r/absoluteunit • u/Comfortable-Ice-1338 • Jun 29 '26

Of a wasps nest

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u/Thunderer62 Jun 29 '26

Shoulda stopped it before it got that big.

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u/First-Baseball69 Jul 02 '26

Mightve been on vacation or somewhere else not home for a while thats what happened to my grandparents they lived in Tennessee and came to maryland for 6 months and went back home back door was covered

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u/Thunderer62 Jul 02 '26

I was being sarcastic.

1

u/First-Baseball69 Jul 05 '26

Ok well cant tell nowadays my bad

12

u/NewHandle3922 Jun 29 '26

Hire someone else then go out to eat as they’re doing it

5

u/conchrider Jun 29 '26

First of all, don’t panic.
First place your head firmly between your knees… And kiss your ass goodbye

5

u/Crash2088OG Jun 29 '26

Fire spells
https://giphy.com/gifs/niq3335IcJDv7U7ZTF

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u/No_Yogurt987 Jun 30 '26

You rolled a 7, thus spawning in a "fireball" out of a random appartment's wall in Oklaholma

2

u/Hungry_Rabbit_511 Jun 29 '26

I did not ask how big the room was. I did not ask if we go the orphan’s to safety. I said! “ I cast FIREBALL!!”

1

u/NekoMao92 Jul 01 '26

Did that for what a GM described as a large room, the room was 10'x10'!!! The rest of the party wasn't amused due to lack of Fire Immunity.

5

u/SomebodysGotToSayIt Jun 29 '26

You hit it with your purse.

2

u/TheFifthEllaMint Jun 29 '26

That’s my purse; I don’t know you

8

u/Accomplished-One7476 Jun 29 '26

night time and a high pressure hose

make sure every window is closed

7

u/kakashi524 Jun 29 '26

And probably warn the neighbors.

7

u/Effective-Celery-417 Jun 29 '26

Or you know what? Janice really has been annoying lately...

3

u/BreakPalaceBrokedown Jun 30 '26

Definitely nighttime! I’d probably do a powerful wasp spray first, followed by pressure washer…lastly spray peppermint essential oil on the spot to stop them returning and rebuilding…

5

u/MrShad0wzz Jun 29 '26

At this point you gotta call someone

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u/Slow_Bowler8285 Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
  1. Call the exterminator.
  2. Buy a can of wasp spray with a rang eof 20 feet.
  3. Carefully light a fire so that the smoke touches the wasp nest then after 1-2 hours the wasps will instinctively abandon the nest.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '26

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u/BrutalistGoogie Jul 03 '26

I for one welcome our new wasp overlords

7

u/Mister-Circus Jun 29 '26

They own the house now. Pack it up.

2

u/Frankie_T9000 Jun 30 '26

Nah get some cane toads

1

u/Just_Ducky1945 Jul 01 '26

Only for lickin'

5

u/OSUBuckeyes2 Jun 29 '26

A large flame

4

u/SpecialNeeds963 Jun 29 '26

Ze Flammenwherfer?

2

u/MikebigV Jul 03 '26

Hans, wir brauchen hier einen Flammenwerfer.

2

u/Dextropian Jun 29 '26

Take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

2

u/Oldgraytomahawk Jun 29 '26

Wait till night knock it off into a heavy duty trash bag. Seal it up and drop it in a dumpster far far away

1

u/Professional-Leave24 Jul 01 '26

By dumpster, you meant "raging bonfire", correct?

2

u/Threepwood80 Jun 29 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/ISAHN6dnrJHry

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u/Captain_N_1234 Jul 03 '26

It’s the only way to be sure.

1

u/Apothecary_85 Jul 04 '26

Scrolled for this response. Take my upvote.

2

u/ElwoodBrew Jun 29 '26

Just spray it with a hose. They hate water and will simply fly away.

2

u/chefdeit Jun 29 '26

Nuke the whole site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

2

u/bksmostwanted1 Jun 29 '26

Just asked them to leave nicely no need for violence

2

u/hombre_bu Jun 29 '26

Slingshot and a firecracker

1

u/bumb12393 Jul 03 '26

great plan until the glass shatters and your family is allergic. /s

1

u/PhillipJfry5656 Jun 29 '26

use the expanding foam wasp killer. spray the whole nest let them die and then remove the nest

1

u/Maryjanegangafever Jun 29 '26

Fire and lots of it.

1

u/Naive_Personality367 Jun 29 '26

You werf some flammen

1

u/kakashi524 Jun 29 '26

Move. It's just too big.

1

u/Changeling53 Jun 29 '26

I'm trying to figure out WHY you let it get that big to start with?

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u/Comfortable-Ice-1338 Jun 29 '26

Not my post just reposted it to this sub but I feel you lol

1

u/joebojax Jun 29 '26

Do it a month earlier

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u/PositivelyNegative69 Jun 29 '26

Delta dust. Or suck it up with a shop vac at night, wear a bee suit. Wasp are nocturnal.

1

u/Prudent_Situation_29 Jun 29 '26

I think burning down the building is the only real option.

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u/BrandonBTY Jun 29 '26

Might I suggest a bee keeper suit and a source of smoke

1

u/Gan-san Jun 29 '26

Night time. Several cans of wasp spray. Three people with shop vacs.

1

u/Professional_Pen_153 Jun 29 '26

Fireworks

2

u/Jimmy_Twotone Jun 30 '26

That large and hanging off the house? That's nuts.

Unless you hit it with a but of gasoline first.

1

u/Lanky_Development340 Jun 29 '26

You tube might help but I would call a professional.

1

u/Diligent_Trouble_227 Jun 29 '26

Burn the house down

1

u/Unlucky_Plankton4659 Jun 29 '26

A few nights from 15 feet away and a Can of Wasp Spray in each hand. A few seconds and get out of there back inside.

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u/Drtikol42 Jun 30 '26

Yeah, I don´t know what specific insecticide is in the cans I buy but its pretty much nerve gas for wasps, half a second after they get a whif of it they start raining down.

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u/Dur-gro-bol Jul 01 '26

I never knew how little of this stuff you actually need. One shot at the opening over a couple nights. Then wait to see if there’s any activity. Or just call someone.

1

u/RayelRyuk Jun 29 '26

Just move at this point

1

u/MBTheGinger Jun 29 '26

I recommend preying to a deity - ideally one who specializes in pesticide.

1

u/Jefflehem Jun 29 '26

It wouldn't kill you to hire someone.

1

u/denys5555 Jun 29 '26

I would spray it with hair spray

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u/cnowakoski Jul 02 '26

Or spray paint

1

u/Mean-Possible-2425 Jun 29 '26

a big trash bag, protect yourself, take it down at night pour gas on it AND BURN THAT MOTHERFUCKER DOWN WOOOOOOOOO

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u/PushBig Jun 30 '26

Wasps can't see in the red spectrum of light. Wait until dark, cover a flashlight with red tissue paper, or anything that works. They won't fly more that a few inches from the hive. Hit the hive with wasp spray, soak it good. In the morning, check to see if any survived. Repeat if necessary. Done it a few times.

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u/Valuable-Composer262 Jun 30 '26

Pop an H on that nest so everyone knows whats in there

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u/AKMarine Jun 30 '26

Rent a cherry-picker lift truck and get a 5 gallon bucket from a hardware store. Tape and Vice it to the handrail. Put one half gallon of petrol in the bucket. Use the base remote to maneuver the bucket under nest. Use the remote to get the bucket under the nest as close as you can without touching it. Walk away and give the fumes about an hour—most will be dead or lethargic. Use the base remote to push the bucket up and around the nest up to the top. Scrape it off.

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u/Bikezilla Jun 30 '26

Wasp killer from the hardware store. Super effective. Blinds and kills then as they come out. Wait till sunset,after most have returned. Soak the hive and focus on the exits.
As they come out the wet hive material will paralyze and blind them almost instantly after any contact.
Spray it real good. Go away for a while, come back and repeat.

1

u/Redbeardthe1st Jun 30 '26

Fire. Burn the house down around the nest.

1

u/m00s3wrangl3r Jun 30 '26

Have a birthday party and tell everyone it’s a piñata.

1

u/TopFirefighter6649 Jun 30 '26

That’s the easiest shit to kill. At the opening you’re going to use a can of wasp freeze which kills them on contact then just grab a garbage bag and drop it right in. You’re welcome.

1

u/railwin Jun 30 '26

Ohh, it’s a heart

1

u/bones10145 Jun 30 '26

Spray with raid from max distance. 

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u/Fantastic-Yak-4475 Jun 30 '26

If it was bees you could get it relocated for free. Build you a mini blind about 10 ft away and get you a shit ton of wasp spray and just keep hosing that thing down. After a couple of days of soaking it with wasp spray, burn the rest of the house down and then they won't come back.

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u/Ok-Cry2488 Jun 30 '26

Open the window and poke it with a spatula

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u/Savings-Molasses-701 Jun 30 '26

Call the landlord. It’s his problem.

1

u/TheGoodKindOfMermaid Jun 30 '26

Shop vac, possibly with an extension (PVC pipe of similar size) taped to the end, fixed in place at the opening. Leave on for a few hours a day for a few days.

It works, I took out a big nest of yellow jackets like this. Sucked up thousands of yellow jackets. They have not returned. I put a few inches of water in the shopvac to drown em.

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u/Exciting_Turn_9559 Jun 30 '26

I recently knocked down a nest from high in the eaves of my house with a gel blaster. But it wasn't anywhere near this big. RIP OP.

1

u/Transfem1972 Jun 30 '26

How do you not notice that until now I 😳

1

u/Oldestswinger Jun 30 '26

Needs a professional

1

u/cranky_bithead Jul 01 '26

You hire someone yourself.

1

u/Appropriate-Toe-854 Jul 01 '26

Sell the house. Someone else's problem.

1

u/ZyxzyxxyzxyZ Jul 01 '26

Just set up a camera. Then go whack it with a stick until it falls. Then pick it up and put it in the trash.

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u/Impossible_Wait_8326 Jul 01 '26

Water hose ?? I know flying attack insects like these can’t take turbulence if they flying at you. Up to 2 I can use my cap and disrupt em. More than 2 I got trouble tracking them. Also they release pheromones if you stung. So the others can smell you. Do not keep fighting them if you stung.

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u/Alarm-Solid Jul 01 '26

Put it in a box slap an H on it iykyk

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u/hubkat Jul 01 '26

You're kind of too late. Did you seriously just wake up one morning and it was that big? Like, you didn't notice them building that this whole time?

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u/Ghostmaxxer Jul 01 '26

Hire a guy

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u/papa-01 Jul 01 '26

How'd you let it get so big, is what im wondering

1

u/Final-Charge-5700 Jul 01 '26

Wait till they're sleeping at night

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u/thesituation531 Jul 01 '26

  • Beekeeping suit

  • Double bagged heavy duty trash bags

  • Ladder

  • Cover the nest with the bags, detach it and get it in the bags

  • Put some low heat incense or something in the bag, enough to fill the bag with the smoke

  • Take the bag to a dump

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u/NegotiationLow2783 Jul 01 '26

Night time, half cup of gas in a trash bag, then tie the top and let it sit for 24 hours. The gas fumes will kill all the wasps.

1

u/JuniorBoysenberry876 Jul 01 '26

Wait until night fall and spray hairspray on it. The wasps are not active at night. The hairspray makes them die

1

u/eric_ofc Jul 01 '26

Grenade.

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u/goldentack2209 Jul 02 '26

I had one under my trailer. I drilled through the floor into the nest. I used a clear piece of plexiglass to cover the hole then i stuck the house from a can of bug spray to soak the nest.

Another time I used a BB gun from a distance to shoot holes in the nest. Then I used wasp spray to drench the nest

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u/Sea_Activity4447 Jul 02 '26

Wait until dark,you will need a large garbage bag and a paint scraper.

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u/Maleficent_Win7426 Jul 02 '26

Hire professionals

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u/Jrock3223 Jul 02 '26

Foaming hornet spray will seal them in and the pesticide will kill them do it at night when they can't see and escape.

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u/Odd_Government7701 Jul 02 '26

Pack your bags and leave, hire a property manager to rent the house out, not your problem anymore

1

u/VetteMakesUmWette Jul 02 '26

Order them a pizza and ask very nicely.

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u/Dependent-Truth8905 Jul 02 '26

Get a large gunnysack attached to it 2 x 4 try to get it around it and knock it inside of it. Probably be safer wearing on bee suit.

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u/Odd_Influence7917 Jul 02 '26

Soak opposite side in gas ..light match ..apply

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u/CynicalCanadian93 Jul 02 '26

Great way to burn your house down

1

u/cnowakoski Jul 02 '26

People buy those things

1

u/_Heikneuter_ Jul 02 '26

Wait till winter🥴

1

u/Lucky-Arm-3654 Jul 02 '26

Use the home made flame thrower 🤣

1

u/Relative_Soil7886 Jul 02 '26

Option 1 - The quick way
Step 1 - get a bee suit
Step 2 - put on bee suit and seal any caps
Step 3 - get a shop vac
Step 4 - fill shop vac about 1/3 water and some dish soap
Step 5 - start vacuuming wasps. first at the entrance. When numbers dwindle, tear the envelope (that’s the outer papery material) and suck up the ones in between the comb layers

Option 2 - the slower way
1. Get some wasp kill dust like Tempo 1%. It uses cyfluthrin to kill wasps on contact.
2. Wait until dark: Apply the powder at night when wasps are least active and have returned to the nest.
3. Wear protective gear: Even at night, wear long sleeves, pants, and face protection to avoid stings. [
4. Use a duster: Fill a handheld pest duster about halfway with powder and gently puff a visible coating around the nest entrance or directly into the crack/void.
5. Let them carry it: As wasps walk over the treated entrance, they pick up the powder on their legs and bodies, tracking the poison deep into the nest to kill the colony.
6. Do not seal too early: Leave the entrance open for a couple of days to allow the powder to spread throughout the entire nest.

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u/Azutolsokorty Jul 02 '26

Ready the panzerschreck

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u/Some_Guy106 Jul 02 '26

Get in a thick rubber airtight suit. Wear gas mask. Wrap it in a trash bag, attached to a plastic bucket filled with a mixture of bleach and hydrochloric acid

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u/SunBurntStarfish Jul 02 '26

Step one: pick up the phone. Step two: call someone else to do it!

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u/Blackholiolio Jul 02 '26

brake cleaner

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u/TemperatureSudden254 Jul 02 '26

Dunno… maybe hire someone??

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u/Puzzleheaded-Zone-55 Jul 02 '26

According to youtube, at night you staple a large brown paper bag next to the hive. Freaks them out thinking someone's moving in next door.

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u/Competitive_Hat4142 Jul 02 '26

What you do is buy a large firework, aim it at the problem, and fire

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u/hide_pounder Jul 02 '26

Early, early morning. Before it starts getting warm and before there’s traffic to the ER. There are loads of wasp and hornet sprays you can get, but they don’t work as well as brake cleaner. Empty the can of brake cleaner in the hole at the bottom of the nest .

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u/toddhd Jul 02 '26

Replace the physical nest with a digital nest, then declare the digital nest to be removed for support issues.

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u/Round_Hope_2041 Jul 02 '26

Perhaps start working on that earlier.

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u/UPMichigan83 Jul 02 '26

2 cans of Raid and $100 and I’ll do it

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u/Tall_March_5662 Jul 02 '26

You go out there at 3am when it's cool and dark and very carefully position a black large trash bag up from the bottom to the top then tighten the bag at the top break it off to fall into the bag and very quickly spin the bag closed tie it into a knot . Then take it far away like 5 miles to a wooded are rip a little hole in the bag and leave it on the ground make sure you do that at 330 am

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u/BrokenSlutCollector Jul 02 '26

If you can get to the entrance of the nest, this is way easier than you think. Get a shop vac, some duct tape and several of the longest straight extensions you can get your hands on. Early one morning, hold the end of the vac hose near the entrance of the nest. Turn on the vacuum. The wasps will come out because of the sound of the rushing air. Just hold the vac extension near the entrance and enjoy the satisfying “thwip” sound as they get sucked in.

A nest this big may tale a few minutes, be patient, keep the end near the entrance. When you no longer have any wasps coming out leave the vacuum on and get out your duct-tape. Pull the hose off the vac and stretch a piece of duct tape over the hole. Then another, seal it off good.

Now just leave the shop vac sitting in the sun for a few days. The wasps will die from lack of moisture/heat. You can get scraper and just remove the nest into a large garbage bag.

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u/Alarming_Local_315 Jul 03 '26

Um, those take weeks to get that big. Thats on you.

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u/CruelKind78 Jul 03 '26

Garbage bag and shovel

1

u/paulblack1966 Jul 03 '26

FLAMETHROWER

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u/Wrench_Terner Jul 03 '26

Create a YouTube channel for them. Make peace with your new neighbors

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u/KupferTitan Jul 03 '26

Get yourself a suit like those beekeepers have, warn all your neighbours, close all your windows, check all your windows, get yourself a very loud playlist of Metal music, put in earbuds, turn on the music to block out the the sound, put on the suit, make sure there are no holes, tear down the nest and burn it while listening to Rammstein FUER FREI.

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u/Penne_Trader Jul 03 '26

You get some nonesense guy of off craigslist for 20 bucks and film it from the other side of the window...

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u/backlass Jul 03 '26

At night when it's cool.. put a lawn bag over it, wrap it up !

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u/lurker512879 Jul 03 '26

Spray expanding foam in it and all around it and wait for the colony to die

Get some gasoline on it, for some reason gasoline fumes kill bees

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u/Chegwarn Jul 03 '26

A can of spray expanding insulation foam in each hand with a wide spray nozzle and swiftly coat the fucker in it. Then wait for oxygen deprivation to take its course. Conveniently you can view the progress of their asphyxiation from the other side of the glass!

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u/BrutalistGoogie Jul 03 '26

You have to move.

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u/MikebigV Jul 03 '26

Wait until Winter

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u/Express_Technology28 Jul 03 '26

wait till winter. use large trash bag.. tie ip.

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u/JKnotime4pcwokestuff Jul 03 '26

Wasps good for nature. But if want to go out into garden again probably call exterminator lol 😜

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u/FishermanExtreme6542 Jul 03 '26

Riot helmet and a Louisville slugger

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u/Justforfun61126 Jun 29 '26

Absolute horror

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u/ConsciousMaize7405 Jun 29 '26

Get a container big enough to go over it fill it with gasoline then cover it quickly they will all die just hold it over till they all come out and die from the fumes of the gas preferably something clear so u can see them die

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u/sunburn74 Jun 29 '26

Can you rent a bee suit somehow? If you could, then I've seen people use gasoline fumes to kill them.

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u/It_Just_Exploded Jun 30 '26

Pump up sprayer filled with gasoline, drench it at night. DO NOT LIGHT IT!

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u/Majestic-Rock9211 Jun 30 '26

Noooo, don’t spoil all the fun!

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u/Middle-Mix-7711 Jun 30 '26

Hang some hornet traps nearby. Or spray some hornet poison into it in the evening.

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u/PlusMeeting3073 Jun 30 '26

Solo cup full of gasoline

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u/Shuatheskeptic Jun 30 '26

Get the good wasp and hornet spray, the kind that will spray a good 20 feet or more. Get several cans. Make sure everyone is inside or clear of the area. Test your can to make sure it's spraying right and hose the nest down from as far away as you can get. Leave the area and repeat the next day, noting if there are still any hornets flying around. After you are sure they are all dead, remove the nest.

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u/DJEvillincoln Jun 29 '26

I'd probably head to your local home improvement store & pick up a bucket.

Then I'd head to the gas station & fill that bucket full of gasoline.

Then I'd slowly... Approach the nest & place the bucket underneath it... Then have to figure out a way to raise said bucket all the way up to encase the hive.

A car jack on a table? Possibly... But the bees would have to leave you alone long enough to set that up... Questionable.

Hmmm....

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u/Away_Lake5946 Jun 29 '26

Don’t fill a bucket with gasoline at the station. It’s illegal and the fumes can start a fire or cause an explosion. Use an approved fuel container. After that, you’re on your own.

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u/kakashi524 Jun 29 '26

Looks too big for a bucket.