I grew up in Texas so bees and wasps are a common thing. I know how to get rid of those little hives and stuff.
I moved in with my husband and we had to move in to his grandparents house for a couple years when we were first starting out and there was a wasp nest about the size of a baseball right above the front door. My husband’s uncle kept telling the grandpa that he had to pay an exterminator to get rid of it. Really he was trying to get him to spend money and he would find a way to over charge him so he can get some money. Which he did all the time.
But this time I was there I said no you don’t need some guy. You just need a water hose. The uncle argued saying you will get stung. So I went out there with got the water hose placed my thumb on the end to force the water to come out with pressure and hosed down the nest. When it was fully soaked I knocked it down with awake than stomped it till it all the wasps were dead. Last I tossed it away into the trash.
I walked into the house and said there it’s done it’s gone. The uncle was so pissed he stormed off. Lol I was sick and tired of him trying to rip them off when I would’ve took him just two minutes to do it hell I didn’t even take me two minutes
While that works, I prefer to sneak up on them and wrap the nest itself with a plastic bag and tie it tight so they can't escape. It's best to do this at night, while they sleep.
Pretty sure I've told you about that before, but hey, a bit of knowledge for anyone new who stumbles across this <_<d
If you wet the nest and the wasp they can’t fly their wings are to heavy. And you less likely get stung due to them to busy trying to figure out where the water is coming from. A bag they can scape or sting through.
Yeah but at night they are asleep, and as long as you're careful you won't wake them up =p. Both work, I thought about them chewing or stinging through the bag, but they never did.
I just let them do their thing until winter where they hibernate and leave the nest empty, then you can just take it down without any fear of wasps. All the old wasps die off and the new queens fly away to find a new place to create a nest.
But then you might get another nest in an even worse area. I should also add I only suffocate them when they build a nest in a really inconvenient spot, I'm not actively seeking them out or anything =p
Not many areas they can go luckily for me, I have one nest right on my balcony door but they don't seem to mind me so we have morning coffees together. I don't shame people for getting rid of nests haha, I get you have to do it for your safety sometimes.
Yeah nah, none inside. I'm cool with them until they're inside. This conversation reminded me of a giant White Tip I had in the corner of my bedroom so I looked up to check and he's gone.
You mean like the shark? I'd assume poster and then poster was gone? Or perhaps a jaw? My tiger shark jaw fell over the other day, er I noticed it the other day, and the top part and bottom parted separated, finally. I know the how of the putting them back together; the right glue, I'm just not sure if I wanna yet.
No hahaha, I mean the spider. I'd be terrified if there was a shark chilling in my room. You have a jaw! I only have a tiger shark tooth I thought that was cool.
LOL yes, I do. T'was a x-mas gift from my step-dad when I was like.. 7? 8? Idk I'd have to go back and find the date on the pictures... remember when you had to go take a camera roll to a shop and print them out and they had the little dates in the corner? Yeah... Anyway, it was wrapped in a fuck-ton of newspaper specifically because of the teeth; even now the first four rows are still either like little daggers (bottom jaw) or serrated razors (upper). At row 5 it starts to become hit or miss, as they were still developing, but still sharp. In a few ways I kind upset when at least one upper jaw tooth didn't fall out when the jaw fell and split. I'd then have the jaw of a tiger shark that would have looked like it caught the edge of a really mean swing and woulda had a tooth I could gift somebody. I guess I could always just rip one out, but I'd know that would be cheap, and that's not cool.
Necrotic arachnidism? I mean, I know it exists, brown recluse's can cause it, but that's super, super, super, uber doober super rare. Poor eight legged ones down under :/ They aren't even capable of such a thing, much less any irrational panic from the idea of it :X
I do miss having photos developed, it was more about the experience then the photo. I mean I could still go do it but it doesn't have the same feel ya know.
Anyways that's neat, I would be scared trying to break it off though, it would be pretty frail so it might crack instead of breaking cleanly.
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Yeah, well I call them a White Tip but I think their actual name is White Tail. They're not fun, I don't hate spiders but those guys are nasty and walk really funky. The worst thing about them is they like to make homes in your bed sheets and your clothes, so if you don't want to get a bite then you have to shake everything out before you use it. I haven't had any serious problems from their bites yet but some people react REALLY badly.
Sounds like a down under brown recluse. Recluses and wolf spiders suck, especially around shoes. From the few articles a gleaned, the damage is more of an urban myth than reality. All the reports of the necrosis seem to have been proven misdiagnosis'... and about that worst that happens is a really, really, really annoying rash around a painful bite. I mean, I still wouldn't want to accidentally injure one and experience the bite. You're are correct with them being more commonly refered to as white tails >_>d <_< r>,..,>r lol
Yeah, most of the spiders we have either kill you or it's just a painful swollen lump. Brown recluses look like a creepier ganglier version of Huntsmen spiders, I don't like them. I think we also call Wolf Spiders 'Garden Spiders' here but it might be a different species.
This remindes my of this one time at school in Year 5 when a wasp nest or something fell down and there was a massive swarm right aboveus
This was at the end of the break time so we were all lined up, ready to move into the school.
Anyway, so these wasps are all above us, and all of a sudden everyone in the class screams and runs inside
And I'm just stood there
By myself
Underneath a massive swarm of wasps
Perfectly fine
And then a couple of days later another wasp was flying around my face and I just punched it or something, because it got slammed into the ground and my friends were just staring at me like dude wtf
And i was just like
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I moved in with my husband and we had to move in to his grandparents house for a couple years when we were first starting out and there was a wasp nest about the size of a baseball right above the front door. My husband’s uncle kept telling the grandpa that he had to pay an exterminator to get rid of it. Really he was trying to get him to spend money and he would find a way to over charge him so he can get some money. Which he did all the time.
But this time I was there I said no you don’t need some guy. You just need a water hose. The uncle argued saying you will get stung. So I went out there with got the water hose placed my thumb on the end to force the water to come out with pressure and hosed down the nest. When it was fully soaked I knocked it down with awake than stomped it till it all the wasps were dead. Last I tossed it away into the trash.
Pretty sure I've told you about that before, but hey, a bit of knowledge for anyone new who stumbles across this <_<d
Anyways that's neat, I would be scared trying to break it off though, it would be pretty frail so it might crack instead of breaking cleanly.
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Yeah, well I call them a White Tip but I think their actual name is White Tail. They're not fun, I don't hate spiders but those guys are nasty and walk really funky. The worst thing about them is they like to make homes in your bed sheets and your clothes, so if you don't want to get a bite then you have to shake everything out before you use it. I haven't had any serious problems from their bites yet but some people react REALLY badly.
This was at the end of the break time so we were all lined up, ready to move into the school.
Anyway, so these wasps are all above us, and all of a sudden everyone in the class screams and runs inside
And I'm just stood there
By myself
Underneath a massive swarm of wasps
Perfectly fine
And i was just like
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