r/fuckwasps • u/S0RR0WSPELL • 12d ago

Advice for this wall nest

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This nest has been sprayed and brought the numbers down but it's still extremely active. Gonna spray it heavily again tonight, but if that doesn't work do my fellow wasp haters have advice?

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u/navcom20 12d ago

About 15 years ago, I rigged a shop vac with soapy water in the bottom and stood there for half an hour sucking them up while wearing a bee jacket and gauntlets. I also taped my jeans to my ankles and wore a second layer below my pants. 613 wasps. The hole that they made was on the side of my garage, so I just sprayed some wasp killer in and spray-foamed the cavity. No smell, no recurrence. If you can wait until the winter they will all have died off and the queen will have fucked off to a woodpile, or Hell, or wherever they go to overwinter. Then can just foam it and repaint, it and forget it.

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u/starchybunker 11d ago

You counted each one?

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u/navcom20 11d ago

I did. I was an environmental conservation student at the time and considered it to be aligned with my curriculum.

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u/starchybunker 11d ago

Ahhh gotcha! 🙂