Date: September 23rd, 2026 9:31 AM Author: Citrine space
I had let this thing grow all summer. Quietly watching the harmless wasps (well I guess they're not entirely harmless if you mess with them) grow and grow. After 3 stings in the last 10 days I decided it was time to take action.
I waited until my wife left for work with my three youngest children then invited my oldest out for a show. I climbed up on a ladder with a mixing bowl, a bottle of nail polish remover, and I poured some in. Then I tried to get the bowl directly over the nest. Predictably, I missed and several wasps flew off. I held the bowl there and started to hear them drop. But in the 10-20 seconds or so since the attack, the escapees started to come back. Some hung in the air inches from my hand solemnly. Others began to zoom straight at my face.
I dropped the mixing bowl and it shattered upon impact with my drive. I cartwheeled back off the ladder and landed oddly on my ankle. My son rushed over to ask if I was okay, and then he started to laugh.
In the end, my ankle is black and blue, the nest is gone, and I only got stung twice on the chest. My son got a morning show before school.
Date: September 23rd, 2026 9:47 AM Author: Citrine space
I can’t go out there right now because there’s like 15-20 of them zipping around angry and startled. A bunch are hanging out where the nest was (pic one), the nest in the grass (pic two), the dead soldiers on the ground soaked in acetone (pic three).
Date: September 23rd, 2026 9:51 AM Author: cerise mind-boggling theater stage gay wizard
180 but how did you pour acetone into a nest in that position? Seems like blasting with aerosol would have been best practice. And not exactly sure what the mixing bowl has to do with anything. And what was it made of that it shattered -- were you out there with a ceramic bowl or something
Date: September 23rd, 2026 9:54 AM Author: Citrine space
The acetone in a confined space suffocates them. That was the plan.
Yes, the mixing bowl was a medium sized ceramic that shattered. I picked it up already. It’s too crazy to go outside right now though. They are all stirred up.
Date: September 23rd, 2026 10:41 AM Author: Citrine space
I probably should have used something else, but come to think of it, I think I got that bowl from Costco's so I'm sure I could return it if I was willing to go to that extreme.
Date: September 23rd, 2026 9:42 AM Author: fluffy bawdyhouse
the most depressing part of this poast is the last two words: before school. fucking criminal that young males have to spend their lives locked up in those prisons.
Date: September 23rd, 2026 10:03 AM Author: Fucking Fuckface
I'd call "fat guy doing stupid stuff and getting hurt" one of my favorite video genres. Do you have a ring video of these shenanigans that you can share?
A can of wasp spray from your local Ace hardware would have let you accomplish the same result from 20 feet away and with both feet firmly on the ground.
Date: September 23rd, 2026 10:07 PM Author: Offensive den
if you get a power washer nozzle for a hose and put a soap mixture in its basin, you can drown entire hives without too much effort, and from a safe distance.