The wasps in Alberta are horrible at this time of year and we got ‘em bad down at the field. I dunno where the nest is either; otherwise I’d go in with flame throwers and nukes and incinerate every last one of those demented things. One of the old boys got bit awhile back when he was in the air, and all he could do was stand there and take it. Flapping and screaming like a little bitch and flying at the same time isn’t practical. That craven goofball, Scotty The Retard - he’ll just drop the radio and go haring off across the field, swatting, cursing and gobbling in fright. He did it once while flying one of my planes but I picked up the radio and saved my plane before it turned itself into a lawn dart. Some people are just terrified of them.
We went on JewTube and looked into DYI wasp traps and soon these were all over:
The bait is apple juice and meat and the traps work…they all had dead hornets in them and some had hundreds of them trapped and drowned inside. 🤢
I dunno if it does anything in real life though. Sure, there’s a million dead hornets in the traps… but there still enough of them around to be a nuisance. How many hornets are in one nest? Do we have multiple nests of them? I don’t get it - the buildings are all clean as near as we can tell. I’ve only ever seen nests in trees or on structures here in Alberta, but some of the Yanks on OyTube have them right in the ground. We are in the middle of an alfalfa field … maybe we have buried nests too…? The nearest trees are at least half a mile away…
I know there are bug zappers too but my experience with them is that they don’t work either. There’s just too many damned bugs about! I am beginning to think these beshitted bastard hornets are just a fact of life.
I wouldn’t mind finding a nest either - with my black powder Spaghetti Plains Rifle, I put a leaf of hornet nest material between the charge and the patch - and the hornet’s nest prevents heavy charges of powder from burning through the patch. It’s somehow fitting I guess, that black powder geeks are the only guys that ever found any use for these miserable yellow jackets.
Yellowjackets (Latin: completus bastardus) do often nest in the ground. In an established nest, there are normally two, occasionally three entrances for air flow. Weakness: they don't fly at night. Find them during the day, mark all the entrances. Come dusk, take your shovel and cover all but one entrance. Pour a pint of kerosene in it. Wait a moment for saturation, then light from a distance and run away. Once the fire burns itself out, shovel over that last entrance.
ReplyDeletefipronil added to a meat scrap and within a few days yellow jackets (nest in ground) are all dead.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure they're building their nests in the earth. It's usually where they go to hibernate or whatever it is that those little pricks do to make sure they're around when the snow melts. Check out 'Hornet King' on ScrewTube...it's interesting watching.
ReplyDeleteI’ve got inground yellowjacket nests up here in the frozen north so I’d wager you have ‘em down south too. They’re a cast iron bitch to track down. Hate the bastards.
ReplyDeleteWe have a new breed of wasp showing up in southern AB. All black back end and really aggressive. Evidently they have come over from BC as illegals.
ReplyDeleteOne of the kids got bit and it swelled up and it took 2 weeks to go down.
Exile1981
In my neck of the woods, Tennessee, the red wasps are the bastards, all the other types of wasps are pretty mellow. We have Carpenter bees that look like Bumble bees, they attack and eat the red wasps, yeay!
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