Wasp Removal

[onejayhawk]

Sodium and Potassium are so similar that Potassium Chloride is the principal salt substitute because the taste is very similar.

Another area you get significant similarities is Florine/Chlorine/Bromine/Iodine, the next to far right column on the chart. Most alike are Helium/Neon/Argon, the noble gasses. They don't react with anything. Interesting are Copper/Silver/Gold, another column. Not only are the traditional coin metals, they are also the best conductors.

J

 

[Berzerker]

Potassium and sodium are the two main chemicals for home water softening systems

 

[Hrothbern]

when i was like 10 years old wasps built a nest on the outside of a window on the 2nd story of my house

literally on the window, so you could see inside with all the wasps crawling between the layers

you could also see them building it very close up

Is nice

When my kids were young, a little wasp nest was being made on the door post of a small potting shed in my garden.
I did not destroy it directly so we could together see how it became bigger and bigger
Because I did not want all these wasps in my garden, at a certain moment I took it off, ripped it open so we could how beautifull the cells were made and see the larves threw it away in the garbage container.

 

[Sommerswerd]

Is nice

When my kids were young, a little wasp nest was being made on the door post of a small potting shed in my garden.
I did not destroy it directly so we could together see how it became bigger and bigger
Because I did not want all these wasps in my garden, at a certain moment I took it off, ripped it open so we could how beautifull the cells were made and see the larves threw it away in the garbage container.

You are a cruel god I see. You must be the type to unleash natural disasters on your Sim City just to watch the chaos ensue as the city burns down

 

[Hrothbern]

You are a cruel god I see. You must be the type to unleash natural disasters on your Sim City just to watch the chaos ensue as the city burns down

Yeah I am bad
I also gave my kids at much too young age RPG games
To be left alone when playing my own games...
And they choose almost always chaotic evil as allignment

 

[EgonSpengler]

Didn't Elon Musk recently design a flamethrower for retail sale? That'd take care of wasps, I'd wager.

 

[rah]

A can of hairspray and a lighter works too.

 

[Hrothbern]

A can of hairspray and a lighter works too.

Artificial snow spray and real candles that already burn while spraying your Christmas tree work fine too

 

[EgonSpengler]

A can of hairspray and a lighter works too.

When I was a teenager, I gave an old pair of Converse All-Stars a "Viking funeral" in a parking lot. I think I might have used WD-40.

 

[rah]

Ah, the joys of youth before x-boxes.

 

[warpus]

I have pear trees in my backyard. If I forget to pick them up as they fall down, wasps will start feasting on the fermenting pear juice inside, and will fly around drunk and annoy everyone.

A couple years ago I went out in the backyard with a can of raid and went up to each pear, sprayed it, and drunk wasps would start stumbling out.. I then grabbed the whole thing and chucked it in a garbage bag. On to the next pear... I must have killed 200+ wasps like this that day.

Same thing 2 years ago, but last year I got rid of the pears a bit early so I didn't have to deal with so many wasps.

They like to set up nests in my shed. I've only ever seen 1 wasp in there, maybe the queen? I spray her face with raid and take down the nest no problem.

So I've slaughtered hundreds of wasps over the years, and not one has ever bit me. I'm starting to get cocky, I don't even wear any protection anymore. It's like dealing with drunk British tourists, you can just spray them and get them out of the way, and they're too drunk to fight back I guess.

This is not advice as I will probably get attacked by wasps any day now.

 

[Kyriakos]

Artificial snow spray and real candles that already burn while spraying your Christmas tree work fine too

I use greek fire.

 

[Hrothbern]

I use greek fire.

I always loved to play with fire
As a kid we rolled up newspapers to a kind of tubes, a meter or so long, 5 cm outher diameter en 5-10 mm wall thickness.
We lited them on one end and by swirling them so that air was forced through the tube, you got a bit more inside that tube a smouldering fire, burning slowly. Every time you needed flames, you just swirled them again for more air through the tubes.

With those torches we burned down nearby grass fields with long grass, and the most spectacular was big reed fields, when the wind was strong and in a safe direction. Flames of several meters high.
(First we burned controlled strips to contain the fire)

 

[Kyriakos]

I never was playing with fire. But if i knew of sulfuric acid when in early highschool then i might have reacted in a quite different way to a terrible bully who was a major source of trouble for three years. Get it?
No?
Well here it is:

Spoiler :

Reacted! lol

 

[Lexicus]

My friend and I almost "burned down the creek" (rather, the woods around the creek) in my hometown when we were like 9, playing around with smoke bombs.

 

[Synobun]

Y'all are some destructive people. What happened to being locked in your bedroom alone every single day like any ordinary well-behaved son?

 

[Hrothbern]

Y'all are some destructive people. What happened to being locked in your bedroom alone every single day like any ordinary well-behaved son?

I was not allowed to play outside after dinner !
I found that quite traumatic, especially because of the girls.
The workaround when I was 13-14 was my volleybalclub and training in the evening.
My very christian parents making the choice which christian volleybalclub...
But I had my social life

 

[rah]

Back in the stone age when I was younger, our bedtime was 8:00p.m. and the girl next door, (who was a year younger) would play outside our window, till 9, just to annoy us.

 

[Kyriakos]

Back in the stone age when I was younger, our bedtime was 8:00p.m. and the girl next door, (who was a year younger) would play outside our window, till 9, just to annoy us.

I was allowed to stay up until 11, or something like that. Still sucked.

 

[onejayhawk]

There has got to be a Greek fire joke in there somewhere.

J