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 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.
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?