Whatever you decide, get some video. Could be a great “how to” or “how not to” video depending on how it goes.

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Originally posted by trapper189:
Whatever you decide, get some video. Could be a great “how to” or “how not to” video depending on how it goes.

Kind of like the saying I see here on the forum on a regular basis - Pictures or it did not happen…

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Originally posted by trapper189:
Whatever you decide, get some video. Could be a great “how to” or “how not to” video depending on how it goes.

This reminds me of a story when I was a kid.

I was learning about shotguns and shotgun patterns from my Dad. We would march off a distance and shoot a a cardboard target and discuss the pattern, shot string, shot size ect.

On day we were fishing on Toledo Bend (large lake between Texas and Louisiana) and we saw a pizza size red wasp nest. I always carried my shotgun to shoot. He told me it was time to test my knowledge of shotgun patterns and he would pull up and I was to shoot when the nest was in the range to completely obliterate it.

It was like the nest was there one sec and completely gone the next. Not one survivor. To this day it was one of the most gratifying shotgun shots I have ever made.

Sorry for the thread drift, just sharing a pleasant memory.

I went to the woods yesterday evening at dusk.
Sunset officially was around 06:58 PM. Cloudy and overcast made it darker.

My girlfriend is severely allergic to bee/wasp/hornet stings and she stayed 75 yards away from the nest. She tagged along so she could call 911 if needed.

I brought two cans of the red can CRC Brake Cleaner and two cans of wasp/hornet spray.
I walked down to the nest, and hosed the opening at the bottom of the nest with the first can of Brake Cleaner.

I thought I saw a few leave the nest and fly off, but being almost dark, who knows.
The second can of Brake Cleaner saturated the entire nest.

Then I emptied one entire can of wasp/hornet spray all over the exterior of the nest and up into the opening at the bottom of the nest.

Not a single wasp/hornet flew in my direction.
I did wear dark clothing and safety glasses, but no "bee suit" or "bed hat" or other specialized equipment other than having an Epi-Pen available.

So, to those of you that wanted video, it would have been completely boring.
Nobody got stung, and I am HIGHLY relieved the task is complete.

We will be up at the property this coming weekend doing projects and I will check on activity at the nest.

Thank You for the suggestions!

All’s well that ends well!

Nice! Would have made a good “how to” video then. I’d have volunteered my drone to take the video.

What would have made a good “how not to” video was the time a we were throwing a frisbee around at the lake house my friends parents had rented for the summer. We threw it into a tree. My friend goes to get it and next thing I know he’s running straight towards me flailing his arms. I’m standing there laughing wondering what’s going on. Then I see the wasps and take off the same direction he was actually running: towards the lake. We swam under the dock to come up for air.

We found the frisbee embedded in a wasp nest about the size yours was and doused it with wasp spray.

I’m glad the brake clean worked out. It’s been my go to wasp killer ever since I watched that video.

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Brake cleaner. Far more effective than wasp spray.

A can of each! Just to be sure!

Saturday we deployed the mobile hunting shack.
As we were leaving, I tossed a rock at the wasp nest and several flew out of the nest and buzzed around the nest.
That was all I needed to see.
Sunday we were at the property again doing tasks and I remembered the 12 gauge shotgun and a box of shotshells, # 7-1/2 shot size.
Just before departing at dusk, I walked up within about 20 feet from the nest and gave them five quick 12 gauge shotgun blasts.
Then I ran like hell, and jumped into the Honda Pioneer and got out of there.
The nest is finally destroyed.

This weekend I was moving two large piles of branches from a fallen tree in my yard that had been sitting for a few months. To my sudden and unpleasant surprise, I found that ground wasps had built a nest under one of the piles. I have two stings to prove it. So I decided to burn the pile in place. Dug out the hive and burned that too. Two days later and there are still a few stragglers hovering around wondering WTF happened to their friends.

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Originally posted by cee_Kamp:
Saturday we deployed the mobile hunting shack.
As we were leaving, I tossed a rock at the wasp nest and several flew out of the nest and buzzed around the nest.
That was all I needed to see.
Sunday we were at the property again doing tasks and I remembered the 12 gauge shotgun and a box of shotshells, # 7-1/2 shot size.
Just before departing at dusk, I walked up within about 20 feet from the nest and gave them five quick 12 gauge shotgun blasts.
Then I ran like hell, and jumped into the Honda Pioneer and got out of there.
The nest is finally destroyed.

You just accomplished the best "When I was a teenager" story. Well at least you got it done without getting messed up. Very funny, nice !!!

We're all assuming you got this on video...

Dawn dish detergent in a sprayer Mitch probably 1/3rd or more dawn per water. There is a great video on youterd about it.

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Originally posted by trapper189:
What would have made a good “how not to” video.

Mine would have been when we tried taking out a large spherical paperwasp nest in a tree where it hung over the driveway. To do double duty (smoke and insecticide), we had a kids' Flexible Flyer wagon for burning some rags for smoke and some Black Flag wasp and hornet spray with long range.

Plan was to fire up the rags, pull the wagon under the nest and then drench the nest with the entire can of spray.

Anyone see the problem?

Yep. As soon as the nest got drenched, it started dripping. Into the burning rags. Poof! Foom! Flames climbed up the drips, reached the wasp-spray-made-with-petroleum-distillate-soaked nest, and the fun started.

It did get all the wasps. And fortunately not all that many of the branches as we had hoses standing by.

Unfortunately this was decades before digital video so it is lost to posterity.

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Originally posted by KMitch200:
It doesn’t need to be “cold” just nighttime. They go in at night.
The only wasp spray I’ve had to use shot a stream a good 15’.
Night, douse the shit out of it, go away. They’ll be dead by morning.

That's my experience. Somebody already came up with an easy solution; why reinvent the whole wheel?

I have them every year. I shoot the snot out of them with an old Benjamin .22 air pistol. About 100 shots and you can see through the nest. They end up leaving and the nest falls, empty, a few days later. I'd guess the distance is 50 or 60 feet. Never had one come in my vicinity. A 12ga would do better, but my neighbors would not bee too pleased.