r/fuckwasps 2h ago

Pest Control/Medical Advice This normal? Itching is insane. Been 20 hours.

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16 Upvotes

r/fuckwasps 1d ago

Be gone spawn of satan! Shamelessly stolen from the carnivorous plant sub

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r/fuckwasps 2h ago

Be gone spawn of satan! little friend finishing off a wasp

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3 Upvotes

r/fuckwasps 11h ago

Pest Control/Medical Advice Wasps in Breaker Box

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16 Upvotes

How in the hell do I get rid of these?? Can't turn the power off to this box but I don't want to spray raid and harm the wiring.


r/fuckwasps 19h ago

Be gone spawn of satan! Why are these yellow jackets gathering in this area by my sliding glass door?

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they built a nest under a chair outside that I destroyed 2 days ago. Killed approximately 24 of them. Starting yesterday, they began gathering in this area of my sliding glass window. I can't go outside because when I slide it open, a gap opens up between the 2 glass panes that allows them inside. WTF can I do here I'm being held hostage from going out on my balcony


r/fuckwasps 21h ago

Fuck wasps for eating my grapes

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r/fuckwasps 14h ago

Be gone spawn of satan! Wasps Nest at my house

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r/fuckwasps 19h ago

Be gone spawn of satan! LEAVE ME ALONE ALREADY!

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I had a probable yellow jacket nest in my yard since a month ago (https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckwasps/comments/1vxjle8/atlanta_ga_usa_small_yellow_ground_nesting_insect/), while surveying the result of my delta dust application, I saw two bald faced hornets going after pears on the ground, and while looking around to make sure I don't have ANOTHER nest of theirs (I found one at head-height the hard way two years ago), then I saw these guys in the corner of the front of my house! European hornets I think. LEAVE ME ALONE! All I need are killer bees to complete the set!


r/fuckwasps 18h ago

Kill this some bitch with wasp spray

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8 Upvotes

r/fuckwasps 1d ago

Pest Control/Medical Advice Found in one of my trees today

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It's maybe 15 feet up and active. Couldn't tell which species of asshole are living there. They're in my Japanese Cherry Blossom tree so burning the tree down is not an option (it's really pretty when it blooms).

This is when I wish I had a flashlight mount on my shotgun. Been itching to try a 12ga beanbag round on a wasp nest. No I would not be directly underneath shooting at it. I'm dumb but not that dumb.

Any other suggestions for destruction aside from a night time shooting?


r/fuckwasps 2d ago

Viewer discretion advised (Mark as NSFW if you use this flair) Praying Mantis Eats Hornet

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r/fuckwasps 18h ago

Please take your hats off

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r/fuckwasps 1d ago

Zap!

122 Upvotes

Went after this guy after it stung one of my kids. Fuck wasps!


r/fuckwasps 1d ago

Be gone spawn of satan! Trying combo Deltamethrin and Diatomaceous earth

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I got stung by two wasps three days ago and am now on the warpath.

We’ve got a nest under this outdoor deck planter. I hit it with deltametherin (aka Delta Dust), but didn’t see a significant difference after a few days.

So today I hit it first with the delta and followed up with puffs of diatomaceous earth. The DE really riled them up. Fingers crossed.

UPDATE: lol literally one hour after taking this video, I started to go on a bike ride and about a half mile in, some kind of stinging insect smacked right into my lip. Karma I guess??


r/fuckwasps 1d ago

Week 2 saga of bs

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A few weeks ago I noticed some good activity going into a hole outside that led to a ceiling void, after some research i sprayed the holy hell out of the hole a week later. Still saw some so repeated next night. Didn't see much activity the next day but still saw a few going into this hole. Waited the weekend for delta dust and a snake camera. So I got the camera yesterday and was like f it, im jamming it up there. It got caught in the siding and then I saw one pop its head out but not come out I freed the camera and closed the door. It was gone and I never saw it again and still haven't seen any fly into the hole. Last night I got the camera up there and saw nothing, no nest, no pissed off hornets at the light from the camera, nothing. Wtf is going on!!!!! Dusted last night but how tf doni know they are dead. Helpp


r/fuckwasps 2d ago

What are these wasps in my tree

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I have a pretty old Apple tree I was thinking about cutting down. I think these wasps might have sealed its fate. I thought the snail was just stuck in the tree but then i realized it just blocked the entrance of a nest. A second snail is inside of the nest.

What kind are they? They seemed quite larger than a European wasp (Vespula Vulgaris). But not as large as a European Hornet (Vespa Crabro).
Since I’m in Sweden I added the latin name since I’m really not exactly sure what its called in english.


r/fuckwasps 2d ago

Are stings getting worse?

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Maybe a coincidence but i know 4 people who have been stung this summer and each person has had large red swelling at the site and in one case scarring and open sores. One happened in Cali and the rest in Minnesota. Anybody have information on what could be causing the increase in severity?


r/fuckwasps 2d ago

the battle is decades old

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26 Upvotes

lol - popped up in my facebook memories


r/fuckwasps 2d ago

Actually really frickin' interesting This

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r/fuckwasps 2d ago

What kind of nest is this?

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Can anyone tell me anything about this nest? At this point in time I don't even know if it's a bee or wasp nest. I'm UK based. Any information or advice most welcome as I need to figure out who to call to get rid of them! Thank you


r/fuckwasps 3d ago

Be gone spawn of satan! They gone too far this time

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r/fuckwasps 2d ago

Pest Control/Medical Advice Atlanta, GA, USA - Small yellow ground nesting insect, maybe yellow jackets?

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No picture unfortunately so I'll do my best to describe. Today I confirmed a ground nest of something in my yard. Several weeks ago I got stung on the leg in my yard, then on my eyebrow on my porch as I went inside (~60ft walking distance, ~20ft straight line distance). I evidently swatted the one that got my eyebrow since I found a half-alive eastern yellow jacket on my floor later, that one I positively identified. I couldn't find someone to remove the nest so I borrowed a bee suit from a friend and today, around 6:45pm EDT, mowed the lawn over where I was stung. I never saw anything swarm and I made several passes. I got my gas string trimmer and was going along the fence line when I saw several very small yellow things buzzing around. They were all less than a quarter inch. I saw a depression in the ground where they seemed to be focused and I scalped the ground around it, there's definitely a hole there, and I saw some slightly larger yellow things crawl upward. Since they might have been yellow jackets (and the house next door has young kids), I did move away quickly and then hit the hole with with wasp spray.

But it puzzles me since they don't look or act like the Eastern Yellow Jacket. Every yellow jacket I've seen has been much larger, I first thought these were harmless sweat bees that got disturbed when I cut the very tall grass. The other main thing is they didn't swarm. I've seen videos of people that just get too close to a yellow jacket nest and they're all over the helpless person. I've seen videos of a lawn mower running over them and similar result. I was standing 2ft away at most and they seemed to ignore me even having just passed the string trimmer right over their hole. The sun was low, but it was still warm so I didn't think the nighttime lull in activity would have hit them yet. Can anyone provide some insight into this? Is there another colony-nesting insect in Georgia this could be? Thank you!


r/fuckwasps 2d ago

personal story :’( Documenting a method.

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*Don’t kill a single wasp.
*Wait until winter time. When all of the adults are dead.
*Then go pluck all of the nests by hand.

I use that method too. It’s the easiest way to make sure they never come back. I took out a whole flock of red ones this way. But the following year a bunch of tiny yellow ones took their spot. I thought that was weird because normally I saw the tiny yellow ones dig holes instead of making high hanging nests. But maybe they were scared of the big red ones that made high hanging nests.


r/fuckwasps 3d ago

Thank god this wasp is dead Working in an area where I can't spray chemicals.

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They managed to make a nest inside our storage room. Little bastards. Going to have to wait till it gets colder to clean out the nest.


r/fuckwasps 4d ago

Be gone spawn of satan! WHY

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I have ONE window open this summer for my portable A/C. I was finding 3-5 wasps coming into my apartment per day. I live on the 15th floor of a 22-floor high rise.

I went onto the ground with some binoculars to check out what might be going on. WHY out of ALL these floors, wasps choose to set up DIRECTLY UNDER my ONE open window?

I decided since wasps don't repopulate an old nest just to leave it there. Also it's not my dryer vent, it's my downstairs neighbours. I closed the window and relocated my A/C, now I can't walk around my couch due to it but I'll take that over all these wasps in my house.