(Topic ID: 210234)
Warren, PA
Sana'a
Industrial or medical grade waste bag would do the job... that green thing was probably thinner than paper.
Quoted from mrossman5:That’s how to do it! Shake the bag like an idiot
If you notice he's flinging the bag around in desperate hope he can shoo away the wasps that are attacking him. Kinda hard to get 'em all the in the bag in one flawless approach when they're buzzing around the nest. Not the brightest bulb, that fella in the video. 
Richard
I have used vacuum cleaner, and it works like a charm. The grow the bag on open fire or leave it out somewhere.
Thankful for internet so we can bask in other people’s stupidity.
Nice. Similar, I once discovered an enormous fire ant bed in the A/C room of my old shop. I had some pretty effective spray poison but knew the mound was so large that once I started attacking it, they would just flank me and I'd be screwed. So I grabbed my 5 gallon wet/dry shop vac and went after them with the poison sprayer in one hand and the vacuum nozzle in the other. They didn't stand a chance! Not one sting.
Richard
I thought he was spinning it to spin the opening closed quickly, so they get trapped in.
Still a dumb idea from the start.
Killing a wasp nest was one of my top 10 “stupid things you did that scared you half to death at the time but now you look back at it and laugh your ass off”. I swear I ran a 100 yard dash in about 9.2 seconds.
When I was a telephone lineman, one thing I always kept in my truck was those red cans of Brakleen. Not sure what the specific mechanism is but it disrupts their nervous system so fast you can drop them mid-flight. Spray it on the nest and you'll have silence in less than ten seconds.
Quoted from Xerico:» YouTube video
Now this man knows how to deal with wasps!
Marcus
Wow. Talk about “HULK SMASH!” But seriously, not a skill I have any interest in acquiring.
Quoted from emkay:When I was a telephone lineman, one thing I always kept in my truck was those red cans of Brakleen. Not sure what the specific mechanism is but it disrupts their nervous system so fast you can drop them mid-flight. Spray it on the nest and you'll have silence in less than ten seconds.
Yep, learned this one long ago. It knocks out tree roaches, too. That straw on the can really improves the range.
Richard
Quoted from emkay:When I was a telephone lineman, one thing I always kept in my truck was those red cans of Brakleen. Not sure what the specific mechanism is but it disrupts their nervous system so fast you can drop them mid-flight. Spray it on the nest and you'll have silence in less than ten seconds.
Good stuff! Just make sure the little hole in the sprayer is always pointing away from you and not directly at your eyeball. Ask me how I know....
Quoted from o-din:Ask me how I know....
Well, your picture does have an eye patch.
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