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I've been in the garage and they start flying around.. didnt have any spray so i grabed a frisby and started louisville shuggin on them.. got about 5 of them.. its funny when you hit them they go SMACK buzz buzz buzz then you step on them.. lol.. i went around last week and took my revenge on the ones around here.. they have been bad this year for some reason.. anyway i found a total of 8-9 nests and all i did was walk around the house.. then i ran out of spray so i had to call it quits.. i was unarmed and they were pissed so i went inside..
 
ever had those wood boring bee's?? we have loads of em. you can't kill them with spray or hittin them with a flyswater., there too tuff. i make a torch outta wd-40 an go at it.
 
I hate wasps/hornets/yellow jackets. I was fishing along an overgrown canal and rubbed against a big bush that had a huge wasp nest in it. Well They got pissed and attacked me, I took 9 stings to the back and neck. Man I hate those things. When I lived in NC I used to have a swatter that looked like a small tennis racket with metal mesh and it was electric. I would swat at those wood boring bees with the electric on, they would stick to the racket and it would just stun them, about 10 minutes later they would begin to revive themselves, and I would zap them again. Any revenge I can take on those stinging bastards I will take, It was quite a bit of fun.
 
Harbor freight sells those rackets....I just bought one yesterday when I got my air compressor.....LOL...I wnat to swaat the neighbors cat.....that bastard attacked me full on when they went out of town and I was feeding it...it's an outdoor cat so I see no purpose in feeding them but i did....he jumped on my friggin arm while I was pouring his food....I must test the racket out on him before I move.....
 
Man I have a YJ story to tell. It sucked then but is funny as hell. I was about 12 and was doing what most 12 year old boys do. Play in the woods making forts and bike trails. Well we were working on a new trail and I was trying to get rid of an old tree that was old and about to fall down. Well little did I know that it doubled as a YJ condo. I started to push the tree down and started feeling a few burning type sensations on my legs and stomach. Well I looked down and I was covered in those little bastards! Well I screamed bees! and started running.... well I kept on running, and I was getting stung the whole way. Well I came up on my parents hedge and ran right through the thing. My father heard me screaming and came running up and started knocking them off. I got into the house and the suckers were still on me. Stinging me through my sweatpants. NOT at all a good day. I spend half my summer blasting those little shits, and all other bees, spiders and all other creepy crawlies for that matter.

Tom
 
Last Friday when I came home from work the wife told me that we had a bee’s nest in the mailbox. I got the bright idea to go out there in my good work clothes and take care of the problem without the aid of bug spray (didn’t have any spray). That was a bad move.

The nest was sitting on the bottom of the mailbox. I used a long ice scraper stick to try and pull the nest out of the box. After each time I nudged the nest a bit I had to run away because the bees were getting pissed. After about 5 nudges a bunch of Yellow jackets with what appeared to be long tails got really pissed and came at me in a swarm. I got scared and started to run away backwards (another bad move). I felt a bee land on one of my hands and I tried to brush it off while still running backwards.

I tripped over my own feet, went flying thought the air backwards, and hit the ground hard. I ripped my nice work shirt, got my pants full of dirt, hurt my back, and got stung anyway. A bunch of kids saw the whole thing and I think they were laughing at me. I must have looked like a moron. While I was lying on the ground in pain the wife walked over and said, “I told you to leave those bees alone”. My back hurt all weekend.

The next day I blasted the mailbox with flying insect spray. I’ve since found about 10 dead bees in the mailbox. My guess is they are trying to come back to setup a new nest.
 
Mission accomplished!
I just got out of the hot tub and didn't see even 1 of of throes nasty dive bombers in the yard. I took a look at the nests I sprayed and there were hundreds of dead bodies on the ground under each one. The ants were all over them so I placed some ant poison on the mounds. I used a product called Earth Options Bee and Hornet spray from Raid. Highly recommended.

Well the JD worked. They downed the entire bottle and are still all passed out where their wives left them. Ill give them till 11:00 to sleep and take them out for breakfast to prime them up for a day on the water. :D Booze, greasy food and jet lag should make for some fun at the lake. I love torchering these guys.
 
That'll make some good entries for motionsickness or interesting posts in the "Did you ever poop your pants" thread.
 
Man I hate hornets I was an exterminator of about 2 yrs and I was constantly having to go and kill them things. One time a customer told me there was a large wooden Chest in there Garage and there was a small nest in it , and they wouldnt be home but they would leave the door open for me. Well I opened the Chest and there was the biggest freaking nest I had ever seen It must have been a foot and a half diameter. As soon as I opened that thing I was like :omg: and about a million of them came out attacking me. So I ran to the truck got the strongest stuff we had and went to town on them. Luckly it was an aerosol that had a range of about 30 Ft!! I killed them all and took the nest back to the shop. Everyone was amazed on the size of that thing. I never once gotten stung while I was an extermintaor. The next after I quit I got stung 3 times. Once in the stomach driving down the road, then the other two was when I was drinking a pop and there was a hornet in it and it stung both my lips. Damn that hurt and I looked pretty funny too with my swollen lips.
 
FastEddy said:
How long does the bait last?
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3-4 days, and you can follow it up with hot dog, bologna, spam, whatever you wouldn't feed your dog. Usually the first two days you full them up. After that post I went out and set ours up :D Both of them are already half full, it's been 2 hours.

We had a terrible time with them the first two years here, but the third we put them out early and apparently it gets the queenies. Not as many this year, but they're a bear to step on. LOL
 
We use bacon in our traps... You can use rotten meat that you were going to throw away... go find a dead mouse and stick it in there... lol
 

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