Posted on 11/24/2017 7:13:52 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain
He was well protected by a beekeeping suit, and armed with a shovel to hack away at the monstrous hornets’ nest.
“We got here, what I would say, is the granddaddy of all hornets’ nests,” Jude Verret, a Louisiana exterminator, said as he headed into a shed in Patterson, La., to clear a nest of Europan Yellow Jackets.
Beyond physical protection, Verret must have been armed with quite a bit of courage, given the sheer size of the nest — and the million or more hornets he said were swarming around inside.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
Amateur.
I don’t like hornets and I hopefully would have kept a little sharper eye out. Bad dream time tonight.
gas..match, problem solved.
Wasp, hornet and yellow jacket are not interchangeable terms as the ignorant author seems to believe.
I’ve read comments about this exterminator and what he just did here. Many say they are surprised he didn’t just gas them or poison the nest, then return the next day with almost all the insects dead.
Some criticized his chopping at the nest with a shovel as a needless way of further enraging the hornets. All I can say is it makes for quite a spectacle.
He should be glad we don’t have hornets that grow as big as those in China. Those are the size of hummingbirds, and are truly frightening.
Maybe the gas wouldn’t be able to thoroughly penetrate a net that massive? Just thinking out loud.
This seems stupid. Why not wait until dusk, when they go into a torpor?
I have a constant battle with yellowjackets and honeybees. I’ve wiped out at least a dozen beehives that have gotten into the joists between my first and second floors. I have one right now I’m trying to get rid of. 3 hives have been killers, it’s easy to tell the difference. If you get near a killer beehive, you get stung once or twice. Then you know to mow at dusk, when they can’t see you. I live near the Live Oak and Bee County, TX, lines, aptly named. Hate bees and wasps. Got stung about 30-40 times once by bees, and stung on the eyelid by wasps.
This was all done for the video.
1. Open door and set off a couple of cans of room fumigant, go home and drink a beer.
2. Open door next day and wet the nest down with Malathion, go home and drink a beer.
3. They are all dead.
There you go...
This was a staged disaster that anyone could have done a better job of.
“Wasp, hornet and yellow jacket are not interchangeable terms as the ignorant author seems to believe.”
Are you referring to the statement by the exterminator where he refers to a ‘hornets’ nest’?
Hornets and Yellow Jackets are both wasps.
More important than the torpor, is the fact that all of them are at home. Wait until night and kill them all.
Some areas of the US actually do have those Asian hornets, known as Japanese Hornets here in NC. They are huge and fairly hard-shelled so hard to kill, a swat just pisses them off and you really don’t want to do that. Fortunately they’re pretty laid back and not generally aggressive, but if you do have the misfortune of getting stung by one I’ve heard the sensation compares to being shot with a nail gun. You can tell when one gets in the house because you can feel their wing beats in the air, yep like a hummingbird. They’re huge for a hornet but they’re not quite as large as a hummingbird, not the ones around here at least. They’re useful because they attack and eat wasps, even the larvae in the nests.
Well, yeah.... they were in a steel garden shed. Why not put a sheet of plastic over the door (or more likely the whole building) and gas them? This way, he just released a billion of those pests to go and find some other place to start a home, no?
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