The nice thing about them is you could probably handle them well with a tennis racket, which aren’t generally a useful bug repellent.
Maybe one, any more than that I really don’t know what I’d do. Farting around in the garage, and one enters the man door blocking my escape, and preventing me from opening the overhead doors... then another one enters... ahhhhh
Not sure they have the voltage to deal with those hornets though
I have one that is 4000V that is (I think) the most powerful one available, and it probably couldnt kill one of these hornets. It easily kills all mosquitos and even makes a spark then some smoke, but it needs full batteries to kill a wasp on first contact, if the batteries are weak the charge isnt as high and it stuns them but then they just get pissed off and come at you. I wouldnt even try with one of these hornets unless I had a much more powerful racket.
Might have to go with badminton for speed and agility...
But then durability comes into question.
Durability of the strings is the only question Badminton strings might actually be thin enough to slice the hornets and kill them. Tennis is too thick and all you'll do is hit the hornet a distance and piss it off. It's not like you're intending to constantly smashing the racquet body into solid objects... are you?
I know this because I've done this on yellow jackets before. The badminton racket shredded the wasp's body so it died.
The wasp survived the tennis racquet. The wasp bounced off the tennis racquet with a dull plunk sound. The wasp was launched into a wall and was stunned for about 10-20 seconds before starting to move again. No idea if it was injured or just basic stunned because once we saw it moving, we turned it into mush with a sandal.
A rattan rug beater would likely be much more effective and durable for all intents and purposes of fighting a giant hornet. I think a metal badminton racquet would work OK too. But probably not a tennis racquet or otherwise which don't have a good whipping motion.
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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
They have those battery powered electric bug swatters that look like rackets, the bugs make a crackling sound when they make contact
