Got a big nest in there. Tomorrow I go up to deal with it. One of us is coming down from there in contractor garbage bag. (Hopefully this is not my last post)
From personal experience, it is best to attack them while you are completely naked. That way the stings are spread across your body and not concentrated in one or two areas. It works, you should try it.
Seriously, do this at night. They will be less responsive to however you are trying to knock them down.
If they aren’t a real aggravation to you right now, wait till after a couple of hard frosts. Even more lethargic.
I will virtually never hire someone to do something I can do myself. I might actually hire this one out.
Bees, wasps, and hornets outside are easy, a little bit of gasoline in a sprayer and you get to play beepocalypse. But you can’t spray gas in your attic and are at a decided disadvantage in that you care if you die.
Good luck.
Hmmmm no new post… wonder whats in the bag
I’m back and suffered only one puncture wound.*
I’m calling this round a draw. I could not get within 10ft of the nest because of the location, so I doused the nest with Wasp Insecticide foam. I’ll let the little buggers die off and next week I’ll bring up a 2x4 and hammer it in against the rafters so I can get up to the nest without damaging my insulation. Then I’ll use a small snow shovel to put the next in the bag.
The puncture wound was from a protruding 1/4" of nail that I put my gloved hand on. But its all good - Mrs. Doubletime kissed it better.
I’m surprised I just remembered this. 20 some years ago we were going through what was the old smokehouse at my grandparents but was now a storage shed. We could hear some buzzing behind a wall and was pretty sure there were yellow jackets in the wall. My dad sprayed some gas in a couple holes, we waited a while, then we went to pull down the piece of wall we thought they were behind. We about shit ourselves and three of came bailing out. Behind that chunk of wall was a nest that filled the 24" gap between studs and was almost 3’ tall. Luckily for us, that nest was old and the active nest had been soaked with the gas.
Hmmmm no more new post…
I’ve renovated a lot of places that had that sort of thing going on. Most recently I cut in to a roof overhang and found a perfectly triangular nest that had grown to pack in the rafter spacing completely, right from the soffits to around a foot past the exterior wall. Absolutely crazy. On the plus side its like having free insulation 