/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Sorry for shitty cell phone zoom. I'm scared to get too close.

Stand about 6 feet from it for a few minutes and see what happens. Honestly, if they're not aggressive, wasps aren't a bad thing to have around. They clear out other pests and they pollinate nearby flowers/fruits (although not to the extent of bees).

If you don't have kids around and nobody's allergic, let them be.

Use this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbKULf9pX0

>>495344

I thought wasps were useless pollinators.

cherrybomb the crap out of them.

>>495336
Spray the nest with a foaming wasp killer. They can shoot for a long long ways. Do it at night because they can't fly in the dark. Just spotlight it, spray the foam all over the nest then turn the light out and go inside. They'll be dead the next morning.

>>495354
What happened to just throwing rocks at it?

Get one of those dial a concentration berbouli suction hose attachments. They sell them in the garden section for spraying liquid feed and poison.

fill it with cheap dish soap and turn it up to 1 or 2 tbsp. (should be about max on it)

wasps won't be able to fly and the nest will get soaked and fall apart. Crush them but most will just drown.

if its not right where people are all the time and they're not aggressive, leave it. Check your lawn to make sure they haven't setup a nest inside the lawn.

>>495402
They can follow the rocks back to you and sting/swarm you. It depends on how many rocks you through of course and how far away you are.

ok OP here's the plan.

1. get yourself a couple heavy duty trashbags
2. snatch and grab that fuckin' nest into trash bag one
3. spin the now vibrating trashbag quickly to twist it shut
4. toss the fucker into the second trash bag which you then tightly and neatly tie up

DON'T GET FREAKED OUT BY ALL THE NOISE AND ANGER COMING FROM IN THE BAG YOU STAY COOL

5. drive out somewhere and toss the bag out the window

>>495427
this
but throw it at your enemies

>>495431
just what i was thinking

>>495427

This, but fire, then >>495431


?????

Profit

werf some flammen at it
fire is gods cleanser

>>495437
Exactly what I was thinking, maybe follow it up with a taser.

Thermite.

this is purely based on what I read in The Shining, but burning leaves under the nest apparently gets the wasps drunk, at which point you're able to handle it without them being strong enough to attack you.

That, or get one of those wasp sprays like a perfectly logical sollution to your problem would be.

>wait till night-time
>build incendiary explosive device
>place underneath wasps nest
>build explosive device (M-80 or larger) big enough to destroy wasps nest
>wait till morning
>ignite explosive
>wait ~5 seconds for any survivors to start flying around
>ignite incendiary explosive
>laugh

done this, got sollution for it. tis easy, and quite genius.

1. Take two 1,5l bottles (or large plastic bottles fo the same type) ..

2. Cut bottom off

3. Take a light cloth (gas) to make a filter, press the bottles where you cut off the bottom, and the filter between them. Tape it airtight.

Fix one end to a vacuum cleaner, and just vacuum at the entrance of the hive for some time.

When its full of wasps, take the bottle away. (DONT TURN OF THE VACUUM)

While vacuum is running, screw it shut on the end where the wasps are.
Now you can turn of vacuum, unplug the bottle.. And voilaa you got a bottle of wasps. You can fill it with water to kill the wasps.

repeat til the hive is empty.

>>495480
HOLY SHIT.

WASP-BOMB.

FUCK.

TERRORISM JUST HIT AN EVEN MORE TERRIFYING LEVEL

>polite sage for non-relevance to anything.

ok heres what you do

WAIT TILL ITS FUCKING DARK WASP SLEEP AT NIGHT
put a trash bag over it

double bag that fucking thing
put it in a trash can with a lid

now you can burn it or throw it somewhere what ever

>>495431

"Flanders"

>>495485
the fuck did i already say >:|
>>495427

Ever made a flamethrower with a can of deodorant? just spray the nest with it for a few seconds, the flame will burn off the wasps wings making them pretty much harmless :)

>>495336

poke it lol.

> get metal washtub
> fill with gasoline
> set underneath wasp nest
> from afar, throw baseballs or other such things at nest until it falls in
> light gasoline tub and smoke cigars while wasps die agonizing death
> keep fire extinguisher handy in case house catches fire

>>495336
go buy fucking wasp spray from a store, it shoots a massive jet of murder juice that holocausts the nest within seconds for around 10 dollars

Why the fuck is this thread up to 20 posts on when it's practically one of the lowest level traffic boards...

>>495336
My mate lives next to some train tracks, and people use the verge to grow vegetables. But a few years back a wasp nest moved in underneath a flax bush, rendering the whole thing unusable.

The council called in some exterminators who used some kind of fancy pesticide shit. Nothing happened. Eventually it got to the point that we were sitting outside his house drinking beer and a fucking wasp flew over, landed on my arm, stung me and immediately fucking flew off. For no fucking reason.

I just yelled "FUCK" and went full hulk mode on those bastards.
>acquire big ass can of diesel
>acquire lighter
>acquire fire extinguisher
>remove shirt
>acquire crowbar
>crowbar flax bush into a pile of fucked up mess
>empty a solid gallon of diesel into the nest
>ignite
>slowly walk away from fireball, lighting a cigarette, naked from the waist up, covered in stings

Easily the most badass moment of my life. My mate still tells the story of the "Wasp Fuckerupperer".

>>495688
because deep down any red blooded diyer yearns for the chance to dispense impractical deadly death to mans natural enemy ... the wasp.... and that nest is just asking for it...

don't even pretend that you don't get hard just looking at that thing... gas.. spray... water... bags.. so many methods... so much deadly fun

>>495703
EXACTLY. i'm the one who posted this >>495427
and i want to join OP for this adventure. he's a lucky kent.

Really? no one?

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2243176

go and learn

>>495702
> remove shirt

My sides ... so much epic

At my work we have large poles that spray water and they arnt used in the summer so wasps live in them so we have an attachment to the poles and fill them with propane then light them. Its great scary fun with flames killing them and shit

>>495483
>TERRORISM JUST HIT AN EVEN MORE TERRIFYING LEVEL
Heh.

Wasps don't sting or anything at night. So whatever you do, you'll want to do at night.

>>495336
I hear they burn good.

Here is my advice, get a bottle of diesel, and pour it on the nest, dont light it, but the smell drives them away, set up a few traps too. A simple trap is just a bowl with a mix of water, washup liquid and energy drink.

Become THE PAIN!

>>495685
>watch house burn down after huge explosion
you missed that part

i usually just roll up a newspaper, make kind of a long torch out it, dip it in a little gas and light it up then stroll over to the hive at night and torch the fuckers. It'll go up pretty damn fast, and you'll want to clear out right away.

Wasps and hornets are predatory and actually feed on a lot of helpful insects. They love breaking into my bee hives.

>>496197
>Wasps don't sting or anything at night.

I burnt a nest at night and they did try and sting me.

>>496260
They don't usually fly at night... they can't see in the dark and they'll get ate by bats.

Call a black powder shooter ASAP! That's a huge hornet's nest. The paper that nest is made of is HIGHLY sought after by Civil and Revolutionary War Re-enactors using old style muzzle loader powder/shot guns. The wadding (paper that nest is made of) is used because it seperates the powder from the shot and burns almost instantaneously when the firearm is fired. Some guys will even pay you cash for it, they will remove it and take care of the hornets and may even pay you a nice chunk of change. Call a re-enactor group an e-mail them pics.

>>496293

Just a follow-up, 4 Years ago a neighbor had one of these nests in his attic. It was huge the size of two milk crates. A black powder firearm enthusiast arrived with a beekeeper in tow. The removed the next, killed the hornets and paid him $500 cash for the nest! Cha-Ching!! $$$

>>496298
I've heard of this, but never understood why people pay money like that for hornet's nests.

>>496197
>>496260
Wasp will sting the fuck out of you at night. However, they can't fly for shit and normally just crawl around on everything. When they try to fly they end up dropping. Got a flying wasp in your house as night you need to kill? Turn the light out for 2 seconds when it is over a bare patch of floor and it'll drop to the floor. Then step on it.

Attacking nests at night is still the best idea since they won't be trying to fly to you....unless you are stupid and carrying a light strong enough for them to see well enough to fly to you.

>>496527
The paper that the wasp/hornet produces to make their nest out of burns very quickly and with very little ash. It is also compactable and ideal for stuffing down the 38" long barrel of a Revolutionary War Era flintlock or a black powder pistol. This is technology before the invention of the modern cartridge. Writing paper would leave fragments inside the barrel after fired and could possibly delay your reload time. It was fount the paper from insect nests was ideal. http://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/fusionbb/showtopic.php?tid/266514/

>>495427

Yes, and do it in the morning when it is still cold. They're like fucking comatose.

My mom is a mechanic and had finds wasp nests in cars occasionally, sometimes they just leave them be if they're in the a-pillar but a few weeks ago there was actually one in a place they needed to get to so they had to remove it. Since it was still cold they were able to do it without the wasps freaking out at all.

>>496571
huh. Learn something new every day.

>>496571
shit, i never know that. thanks for that bit of information.

I always just get hair spray and a lighter. I mean they can't really get away and then just step on the ones on the ground that are trying to crawl away. Never been stung that way.

>>496571
I still don't understand why people pay so fucking much for it.

>>496799
It's not sold by anyone as far as I know. Either find/forage for your own or ask for it from someone who has a wasp/hornet's nest problem. Probably 2000 customers at best for it in all the USA.

>>496875
Sounds like a ebay item. I have a few nests around here. I better start feeding them and letting them grow. lol

Dude, OP, here's what you do. Take a trash bag and throw the fucker in there. Then throw that into another trash bag and tie that shit up.

Then do whatever you want with it, ;ike throw it at a neighbor.

>>497255
Why do you continue to post the same reply.

>>496799
Ever watch pawn stars, people will pay big money to fire off some old piece off junk.

>>497492
Meant of junk not off junk, stupid fingers.

Get a pressure washer and blast it off the fucking post.

OP I haven't read through this thread so sorry if this has already been said.

mix a spray bottle with 3 parts water and 1 part dawn liquid soap (dishwasher soap) and spray the wasps.

they will drop out of the air like flies. the wasps breathe through their bodies and this will suffocate them.

cheap & easy

>>495354
^^^this is the real answer.
wasps can't fly at night because their metabolism doesn't run high enough.
and even if they are inside when you spray the stuff, they will try to lick it off the nest in the morning, and when they get enough in them they will die (when you aren't around).

just go out well past dark and spray it with some wasp killer for ~3 days in a row. By the 3rd day there's about a 99.9% chance they'll all be dead.

>>495336
Where's OP? Stung to death?

>>497570
>wasps can't fly at night because their metabolism doesn't run high enough.

No, it is because they can't see. If you have a big enough light like a street lamp, they will come out, fly around, and sting the shit out of you. That is why you just use a small light to help target the nest.

Any way besides blasting the thing from orbit with spray is asking to be stung to shit.

Dress up as a giant wasp. They will think you are god and do your bidding.

I have tried this and it works.

>>495336
Why is everybody so fucking scared of wasps?

A few years ago there was a nest like 3' next to my door to the backyard and I walked past it several times each day during summer. Never got stung. I could even stand right next to it, watching them start and land up close. They didn't even fly inside (door was open most of the day).

Plus, they hunt other insects which are by far more annoying. It felt like I had less mosquitos that year than usual.

>>495702
>wasp flew over, landed on my arm, stung me and immediately fucking flew off.

Wasps die when they sting. It was probably a colibri.

>>498711
No, they don't. Bees die when they sting.

>>495702
>implying diesel ignites readily

>>495675
this

>>495702
oh god, my sides.

>>498711
Where did you read that? I think you're thinking off some bees.

>>496527
because hornets are fucking scary shit. one hornet's sting can kill a fucking horse, bro.

>>495344
yeah wasps do hunt other insects/invertebrates but they do not pollinate, they are strictly carnivores, cant say that for some species of bumblebees but they alwasy nest underground and never build a "paper" nest like that

I'd say get a long pole and attach some sort of a torch to it and kill it with fire, I don't think the pole would ignite from the burning nest

>>498574
lol

>>498728
>one hornet's sting can kill a fucking horse
dem legends
fact time:
Hornet poison is less toxic than eg bee's or wasps
Hurts a bit more cause their sting is bigger
You need to let them sting 500-1000 times to endanger your life.

Hornets are less agressive than wasps

>>495336
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH9sOvEDGe0
You are welcome.

>>495449
>creating pissed of wasps with 40 000 volt stings
great idea professor!

>>498728
Are you posting from a 1980s middle school?

>>495675
made me lol

>>495427

1. get yourself a couple heavy duty trashbags
2. crumple up some newspaper and drop it in the bag
3. spray the shit out'a the newspaper with wasp killer spray
3a. not the cheep stuff either
4. snatch and grab that fuckin' nest into trash bag one
5. spin the now vibrating trashbag quickly to twist it shut
6. toss the fucker into the second trash bag which you then tightly and neatly tie up
7. put in garbage can for proper disposal like a civilized person

Otherwise...

Makes me wonder how difficult it would be to just cut the nest off the pole at night — right into a large container with a tight seal.

Sure, it carries some extra risk, but if you just keep it closed long enough you will get a perfectly intact nest — and those seem to sell well on ebay etc…

Bonus points for using clear plastic container so you can watch them expire, heh.

>>498894

mite work

Could try pumping the container full of argon the speed the process up.

>>498931
Or just put it in a freezer overnight.

>>498894
MACHETE

light a couple of smoke bombs under it, wasps don't like smoke

>>495480
I'm having trouble visualizing this one.

Can someone MSPaint it for me?

>>498994

The filter will prevent the wasps from entering the vacuum, so you can trap them in the bottle.

Keep the vacuum on till you have put the cap on the end where the wasps came in, and they're trapped

>>499004
Oh god.

Now I just need to find a wasp nest.

>>499007
you ... see

>>495336

...works for everyone...

>>499004

errrm, everyone with there diy contraption vaccum things, arent you just using a vaccum to power a small vaccum like container thing.
my point being, why not just use the vaccum to vaccum the fuckers up? no worries about loss of suction then.

Step 2, light a bit of petrol on the ground and hoover the fire up, dw it wont burn your hoover(vaccum) if you are careful and dont keep it in the fire too long. The vaccum will suck up the heat and blow it away quickly enough to avoid burning but should toast the fuckers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJQjeBWvm-0

>>499441
You can actually sell live wasps and bees to some colleges who have various studies going or need them for what ever nefarious purposes I don't know. I don't really know the proper search terms for it. There was a guy in my area that advertised a service for removing nests. He used a device similar to >>499027 and he was selling the bees and wasps at top price. He also charged a small fee for removal. He may also have been selling the hives themselves (like anons have mentioned ITT), but I can't confirm that.

>>498707

I have a phobia of wasps and to a lesser extent bees, it's really embarrassing and I don't even know why. I know they usually won't fuck with you and it doesn't even hurt that bad if they do, yet I'm fucking terrified of them.

There's a nest in the side of the hill of my driveway though, no idea how big it is inside but there's constant traffic in and out of a hole during the day.

>>495336
Use water water with soap. Powder soap works best. Throw them the water with a bucket. This kills them instantly. Thank me later and post results.

The second any of this stuff hits them, they drop are not getting back up. I used it do take out a few nests. Strength doesn't matter.

>>499458
that was were i live xD and i work there not as a cop but as tech support those cops are crazy xD

>>498574
It's true!

>>499482
Where?

>>499522
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_del_Quich%C3%A9

>>499528
You live in Guatemala?

Get the foaming wasp killer and at night just spray a bunch of it into the entrance of the hole, Do not just spray it on the outside of the nest. Make sure that if there is a second entrance tho that you have someone to help you spray that one too or else they can fly out and attack you, they can fly at night but they wont be as active and they will all be in the nest. Dont just throw stuff at them because you will only piss them off and then they will become more aggressive to anything moving around near the nest.

Pic related

>>495727
>mfw I can't see the photographs

Is there any anon willing to repost them somewhere?

>>495702
>Flax
>Council

Where the fuck do you live? Rome?

Plebe please.

>>495336
throw stones at it and yell "You only live once"

Get a flame thrower and burn all of it to the ground, all of it, your house, your driveway, leave no remains, these devils should be purged by the fire they will encounter in hell.

i just made a big stick and mashed a wasp nest under my roof. there's like 100's of combs's with squirming on my lawn right now.
wat do /diy/?
only like a quarter of the nest is still up there ad it's mashed pretty good, ut there's 100's of wasps on it.
will they just leave eventually?

>>500038
They'll be gone by morning. something will come and eat them.