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.
This seems stupid. Why not wait until dusk, when they go into a torpor?
Should have waited till dark when all the hornets are in and sleeping. Then hit it with lots of killer spray. We found years ago that straight gasoline will kill them dead, dead, DEAD! instantly! Just don’t smoke when you spray it or you will still kill them and lose the shed.
spray a steady stream of hot soapy water over the nest
it’d kill all those wasps as he was tearing it apart
Absolutely insane way to “destroy” this nest.
All this morn did is drive these hornets to set up dozens of new nests on this property and the neighbors’ properties.
Not to mention, there is a very large amount of fantastically beautiful paper in that nest that could have been taken out and sold on ebay for some decent coin.
They should have waited until it was dark and the creatures were all completely docile, sealed up the building and bug-bombed it.
A large-capacity dust collector from a wood shop would have been helpful. 4” hose, walk up and start sucking them in by the gallon.
Nuke it from orbit.
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Two words:
Flame.
Thrower.
I shot a ‘roosting’? hornet in half at 50 feet with my trusty Daisy when I was 12.
Couldn’t make that shot again if my life depended on it. For one thing, probably couldn’t see it.
Years ago, I killed off a hornets’ nest by pulling up close to it in my van at night and drenching it with several cans of “Hot Shot” wasp killer. Once they realized they were under attack, hundreds of them flew out and attacked my vehicle (a bit daunting, seeing these pissed-off little beasts in my headlights). I then pulled back and returned about 15 minutes later to soak it again, and all but the last few writhing around were dead. Next day I cut that (rather elaborate) nest from its stem into a paper sack and burned the whole mess to ashes.
Florida - flat lands, scrub pines, swamp lands, alligators, hurricanes and INSECTS - of all the places in the U.S. I enjoy or ever want to go to, Florida is not on the list.
