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Post by OasisNZ on Apr 6, 2007 16:38:59 GMT 12
Little blighters building a nest next to the donkey shack... A good dose of flyspray sorted them out! ;D
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Post by meandog on Apr 6, 2007 16:58:45 GMT 12
WARNING!!!!! Oasis you will have only have killed the wasps, but that nest will be full of larve and will start hatching out. Now at night (only) cut the nest off by the little piece that it is hanging from, let it drop into a plastic bag and put it in the freezer to kill the larve. Leave it there about 24 hrs. You should only go near these wasps at night unless you are extra brave.
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Post by OasisNZ on Apr 6, 2007 17:27:44 GMT 12
WARNING!!!!! Oasis you will have only have killed the wasps, but that nest will be full of larve and will start hatching out. Now at night (only) cut the nest off by the little piece that it is hanging from, let it drop into a plastic bag and put it in the freezer to kill the larve. Leave it there about 24 hrs. You should only go near these wasps at night unless you are extra brave. Hehe, I have a classic story about wasps, you might have heard it before... Me and my sister were climbing up the river bank in Motueka one day, and she put her foot into a wasp nest. They came streaming out of the ground and attacked her, thousands of the little bastids! She was getting hysterical so I had to walk up and grab her and started dragging her down to the river. We both plunged into the river and the wasps buggered off, she only got stung half a dozen times, and me not once! From that day on me and my little mate from down the road declared war on the wasps on the river bank, heading down there regularly with tennis bats to jump on their nests, and beat the crap outa them as fast as we could, then sprint away when they became overwhelming, haha, they give up the chase after about a hundred yards! So I don't really fear the little blighters, I just walked up and sprayed the crap outa them, about eight of them tried to have a go as I backed away, (the other side was covered in them!) I managed to twang a couple of them with the can, then attacked with the spray as well, haha!
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Post by snooka on Apr 6, 2007 18:18:54 GMT 12
I remember years ago, too many years ago, I was 6 - 7 YO... A wee town we lived in, Broadwood, had a huge wasp nest on the A & P Showgrounds... It was the Cricket ground, Rugby Ground or whatever Ground... Anyways there was a Forest just behind it and of course some dead or rotting stumps nearby... It contained a HUGE wasp nest... All the men of the town met and decided it had to go... Blokes being blokes in those days decided Dynamite was the way... Without protection, someone put 3 sticks around the stump... A fuse joined them all... 1 Big Boom soon followed... No Wasps, No Tree Stump and a hole in the ground... This caused another working bee... Repair the hole... Happened in 1964 I think... Maybe a year or so out...
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Post by macker on Apr 6, 2007 20:07:29 GMT 12
Fly spray, accompanied by a lighter sorts out the larvae!
;D
Fire is a wonderful eradication agent ;D
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Post by macker on Apr 6, 2007 20:08:21 GMT 12
Yikes!
Dynamite is better!
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Post by manuela on Apr 6, 2007 20:39:55 GMT 12
we had an invasion of wasps after the flood... they must have been washed out
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Post by OasisNZ on Apr 14, 2007 20:18:18 GMT 12
Hehe, wasp stories are good. That nest above seemed to have three "classes" of wasp, the large on on the outside center I reckon was the queen, the two you can see to right of her have black and yellow faces, these ones seemed to be the ones that were coming and going... Then you see those smaller beady eyed, yellow faced ones at the top and left of the construction, there were at least 30 of them clinging to the other side, just peeking over the edge occassionally, but mostly working on building the cones methinks? So the "workers" were bringing them the goods, and they were carrying out the construction, amazing little structures.
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