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Memo to Wasps, Yellow Jackets, and other non-bee flyers that wish to sting me...

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8:35a, 7/21/16
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Scorpion story happened in my house as well. My wife had picked up Demon WP, and I just kept putting off applying it around the house. Fast forward a month after my procrastination began, and I feel something in the middle of the night on my face (I am not a hard sleeper), I swipe it from my face. Well, something in my brain goes off and I pop up out of bed and immediately turn on my lamp. Scorpion scurrying around on my pillow WTF, immediately, I go to turn off the lamp so my wife doesn't see it. She turns over and screams before I can switch the light off.

How desperate was she? She took the kids and went to my parents the next morning for 2 days.
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In reply to Cole97 • 8:37a, 7/21/16
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The man cut into the siding and ended up pulling out about 70,000 bees and 60 pounds of hive....from my damn wall. I wanted to move but could not break the lease.

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In reply to The Collective • 8:46a, 7/21/16
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Scorpion story happened in my house as well. My wife had picked up Demon WP, and I just kept putting off applying it around the house. Fast forward a month after my procrastination began, and I feel something in the middle of the night on my face (I am not a hard sleeper), I swipe it from my face. Well, something in my brain goes off and I pop up out of bed and immediately turn on my lamp. Scorpion scurrying around on my pillow WTF, immediately, I go to turn off the lamp so my wife doesn't see it. She turns over and screams before I can switch the light off.

How desperate was she? She took the kids and went to my parents the next morning for 2 days.
I left out the part of the story where my wife made me drive her to my parents house at 2 am. I had to wake up my parents to get in the house....
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In reply to The Collective • 8:51a, 7/21/16
F@#&ing hate scorpions! We get them in our house & it makes me want to set the house on fire!

I almost grabbed one pulling Christmas decorations out last Christmas. It was sitting on an ornament that I was about to pick up. I about crapped myself. [

Had one scurry across the kitchen floor at me. Claws up. That f&%ker met his death with an amazon box.

Thankfully my damn cats are actually really good at alerting me to them. All 3 will sit in a circle & just stare. I know they kill them since I find them in half sometimes.

Need to remind husband he needs to spray with demon this month.
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In reply to Aries • 9:06a, 7/21/16
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Have you been stung before by a scorpion? My wife hasn't, and that's part of the problem. Once you experience it, the fear level drops quite a bit (unless you are allergic). With that said, they are sick little bastages. After we built our house, it seemed like we were under invasion for the first year... must have disturbed a giant scorpion metropolis with all of the dirt work around the house.
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In reply to The Collective • 9:37a, 7/21/16
Never been stung. If it was just me, the husband wouldn't care so much. But with the daughter, he cares about her enough that he sprays the house without too much complaining.

I fear the day I get stung. I know it is goino to happen at some point. My mother in law practically squishes them with her thumb but I'm a wuss.
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In reply to The Collective • 9:37a, 7/21/16
Never been stung. If it was just me, the husband wouldn't care so much. But with the daughter, he cares about her enough that he sprays the house without too much complaining.

I fear the day I get stung. I know it is goino to happen at some point. My mother in law practically squishes them with her thumb but I'm a wuss.
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In reply to The Collective • 10:01a, 7/21/16
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Have you been stung before by a scorpion? My wife hasn't, and that's part of the problem. Once you experience it, the fear level drops quite a bit (unless you are allergic). With that said, they are sick little bastages. After we built our house, it seemed like we were under invasion for the first year... must have disturbed a giant scorpion metropolis with all of the dirt work around the house.
Been stung 7-8 times now. First experience was at the Gage in Marathon. Don't know whether he hitch hiked from Pleasanton all the way out there or was a resident. Went to put on my shorts and thought i somehow had bull nettle in my shorts until I felt him squirming. Got me 2 times on the thigh. The last time was two weeks ago helping clean the house. I reached down to pick up some dog hair/dust ball that I had missed sweeping. Damn thing got me right in the tip of the finger. They don't hurt as bad as they look.
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10:09a, 7/21/16
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Unless you are allergic. Then they burn like hell. Nasty little *******s
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10:13a, 7/21/16
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I once got rid of a small honeybee nest on my house with the vacuum cleaner attachment. That was loads of fun because it would make a little plump noise every time I sucked one up. Good news is the vacuum seems to suffocate them as well because they were all dead in the canister when I dumped it.

Not sure how well that would work with wasps. They are faster and much more aggressive. I usually use poison and nail them after sundown.
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10:31a, 7/21/16
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Plenty of youtube videos showing wasps being sucked up with a shop vac. Put soapy water in it and place the nozzle nest to the entrance to the hive. They can't overcome the vacuum when they come and go. Leave it for a couple of ours. As has been already mentioned, the soapy water kills them.
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In reply to Whens lunch • 10:53a, 7/21/16
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Plenty of youtube videos showing wasps being sucked up with a shop vac. Put soapy water in it and place the nozzle nest to the entrance to the hive. They can't overcome the vacuum when they come and go. Leave it for a couple of ours. As has been already mentioned, the soapy water kills them.
Put a GoPro inside the canister with a light and you can watch what happens once they are sucked into their soapy demise
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In reply to MouthBQ98 • 11:46a, 7/21/16
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I know one person that drank a big swallow of coke full of honeybees and got stung about a dozen times in the mouth,
I got stung twice on my tongue in the same way. Left a can on the picnic table while we were out camping. Took a swig and got a big effing surprise. One of the little bastages got away before I could seek retribution. The other got smashed by my molars. He regretted his life of terror.
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In reply to Bird93 • 11:51a, 7/21/16
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I know one person that drank a big swallow of coke full of honeybees and got stung about a dozen times in the mouth,
I got stung twice on my tongue in the same way. Left a can on the picnic table while we were out camping. Took a swig and got a big effing surprise. One of the little bastages got away before I could seek retribution. The other got smashed by my molars. He regretted his life of terror.


Just curious...Do bee guts taste like honey?
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11:57a, 7/21/16
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This thread delivers.
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In reply to magnumtmp • 12:03p, 7/21/16
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Kinda reminds me of lemon Chewels gum.
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In reply to Bird93 • 12:13p, 7/21/16
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In reply to dtkprowler • 7:45p, 7/24/16
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Thanks to dtkprowler for the water and dish soap idea.

We've been fighting wasps around our house for the last month. Pretty much just chasing them around like Hillary trying to delete emails off of her server. No matter how many we killed, there were still some left.

As CWE (Chief Wasp Exterminator) of the household, I jumped onto the soapy water trick pretty quickly. 5 gallon bucket and a super-soaker type squirter had the demon spawn running last week. However, I never could find the Mothership.

Well, today I fired up the grill. I had checked under it last week but apparently not well enough. As it heated up, a lone wasp came up to check me out. I noticed that he went under the grill and looked. Yikes! The Mothership and a full squadron of support. It looked like millenials at a Bernie Sanders rally lining up for free diplomas.

I quickly picked up a pitcher of soapy water and proceeded to create a sudsy tsunami of death under the edge of my grill. The entire nest fell with dead wasps littering the beach, uh, patio.

Now, like John Wayne in the Green Berets, I'm going to look to the east and enjoy the sunset....

Mr. 88PlanoAg
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7:07a, 7/25/16
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African Toilet Wasps.

I just said "hell no, I'll **** with the locals outside"

As an aside, the hose and "running water" was a joke. We had to fill the tank with a bucket.
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In reply to AggieChemist • 7:37a, 7/25/16
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Yup.

I'd have nope nope noped all the way outta there.
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