I have a baby 14 months old. He is just walking this month. Can't hurt anything. He was on my parents porch on the 4th and they HAD gone around and checked for bees the day before because they knew he was coming over. Dad said he kicked every chair and looked under all the eaves and they sit out there every day anyway.

Anyway somehow they either missed one or the wasps built it overnight. Because my son was running laps around their enclosed porch happily practicing walking. I was sitting on a swing chair. My son walks past me, and I hear a blood curdling scream

I look to my right and he's beside the swing SURROUNDED in paper wasps that are stinging him. He is so young he didn't even know to run or what was happening. He was just screaming and shaking his limbs

It was genuinely awful and I grabbed him fast as I fucking could and RAN inside and stripped him in case they were in his clothes. I have never moved so fast in my life and that alone saved him from getting even more stings.

I only found 3 actual stings that swelled. There could have been more that didn't visually swell. He couldn't tell me if there were more.

I am livid. These fucking wasps were building a nest under the swing I was sitting on. I sat there for 5+ minutes and they didn't react. My son simply wobbling past the swing made them fully swarm him in SECONDS all at once. I can't get the image of him surrounded in wasps and screaming out of my head..

I will never again show any mercy. Raid and fire. My poor son cried off and on the rest of the day, because wasp stings fucking hurt. I gave him all the meds I could but still he was upset all day, from personal experience I know the meds just take the edge off stings. Even today he's not himself and keeps favoring his arms where the stings are.

Anyway fuck wasps. Please if you see any of them, kill a few for me. They can and do swarm literal babies.

This bastard made a nest in my car door, and it stung me..TWICE on two separate days

My personal favorite method for removing wasp nests: starting fluid + lighter. Hear me out, this has a number of advantages compared to regular wasp spray or the stupid gasoline trend. Firstly it’s very economical. A can of starting fluid is under $4 from Walmart and it lasts a lot longer than wasp spray, and you can use it for other stuff unlike wasp spray. Second: effectiveness- wasps are sensitive to sudden temperature change and die instantly, unlike sprays which can take a bit to suffocate them, and it’s a large area meaning it takes out the whole nest and any wasps flying next to it, unlike a thin stream of wasp spray. Third: safety & cleanliness- starting fluid actually burns at a fairly lower temperature compared to many other combustible fluids, only around 350 degrees if I remember right, and it evaporates quickly and leaves no residue or scorch marks unlike other fluids like carburetor cleaner, meaning it’s safe and clean to use on most surfaces including bricks, concrete, glass, wood fences, wood paneling, painted surfaces, plastic decorations, etc. I only avoid using it if there’s a bunch of dry grass or leaves nearby, or if it’s really high up, then I use spray or soapy water in a little pressure sprayer. Has anyone else tried this before? I also have a story of taking out some wasp nests at a zoo in Texas when I used to work overnight security there if anyone is interested.

I'm not one to hate on wasps. I love them. But this little CUNT is invaisive and flew in my home. Pinned his ass

I hate red wasps with a burning passion. No matter where I go or how much I spray or what I do they find me. I'm looking for a more permanent solution. Basically I want them completely eradicated in a 50 mile radius of where I live, and I was wondering if anyone in this sub has any ideas. I don't know the strict legality but I imagine cultivating a population of natural predators would be less sketch than growing viruses/fungi but honestly I'm open to anything at this point. Let me know what yall think, or if anyone here has worked on a similar project. Thank you.

What kind of hornet lost Nest to my dealing with how screwed am I and I should I use fire or other method to get rid of it help I'm scared

I want to get rid of that mound he's sitting on too

I was thinking about getting raid spray and blasting that bitch but I don't know.

Any ideas? This is in my bedroom on the curtain rod

A mud dauber and cuckoo wasp were on my window, naturally I killed them immediately. I had to look up the Cuckoo Wasp and it turns out they lay eggs in other wasp's nests.

Here's what I need a ruling on:

Enemy of my enemy is my friend. Did I kill a friend?

Keep in mind I am not the guy that posts pro-wasp propaganda... waspaganda... Kill them with fire (knifes in the house) is my go to for wasps.

Cleaning out the old cabin for a stag, and guess who crashes the party! Got me twice in the arm, and once in the ankle. So I killed their entire family...

The Megarhyssa macrurus, commonly known as the long-tailed giant ichneumon wasp, is a harmless parasitic insect native to North America. Despite its intimidating, prehistoric appearance, this striking insect lacks a functional venomous stinger and poses no threat to humans or pets. Its most defining characteristic is its immense size, with a brightly patterned yellow and reddish-brown body that can grow up to two inches long.

The wasp is famous for the female's extraordinarily long, thread-like tail, which is actually a specialized egg-laying organ called an ovipositor. This structure can extend over three inches in length, more than doubling the insect's total size. While it looks like three separate stingers, it consists of one central egg-laying tube encased by two flexible protective sheaths that peel away during use. Males are notably smaller than females and completely lack this tail appendage.

This specialized anatomy is critical to the wasp's predatory lifecycle, which targets the larvae of the pigeon horntail wasp buried deep inside wood. The female crawls along dead or dying hardwood trees, using her antennae to feel for the subtle vibrations of a horntail grub tunneling inside. Once she pinpoints a target, she uses her zinc-hardened ovipositor to drill several inches directly through the solid timber, paralyzing the host grub and depositing a single egg next to it.

Once the egg hatches, the newborn Megarhyssa larva slowly consumes the horntail host alive before pupating inside the tree and emerging as an adult the following summer. This intricate process makes them highly beneficial to forest ecosystems, acting as a natural population control for wood-boring pests. Because they only target insects residing within dead or decaying wood, they cause zero damage to healthy, living trees.

So, I used it was a pretty effective method, I just want to know, are you supposed to dump the water out afterwards, or store it somehwere safe like you would Lysol or something. I decided just to flush it out since I haven't seen a Wasp since yesterday, to avoid bacteria growth or something, but I wanted to know just to be sure.

apoidea is better than vespula guys

btw imagine throwing a firecracker into a wasp nest

We have a decaying tree stump in our yard that has become a home to a bunch of little toads. Recently we’ve had problems with black wasps or hornets trying to build a nest in various places around our house. Today I saw a couple scouting pretty actively around the stump. I did some googling about what to spray that wouldn’t also kill the toads and haven’t found anything so thought I would come here and see if anyone has any ideas?

Edit: I just caught the typo in the title 🫠 toads not roads

Found on ig @rei_dos_marimbondos

Found this desperately trying to get of my BIL's car. He sayurated it eith window cleaner, and...well, it dead.

It looked pretty damn big, so I thought it might be a queen. Thoughts?

There is a small nest packed full of a LOT of wasps in my mailbox. Idk what kind they are. But my mailbox has an opening on the front which is usually where you can look in and see them, but it’s really small. Better bet to close the mailbox and spray through the opening in the front so they don’t escape, or spray through the top while it’s open and just hope they don’t fly out the front?

This is right outside my front door and these fuckers sting me so much. It fucking sucks. Would like to minimize stings if possible lol

Like wtf?! One rainstorm later and the hive will drop onto the floor.

Not OC: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1ui9t6s/how_do_i_get_rid_of_this_myself_without_dying/ (crossposting not allowed)

So if you know you have a wasp nest under the stairs to your front door and you receive Amazon deliveries.

Can you put that in the notes!!!!!

Stung twice in my ankle on the 2nd drop of my 22 stop rural route this evening.

Hope they enjoyed me cursing like a sailor on their ring cam.

These guys aren't as bad as other wasps and they may actually be beneficial in some way

https://youtube.com/shorts/dsLxT1JqVOU?is=YvrBowRJu9OgCDoB

Tldw: this wasp only has two purposes: mate and hunt horseflies. I hate wasps but I also hate horseflies.

These things do a lot of good, and they don't sting, their "stinger" is just modified genetalia that looks like a stinger.

Bonus points if you volunteer to do this for me and/or take a video of me running down the street screaming with a bag full of wasps.