I recall the black marks on our cabin’s eaves for many years as a child. Not sure how the old man got rid of it, but he too was real fond of gasoline (barbeque starter, hand and tool cleanser, weed killer, ant killer, etc.)
I think it involved taking a coffee can of gas and tossing it onto the nest attached to the eaves. Then tossing a match.
sounds like something my father would have done...only he smoked the hive first then knocked it down and burned it...it was hanging off a tree outside the kitchen window of the cottage....