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Location: Bastrop, Texas | I have a football sized wasp nest full of nasty mean ass red wasps. Both Carol and I have been nailed by these buggers. I've dumped two big cans of wasp spray (one was the foaming stuff) and all it did was pis$ them off and make them bigger and meaner. I've been told Dawn dish soap and water will work. Any other suggestions?
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Sounds like Hornets that you guys have, I use RealKill its for Hornets and Wasp's. I always the soak the heck out of them then I pull the nest down with a rock rack. Dont leave the nest up.
I have the spray in every building I have out here and also keep cans on my gator and goft car. I have Wrasp and hornets really bad out here and got to keep the spray handy.
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 Accident Prone
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Wasps have been so bad around here this year, that my hubby went to 7 stores in 2 towns and came up with 2 cans yesterday. He hits them just after dark when they're all on the nest and sprays until all are dead. |
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 The Vaccinator
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Location: Slipping down the slope of old age. Boo hoo. | The nest definitely has to come down and be done away with.... |
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 No Tune in a Bucket
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Location: Texas | Dish detergent and water does work. Just mix in a glass and throw it on the nest usually after dark when they return to the nest. My husband uses it for wasp nests on the AC units but if they are aggressive I would rather use the spray that you can shoot from a distance. |
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| I use WD40. |
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  Ms. Marine
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Location: Texas | Brake cleaner works wonders. It dries them out and they fall out of the nest dead. Then you can destroy the nest. |
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Location: California | BarrelRacing4Christ - 2014-08-16 10:08 AM Brake cleaner works wonders. It dries them out and they fall out of the nest dead. Then you can destroy the nest.
Brake cleaner and a pressure washer to knock the nest down is our go to fix . Had a huge problems with nests this summer . |
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BHW Resident Surgeon
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | Thanks everyone. My next move is the Dawn dish soap and water. I read that the soap gets on their wings and they can't fly. My luck they will just jump down and run after me and sting my feet or crawl up my pant legs and sting my ass. This is a vicious bunch. |
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | The nest comes down tomorrow. I'm going to soak that sucker and burn it in the driveway. |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | HotbearLVR - 2014-08-16 1:32 PM The nest comes down tomorrow. I'm going to soak that sucker and burn it in the driveway.
Better keep your running shoes on while trying to kill off the wasp's.  |
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 I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | We've had some really big nests and have always waited for dark and then soaked it and knocked it down the next day. We use Real Kill. |
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | HotbearLVR - 2014-08-16 1:30 PM Thanks everyone. My next move is the Dawn dish soap and water. I read that the soap gets on their wings and they can't fly. My luck they will just jump down and run after me and sting my feet or crawl up my pant legs and sting my ass. This is a vicious bunch.
I can't help it....I only have the vision of you running around in circles, swatting the air and screaming like a little girl ..... |
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Location: SE Louisiana | Like has been said.... Do it at NIGHT when they are all on the nest and if anything should get out it will not be able to see in the dark... Any good wasp/hornet spray should do the trick.. |
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Location: Home of the World Famous "Silver Bullet" | at night, light some rolled up news paper on fire and burn their little wings off. knock the nest down and burn it.  |
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I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | barn mom - 2014-08-16 2:43 PM at night, light some rolled up news paper on fire and burn their little wings off. knock the nest down and burn it.
Trust me...This is not a good idea for Scott as he would end up burning his house down..LOL |
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Location: LaBelle, Florida | So I guess my suggestion of brake cleaner and blow torch would not be a viable choice for Scott..... |
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I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | kasaj2000 - 2014-08-16 3:20 PM So I guess my suggestion of brake cleaner and blow torch would not be a viable choice for Scott.....
He's not allowed to play with matches..LOL |
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"Heck's Coming With Me"
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Location: Kansas | Wow, killer instincts unleashed............ 
I was attacked by a yellowjacket last summer. Now there's a sting that will make you unhappy for a few days.
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The Vaccinator
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Location: Slipping down the slope of old age. Boo hoo. | Red wasps attacked my mare today.... perhaps while you are in the "kill" mode you could "fumigate" my barn. WHY do we have so many horrid wasps this year????????? |
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Location: Here | Nevertooold - 2014-08-16 1:59 PM We've had some really big nests and have always waited for dark and then soaked it and knocked it down the next day. We use Real Kill.
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | Nevertooold - 2014-08-16 3:27 PM kasaj2000 - 2014-08-16 3:20 PM So I guess my suggestion of brake cleaner and blow torch would not be a viable choice for Scott.....
NTO knows me!!! LOL |
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Location: Here | Delta Cowgirl - 2014-08-16 7:40 PM Red wasps attacked my mare today.... perhaps while you are in the "kill" mode you could "fumigate" my barn. WHY do we have so many horrid wasps this year?????????
Im sorry. they are terrible here too |
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | I made two more direct applications today. Prepping the battleground with an arial assault before the ground troops move in for the kill at sunrise. I'll knock me down with a direct frontal assault and mop up with flame throwers.
"Shock and Awe"!   |
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | Damm terrorists
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Location: Here | HotbearLVR - 2014-08-16 9:41 PM I made two more direct applications today. Prepping the battleground with an arial assault before the ground troops move in for the kill at sunrise. I'll knock me down with a direct frontal assault and mop up with flame throwers. "Shock and Awe"!
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I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | HotbearLVR - 2014-08-16 9:41 PM I made two more direct applications today. Prepping the battleground with an arial assault before the ground troops move in for the kill at sunrise. I'll knock me down with a direct frontal assault and mop up with flame throwers. "Shock and Awe"!
Well? Are you in the ER? |
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Location: Here | Nevertooold - 2014-08-16 10:43 PM HotbearLVR - 2014-08-16 9:41 PM I made two more direct applications today. Prepping the battleground with an arial assault before the ground troops move in for the kill at sunrise. I'll knock me down with a direct frontal assault and mop up with flame throwers. "Shock and Awe"!
I figured he burnt the house down |
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | Not yet |
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 I Don't Brag
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| I found a guy on FB who was advertising removal. He came and took it down, put it in a pillow case in the back of the car.....you couldn't PAY me to catch a ride with them with that thing in the back! They remove the venom from them and sell it. Maybe you could find someone local to you? If you have poisoned them too much, that is.
Good luck you. I got hit by two or three of them in the shoulder and it literally knocked me down....like getting hit by a baseball bat! |
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Location: SE Louisiana | rodeoveteran - 2014-08-16 11:08 PM
I found a guy on FB who was advertising removal. He came and took it down, put it in a pillow case in the back of the car.....you couldn't PAY me to catch a ride with them with that thing in the back! They remove the venom from them and sell it. Maybe you could find someone local to you? If you have poisoned them too much, that is.
Good luck you. I got hit by two or three of them in the shoulder and it literally knocked me down....like getting hit by a baseball bat!
That sounds like a hornet.... I saw a BIG man take one of those in the chest and it knocked him on his butt... |
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| komet. - 2014-08-16 11:12 PM
rodeoveteran - 2014-08-16 11:08 PM
I found a guy on FB who was advertising removal. He came and took it down, put it in a pillow case in the back of the car.....you couldn't PAY me to catch a ride with them with that thing in the back! They remove the venom from them and sell it. Maybe you could find someone local to you? If you have poisoned them too much, that is.
Good luck you. I got hit by two or three of them in the shoulder and it literally knocked me down....like getting hit by a baseball bat!
That sounds like a hornet.... I saw a BIG man take one of those in the chest and it knocked him on his butt...
Yep, the big, bald faced hornets... the kind that make the big paper football nests in the trees. These guys would catch all kinds of wasps and hornets....demand for the venom comes from the medical field, I think. |
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I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | HotbearLVR - 2014-08-16 10:53 PM Not yet
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| Sevin dust. |
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Location: In a happy place | I am waiting to hear the results. I got stung by one this week right in the chest. It came out of nowhere and just hit me head on. Death to all wasps!
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Location: Here | sorrel horse ranch - 2014-08-17 8:35 AM I am waiting to hear the results. I got stung by one this week right in the chest. It came out of nowhere and just hit me head on. Death to all wasps!
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Has anybody heard from Scott this morning? I was wondering if he survived his attacked on the wasps? |
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I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | I found a spray by Bengal for Wasps and Hornets today so I'm locked and loaded. I'll let you know how it works as we got rid of the nests so I find them flying around in our barn and I spray them when they are flying. |
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Location: SE Louisiana | Just Plain Lucky - 2014-08-17 7:38 AM Sevin dust.
LOL!!!!! We need something with some KNOCK DOWN Power... Fairy Dust ain't gonna cut it....
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Location: Oklahoma | I bought something at the feed store and it's the best wasp spray I've used. Drops them as soon as it hits them. We just soak the nest and all the ones we see.....it's worked if we can find the nest. Doesn't work so well if you're just hitting random wasps....other than it will drop them when they dive bomb you. It's called Bonide Wasp and Hornet Killer. Trusted since 1926 is what it says on the label. Here is what else it says: - Prevents nesting
- Jet spray will reach nests up to 20' above ground
- Kills Wasps, Honets, & Carpenter Bees on contact
- Kills the entire nest
- Dielectric Breakdown Voltage of 47,300 Volts (whatever that means....)
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Location: SE Louisiana | dianeguinn - 2014-08-17 1:51 PM
I bought something at the feed store and it's the best wasp spray I've used. Drops them as soon as it hits them. We just soak the nest and all the ones we see.....it's worked if we can find the nest. Doesn't work so well if you're just hitting random wasps....other than it will drop them when they dive bomb you. It's called Bonide Wasp and Hornet Killer. Trusted since 1926 is what it says on the label. Here is what else it says: - Prevents nesting
- Jet spray will reach nests up to 20' above ground
- Kills Wasps, Honets, & Carpenter Bees on contact
- Kills the entire nest
- Dielectric Breakdown Voltage of 47,300 Volts (whatever that means....)
Unless I miss my guess... the spray will act as an insulator up to that voltage.... Then the insulating properties start to break down and it will conduct electricity. 47k volts is not all that much so be careful about spraying open wiring.
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | Mission accomplished.....spray, then Dawn dish soap, then a broom handle and it's gone! I need to remain vigilant. These wasps are smart and cagey. They will be back.....probably to sting Carol in the ass for revenge! They prefer her to my crusty bitter old butt. |
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Angel in a Sorrel Coat
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Location: In a happy place | Glad to hear you got them taken care of. |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | HotbearLVR - 2014-08-17 4:43 PM Mission accomplished.....spray, then Dawn dish soap, then a broom handle and it's gone! I need to remain vigilant. These wasps are smart and cagey. They will be back.....probably to sting Carol in the ass for revenge! They prefer her to my crusty bitter old butt.
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Angel in a Sorrel Coat
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Location: In a happy place | HotbearLVR - 2014-08-17 4:43 PM Mission accomplished.....spray, then Dawn dish soap, then a broom handle and it's gone! I need to remain vigilant. These wasps are smart and cagey. They will be back.....probably to sting Carol in the ass for revenge! They prefer her to my crusty bitter old butt.
You need to do all you can to take care of Carol's sweet cheeks Doc. At all cost! LOL. |
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Location: MD | HotbearLVR - 2014-08-17 5:43 PM
Mission accomplished.....spray, then Dawn dish soap, then a broom handle and it's gone! I need to remain vigilant. These wasps are smart and cagey. They will be back.....probably to sting Carol in the ass for revenge! They prefer her to my crusty bitter old butt.
start looking for other smaller nests! we thought we just had one big giant nest. knocked that one out and discovered smaller nests in a build! didn't even think to look for them until I watched my dog being chased off of our deck by these mean little things! |
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I Don't Brag
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| So I walk out yesterday to do chores. take 3 steps off the deck and BAM! I get stung in the top of my head. I get away, turn around and look and the is a hugh paper nest hanging low in the tree I have been walking under everyday......when did they build that??!
So while I was gone, at a rodeo, hubby soaked it last night in wasp spray and ether, then set it on fire. Hopefully they were all home at the time.
What's the deal with the wasps this year? |
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Location: MD | rodeoveteran - 2014-08-18 3:31 PM
So I walk out yesterday to do chores. take 3 steps off the deck and BAM! I get stung in the top of my head. I get away, turn around and look and the is a hugh paper nest hanging low in the tree I have been walking under everyday......when did they build that??!
So while I was gone, at a rodeo, hubby soaked it last night in wasp spray and ether, then set it on fire. Hopefully they were all home at the time.
What's the deal with the wasps this year?
we were at a pool party and the family just bought a slide for their pool and the kids were going down it all day. all of the sudden there is a kid screaming bloody murder, got stung by a yellow jacket while going into the pool.. We hadn't seen one at all. the kids were scooting around that slide all day and then we see a football sized nest under their new slide that they bought a week ago.... what the heck
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| rodeoveteran - 2014-08-18 2:31 PM
So I walk out yesterday to do chores. take 3 steps off the deck and BAM! I get stung in the top of my head. I get away, turn around and look and the is a hugh paper nest hanging low in the tree I have been walking under everyday......when did they build that??!
So while I was gone, at a rodeo, hubby soaked it last night in wasp spray and ether, then set it on fire. Hopefully they were all home at the time.
What's the deal with the wasps this year?
I want to know too!!!
We've killed probably 3 or 4 nests this year around the barnyard. Freakin' lil bastards!!!! |
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Location: SW MO | I've always been afraid of getting stung on the head or neck. If I get stung on the foot it will swell clear to my knee or on the hand it swell to my elbow. I'd hate to see what I looked like if I got stung on the face or head |
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Location: SE Louisiana | crossspur - 2014-08-18 3:15 PM
I've always been afraid of getting stung on the head or neck. If I get stung on the foot it will swell clear to my knee or on the hand it swell to my elbow. I'd hate to see what I looked like if I got stung on the face or head
Strange as it sounds... gasoline on the sting stops it in it's tracks... I used to be like you. I'd get stung on the finger and my whole arm would swell up.... Then I took the advice of an old man back home in Missouri and one time I got stung on the arm and I had a can of gas close by. I soaked a rag and held it on the sting for about 5 mins. It never got any larger than a skeeter bite and it has worked every time since. I guess the gas is absorbed into the skin and it neutralizes the venom as it pass by. |
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