Fire Wasps

[bruiser]

Decided to put a fire in the fireplace. Mind you, it's been sitting dormant since winter of 2011. I don't like using it much since it's an "inexpensive" insert that was put in when the house was built. It's more for ambiance than heat. Anyway, I got one of those fake logs we use in our fire pit. You know the kind, eco friendly. So i light the thing off and put the screen back up. Next thing I know there's a wasp on the screen. Then another, then another. Then they're falling on to the flaming log. Cats are having a fit. Time to get the wasp spray out and Very Carefully spray them. At last count there were 18 dead bodies. Wife just said there were 4 more on the screen. More bodies to add to my count :yes:

 

[ARtraveler]

That would have been unnerving. Glad your house did not fill up with the critters. Others have found raccoons and other critters camped in their chimneys after periods of fireplace dormancy. :yes:

 

[Bob Denman]

Dead wasps :shocked:, are far better than live ones... :2thumbs:
Glad to hear that the damage was pretty minimal! :thumbup:

 

[Cruzr Joe]

Clean up the bodies and leave no evidence. :lecturef_smilie:

They have a hard time prosecuting without a body. :roflblack:

Cruzr Joe

 

[bruiser]

Updated body count; 26.

 

[Bob Denman]

:clap: VERY nice... :thumbup:

 

[Chupaca]

Really..!!!

there are many bugs and creatures big and small moving into chimmneys. Good thing most of them don't like smoke and hopefully those that could went out the other end...:thumbup:

 

[Bob Denman]

This almost reminds me of the time that me and a buddy decided to take the wind out of the sales of the :cus: that inhabited a local beehive,,,
It hung right outside the back door of his garage from a light fisture... at about head-height...
Right after dark; we stuck a propane torch out the door, and up into the hive... Fully open; of ocurse! :thumbup:
After about a five minute soak in the rlammible gases, we pulled it in, and replaced it with a rolled-up newspaper, that was already burning rather nicely...
:shocked: KA-BOOOOM!! :shocked:
The explosion was marvelous, and we had flaming bees spiraling in all directions.
We DID have to explain how the light got knocked off the side of the garage to his Dad though...

 

[bruiser]

And did he buy the explanation??

 

[Bob Denman]

We actually told the story exactly as it happened... it was WAY too cool to lie about!! :2thumbs:
The Old Man didn't like bees buzzing around his swimming pool anyway! :thumbup:

 

[otter28169]

I blew a good sized hole in my parent's lawn trying to kill some wasps that had built a nest in the ground under my garden plot. I found the nest with a potato spade and set a land speed record to the house being stung 17 times by the time I got into the kitchen. I then proceeded to rip off my shirt, which had several wasps wrapped in it, and beat it wildly against the counter top on the island. I went out after dark to launch my assault: it was epic. The neighbors thought a house had blown up. The only good wasps are dead ones. (except for maybe the band "Wasp" that did a pretty good cover of Locomotive Breath).

Just sayin'............

 

[bruiser]

Honey bees and bumble bees don't bother me. Neither do dirt daubers. But yellow jackets, wasps and hornets, that's a different story. I got nailed a few years ago by yellow jackets. I was weed eating around a tree. I thought I got hit in the hand by a small stone until I felt a hot jab in the side, then another. Looked down and they were coming out of the ground like fighters launching from a base. Same as Otter, i ran in the house and they followed me. I killed five of them in the house. I counted 9 stings.

 

[Charles Faw]

Honey bees and bumble bees don't bother me. Neither do dirt daubers. But yellow jackets, wasps and hornets, that's a different story. I got nailed a few years ago by yellow jackets. I was weed eating around a tree. I thought I got hit in the hand by a small stone until I felt a hot jab in the side, then another. Looked down and they were coming out of the ground like fighters launching from a base. Same as Otter, i ran in the house and they followed me. I killed five of them in the house. I counted 9 stings.

Yep. Yellow Jackets are some mean little :cus:'s. At least once a year I'll stir up a nest while mowing. The bite hurts almost as bad as the sting. I just bail off, leave the mower beside the hole and go back after dark with a gas can. A little 87 octane down the hole always does the trick :thumbup:. Don't even have to light it up.

 

[Bob Denman]

...But it's more FUN if you do!! :2thumbs:

 

[bruiser]

That's what I did. But I had to light it off. The main entry hole looked like a torch when it lit off. The next year they took over a hole right next to the brick wall near the garage. This time I dropped some good old CH3OH down the hole. That's methanol for those of you who didn't take chemistry.

 

[jerpinoy]

Sorry, but look there's a bright side, just get your bbq sauce and dip those critters.:roflblack: One new york resto specialty food.:yes::yes: