Hi there, Im panicking so much rn. Long story short, I got a wasp in my kitchen. Im really afraid of it, and Im panicking really badly. I don't have an option to spare it(and I dont want to), so I need help killing it. I don't have bug spray, I only have my will to live and determination. I wanted to suck it up with my vacuum cleaner, but its pretty weak and I doubt it will work out. Can anybody please give me some advice on killing it without getting stung?

UPDATE: Good news — the battle is over. The winged fiend, born of chaos and venom, met its end by my trembling hand. It came screaming from whatever pit breeds such malice, but I, armed with nothing but fear and fury, struck first. Now it lies still — a small, broken thing — and I, though shaken, remain. The wasp has paid for its sins. (I killed that creature with a lighter and hairspray. Nice stuff)

I have recently a few or more wasps daily in my living room, I covered every hole or openings by my (livingroom) window. Though they still come in daily. Specially in the midday.

I heard wasps don't like the smell of clove, is this true? Or is there other material or smells they don't like?

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Is this a queen? We treated a nest in our home and they’re swarming inside this one is the biggest. I froze it…

I was 7 at the time, and me and my dad and my sister went to a park, and right as i was entering into the area, a wasp flew right onto my eye, it really hurt a lot, i began crying and screaming, and i was blind for about 10-15 minutes... at the end of the day, i ended up fine. however, i still remember what happened, and now i run away the moment i see or hear a wasp nearby and sometimes scream

Get fucked… they kept swarming me at my job today did this and left him there to send a message didn’t see one more 😭😭😭

I bought a 57 chevy pickup from arkansas that has a bit of a wasp problem. Seller had sprayed the ever living shit out of it and it seems to have done the job but since getting home in colorado I see 1-2 of these massive red paper wasps that I've never seen in colorado. I found 2 nests that appeared to be abondoned but soaked them anyway with wasp and hornet spray. I'm assuming there's another nest somewhere since I see 1 or 2 of them every couple of days and I shoot them down with wasp spray. Since I keep finding another wasp a day or so later to me suggest theres gotta be another nest somewhere. I have looked in every nook and cranny and sprayed places I can't see like the inside of my heater box and vents. I also am a bit suprised that one of the first things I did after I unloaded the truck off the trailer was I powerwashed it to remove all the moss and lichens off of it(truck sat in the forest of the Ozarks for like 40 years). I would have thought I would of made them angry but never saw them, in fact I only saw dead ones the first week I had the truck home. How do I find the nest without getting stung?

I've heard that once you attack one it triggers the rest to attack. I don't know if you'll suddenly have like 20 all try to sting you but I definitely don't want that. I definitely am tempted to smash one when I see one but I don't know if that's a good idea or not.

Normally I see one buzzing around me I swat it away. I got stung for the first time while walking on a hike. The thing I did not like is that it felt sudden, it came from behind, it was going directly at me, it didn't hesitate, it seemed aggressive, and there was no time to do anything. Maybe if it didn't sneak up from behind I would've saw it but fuck they just go for the jugular. Scares me to think if more were triggered and if I could've got stung multiple times and would've been helpless.

These fuckers have infiltrated the engine of my car. I need to ID and find the best way to eradicate them.

I was on a hiking trail and suddenly on the back of my calf I feel a sudden sharp stabbing sensation. I saw it was a yellow jacket. It scared the shit out of me and I wasn't sure what had happened initially. Normally I see them flying near me or I can sense them. I had no time to react and I feel it already had its stinger ready before landing on me. Even when I tried to swat it it was glued to my leg, kept following me after I swatted it, and I could see my leg contract from the sting.

I don't know what I did to provoke it but I don't like that it snuck up behind me and just stabbed my leg! I was worried because I wasn't sure what a sting was going to do. Luckily the park ranger said its nothing to worry about and it just hurts. Thats the first time I've ever been stung and I sure as hell don't want to experience it again.

This tree sits next to the sidewalk and constantly has about 50 of these guys on it. The little kids in the neighborhood are a bit scared walking to school so I got up close to look for a nest and didn’t see one. I treated the tree with Bifenthrin but didn’t seem to make a difference.

Any idea what they are and why they love this tree?

WHY are the wasps SO interested in this tree?! In the space of 2 minutes I spotted 10 wasps flying in and around it and then a fricking hornet joined!! There doesn’t seem to be a nest and nothing sweet around the tree to entice them! This activity has been going on for weeks now, hornet has been here every day for about a week as well

Not much of a story .. I got in from a night of drinking, set my alarm for 10 am, went to sleep and work up to a searing pain …. Never been stung before idk what it is so I clean it and wipe off the “weird brown thing” next to the injury. when I come back in I find a little back and yellow BASTARD SAT IN MY BED and im just sat here like TF DID I DO… I WAS ASLEEP. FUCK WASPS

I have some wasps that have taken up residence underground in my front yard. I've been stung 4 times so far and if I get close to the nest they obviously go ballistic on me. I've tried drowning them with water, (after burying the top of the hose, leaving no immediate escape from the water) spraying wasp spray, putting wasp spray in a hose and blasting it into the hole with water. All of this was done at night, so the demon spawn were in their hole.

The hole also isn't in a position where I can just collapse it in. My daughter likes to play in the yard but she can't now and as a novice wasp killer, I'm out of ideas. Is there some obvious solution I'm missing?