I don’t mind honeybees or bumblebees at all…they don’t bother me as long as I don’t bother them, and we’re both happier that way. I’m not as nervous as I used to be with carpenter bees, but every now and then one will still catch me off-guard when they are in their aggressive, territorial stage and they fly right up into your face. But when it comes to yellowjackets, there is no amount of “nice and calm” that is going to work. If it’s yellow and black, has a butt dagger and can fly, go ahead and play the appropriate theme song. You can deal with the angry little bastards…I’ll be three counties away on speakerphone as I listen to the nightmare you’re enduring if you’re dumb enough to mess with the nest.
Speaking of messing with the nest, I’ve got a question for you: how do you make a late 1990s Chevy Malibu even more undesirable than they already are? How about a multi-generational nest of Vespula squamosa, or Southern Yellowjacket, filling the car up to the dashboard, from front to back inside? This is a multi-year buildup that contains tens of thousands of workers that can sting multiple times while emitting an alarm pheromone that is also venomous. And besides the natural worry of stinging, they bite and they swarm. Satan’s houseflies, if there was ever an appropriate example. This is nightmare fuel, pure and simple, and we don’t know what would work better: burning the car or sinking it off the Gulf of Mexico. Either way, the only positive spin on these images is that I’m far enough away from the swamps of Louisana and hundreds of miles away from this pestilence.
Talk about a car that isn’t worth saving from what happened to it. Although it could be worth testing inadvisable ways to kill yellow jackets, such as pouring a few gallons of liquid nitrogen into the car, since you have no chance of damaging anything valuable (other than your own skin).
think they better close up the windows and sumberge everything in water before moving on
Ahhhh… Wasp Etouffee… my favorite Cajun dish!!
Nuke that thing
I’d be figuring a way to accurately lob a Molotov through that open window. From a hundred yards away. That, or a brick of C4.
CO2 fire extinguisher. Eliminates bugs, bats, snakes. Every cold blooded creature.
Roll up all windows lock and close doors. Check it a year from now!
Call in an A-10 airstrike and blow those tings to Hell !