Posted: 7/21/2007 7:17:57 AM EDT
I looked out my kitchen window this morning and saw this ... ... a hornet's nest the size of soccer ball. It's too high for me to reach with an improvised flamethrower, and since I live in a suburban subdivision I can't blast it with both barrels from my Stoeger 20 gauge side-by-side. So, since we have a contract with a pest control company anway I'll let them deal with it. I'd really like to do this though: 
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Ok, here's how to get rid of it. Climb up a ladder......stick your thumb in that hole....grasp it firmly with your other hand and pull it down. Now, I know you have your thumb stuck in that hole......all you have to do is punt it away like a football, end of hornets nest. Good luck. |
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5 easy steps to taking care of this problem: 1. Go to Walmart, steal pressure washer. 2. Climb up ladder to reach nest. 3. Hit with all them PSIs, continue fighting them with high pressure water until they are dead. 4. Log onto ARFCOM, brag about your thievery and lack of personal regard for your safety. 5. Sit back and watch others post nonsensical B.S. about "drawdowns", "I like pie!", "87, Mother Fucker!!" and other cool, catchy sayings. |
You forgot the tear gas and flash bang grenades. |
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In MN they very quickly wrap the thing up in a large plastic trash bag and cut it off the tree and dispose of the offending thing. I've seen it done after a ARFCOM shoot and videotaped it for the ensuing hilarity but no joy.  ask Mcneilsen, EvilEd and m-dc about it |
As it turns out, hornets are not covered by our contract with the exterminator. The call would've cost me about $100.  To heck with that!After getting home from the range and getting the guns inside (story for another thread) this afternoon, I ran out to Lowe's and bought two cans of Ortho Wasp and Hornet killer spray. The nasty foaming stuff.  At about 1700 hornet activity appeared to be low, so I hit the nest with a can. I was concerned that it wasn't getting fully saturated so I got out my pole saw and snipped the branch it was hanging from. As it dropped SPLAT! right into the puddle of Ortho that had dribbled off, I dropped the saw and ran like hell. A few minutes later I snuck back into the yard, retrieved the spray, and emptied it onto the nest and a few hornets flitting around it. A little while later I looked outside and saw a bunch of hornets hovering around where the nest used to be. Round two -- ON! I emptied the second can onto the branches where I saw hornets resting or hovering around. My backyard is now a chemical warfare zone. Tomorrow I'll go check on the body count. |
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I had one like that in my backyard years ago... I walked over to the neighbors house and asked if he had a problem with me shooting it down with a 12 guage. He said: "Nope, go right ahead... I'd do the same thing myself" One shot with #8 birdshot from about 30ft just completely obliterated it. Hornets and all. Just of bunch of dust and confetti was all the floated to the ground.
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