There’s a hornet nest right near the backdoor of my house in the garden. it’s pretty big. Basketball++ size. Normally I wouldn’t care if they were say up in a tree but they’re under my roof near the patio and door. I’d like them gone but I hate to just kill them if it can be avoided. Problem is of course I’m not equipped to relocate them. So my options are… Buy some spray and get busy or get some people out to relocate them. That’s $150 so not cheap. Any other gardening comrades have thoughts on how to handle?
:pepe-silvia: Just put them in a cardboard box and write a big H on the box
12-gauge
If you’re committed smoking them out and then trying to remove it with a wide scraping tool is probably the only way, but I’d imagine the nest will likely disintegrate since it’s basically just dried mud. When I was a kid I watched my dad accidentally cut through a wasp’s nest with a electric pruner and then run top speed for the pool as they repeatedly bit him, all I can say is good luck.
When I was a kid I watched my dad accidentally cut through a wasp’s nest with a electric pruner and then run top speed for the pool as they repeatedly bit him, all I can say is good luck.
I’m laughing, but I feel bad about it
Laughing is usually my initial reaction. I was visiting him a few weeks ago and he was trying out a rickety scooter we salvaged from a job, hit a big pile of lumber and did a very gradual somersault that ended with him on the ground. The dog immediately ran over to start licking his face and I managed to get a few pictures before he picked himself up.
Ask a neighbor kid to knock it down with a baseball or a rock and then don’t go outside for a few days. I think once they get big enough they’re too established to relocate, at least without paying someone else to do it, and bigger than basketball sounds like it’s way too big
plausible deniability, the hornets won’t know the neighbor kid is your shooter
My brother did this when he was a kid, threw a large stick at a massive nest, pierced it and knocked it down, in their neighborhood. Whole block of apartments literally had to go on lockdown, like officials involved telling people to stay indoors, for a few days while the city dealt with it lmao.
There’s always more wasps than you think in those nests
water hose + run
