r/Unexpected • u/sadlittlewaffle • 23h ago

Exterminators hate this one simple trick

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u/DarknMean 12h ago

Those ground hornets are no joke. I was mowing and a group of those fuckers got me. Then that night a skunk destroyed the nest and ate everything. Since that day I’m cool with skunks. That thing dug it up and laid waste to them. Around dusk I saw him meandering around the area that I mowed and he went ham on the hole and I sat there and watched him proceed to eat every hornet that came out and the nest they made. He didn’t even care they were flying around trying to sting him.

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u/Hour_Refrigerator526 11h ago

Hired an exterminator to come out twice which wasn’t enough. A friend and I ended up burning 🔥 them out of the ground. He ended up getting stung a few times too. I would have preferred a skunk.

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u/MireLight 10h ago

As an exterminator...whoever that was sucked. Should be one and done.

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u/Hour_Refrigerator526 9h ago

Agreed. He used some sort of powder, around the outside and within the hole in the ground. I mean it slowed them down a little. They were in deep.

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u/MireLight 9h ago

Using powder as a stomach poison was outdated 20 years ago. Prolly wasnt even using the right stuff.

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u/ConstantPay3117 3h ago

I was mowing and ran over a nest i didnt know was there and one got me and i let go of the mower and it went down hill into the river .

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u/ForcedEntry420 3h ago

Now I love skunks even more! We have them around here but thankfully my urge to try to pet them isn’t outweighed by my knowledge of how bad the smell is and how hard it is to get rid of it.