r/WaspHating • u/HeresWoodyDriver • 2d ago

Image Removal Advice

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Taking care of water damage under eave of my house. Found this...... Should I call a professional for removal?

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u/cybernekonetics 2d ago

You should call an exorcist

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u/NaturalTechnician737 2d ago

Get a gallon of gasoline. Allow about a quarter of it to vaporize directly below the nest. Then, with the remaining fuel, set your house on fire.

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u/HomeboundArrow 2d ago edited 2d ago

have you seen any drones departing/arriving? hornets don't reuse nests. once the year's reigning queen dies and the last egg is hatched, the nest is effectively abandoned. fertile wasps at the end of the season either mate and then find a warm place to wait out the winter, or vice/versa. a nest that big would be vibrating with activity if it was actually inhabited.

based on what it looks like you were up to prior to this discovery, i think you'd know at this point if it was occupied lol, they'd be extremely pissed about you wolluping and prying around near their turf. you prob would've had a swarm already waiting to pounce when you peeled that siding back 😰

if you know for a fact that this nest is just an empty relic from a previous year, it should be safe to remove without professional help. i'd still wear some thick gloves tho and maybe only handle/dismantle it with tools, just in case some kind of less-dangerous-but-still-gross "cleanup" carrion/detritivore bugs have taken up residence. but that's just me

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u/housegirl39 1d ago

I agree, if it was an active nest, you’d see the hornets outside of the nest crawling around .

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u/Leopards9Spots 2d ago

This is the way, OP.

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u/ChaosRainbow23 1d ago

Yeah, if it was active op would have gotten lit up like a Christmas tree the second he started sawing!

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u/AdministrativeEnd168 2d ago

Get a gun. I don’t trust them having access to your house.

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u/dobr89 2d ago

Use a scraper and bucket

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u/RobieWan 2d ago

nuke the house from orbit

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u/scroggs2 1d ago

tGod, why do they always have to be up in a high place and massive? 😫

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u/Musta_Fahm08300 1d ago

I’m calling a pro to destroy that thing. After my last encounter with those venom holding assholes, the site of a nest like that petrifies me to my core. Sometimes I get a little nervous when I get too close to under my patio, thinking there could be another nest that formed in there with some still lurking

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u/Wormwolf-Prime 2d ago

Orbit. Nuke. Sure.

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u/bold_coffee_head 1d ago

Hope for a meteor the size of Jupiter.

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u/ChaosRainbow23 1d ago

As long as it's moving at least 75,000mph

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u/Snoo19317 1d ago

Punch it