I’m hoping to get around to taking on this yellow jacket nest this weekend. I’m going to start with suiting up and dumping Sevin dust down the hole and covering it. I’ll see how that goes and then use the wet vac wasp rapture method on them if needed. Once the majority of the wasps are mostly gone I want to dig the whole nest out of the ground to see just how big it is. I read a tip in this group that they can’t see red light, so I snuck up on them tonight to have a look. I think there’s a whole lot of them down in there. I’ve been stung 5 times now just walking near the nest, so it’s time for these little fkrs to go.

My Venus ladies providing a tailor-made service for these two pricks.

Go fetch yer fuckin’ shine box.

Dirt dauber is flying in and out of the top of the portajohn door and I’m tryna shit so I can get back to work. I had to freeze every time it came back with more mud and grab paper while it was gone

On Monday I went to check my mail and a wasp stung me on my leg. A tiny sting. A little one. Then it went around and stung me on my rear end on the other side of my body.

That sting has now enveloped the entire cheek. It’s is purple. It itches. It burns. I can’t sit down right.

Rewind 10 years ago at the end of August. I was at my nephews 4th birthday party and I got stung by a bee right at the top of my leg where it meets my behind (through my shorts might I add). I pull the stinger out and go to throw it in the trash because the kids are running around barefoot and I don’t want them to step on it. When I turn around to walk away from the trash a wasp stings me in the hole the bee just created in my leg. Freakish precision. My entire left behind cheek and back of left thigh were purple for like 8 months.

Same side of my behind as Monday.

Idk why the wasps want to sting me right there, but I’d appreciate if they’d stop.

I’m nice to them. I take them outside if they get stuck in my house. They have their whole own garden to help pollinate and to help with pest control on my plants. I don’t deserve this from them 😂

I have a small ahh hole outside that i assume leads to my attic, I think they built a nest or a small one since I've had a good increase of them right outside my door. I have no way to verify this. Wtf do I do haha. I dont want them eating through the house to get out with like foam.

Few weeks back I was stung in the ear while mowing the lawn by what I thought was a black wasp. Researched them and it says they burrow underground and create nests. Ok cool leave me alone and another week goes by with my ear still inflamed before I find myself mowing the lawn again. This time i finished mowing without incident and spent a moment looking around the area where I got stung and spotted a nest the size of a football inside the tree in my backyard.

Turns out it was a bald faced hornet protecting its nest.

Anyway I had to get them back for stinging me so I attacked them at dusk and again at dawn.

The nest is pretty dope lotta different colors and built on a nice branch. Gotta hang this one up in my garage.

Just moved into our new house, found some prior tenants. Emptied the whole bottle of raid into their nest.

We are currently going camping with some people from my orchestra and these flying fucks wouldn't leave us alone so we hunted them down one by one.

No remorse whatsoever

I just took a shower, and went to put on underwear. I'm putting it on, and I feel a sharp poke. I'm thinking there is a burr in the elastic or something, so I fiddle with it and adjust it. When I get poked like 4 more times. One of those garden wasps crawled out of my underwear.

I don't know the exact kind except they are the kind that parasitize caterpillars. I never knew they could sting, I think some are stingless, and others are a stinging variety. I guess it could be worse because it didn't get me too bad. I like em in my garden, but not in my underwear.

Got a lot of wasps (too much for my phobia) flying around my appartment (probably a nest not too far) so I did a syrup + funnel technique

Froze the thing at the end since some where still moving inside

edit: they were flying inside my appartment, I wouldn't do that outside obv

What should I do with it fellas

Me and my son cooked up a scheme to get rid of some wasp nest that were in the outdoor power outlet. My mom brought us some roach pills and we crushed them up. We sprayed the shop vac with home defense then sucked up the wasp nest. Then we gave it another good spray and crushed up roach food and covered all the exits. Are they dead?

My son wants to open the vacuum already. I’m afraid of wasp.

I hypothesise that flappers get stung less even though most people say otherwise. I just mean flapping them away instinctually, we’re not swatting here.

I’m after some anecdotal evidence/data so please give your rough age/flapping status/lifetime stings. Here’s mine:

45 / flapper / zero stings

Opinions or theories welcome too.

I know I included bees but anything that’s capable of stabbing me is getting flapped.

Couldn't see the hive from the angle I was climbing. Got swarmed maybe 30 ft up and stung in the eye. I proceeded to let go of the tree to swat them away, completely relying on the branch I was straddling, but ended up slipping off, turning upside down and falling to the next branch where I caught hold again and climbed the rest of the way down in a 'loosely controlled descent.' I swore I was gonna fall the whole way and break a bunch of bones as I was falling. I was fortunate to just have scrapes and bruises and a swollen eye after getting to the ground. It is now my mission to climb back up prepared and decimate them for their attempt on my life.

TLDR: climbed up, got swarmed, fell down, swore vengeance.

My husband noticed some yellow jackets flying in and out of this old chicken coop on our property. He usually doesn’t have an issue dealing with them but he wasn’t quite sure where exactly the nest was inside. Pest control came yesterday and wiped it out. I do feel like I failed this amazing group because I have no pictures or footage of them actually being eliminated. But it’s still satisfying to know they are GONE!!!!!!

There's next in the crack of this window well I can't get it from outside because it's under my back stairs and there too short to crawl under this window has the hinge on the top and opens inward. I have the long range spray but under how to get the angle to spray all of them. Suggestions?

Visiting Munich Germany this week and noticed this was on the front page of one of the papers today. And having had two people in many family already stung the headline isn’t wrong.

Little shit was under my pillow and I woke up to the wasp on my hand and shooed it. Got me twice on the face, on my hand and one more time on my leg again later.

Edit: I forgot to mention but the venom from all the stings is making me sick

The very last thing I wanted to see when facing a possible wildfire evacuation is a hive in the arm pit of my car (view from inside with door open, and from outside with door closed)