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Originally Posted by Sainters7
Back when I was 18/19 & still at home, we had a nest under our front step for a bit one summer. It's back when those electric flyswatters that look like tennis rackets first came out.
Sometimes when I was having a couple beers outside in the sun & got a buzz going, I'd grab the hose, spray under the step, then watch em come out and swat em with the electric swatter. I'd take out a bunch of em, it was gloriously white trash fun...I'd imagine it's the wasp version of how Charlie Kelly felt with his new rat bashing stick. I never got stung either somehow.
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Haha. Similar situation here. Years ago I had a nest under the front step. I would use the a sprayer attachment set on wide spray. The cold water would knock them out of the air and then I would mash them with my foot. Spray the ones coming out of the hole and spray the ones coming back to the nest. It didn’t take long to eliminate a couple hundred, sometimes you would mash 4 or 5 at a time.
I don’t know if it was the moisture or the cold that would knock them down, but after getting hit they would just sit on the concrete waiting to be squished.
You just had to watch out for a rouge swarm coming from behind, but the sprayer was good for indiscriminate knock downs. One time, I remember thinking sandals weren’t the best footwear for battling a colony of wasps, but it worked out, I was never stung. After a couple rounds with the garden hose and flip flips, they moved on or……something.