Wasp sucking machine XL
This, of course, calls for revenge :) I wanted to use my wasp sucking machine, except I didn't have that with me.
I thought about using my cheap dust collector to suck them up, but then the wasps would all be inside, with no good way to get rid of them.
I then left it in place while doing some more painting in the workshop. It was very effective, the larger hose allows for much more air flow than my last experiment, so a larger proportion of the wasps that came and went got sucked in.
Seeing the light, the wasps immediately started to crawl towards it to get out. They didn't try flying out (too much airflow), and as soon as they got to the edge of the plastic flange, the airflow would suck them back in. I have to say, that was the coolest thing to see, all these angry wasps crawling towards me, with nothing between them and me, yet they still couldn't reach me. Of course, a power failure would surely have turned the tables on me! I didn't have a good way to kill them, so at the end of the day, I just stuffed some fiberglass into the hole, and put the box in a shed.
I dumped out the wasps on the ground, and stomped all over them, to make sure they were all good and dead. And yes, a can of raid could have solved the problem in the first place, but what's the fun in that? Plus, I couldn't get at the actual nest, and I'm not sure spraying raid at the hole where they came in and out would have done much.
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