Wasp nest

[Winter]

Easy.

Step one.

Install quality video camera ontripod in corner of yard. Set to RECORD.

Step 2.

Try each method as mentioned in the above posts - starting with the most pyromaniac methods first, finishing with a big blast of cold water.

Step 3.

Youtube!

[Mikkel]

How about leaving the poor critter alone? Killing is evil!



Now that greenpeace has been appeased...

If the little bastards can't get out except through the top I think the idea of blocking the top is a good idea. However, block it with something with a tap in it. Then it's an easy matter to introduce petrol, pesticide or whatever you feel like killing them with once they have been contained.

[firefighter]

Cheers for the advice, the nest was half in and half poking out through the top of the pole, so no chance of taping it up, and these asian wasps are real nasty, if you go near the nest they start flying at you, so no chance of taping it up or whatever without getting maimed, I just filled an old jam jar up with good old 91', ran at it and lobbed/poured it at the nest, and ran like a little girl! came back an hour later a little more prepared.......(jeans, jumper, flashood, helmet visor down with filled up jar, rolled up paper and lighter) -to my neighbours amusement.....and there wasn't a sign of them, so well I did what any other idiot would do that's decided to go through that much effort, I casually tippytoed up, poured the whole jar down into the nest, lit the rolled up piece of paper and lit the dribbles down the pole, watched the fuel burn away and am now sitting here with a beer, all in a days work!

[scumdog]

Sprinkle Carbaryl in there (or petrol and block off). Do it at night.

Wot 'e sed.

It works a charm - not potentially as spectacular as petrol but works better - and the wasps that survive all bugger off.

Just sprinkle it around the wasp-nest entry area and leave it - as said, at night is best, ya don't get stung.

[P38]

Wasp bait in a little basket, hang it on the clothes line and wait a week... dead waspies left and right...!

What he said.

Your wasting your time with petrol.

Yates make a good powder too.

Sprinkle it at the entrance and three days later no a wasp to be seen.

[Donor]

Ah piss...

I was about to suggest I bring some sacred Double Happies (ALL HAIL!) up and have a play!

[Toaster]

Petrol or pyrethrum.... I get lots of nests in the country... both work a treat. Immediate death to the little bastards.

[Korea]

Ah piss...

I was about to suggest I bring some sacred Double Happies (ALL HAIL!) up and have a play!

You still got double-happies??? That was like, almost 20 years ago~!

[Donor]

You still got double-happies??? That was like, almost 20 years ago~!

Couple of strings, and some dodgy Tom Thumbs!

Still need to find my bulging bag of sky rockets though...

[BIGBOSSMAN]

Wait till nighttime, boil a full kettle of water and pour it over the little bleeders.
OR, create a new type of parasitic mite in your lab that will eliminate the pest species. Biological control, the only true stopper.

[DougB]

Way back in the 1950's wasps were a real menace. Each year when we went to our holiday home by the Waitangi river the first chore was to get rid of the local nests. We found that wasps are like bees and after taking up food would make a 'bee line' for home. We would set three lots of food, fish was best, and sight along the lines of flight.
Where they intersected was the nest entrance.
Often in the bush the entrance to the nest was very hard to locate. You would have to look until you saw what appeared to be a haze, that would be the thousands of wasps coming and going. Having found the nests we would wait till dark and then shove a hose into the opening and go up hill. Petrol was then poured in (only 2/6 a gallon then) through a funnel. The guard wasps would come out but could not see. You would hear a buzz and it would stop when the wasp banged into somthing. When they got too close we took off. Killed off dozens of nests that way. We see only a fraction of the wasps that used to swarm about then they were a real menace.

[awayatc]

Cheers for the advice, the nest was half in and half poking out through the top of the pole, so no chance of taping it up, and these asian wasps are real nasty, if you go near the nest they start flying at you, so no chance of taping it up or whatever without getting maimed, I just filled an old jam jar up with good old 91', ran at it and lobbed/poured it at the nest, and ran like a little girl! came back an hour later a little more prepared.......(jeans, jumper, flashood, helmet visor down with filled up jar, rolled up paper and lighter) -to my neighbours amusement.....and there wasn't a sign of them, so well I did what any other idiot would do that's decided to go through that much effort, I casually tippytoed up, poured the whole jar down into the nest, lit the rolled up piece of paper and lit the dribbles down the pole, watched the fuel burn away and am now sitting here with a beer, all in a days work!

Cheers for that, now at least we know wasps run on 91.....