Extermination

[Caid Ivik]

I have a little problem. I need to destroy a wasp hive, which emerged on a window to garden. Direct attack with a stick may be dangerous, though it is full of thousands aggressive beings. The hive has grown to size of cca 1 liter between upper corner of the window (wooden rame, so using of flaming devices is impossible) and the roof. I prefer using some WMD, maybe chemical, but I don't know what is most suitable for such operation.

Thanks for any advice...

[nampigai]

if it's bee's you can prolly contact a "beefarmer" if it's wasp I'ld start a fire in a drum/barrel (sp?) then put on alot of clothes make sure to cover your face then pick down the hive and throw it into the drum. I've only tried setting burried hives on fire, and that's somewhat easier. if the hive is inside a building, between the walls, there's not much to do than using poison.

[number6]

I had a Hornet hive on a tree in my backyard a few years back. The hive was the size of a football and swarming with activity. I went to the hardware store and bought a couple cans of Hornet/Wasp killer. These cans could shoot a highly concentrated spray of poison from a good distance. I was able to spray the hive from the other side of my yard. I totally drenched the hive. I let it soak over night. The next day there was no activity and I was able to remove the hive from the tree.

[Gobalopper]

I recommend a well thrown baseball at the nest in the late evening hours. :D

[Timenn]

I suggest talking to the local authorities.

I'm sure they know what to do.

Don't do anything from which you aren't sure that it works!

[DjCiD]

Cover yourself in gasoline and stand as close to the hive as possible, light a match. Notice you must stand extremely close so the smoke will surround the hive and cause them to act dormant else they will not leave the hive and laugh at you for setting yourself on fire ... :D

Once the hive and it's tenants are dazed and confused, then the well thrown baseball will come in handy. Don't throw it at them until they have been effected by the smoke, I have seen to many plans gone array from the lil fodders catching the ball and beaming the person in the head with it.

Those wasp can be so revengeful.

Caution stay away from flammable substances and materials until you have extinguished yourself.

[Dante]

Let them live!

[Timenn]

I usually let animals live.

But wasp hives are dangerous.

It isn't late summer yet, so the wasps have still meat they can eat. But in late summer (August) they must hunt for other thing, because all the meat is gone.

Wasps get very very agressive then, and only if you pass their hive they can attack you. Think about that when you have such a hive closely near your hive!

[Terror]

;D

2 options:

either join them or fight them.

Option 1:

- go to your mother and ask if she has an empty bottle for you

- fill the bottle with gasoline and put your mother favorite shirt in it with one end out of the bottle

- light the shirt (your mother will love that) throw it at the hive and see how the wasps burn

- run away, to evade the still living 90% of the hive

- when the wasps are tired they will go away and make themselves a new hive elsewhere

p.s. Make sure you can run longer and faster than the wasps can fly, and also make sure that you plan your path, and do not run against a wall or they will kill you.

Option 2:

- Grab a stick, and a white shirt of your mother

- put the shirt on the stick

- move to the hive but do not get closer than 3 meters.

- Wait for an ebassary to come out until he invites you into the hive

- once inside, propose the queen to allie themselves with you to conquer the world

- She will accept and you must then consider how to take over the world, or the wasps will rebel anyway and kill you

[Timenn]

- run away, to evade the still living 90% of the hive

And now then that wasps have a maximum speed of 18 kmh^-1

:)

[Terror]

hmmm, run fast, or get a bike fast :)

[ordos45]

I had a Hornet hive on a tree in my backyard a few years back. The hive was the size of a football and swarming with activity. I went to the hardware store and bought a couple cans of Hornet/Wasp killer. These cans could shoot a highly concentrated spray of poison from a good distance. I was able to spray the hive from the other side of my yard. I totally drenched the hive. I let it soak over night. The next day there was no activity and I was able to remove the hive from the tree.

Ditto, this is how I dealt with a large wasp hive last summer. However, I waited until night to do it, when they're less likely to come out. The next day when most were dead, I took a high powered hose and destroyed what was left.

[Caid Ivik]

Is there a way to enhance the sprayer range? Stuff available here has range of 2-3 metres, and that's a suicide, seeing their numbers...

[Gobalopper]

Take a picture of the hive so we have a better understanding of the angles etc. ;)

[Caid Ivik]

Well, I mean it seriously... ::)[attachment archived by Gobalopper]

[Gobalopper]

No a real picture, with a camera. I need to see its location relative to the ground, etc.

[Davidu]

BURN THE HOUSE! You'll get rid of the hive that way.

[Terror]

humm. a bit radical aint it? Well i must admit, it is the same as human civilization, except that that would be on small scale

burn to house to get rid of the wasps

destroy the earth to get rid of the nazi's terrorists, dutch....

[Caid Ivik]

I don't have digital machine. That hive is about 6 m over ground. It would fall on one table, which is about halfmeter high. From inside, the hive blocks the window (consider strength of the hive and age of that window, I don't think it was changed since 1952), which is orthogonally placed on wall. It is a sidewindow of wintergarden, to be sure. The hive is in its upper left corner, attached to rame and roof of the wintergarden.

Davidu, what's the oldest building in Romania? ;D

[lowzeewee]

You can yell "For mother russia!" and then fling yourself on the hive and cover it completely and make a heroic sacrifice but hopefully you cover the right spot.The stomach,not between the legs for god's sake. ::)

Or you can just pick up the beehive wearing gloves[optional] and many layers of clothes[just don't go naked ok? ???] and other equipment[especially mahdi's hat that you stole from him] and just fling it into your neighbour's house or your neighbour's face to be more exact. ;D

[Hawat]

Contact a beekeeper... Would be the most reasonable solution.

Hehe I saw some people after they have tried to remove a wasp hive with some of the techniques, that are listed above.

If you desperately want to exterminate them, then try the poison.

[The_Sadukar]

Could you not just open the window form the inside?

either way the hive would either be mashed, and thus destroyed, or it would fall down, and then you could wait some time and hope that they would take a hint.

[Dante]

Alternatively you could change the temperature of the window. I saw a program once where they heated it up with a hairdryer and just that was enough to upset them a bit. Or you could place an ice-pack against it or something. Change the temperature, they won't like that.

Just down't break the window, that would be. . . . chaotic. ;D

Alternatively. . . LET THEM LIVE!

[Caid Ivik]

As I've said, the window is OLD, wooden. It is impossible to open it without braking it. Also I try to find a way, which would prevent those beasts getting inside... But maybe some heat change would be resistable for it.

[Frodo]

grab some wasp poisin, and after sunset or before sunrise spray the nest. this way all of the wasps are inside of the nest. or you could do it in the middle of the day if you just don't want them to go back in the hive.