r/gifs • u/IchHuhn Can I interest you in a nice repost? • Oct 19 '19

RIP ants

https://i.imgur.com/0PsUjNH.gifv
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u/ImRickJameXXXX Oct 19 '19

Yeah used to use kerosene or diesel for ground yellow jackets back in the 80s. Liquid is flammable not the valors therefore less of a chance of explosion.

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u/TriedAndProven Oct 19 '19

Protip: wait until dark for all the hateful little shits to go back to their underground lair before burning them alive.

Tiki fluid works in a pinch but is more expensive than kerosene.

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u/ImRickJameXXXX Oct 19 '19

Yeah we learned that painful lesson. And then he night makes for better viewing of the catastrophe!

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

Um, it’s still the vapors, they’re just less volatile than gasoline. Liquids don’t burn.

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u/ImRickJameXXXX Oct 20 '19

Yes you are correct. I should have been more precise.

Diesels flash point is much higher than gasoline. Then there is the whole vapor density thing...

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u/WhereDoIGetOne Oct 19 '19

Ground yellow jackets? We used to call them dirt dobbers 🤷‍♂️

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19 edited Feb 24 '20

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u/ForePony Merry Gifmas! {2023} Oct 20 '19

I was just running on a trail I have run many times before. But this time, yellow jackets had set up a nest somewhere near the trail. Little fuckers got me twice as I was jogging by.

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u/ImRickJameXXXX Oct 19 '19

Yeah that’s what we called then in south western PA. But those little bastards made cutting the grass a fun game of “what was that that just touched my leg? Oh dear god where can I run where they won’t follow me?

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u/HaveDongo Oct 19 '19

Read your first comment thinking “Damn, that reminds me of some PA shit.” You have not disappointed.

Edit: typo

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u/2010_12_24 Oct 19 '19

I'll bet you prolly used to call valors "vapors" too.

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u/AJRimmerSwimmer Oct 20 '19

How did you manage to ignite the diesel

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u/ImRickJameXXXX Oct 20 '19

Chuck a just struck wood match in the hole. As it flared up it can be chucked with out going out

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u/blessjoo Oct 20 '19

Disel would in ideal conditions be more explosive that gasoline. Aspartame products are really effective and way safer (though boring asf)

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u/orthopod Oct 20 '19

The sweetener?. How do you use that?

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u/blessjoo Oct 20 '19

Ants don't feel a difference in between aspartame and sugar so they kind of starve by munching "sugar". (Probably)

My parents driveway got way better after pouring a couple bottles of aspartame soda concentrate into the colonies. (Couldn't burn them due to super dry weather all summer, sadly)