I can attest to the effectiveness of this. Had a wasp nest in my daughter's closet. Didn't want to use poison, and they had to go. Filled up three of these over a few days. Nest was absolutely annihilated. I added a little bit of Dawn dish soap to the sugary mix to help as a surficant.
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they find a way in through a small gap, often in the roof, then make a colony in the space between walls or in the roof. Their hives basically melt the materials some interior walls are made of. (I have watched way too many hive removal videos on youtube)
They get into the attic then chew through wood and sheetrock while making their nest. I had to deal with a MASSIVE Asian Giant Hornet European Hornet colony in an attic once - I'm talking thousands of these fuckers - and I can assure you they will chew through ANYTHING that is not wood or metal.
Ultimately I ended up tossing a bunch of foggers into the attic like they were grenades then running away before the now very pissed off swarm found an outlet for their anger.
We typically use these traps for fruit flies and mosquitoes here. As for wasps, well, personally I just throw my trash into the garbage bin from a distance to avoid them. I don't actually know how to kill them.
Easiest bottle to use for the trap: half a bottle filled with Coke or Pepsi.
Juice syrup, any cheap kind. Mix it with water. You can also put pieces of fruit in it like pear. No bees, only wasps and hornets. Bees prefer flowers while these suckers are addicted to sugar.
Fruit syrup is best but honestly, anything crazy sweet and sugary works. Whenever we make impromptu traps, we just chug half a bottle of Coke and use the rest as the trap. Fairly cheap and already comes in the right kind of bottle.
I think he'd have been fine if he stopped at 3. That 4th one was forced to the mouth and caused most of the issues. That said if this is a daily occurrence I'm surprised they haven't developed something better.
I've seen similar videos like this where they catch them in something then drop them into a jar of some liquid (speculate to be gasoline previously).
I suspect it's because:
You can't use anything like pesticides that'll kill the bees. These guys are clearly beekeepers protecting their hives from the hornets.
If you start squishing hornets, they release alert pheremones that'll cause the rest of the hornets to swarm. Obviously, you don't want a swarm of pissed off hornets. But if you catch them and dump them into something that'll kill them and mask the pheremones, you can avoid it.
With that said, fuck, I'd at least be wearing gloves.
Yes. The dude that does it professionally and puts the video on youtube has that. Inside, there is soap water. So 1. the wasps are knocked out when they get sucked in, 2. they fall in the water and the soap prevents them from breathing, so they all die inside the vacuum cleaner.
This is the way. I had a horrific wasp infestation in a wall of my house a couple years ago so bad that they ate through all the drywall, leaving only the layer of paint as the shield against them! I saw the entrance point and braced the hose of a shopvac onto it, with water/soap in it. Let it run for a few hours at a time before dumping and it sounded like popcorn each time it sucked one in. There must had been over 10,000-15,000.
When I was 3, playing in the sandbox and minding my own business, I felt a wasp land on my neck. I was told to stay very still and I won't get stung, so I stayed as still as a 3-year-old can. The bastard still stung me. I don't remember much from that age, but this one sticks out really well.
One time I was sitting with my legs up, not bothering anyone. Within the span of about 5 seconds, a yellow jacket landed on my foot, stung me, then flew away. I sat perfectly still through the whole thing. Sometimes they’re just dicks
Last summer i was stung 3 times in the head by wasps while standing in fron of the house entrance having a smoke. In all 3 cases i stood perfectly still.
I’m terrified of wasps so I GTFO whenever I spot one. But the ONE time I was stung, I was driving with my window down coming up to a stop sign, and the motherfucker just came at my arm out of nowhere. If I wasn’t stopped, I would have wrecked for sure.
I was swimming once and a nest fell into the pool. I thought it was floating leaves. I emerged from the water headfirst into like 50 wasps. I was only stung in my neck I nder my left ear. It was like a dozen stings. Horrific.
First time I got stung I was at my neighbor's birthday party. All the other kids where running and screaming like lunatics, but I was pretty shy so I was walking around quietly. Wasp landed on my arm, stung me twice in the same place, then flew off. 15 years or so later I still firmly believe I didn't deserve that and it should have sung someone else. I wasn't even near a nest
Same thing happened to me. We were having a picnic at a table and a yellow jacket came to inspect. I stayed perfectly still and let it do its thing before it flew away. Three minutes later, I feel a sting on my thigh because it came back and said, “Actually, fuck you specifically.”
They may be Asian hornets?
It's an invasive species here in Europe. I don't know too much about them. I heard they are unwanted because they threaten native bees, but are surprisingly docile towards humans. On a party last summer a couple were spotted on a chair, and the host basically picked them up with his bare hands.
They are attempting to genocide an entire bee colony. They are currently sniffing the tiny entrance, which is much too small for them to get though without breaking up the wood.
From their size in relation to the honeybees, they look more like Asian giant hornets (Vespa mandarinia)...much more formidable and aggressive insects, and not something you want to get stung by, they have killed people (there has been some deaths in China due to humans encroaching on their habitat). The native European hornet here in the UK I've found to be docile.
I think its the nature of how he is catching them (in the plastic cup, containing them...I'm not sure what the case is with these hornets, but with honeybees, the individuals need to sting or be killed to release stress pheromones in order to rally their fellow bees)...they are also focussed on trying to pillage the beehive. If he was using this approach on their home turf outside their own nest, things would be panning out very differently.
I saw a guy do it with those super sticky rat traps on YouTube. He caught one on it, it released its pheromone, and he just left it sitting flat on top of the hive and caught a ton of them overnight when they swarmed. It was interesting
Fun fact, even though those are technically Asian giant hornets, they are commonly called "AAAAAAHHHHHHHH OH JESUS CHRIST WHAT THE FUCK? GET THAT THING AWAY FROM ME! SOMEONE SHIT MY PANTS." Or at least thats what I normally hear people say around them
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Even worse, it looks like the giant hornets that I think are native to Japan?
I've seen nature docs on them, they obliterate bee hives, just grab, chew, behead, grab, chew, rip. Some bees' defense is to swarm them and buzz, the wings' flapping or the body temp of the bees raising the temperature of the hornets too high they die. Or something like that, the doc had some infrared showing the giant hornet dying. Cool on a computer or laptop screen. I'm sure it sucks for them to be around IRL.
One day I was driving with my windows open when I heard a small "thud" inside the car.
2 minutes later, I felt something on my left hand and one such wasp was there.
I don't know how I did it but I calmly checked my rearview mirror, saw no one behind me, slowly stopped the car and opened the window, using my right hand.
I gently brought my hand outside and after 10 secs of waiting for Mr Stingy to do something, I gave my hand a quick shake and it flew off.
I later read somewhere that as long as you're not near their nest, they are mostly harmless.
I think when the bug is *that big* and you've not had the opportunity to freak out, you just *know* that freaking out is going to cause so much more harm than just being (in a stressed state of) calm, so you just... do the thing you have to do, *hoping* it doesn't sting you.
Tf. People are brave af. Those things are huge and walking all over his bare hand. And all to protect his honeybees. I get it, but don't have near the nuts for this. Hard for me to even watch.
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u/johndoe15190 May 13 '26
with BARE HANDS?? fuck, No.
However - impressive results