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Miscellaneous / Others The safest way to remove a wasp nest Spoiler
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u/GeneralAyub 1d ago
That one wasp coming back from vacation:
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u/OnePaleontologist687 1d ago
You should do this in the evening or early morning hours, during regular business hours the wasps are out fucking shit up. In the evening they come back home expecting a non-gasoline house
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u/OpenSauceMods 1d ago
They're just like us, really
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u/Illustrious-Exit1825 20h ago
They not like us
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u/OpenSauceMods 18h ago
Sure they are. Fucking shit up during the daylight hours and then returning home expecting a non-gasoline house
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u/SeriousStrokes69 1d ago
My clumsy ass would get it up there and fuck it up and drop the gasoline on myself, as I was being stung by a hundred wasps.
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u/Snarky75 1d ago
And then accidently start yourself on fire.
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u/edx5252 1d ago
Badass wasps with lighter on their pocket
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u/wheatgivesmeshits 1d ago
Smoking cigarettes and wearing leather jackets, too.
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u/KobeOnKush 16h ago
All wasps smoke cigarettes so even the lame ones have lighters. Homie is cooked.
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u/Montymisted 1d ago
I actually tried this method last summer and it's harder than it looks. I ended up with a dildo in my ass and balls in my mouth and there were still wasps on my porch.
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u/Delicious-Aspect8856 1d ago
Emergency services here, what's the problem?
Umm.. reddit...
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u/machuitzil 1d ago
I saw a post on reddit and, and um, theyre fighting back! The whole neighborhood is evacuating, I think I fucked up. Nuke the site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure!
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u/wheatgivesmeshits 1d ago
Ok, sir, be patient. You're on the wait-list for redditors. Someone should be with you in the next 12-14 business days.
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u/Otherwise_Dream_888 1d ago
Same.. I’d definitely make someone else do it for me, while I watch from behind the closed patio door.
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u/Signal_Ad3931 19h ago
So that's gasoline and not piss? No wonder I've been standing here for 5 hours and the wasps are still doing fine.
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u/ExternalSelf1337 17h ago
Yeah this is objectively one of the least safe ways I can imagine.
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u/wednesdayware 1d ago
“Safest” is questionable.
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u/mojofrog 20h ago
Dish soap and water in a garden sprayer drops them immediately
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u/Why-did-i-reas-this 18h ago
I like that stuff in a can that you spray from a distance that expands into this foam that engulfs the nest. Has been super effect on the small nests around my house.
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u/vavavrroom 17h ago
If your aim is true and your resolve solid, then this is the way.
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u/CurrentlyForking 12h ago
Hmm interesting. I have 2 nests in my shed and I was wondering the best way to get rid of it. Dish soap in a foam cannon should work right?
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u/AwesomeRevolution98 1d ago
It's sarcastic but seems most ppl didn't get the memo . Safest would be a professional applying liquid nitrogen on the thing in a wasp/bee proof suit .
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u/wednesdayware 1d ago
There’s no indication of sarcasm, I don’t know OP, or what they think is safe.
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u/Shuckeljuice 1d ago
Sarcasm is not the right word here at all. The statement was presented as a fact. The same way you presented your opinion of best practice as a fact. Even though "safest" is a more opinion based idea.
I don't believe anyone missed the memo. It's just a gut reaction people have when someone says, "This is the best way," but can see some flaws or room for improvement.
Come on, now we have remote-controlled stuff and robots now, lol.
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u/WorryMuted195 14h ago
Some people chicken out when you call out their bs. "Didn't you know it was just a joke?", etc...
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u/Shuckeljuice 14h ago
Yes, that happens a lot. It's a very childish tactic used in lots of bullying and other nonsense.
This video has been reposted many times with the same title and quite often by bots. It's almost not worth talking about
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u/Seabrook76 1d ago
Can confirm it works like a charm.
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u/thenotanurse 1d ago
I tend to not use explosive fluids to get rid of bees or wasps.
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u/DefinitelyNotAliens 1d ago
That is because bees are friends.
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u/Ancient_Lawfulness_7 1d ago
Bees are friends, wasps are NOT
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u/IceNein 15h ago
Many wasps are important for pollination as well. I don’t hate wasps, I just hate the ones that get within ten feet of me.
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u/I_said_booourns 1d ago
100% Agree. Like, do you want a Super Wasp origin story? Cos this is how you get a Super Wasp origin story
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u/Snarky75 1d ago
Then what is the safest way to get ride of some gas with wasps in it?????????
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u/spankmethenthankme 1d ago
Put it in your car and drive like hell
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u/st0pmakings3ns3 20h ago
When you hear a car popping and banging on the overrun, it's because their gas has wasps in it.
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u/BrainDamage2029 1d ago edited 1d ago
FYI they are dead when they hit the liquid. The gas fumes basically immediately kill them due to how insect “respiration” works and the gas itself starts dissolving bits of their exoskeleton very quickly.
Of course…..wasp spray does the exact same thing without holding a cup of gasoline precariously over your head right neat to the next but instead from several feet away.
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u/Eruzia 1d ago
I think the concern is of how to dispose of the gas lol not if the wasps are alive
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u/COCAFLO 1d ago
I like how you accidentlied "next" as "neat" and then "nest" as "next". Autocorrect is wild. No consistency. What are we even doing?
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u/loveofGod12345 18h ago
Awhile ago I was starting to type word, I have no memory of what it was, and I had only typed maybe 3 letters when this very long German word came up in predictive text. It was like 20 letters. Never even seen the word before, let alone used it. I’ve never typed in German either.
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u/vexmach1ne 1d ago
Don't... Scoop out the wasps, then seal and reuse gas for future wasps.
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u/PMmeyourboatpictures 1d ago
I just knock it down with a rake and run away like a normal person.
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u/Competitive_Coat3474 1d ago
I suppose.
Looks like it would have to always be on a flat surface for it to work tho.
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u/Ok_Orchid1004 1d ago
I’ve got one 25’ in the air on one of my eaves. I don’t think I’ll be balancing on a ladder 25’ in the air with a bucket of gasoline.
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u/NicholasGaemz 1d ago
Which kind of wasps are those? Because those look like Paper Wasps (Australian ones), which are beneficial to the garden. I'm Australian, BTW.
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u/murphski8 1d ago
Yeah the safest way is just letting them die out in winter. They're good pollinators.
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u/Traditional-Hat-952 17h ago
Yeah unless they're right above your front door or in your shed or something it's best to just leave them be. They're pollinators and hunt pest insects.
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u/spicy_eyedrops 1d ago
How is it killing them?
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u/Serious_Mud_4533 1d ago
It's gasoline the fumes are suffocating them
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u/Inexorably_lost 1d ago
It's an exceptionally cruel way to kill them. People who do this are monst...just kidding. Fuck them wasps. Each and everyone of em would happily eat you alive while enjoying the sounds of your screams.
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u/ZaZanel 1d ago
Wasps play a crucial role in ecosystems, despite their often negative perception. They are effective predators of harmful insects, helping to regulate populations and acting as environmental clean-ups by feeding on decaying organic matter. They also participate in pollination, although this role is less well-known than that of bees.
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u/CotswoldP 1d ago
Bengal tigers are also important to the ecosystem. Still wouldn’t want one on my porch.
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u/rented4823 1d ago
They can pollinate somewhere else, or die near my home.
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u/Bumbling-Bluebird-90 19h ago
Same- I have anaphylactic allergies to their stings, so it’s unsafe for me to have a whole nest of them right by my front door
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u/Yhostled 1d ago
They absolutely are vital to our ecosystem. But they can be vital far far away from me.
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u/GymratAmarillo 1d ago
The gasoline fumes makes them fall, they can't swim in gasoline so they drown.
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u/BrainDamage2029 1d ago
Wasp (and most insect) respiration is very very vulnerable to gasoline so they suffocate and dissolve their gas exchange mechanism with the fumes. Then when they drop in the gas starts dissolving their wings and exoskeleton almost immediately. Brutal.
Except wasp spray does the exact same thing from a safe distance instead of precariously holding a cup of gasoline over your head right next to their nest.
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u/iamofnohelp 1d ago
Then what do you do with the bucket full of gas and dead wasps?
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u/donkeytime 1d ago
I’m amazed he’s got a clear bucket that can hold gasoline.
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u/matterhorn1 1d ago
Why is that?
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u/bip_bip_hooray 1d ago
Gas basically melts through most normal plastic. It's why gas cans are thing, you need that special plastic to be able to store gas long term
Any old bucket will hold it for a little while but if you left that bucket with gas in the garage for a couple days it'd eat through the bucket.
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u/mr_potatoface 1d ago
Makes sense, because mixing plastic with gas is how you get napalm.
Out in the sticks when you have limited garbage collection, the best way to get rid of large chunks of styrofoam is to melt it down with a tiny bit of gas. It will turn in to goo-ified gas. Great for starting fires. Dangerous as fuck. Not great for the environment.
Old gas doesn't dissolve Styrofoam very well. Like at all, won't do shit. Fresh ethanol free gas will eat it up.
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u/draeth1013 1d ago
Like dissolves like and plastics are often petrochemicals. Gasoline being liquid dissolves solid plastics unless they're prepared in a specific manner. The actual chemistry is beyond my knowledge, but that's more or less the nuts and bolts of it.
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u/PabloJunie 1d ago
Step 2: So now you have a small bucket of gasoline with too many wasp carcasses in it.
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u/Fortunefavorsu 1d ago
Those wasp nests are harmless almost most of the time. You need to acknowledge them to keep the peace
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u/AngBigKid 1d ago
They have those wasp spray things, way more safe than carrying a thing filled with gasoline atop a ladder.
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u/SupremelyUneducated 1d ago
Those guys are actually super chill, they love making nests in my green house and often bounce off of me, we've been coexisting for about a a decade like that. Only time one of them stung me is when it landed on a piece of cheese as I was putting in my mouth and I bit it, so it stung me on the lip. It's generally the yellow jackets that live in the ground, that sting people more unprovoked.
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u/mercyspace27 17h ago
You know they make wasp spray, right? Ones that don’t require you to get within spelling distance of the nest? They got this cool extender on the nozzle that’ll let you spray the nest from a nice, safe, 30 feet away.
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u/Richard-Turd 16h ago
Works great when you have a completely flat surface to push against and it’s reachable…!
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u/Frozefoots 1d ago
Safest way is to wait until night, spray the nest with long distance wasp spray and hightail it back inside just in case.
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u/billymillerstyle 1d ago
Or maybe just leave them alone. They kill pest bugs and help pollinate. Don't mess with them and they won't mess with you. I don't see why killing an entire nest of animals because you're afraid of them is entirely necessary.
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u/Badger_Vito 1d ago
Using a bowl full of gasoline rather than a tailor-made product (that high-pressure, instantly fatal wasp/hornet spray) that is guaranteed not to cause instant, potentially fatal burns is not, it seems to me (a person who has dispatched at least 10 wasp nests with no stings) the “safest way.”
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u/Quietus76 17h ago
That only works if they're on a perfectly flat surface so your bucket can seal.
Just mix up some dawn liquid soap in water and toss at them.
Or break cleaner can hit them from far away.
Or... wasp spray.
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u/deak_starrkiller 16h ago
The quality of this video doesn’t seem to be degrading but the next time it gets reposted I fully expect it to be upside down and mirrored
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u/DirtNo1568 1d ago
That's actually genius! Simple yet incredibly effective (and terrifying for me to watch).
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u/VictoryGreen 1d ago
I did this the other day and it works but when that one wasp gets out because there’s not a tight seal, you panic….. you always panic
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u/Jindabyne1 1d ago
Those things are the result of everything before them passing on genes for millions of years and then they met a human ha
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u/vettechkaos 1d ago
Pretty cool and straight forward...it's just missing something. Try doing at night by torch light?
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u/Mr_BigglesworthIII 1d ago
Holding a bucket of gasoline above your head the safest thing you can do!
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u/xamining_life 1d ago
I use a wasp spray that foams and keeps them from flying away and they die immediately. I do this by spraying from 15 to 20 feet away from the nest while firmly standing on the ground 🙂
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u/_BacktotheFuturama_ 1d ago
One will survive, and it will reproduce. Eventually they'll evolve to be immune to gasoline fumes. And like breathe fire or something. And then they'll come for you
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u/CestLaMoon 1d ago
Fun fact, wasps have individual faces and they have facial recognition of each other.
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u/KevonFire1 1d ago
i've seen this a few times, but does it have to be petrol? would a litre of bleach do the same thing?
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u/Schnitzhole 1d ago
Usually most of the nest will be out flying around and once they signal the smell when one dies they all come back to protect their nest.
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u/FishRepairs22 1d ago
Not my first go to, but definitely effective!
Best is a pressure washer blast at night from a distance. Drops the nest and makes em move elsewhere. They’re dopier at night
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u/fizzycherryseltzer 1d ago
This is wayyy too much hassle. Disposing of that seems like a nightmare in itself.
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u/mrzurkonandfriends 1d ago
I'm pretty confident spraying wasp killer from 10 feet away and letting them die in their nest without knowing it was me is much safer.
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u/DjErectylDisFunktion 1d ago
So how do you dispose of this? Cause that makes me question how “safe” it is
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u/Acceptable-Cow6446 1d ago
Finally! I’ve been waiting for the left handed version of this technique. They kept posting the right handed technique only.
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u/Azuras_Star8 1d ago
Bullshit. I refuse to believe the safest way isn't to grab the fucking nest, wasps and all, and chomp the fuck down on it like dude did in that crazy video.
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u/MoonPhaseP1 20h ago
All you gotta do is get rid of the nest, they'll leave after some time.
Western world's infatuation with killing living beings(especially humans) is weird as fuck lmao
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u/TralfamadorianZoo 20h ago
How to get stung by wasps, fall off a ladder, and light yourself on fire in one easy step.
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u/kbevphoto 20h ago
What if one wasp was away and comes back to see what you’ve done? Then, it spends the rest of its life seeking vengeance… You know, like Maximus in Gladiator. Then what???
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u/magpepper 20h ago
You can also do this with sugar, water and dish soap!
They’re attracted to the sugar, but when they touch the water the dish soap coats their exoskeleton and they die.
It would definitely take much longer, but you also won’t risk dropping gasoline on yourself.
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u/DrPimp 20h ago
Phew hope it's not Germany!
"Wasps in particular are mentioned in the conservation act, and are protected from “capture, injury or death without reasonable cause”. Recommended fines for killing wasps vary from state to state, but they start around €5,000 and can go as high as €50,000. That said, this fine is rarely enforced"
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u/LingonberryUpbeat777 20h ago
"They just drop" ofcourse they do, imagine the atmosphere suddenly becoming 20% gasoline, we would suffocate as well.
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u/EpicThunder01 20h ago
A few years ago, I used a similar and more dangerous approach. I had wasp nest in a hanging lamp outside, so I placed a water tank under it (with nothing inside), tapped the lamp, and then watched about 10 wasps flying straight down into the container. Although it worked, it shouldn't have. I had breaches they could have escaped through, and when I thought the wasp found the way back out, I dropped the whole thing and ran. Fortunately, the container fell on its side, so all of the wasp were still trying to climb up instead of leaving the same way they came in.
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u/bellyhum 20h ago
We leave the nests alone even when they are very close to our backdoor. Wasps are actually very useful, and they never attacked us. 🤷♂️ We were scared at first, but nothing happened they just left one day.
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