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Not all things in Australia want to kill you..........

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Pastorbottle Pastorbottle
You have a wooden pecker? Better keep it varnished otherwise it might split and splinter!
wax on wax off
 
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This is pretty Australian, a couple of loved up snakes with a dingo eating a shark in the background.

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dsio
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So the front door to the place we just moved into had a huge wasp nest, and they're not paper wasps, but rather European / German wasps. I thought our native wasps were horrible mongrels but somehow these highly efficient German ones are exponentially worse... been trying to kill them all morning and I'm losing so far.
 
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This. On the end of a very long stick, whilst hanging out of a window.
She'll be right.
 
ghce
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I've always used Carbaryl insecticide powder in the past, it's very effective at destroying large whole nests very quickly you just need to puff it into the nest. I generally used a long aluminium tube to blow it in to the nest but it's been banned in many countries now including where I am but luckily I have old stock of it in the garden shed for wasp duty.
 
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Emeister Emeister
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This. On the end of a very long stick, whilst hanging out of a window.
She'll be right.
What could possibly go wrong?

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ghce
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Vercingetorix Vercingetorix
Imagine using that in the Blue Mountains in summer (or winter) to destroy wasp nests or in fact any where in Australia 🤦
 
Pastorbottle
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European wasps are bastards of things, I have a small wand flame burner, it meat to be for killing weeds but it's useless for that.
I have found it's good for killing wasps when they are persistently hanging around, at a previous place there must've been a large nest near by.
The magpies loved following me about, feasting on freshly BBQ'd wasps!
 
JimInOz
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dsio dsio
So the front door to the place we just moved into had a huge wasp nest, and they're not paper wasps, but rather European / German wasps. I thought our native wasps were horrible mongrels but somehow these highly efficient German ones are exponentially worse... been trying to kill them all morning and I'm losing so far.
Get a can of wasp spray from Bunnings and only spray it at night when they're all home and asleep.
Use a red filter torch if you have one or put red cellophane over the torch.

Wear good protection, I use a lot of my motorcycle stuff (full face helmet/neck protector/jacket/gloves etc).

If you disturb and annoy them in daylight hours they can become extremely aggressive (don't ask).

If you're not confident, pay a bug man to come around and do it.
 
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JimInOz JimInOz
Get a can of wasp spray from Bunnings and only spray it at night when they're all home and asleep.
Use a red filter torch if you have one or put red cellophane over the torch.

Wear good protection, I use a lot of my motorcycle stuff (full face helmet/neck protector/jacket/gloves etc).

If you disturb and annoy them in daylight hours they can become extremely aggressive (don't ask).

If you're not confident, pay a bug man to come around and do it.
I bought two of those sprays from Bunnings, both had broken triggers so ended up having to rip it apart and use the broken bits up fairly close but I somehow got out of it without getting stung at all, it looked like a lot fell dead out of the nest but I'll check it out tomorrow and see what's left. They're incredibly agro little things though, some chased me about 100m down the road
 
ghce
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I bought two of those sprays from Bunnings, both had broken triggers so ended up having to rip it apart and use the broken bits up fairly close but I somehow got out of it without getting stung at all, it looked like a lot fell dead out of the nest but I'll check it out tomorrow and see what's left. They're incredibly agro little things though, some chased me about 100m down the road
Hence my use of a long Aluminium tube ( 11mm x 5 Metres long), air delivery method is a standard party balloon fully inflated with the end twisted to retain the fill, then the balloon fill inlet put over the end of the tube with the opposite end filled with you pesticide de'ju.
Once the poison end is inserted into the nest you just untwist the balloon neck and let the air blow the poison in.
The 5 meter distance generally ensures that the wasps don't think you are a threat.
Never been stung yet even dealing with some massive nests.
 
Pastorbottle
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A mate had a house with the living area on the upper floor and garage area underneath, access to the living are was via an outside staircase on the side of the house, he had a wasp nest in the weather boards by the stairs. A couple of mates and myself were visiting for the weekend. As we were all leaving to go to the pub, my mate (the one with the house) and one other genius decided they would spray the wasps with fly spray! so the 2 of us with sense were waiting at the car in the drive for the 2 would be exterminators to do their dirty deed.
One pried the boards apart while the other sprayed in the fly spray......well the wasps erupted forth in a cloud of fury, chasing their tormentors down the stairs, it was hilarious watching 2 big ugly biker dudes running and stumbling down the stairs flailing their arms about and squealing like school girls!.......but wait there is more, once out of harms way they realised the the car keys were still upstairs! and one of them had to run the gauntlet again to get the keys and yet again the get to the car! Wasps - 2 ,Idiots - nil!
Of course ordinary fly spray isn't really up to the job, all it does is piss them off bigtime! It would be more effective trying to bash the wasps over the head with the can!

There is nothing like hangin out with your idiot mates is there? It makes you feel smart!
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STANDY
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🤣😂🤣. I Get paid to catch wasps and spiders.

Tools I use (knife is just for size comparison)
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We don't have vicious wasps here in California, but we do get them. When I was a young adult, I pointed out a nest hanging from under my parent's eves and asked my dad if he had any wasp spray.

He proceeded to fill a huge glass syringe from a can of diesel oil in the garage and said "soak them with this". Sure enough, one-by-one, dead wasps dropped from the nest. No fire needed.
 
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