what the hell is this??!

**avants2turbo** · 6 July 2009, 23:54

Originally posted by speeding-g60

my new neighbors pointed one out to me in the eave of my house, on the side i dont go on much....

it was the size of a basketball. huge.

i took a 5 gal propane bottle and a torch, and this is summer time mind you.... get up on the ladder in the evening, and proceed to lay waste to the thing. there were soooo many hornets out. they were everywhere. they were dive bombing me and trying to get me. my wife was laughing at me for a long time.... i almost fell off the ladder a number of times. and i was shorts and tanktop at the time. i felt like King Kong on the Empire State Building!

i was at it for over an hour.... i went out the next morning, and there were hornets littered all over the lawn. still crawling around with no wings. thousands of the little guys.... and i made it out with no stings or bites. and these hornets are meat eaters, too....

fun times, reminded me of that.

How the dikkens did u get out without any stings or bites?! (do hornets bite?)

**speeding-g60** · 7 July 2009, 04:27

Originally posted by avants2turbo

How the dikkens did u get out without any stings or bites?! (do hornets bite?)

drunken luck i guess. yes, they bite AND sting. hornets/yellow jackets.

they were swarming, and i had about 2 foot of fire waving it around like mad. i have to admit i bet it looked pretty funny.... i would see them coming and burn them down.... it was fun... and the next morning, seeing all of the bodies and finishing off the job.

**Error404** · 7 July 2009, 12:29

Fire - "The Cleanser"

**s2_bo** · 7 July 2009, 13:18

The American way

**Error404** · 7 July 2009, 15:09

awesome

**Graham** · 9 July 2009, 11:26

Good "Aliens" quote there.
We get some wierd and wonderfull wildlife here, from 5" Huntsmans, to redbacks, to Costal Taipan snakes. Also quite a lot of locusts and Orange hornets. Nasty vicious ******s they are

**turka** · 9 July 2009, 12:02

that is a BMW spy!

**newsh** · 9 July 2009, 15:33

Petrol kills wasps outright, no need to light it. Not great if they're in the roof of the house though and no smoking..

You can just put apetrol soaked rag over the entrance but if you want to hear them scream spray it in the nest with a squeezy bottle (I can't believe I just typed that ..)

**newsh** · 9 July 2009, 15:38

g60 that is pretty hardcore

I came home one night and opened the front door to unload the car, the light brought in about a dozen hornets, I ended up emptying a full can of wasp killer on them and still had to finish the job with a rolled newspaper, they are big fokkers and scary, I was shaking afterwards

**mcandmar** · 9 July 2009, 19:12

Who can tell me what this little guy is? Seems to like the sun, everytime i blocked the sunlight he wandered off to find another sunny spot. He wasnt in the least bit bothered by me, just sat there watching me do an oil change

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