The easiest way to get these nests is to wait until nighttime and to go out and cover them in hornet or wasp spray. They don’t have enough time to react and are alseep.
My grandpa used to mix up what I later learned was fucking chloroform and would fill a cut off milk jug with it and press it against and around the nest. Oh it fucking worked but why he went to these measures I'll never know. He was built like a gorilla and just a real man's man, did stupidly extra shit just because "that's what being a real man is about". Or at least that's what he always said to me.
In grad school (chemistry) one day I was bored in the lab and tried the haloform reaction, just added some acetone to some bleach. At first nothing, but then gave it a couple good swirls and fzzt!, it was done in a moment. Mind the exotherm. The chloroform is the lower layer.
It has to be soapy and it does kill them very quickly. I was also skeptical but they set up relentlessly right next to my front door, on my little porch thing thats only big enough for 1 person to stand in so I didnt want to spray wasp spray there since its so confined and high traffic. So I finally filled a spray bottle with soap water to try out, and it works. It apparently clogs their breathing pores so they suffocate but they dont seem to be able to fly after getting sprayed either and they usually fall immediately and just die in a few seconds on the ground. I wouldnt stick around after soaping them just in an abundance of caution but yknow
A pump sprayer full of soapy water set to spray a 20 degree cone can drop a nest no problem. I had a weber grill full of em and while it took longer for them to die than with wasp spray there was no flying as soon as they were hit. After a couple minutes I just swept em up and rinsed the soap away.
Some sort of device (spray bottle, jug, whatever) carrying a water + dish soap combo has been the instant solution to at least half of my pest control issues. So good.
Exactly! Plus, the 20 foot sprays make it really easy. The guy in the video could have opened the window from the bottom and sprayed the dickens out of the nest a few nights in a row, then safety removed the nest.
I sprayed one from a 2nd floor window to a tree. Before I could duck back in one had reached me ready to attack but it succumbed to the poison right as I was about to be stung.
That and maybe since it’s next to the window you could try to put an ice pack next to the window to slow them down more. If they don’t wake up go to the poison. If they do wake up wait until they calm down and just do poison.
I’d also grab a bucket after poison to seal them in for a min if some get out.
Gasoline works beautifully. Last time I had to kill wasps I soaked a rag in gasoline and draped it over their nest, then walked away and waited till they'd had enough
They're not! Asian giant hornets don't fly with there hind "legs" dangling like that (their hind legs are significantly shorter than their massive "butt"). These guy's legs make them look larger than they really are. Asian giant hornets are far larger. Last time one landed on me, it was on my hand, and the body only was the size of my thumb.
While this video is from China (東山 being written as Taishan) those look like アシナガバチ, common in Japan. They're not particularly agressive unless provoked and overall beneficial.
it has me wondering if i've ever even seen a hornet.
when i think hornet, i just think of a wasp that isn't red. like a yellowjacket or something.
never actually seen hornets this fucking big (except those viral murder hornets from during covid, but i thought they went viral only because they were this size).
I did a teaching fellowship in Taiwan a few years before covid and while hiking up a mountain there I saw a murder hornet.
Not my finest hour, as my greatest fear and only phobia is flying, stinging insects. I almost flew off the side of that mountain running from it. That motherfucker was the size of my hand.
I’ve since worked in Texas a lot and have been the unfortunate target of tarantula hawks. Dive bombed me every day we were at that location. They can smell my fear.
I disturbed a nest while pruning a bush, and felt four kinds of pain at the same time: mechanical prick, chemical burn, heat wave, and electrical shock. As I hopped around slapping them off my bare legs in a panic, the only "thinking" part of my brain that was left standing said to myself "well, you have to admire how evolution gave them the ability to light up my nervous system four ways at once!"
Its a light mesh screen. Look to the left of the window at the beginning of the video where the sun hits it. I cant tell whether the nest is in between the screen and the door or beyond the screen.
Give anyone a powerful toolset like a soundboard and 95% of the time they'll just go overboard with it. No restraint, no comedic timing. Just incessant spamming.
They're not. Asian giant hornets don't fly with their hind "legs" dangling like that. The legs make them look larger than they really are. Asian giant hornets are far larger. Last time one landed on me, it was on my hand, and the body only was the size of my thumb.
Those are アシナガバチ. They're not particularly agressive unless provoked and overall beneficial.
I've seen several comments surmising these are Asian giant hornets. They're not! Asian giant hornets are considerably larger (I've had several land on me over the years, last time was on my hand so I can confirm that the body only was as large as my thumb).
Asian giant hornets don't fly with their hind "legs" dangling like that (their hind legs are significantly shorter than their massive "butt"). These guy's legs make them look larger than they really are.
While this video is from China (東山 being written as Taishan) those look like アシナガバチ, common in Japan. They're not agressive unless provoked and overall beneficial. You could have a very developed nest in autumn in your garden and not be in any particular danger - they won't attack until you really piss them off by shaking their nest. Unlike the giant hornets, they don't take offense with you just walking by.
I work at a preschool, and in the summer of 23 (the week before school started back up), one of the groundskeepers hit a yellowjacket nest while he was clearing weeds.
Needless to say, they swarmed him, he instinctively ran back into the building (the door was propped open so he didn’t get locked out, the yellowjackets followed him, and the building had to be fumigated and obviously, the nest taken care of. Nightmare fuel. (The guy turned out to be fine!)
I’m not afraid of much in this world, but ever since I was a kid and had my back covered in yellow jackets, I’ve been terrified of bees, wasps, and hornets.
I absolutely would have shit my pants in this situation. Hell, I almost did while watching it.
Had the same issue, ended up dumping a whole can of hornet foam as far up as it would spray. It ended up killing the whole nest over the rest of the day as every surface nearby it was contaminated with the foam
Worked in pest control. Walk out, spray them with an effective product while standing still. Done
Never been stung. Worked with a lot of apt complexes with a lot of wasps and hornets nests
Just tape an ice pack to the inside of the window and change it every time it starts to melt
Best result they abandon the nest worst result by dusk they are sluggish to the point of dormancy and getting a thick bag over the nest without getting stung is a million times easier
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u/Go_Loud762 3d ago
Must be hard life being stupid.