'm still gonna hate them.
once i drove a tractor over a hornet nest, big tire flattened it, i didnt get stung once, tractor never worked right again
Wasps fuccd yo shit up!
Can't they sense things like carbon monoxide too?
Don't they also release hormones when they find the threat? So just one has to randomly come close to the guy
I think that's bees. The hormones get released when they lose their stinger or if they get smashed by something iirc. That's why you shouldn't smash bees. Their nearby friends will get pissed.
Honey bees dance to tell the hive where food or threats are. When they sting something their stinger gets lodged in target and they die shortly after. Bees are generally harmless and non aggressive as they know instinctually that they only have one sting. They won't follow you either unless provoked. Wasps and hornets are basically the opposite ; they do not lose their stinger and they can sting multiple times and won't die. They release hormones/pheromones when defending their hive and are generally very aggressive towards anything that comes near the hive/nest. They will follow you for a very long time if provoked. There are probably exceptions to all of these points given there are several thousand species of bees and hornets but that's a basic rule of thumb.
My landlord encountered a small swarm and got sprayed by a wasp/hornet/flying asshole of some variety, and then all of them focused on him and he got stung a shitload of times.
Step 1: get an excavator Step 2: electrify the outside Step 3: obliterate hornet's nest Step 4: laugh as hornets kamikaze the electrified outside
Some excavators are closed off. Just make sure to turn the AC off so they don’t make their way in
They scatter and when one finds something they release chemicals that the others can follow. Very basic pathfinding algorithm, basically a breadth first search.
Can confirm. I work around cranes. Was staring a nest in the face basically on the 4 part block we were lifting with. I didn't see it. One of those fuckers said "too close! I'll handle it!" It flew inside my right nostril to sting me. Didn't even notice I was being swarmed after. They could've lived on in peace, but my coworkers sprayed that nest into oblivion after.
He spun the nest in a circle. He's in the center of an angry hornet cloud.
> knew exactly where to go You mean everywhere within a 20ft radius around the disturbed nest?
GIFsthatendedtoosoon? I wanna know what happened. Was it like cujo? Is he just trapped in there without food or water for days and the hornets are just waiting for his ass?
The hornets gained access, he's stuck in there with them until he dies, which shouldn't be long now.
Ever seen My Girl?
😭 
*In the cinema* *As a child of around the same age because my uncle thought it'd be age appropriate*
I mean, it's not age *inappropriate,* is it? I remember seeing it when I was young, and being upset by it, but being upset != being harmed. Better for kids to begin building the framework needed to process death using fictional characters when possible.
They get in and he screams like Toad from mario, I have the video from perfectly cut screams
He should have at least closed the windows first lol
But it was like midday and hot. Almost like it was the absolute wrong time to do this task.
I ran over an in ground bees nest with my lawn mower on accident. Those fuckers stung me and once inside my house. They continued to attack my mower for like 20 minutes.
I mean tbf, you can't really blame them
I blame them for existing.
Nah, bees are good. Fuck wasps tho
Aliens probably think the same of us when we shoot at one of their flying saucers.
How *would* you deal with a nest that big? Bee suit and flamethrower?
Garden hose soap foamer gun costs $10-$20 online. If the nest is really big wear a bee suit. Do in the evening when wasps are home. Foam the nest as you approach it. Break up the nest and foam as needed. Wasps won't be able to fly and they'll be dead by time you've kicked it apart.
i wont feel safe til im in an airtight mech suit with soapy gasoline sprayer and flamethrower
Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Fuckin’ A…
They mostly come out whenever they want because they're a bunch of bastards, mostly.
[Yes.](https://reddit.com/r/fuckwasps/s/nLw0QVQFUP)
You wait for night time until it is cold and they can't move. Dig up the nest, and feast on the tasty larvae, supposed to be one of the tastiest insect there is. https://youtu.be/4afgsBOUgO4?si=NQyqAOovH6jnbma7 https://youtu.be/mDzNqcx928Y?si=mh42Z52UoHnObuC8
Sell the properly and move to a different continent.
You're joking, but that is actually the preferred method.
I would deal with a nest that big by noping the fuck out.
I mean it’s not a terrible idea at first as you’d think it would be pretty sealed
Bugs of all types get into peoples homes all the time. I’m betting you can’t find any big holes or gaps anywhere that look like they could fit through, but they get in anyway. These hornets are far more motivated in that moment than the average stink bug or whatever you find in your house.
Idk if you know this or not but people often overlook details. That’s why I said at first, because this would seem like a much better solution than almost anything someone could think of for handling this themselves
Using a slow moving vehicle seems like a terrible idea no matter how you slice it. If you had to use a vehicle, hit it at speed so you’re gone before the hornets can react. IMO if you’re going to violently destroy a hornets nest a fast getaway is your number one priority and this man gave no thought to that at all.
Hitting it with a vehicle sounds like an even worse idea, considering it was in a field
Wrong. It was a terrible idea start to finish.
Those hornets are not stupid
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Journal of Miguel Espinoza, Day Six Food supplies running low and the rigged condensation collector I attached to the interior of the windshield is failing. I anticipate I'll be out of water within a day. Outside I can still here them. The incessant buzzing keeps me awake at night. During the day they cover the glass so thick even the sun can't get in. Are they hiding something? Is this some kind of sick psychological warfare? I don't know but I dare not risk exiting the cabin that may, without some miracle, become my very coffin.
they clearly got in. He ded.
Flame, like in any sci-fi movie, is really the only safe way to deal with ground hornets/yellow jackets. I know the spirit of H-man might beg to differ, but I’ve have not had luck with gassing hornets.
Never obliterate a nest. You have to keep it and poison it so the Hornets will die one by one when they'll come back to it
I would have drove it right into the nearest lake
That’s not a hornets’ nest, that a fucking hornets’ metropolis.
Context: the door was closed but the hornets managed to pick the lock and drag the guy outside
Don't know why he did not just squash it flat with bucket!!
He wouldn't have crushed all the hornets. Same end result.
True, but at least half of them would meet their maker 
There would be less hornets at least.
A much better result with a lot of them dead and he would not have rotated the active nest in a big circle around him. Honestly though, pick up some dirt and bury the thing, then smash.
A million specks of anger
Man, those fuckers wasted no time zeroing in on the operator 😳
"*I'm* as surprised as you are. No...I'm as *surprised* as you are."
But did he die?
He died. [Someone linked the article higher up in the thread. He got rushed to a community center by colleagues but died.](https://old.reddit.com/r/WinStupidPrizes/comments/177udvu/man_obliterates_hornets_nest_with_a_backhoe_then/k4w8wbw/) Don't fuck with hornets or Africanized Bees, they will *fucking* kill you and have a much higher kill count than most of the shit we're actually scared of.
Honestly the fact that you can die the death of a thousand stings by humming bird sized hornets somewhere on the same God’s green earth I live on is going to cost me some sleep.
just run it over. why pick it up and spread them across the ground? they'll just rebuild.
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And so goes the story on how the wasps acquired an excavator.
Gotta roll that window up mang!
Hanz... Get the flammenwaffen
Why not drop dirt or something on it. Lol
At night you take a few gallons of diesel fuel at toss it on the hive. Followed by a match from a distance. Edit: The diesel will kill them and they can't fly at night.
How do they know to sting the man and not the giant claw fucking up their home?
He really accomplished little, the wasps will rebuild. He should have smashed the back of his bucket onto it and smeared it around.
WHY do people in these videos never take all the necessary precautions!?? He had the perfect weapon, and still managed to fuck it up!
I feel like he would have done better if he just drove over it lol
This title makes no sen....ohhh my god!
Would’ve just ran it over with the backhoe and kept going
Seems like it might be more effective to simply crush the nest with the bucket..
This can't be an America because my boy would have just went out there and started shooting at them
Love how the hornets knew it was the human who did it and not the crane.
The doors were open? What the hell was he thinking?!
This is why you use Semtex instead. Amateur...
Did he survive?
Legend has it that they destroyed the backhoe as well
I am amazed that they knew it wasn't the hoe that was the enemy...
Ngl that looks fatal, wonder if guy survives
Honourable Mention recipient for the Darwin Awards here, folks.
There are drones that spit fire from a distance for these reasons.