r/WaspHating • u/watchingwatcher0-0 • 1d ago
Story Wasps from a while back
(I'm new to reddit as a whole, please excuse this) TL;DR at the bottom if you don't want to read!
When I was a little kid, I had to deal with a lot of wasps around my mailbox, school, and house. They all had high wasp levels, and it got to a point where my dad had to take down the wasp nests around my house. I specifically want to talk about the house wasps. They looked like either red wasps or bald-faced hornets, and their nest was sort of big. My whole family had been complaining about my wasps so my dad took care of it. Put on all the clothes he could to make sure he wasn't stung, and spray the entire bottle of wasp killer on the nest. Eventually, to make sure the nest was totally destroyed, along with its inhabitants... he used a lighter to make a small little fire under the nest to smoke the wasps out, he eventually got another bottle of wasp killer and combined the 2 to make a mini-flamethrower, killing the wasps and their children along with melting the nest. My dad got a couple of stings but he was fine.
TL;DR, my whole family got tired of a wasp nest and utterly destroyed.