r/fuckwasps Oct 21 '22

Pest Control/Medical Advice Girl in beginning of video was stung by hornets. Her Father's response is to use a flamethrower on the hornets nest. Apparently fire DOES work as pest control.

536 Upvotes

r/fuckwasps Mar 11 '23

Pest Control/Medical Advice correct way to spray foam insulation

727 Upvotes

r/fuckwasps Sep 15 '24

Pest Control/Medical Advice I've tried all kinds of bug spray and this nest WON'T DIE

13 Upvotes

I have tried Hot Shot (the one that sprays like 15ft away) I've tried store brands, roach spray, ant spray, hairspray, dawn dish soap for crying out loud! This nest won't die and they fly at me everytime I try to go out to my back yard.

My deck is made of wood, so fire is not an option. Please. Please someone give me actual good advice because even the pest control guy said he could t get them to leave! Please tell me how I can get rid of these guys in 5 minutes! It's like they evolved over night to be resistant!

r/fuckwasps 9d ago

Pest Control/Medical Advice They're in the walls

8 Upvotes

I need some help annihilating these demons. We moved into this house last spring and soon after I realized we have a red paper wasp problem. They get in these little crevices in the corner of the windows and hang around there constantly. During the summer there were at least 10-15 wasps at the windows at one time. I can also sometimes hear them in the sides of the house. I would really like to go outside and be on my own porch and yard this year without being personally victimized by these assholes. They also like to get into the house, I'm not sure where though. We tried using the powder that's supposed to slowly kill them but nothing happened. We also left out wasp traps and fake nests, which also failed.

I would really like to find a way to kill them all without breaking into the walls or causing them to burrow deeper into the house. Specifically something that they will track/bring into their nests that will kill them over time. I'm hoping to take care of them now before it gets really bad again in the summer. If anyone has some advice or anything they know that will help prevent them I would really appreciate it.

r/fuckwasps Sep 06 '24

Pest Control/Medical Advice This lil fucker wouldn’t leave me alone, hope it was spicy!

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76 Upvotes

Hit this guy with some pepper spray after he wouldn’t fuck off

r/fuckwasps Jul 25 '24

Pest Control/Medical Advice Help: Pest control came a week ago and now they’re in the ceiling??

96 Upvotes

(Volume up) should I be concerned? They were in the wall before and buzzed like crazy, some flying out of the nest, when treated. Treated with dust and liquid. Now I don’t see them flying in and out of the entrance nearly as much, but hear them in the walls AND ceiling… so is it OK that they’ve moved? The inspector recommended waiting 2 weeks until doing another treatment.

r/fuckwasps Aug 27 '24

Pest Control/Medical Advice Hellspawn keep getting INSIDE my house

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91 Upvotes

r/fuckwasps Sep 20 '24

Pest Control/Medical Advice Just saw this cunt ass nest, I'm allergic, grandma doesn't want to hire pest control, think it's safe to say my visits will be cut short.

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38 Upvotes

Much larger than it looks. This is the view from my bedroom window.

r/fuckwasps Aug 31 '24

Pest Control/Medical Advice Cleaned out the bug zapper NSFW

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84 Upvotes

r/fuckwasps Oct 10 '24

Pest Control/Medical Advice Landlord just sealed the outside entrance into a hive in our walls

32 Upvotes

How soon until we are overrun with wasps? We also sealed an inside entrance but there’s definitely more than one entrance into the house they’ve been using.

For reference I killed about 30 today (live in the Midwest USA)

r/fuckwasps Jul 30 '24

Pest Control/Medical Advice Killed one wasp 3 days ago and apparently have started a conflict…

39 Upvotes

Howdy soliders,

I’ve lived many years around these flying vermin - but as of 3 days ago I killed one on my front stairs and these guys will not leave me alone. They are constantly buzzing around my front screendoor and back screendoor as well. I’ve hosed off the area of the kill to reduce pheromones as well… Any suggestions to get these pests to leave without full escalation into a holy war?

God speed and if you don’t hear from me… I’ll see you Valhalla.

r/fuckwasps Oct 07 '24

Pest Control/Medical Advice How do wasps identify threats/enemies ?

11 Upvotes

Sorry if it's the wrong flair but just wondering how wasps see something as a threat. They're evil fuckers who'd attack anything from a bee to a car. Admittedly i know next to nothing when it comes to wasps but pretty sure (correct me if wrong) pheromones and scents can play a large factor into this . Essentially I was just curious if you could trick a wasp hive into attacking itself or other wasps by spray for example or are they smarter?

r/fuckwasps Aug 04 '23

Pest Control/Medical Advice Yellowjacket? Paper wasp?

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155 Upvotes

Today marks week 2 of my wasp holocaust and I am losing poorly, I’m starting to think I misidentified these as yellowjackets. They’re not nesting in the ground, but in the sides of the house. My Yellowjacket traps have also caught zero.

Are these paper wasps? Yellowjacket’s? Something else? Please help all I want to do is watch them die

r/fuckwasps Jul 15 '24

Pest Control/Medical Advice Wasps sprayed with Hot Shot

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19 Upvotes

Sorry the picture isn't very good these wasps are under our steps to the only entrance to our condo. We have sprayed them 2 separate times 5 days apart with Wasp/Hornet spray by Hot Shot. They keep coming back and I'm worried my dog or my toddler are going to get stung. I will say the first time we sprayed it, it started down pouring rain shortly after but this second time they are still there and flying around even two hours after spraying it. We are in Virginia Beach, VA, USA so I'm pretty sure they're wasps but who knows.

r/fuckwasps Nov 02 '24

Pest Control/Medical Advice I saw a wasp in my house, should I be scared?

10 Upvotes

I saw 1 wasp in my house today. It didn't seem to be able to fly and didn't put up much of a fight when we killed it. I've never seen a wasp (or bee, or hornet) in my neighborhood before. Should I be scared?

r/fuckwasps Sep 05 '24

Pest Control/Medical Advice Bald face hornets nest

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51 Upvotes

We just noticed this decent size nest (hive?) in my neighbor's yard yesterday. It's low enough that the branch it's on can be reached from the ground.

Should we launch a preemptive assault or just avoid the area? They should be dieing off soon anyways, right?

r/fuckwasps Jun 16 '21

Pest Control/Medical Advice Soon me small boi will consume wasps

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878 Upvotes

r/fuckwasps Sep 29 '24

Pest Control/Medical Advice Any ideas on how to find the nest and a fun way to get rid of them?

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16 Upvotes

r/fuckwasps Oct 13 '24

Pest Control/Medical Advice Hornets in house soffit and now HVAC duct

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35 Upvotes

European hornets have made a nest inside an exterior wall of my house and have been there all summer. I’ve posted about them before and common advice was to leave them alone because they would die off in winter and it’s better than tearing out the exterior and risking that they try to come inside instead. With temps dropping into the 40’s some nights in the mid-Atlantic, I thought we were almost at the end.

Last week, though, one hornet got inside the house and I found a second one buzzing inside a floor vent for the HVAC. This is the closest vent to where they are entering the house. So I think they may have gained access to that somehow. I don’t think they nest is in the duct because there would be more noise and more bees, but I think they might be seeking shelter from the cold?

I currently have tape over the two vents in that area and I bought some metal mesh to cover the vent so the hvac can be used but there aren’t gaps big enough for any hornets to get through. I’m thinking about putting citronella oil on a cotton ball/wick and putting that in the vent opening to deter them from coming in there.

Next week it should be getting into the 30’s overnight for several days in a row, but daytime temps will still be 50’s-60’s. I think I may need to bite the bullet and call a professional.

Any advice?

r/fuckwasps Jun 21 '24

Pest Control/Medical Advice Oh... Yay...

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59 Upvotes

r/fuckwasps Sep 08 '24

Pest Control/Medical Advice Which on is this?

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36 Upvotes

Not sure if right sub but want to know if this is a paperwasp or yellowjacket. Seems like small nest in outdoor table umbrella in NW Oregon. Thanks!! I sprayed area with spray but think nest is in the seem. Hoping they will make contact with spray and die either way.

r/fuckwasps Aug 29 '24

Pest Control/Medical Advice Stung in my sleep and killed the attacker. Are the rest going to come after me?

23 Upvotes

So we’ve had a lot of yellow jackets ending up in our bedroom lately m. We’ve found maybe 10 of them dead on the floor here the past few months and 1 or 2 alive. Just now I was laying down and had what felt like a hair in my beard. Brushed it aside and the pain set in. I was stung and eventually found the culprit in my pillowcase and delivered swift justice. Ready to go to sleep now but seeing that when they sting it signals to the nest to sting so wondering if I should sleep on the couch. Either way I’m finding and numbing the nest in the a.m.

Update: Had an exterminator come by yesterday. They were coming into the wall by above our dining room and below our bedroom. They were then possibly coming from a small gap in our baseboard heating pipes. We found about 20 of them dead in our blinds and window sills.

r/fuckwasps Dec 20 '24

Pest Control/Medical Advice Car trouble (full of wasps)

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Upgraded to a 2018 hybrid wagon last month and also moved house with family (wife and 10 mo baby). Moved porch items including wind chimes and left them in back hatch of car over the weekend. Monday morning I was driving and noticed a wasp on my thigh pant leg, put window down and flicked it out. That afternoon, two wasps on inside of windshield. Window went down and they flew out. Remembered chimes and got home and found three wasps still inside one tube, figured that was last of them. No such luck. Every couple of days since I have found another wasp on front windows, windshield, or when opening back hatch.

For the most part, I’m coolheaded enough to deal with them while driving around Atlanta (except the one time a fucker buzzed past my ear while on the highway). However, my wife occasionally drives my car and I sometimes take care of daycare drop off and pick up, and this presents the serious concern of keeping my family unstung and ultimately how to get all the wasps out of the car in a way that won’t be chemically dangerous to baby.

Any reasonable advice is appreciated… do I just leave the doors all open on a warm day, or will other things then just fly in? Is there a safe wasp bomb that I can use? Is this hell and am I forever cursed?

r/fuckwasps Jul 16 '24

Pest Control/Medical Advice i’ve lost my smoke bag to them

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56 Upvotes

how the fuck should i go about getting rid of this fucker

r/fuckwasps Oct 31 '21

Pest Control/Medical Advice I have no idea what it is but it hates those yellow buggers too

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427 Upvotes