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So I wonder what the first sign that something is wrong would be? An incessant buzzing noise...honey leaking from the ceiling?
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A house I lived in in my last year of college had a wasp's nest somewhere in the walls. I started seeing them around my bedroom and then got stung one night while rolling over in bed. Another one cozied up in my headphones and stung me on the neck when I was walking to class. The landlord's solution (after much complaining) was to tape all of the heat/AC vents shut.
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Ironhead posted:If those are cold spark machines, which they appear to be, this is totally fine. They are made literally for doing this kind of thing indoors as a safer alternative. You can hold your hand over them, and while you feel the spark, it's only like 70 degrees. The biggest advantage is they don't require a pyro permit for events. So‐called “cold” sparks are hot as hell. They’re not doing chemiluminescence or anything interesting like that. They are simply glowing white hot at something like three thousand kelvins, same as a lightbulb or garden variety pyrotechnics. The only thing keeping them from burning your hand like a sparkler is that they don’t have much mass. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Nov 22, 2022 |
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Nov 22, 2022 00:30
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I had a wasps nest in the outside wall right above my front door and after one stung me as I was leaving I finally took care of it by filling the hole with 2 cans of wasp spray and a full can of expanding foam. For days I could hear them trying to chew their way out and I was in constant fear that they would break through the drywall and murder me.
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Nov 22, 2022 00:39
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raggedphoto posted:I had a wasps nest in the outside wall right above my front door and after one stung me as I was leaving I finally took care of it by filling the hole with 2 cans of wasp spray and a full can of expanding foam. For days I could hear them trying to chew their way out and I was in constant fear that they would break through the drywall and murder me. Wasps will go through expanding foam like cotton candy. Great Stuff has a bug hole version but I wouldn't be surprised if they could get around that with a bit of effort.
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Nov 22, 2022 00:55
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The chewing sound haunts my dreams.
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Wasps will go through expanding foam like cotton candy. The Great Stuff Pestblock foam just has a bitterant added to discourage rodents. Insects will give no fucks. Americans are lucky because they can buy insecticidal powder off the shelf, but it's regulated in Canada and restricted to licensed pest-control people. That's the stuff you want for in-wall wasp nests because it takes a day or two to kill, so you can really dust the openings and they'll track it into their nest. Foams and sprays won't really do poo poo. I had a bumble-bee nest under the concrete slab in my garage. I sprayed and then caulked up the entrance, and the bastards came out into my basement. Hundreds and hundreds of big fat bumble-bees in my basement. Fortunately, they were pretty sick from the spray and died off quickly. Canuckistan fucked around with this message at 01:40 on Nov 22, 2022 |
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Nov 22, 2022 01:34
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Our roofers stuck their ladder into a buried yellowjacket nest. That was fun.
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Nov 22, 2022 01:46
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Mister Speaker posted:A house I lived in in my last year of college had a wasp's nest somewhere in the walls. I started seeing them around my bedroom and then got stung one night while rolling over in bed. Another one cozied up in my headphones and stung me on the neck when I was walking to class. Sounds like a good plan, smother them up and they'll be gone in no time. (the complainy tenants I mean)
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Tunicate posted:Our roofers stuck their ladder into a buried yellowjacket nest. That was fun. Those are a whole entirely different plane of stinging thing hell than even hornets or wasps. We've always gone out of our way to relocate actual honey bees but yellow jackets can suck my balls from the back.
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Nov 22, 2022 03:40
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Canuckistan posted:I had a bumble-bee nest under the concrete slab in my garage. I sprayed and then caulked up the entrance, and the bastards came out into my basement. Hundreds and hundreds of big fat bumble-bees in my basement. Fortunately, they were pretty sick from the spray and died off quickly. It is an absolute waste to kill them except in the most impossible of retrieval circumstances.
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Pickled Tink posted:While I understand that in this case it would have been woefully impractical to relocate the nest, as a general rule you should look up any local beekeepers and call them about a hive you want removed. They are almost always keen to get an established queen and hive for free. Likewise if you encounter any bees swarming (the bee-ball) they'll be keen on collecting them. Also I've never heard of a beekeeper keeping bumblebees, so
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mischief posted:Those are a whole entirely different plane of stinging thing hell than even hornets or wasps. We've always gone out of our way to relocate actual honey bees but yellow jackets can suck my balls from the back. Car got towed into our shop. Been sitting a while wouldn't turn over. I put a booster on it and started it up as the same time as lowering the windows as it was middle of summer and the car was nuclear hot inside. Upon shifting into reverse the car jolted and a million (ok like 20) yellow jackets flew from behind the drivers side rear view mirror glass directly into the cabin and began to sting the poo poo out of me as I was backing out of the parking spot. Good times.
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Wasps love satellite dishes. Specifically, the LNB at the end, which stays nice and warm due to the power flowing into from the coax leading to your satbox. The older Superdishes (think 3 foot wide, not the giant old C-Band) ran especially hot at the end. More than once I started taking one down and realized I hadn't sprayed inside the arm first. I ran late on a few jobs because I took the time to angrily wipe out each and every single one of those hateful little motherfuckers, hot burning bumps on my hands arms and face.
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Bee is stored in the walls (I know it's the ceiling but close enough)
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Project M.A.M.I.L. posted:
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it's really bizarre to me that people's first idea apparently is to just murder an entire wasps nest? I've had three summers at different times where wasps lived in the roof and also found their way inside the house. They dont want to be inside, so you just gotta make it easier for them to find their way out to the light than inside. Wasn't stung once, they're chill if you don't bother them. Just removed the dried out wasp's nest in the autmn and filled in the hole where it was. https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rlnxsjBjAQ1s1ddrj_720.mp4 https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rlotb2kORs1zbaolq.mp4
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ekuNNN posted:it's really bizarre to me that people's first idea apparently is to just murder an entire wasps nest? I've had three summers at different times where wasps lived in the roof and also found their way inside the house. They dont want to be inside, so you just gotta make it easier for them to find their way out to the light than inside. Wasn't stung once, they're chill if you don't bother them. Just removed the dried out wasp's nest in the autmn and filled in the hole where it was. 
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Depends on the wasp. Yellow jackets, for instance, will kill you and piss on your corpse given the chance. They deserve no quarter for they shall give you none. It's completely ok to torch their nests along with anything around.
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Most of the time people won't even notice that there's a wasp nest somewhere in the house. They're predators, it can even be beneficial that they eat other more harmful bugs. Though I have sometimes been painting the eaves of a house and you know what, if I'm already on a tall, shaking scaffold, I want to concentrate on not falling down instead of not being stung. That's when I will get the bug spray out.
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ekuNNN posted:it's really bizarre to me that people's first idea apparently is to just murder an entire wasps nest? I've had three summers at different times where wasps lived in the roof and also found their way inside the house. They dont want to be inside, so you just gotta make it easier for them to find their way out to the light than inside. Wasn't stung once, they're chill if you don't bother them. Just removed the dried out wasp's nest in the autmn and filled in the hole where it was. And then when they get outside they can aggressively chase and sting you. A childhood full of that and I give no quarter to red wasps. But mud daubers are cool and I'll always spray the hose nearby to make them a nice mud puddle for building their nests.
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I'm amazed they don't get more voids.
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You don't see as many Mom and Pop aluminium reclycing and huge wok foundries anymore.
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It's safe to use melted-soda-can dishes to make food, right? Like, you're definitely not leeching anything into the food you're making, no?
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Being-molten-metal is an effective way of removing residual organics such as paint and varnish. Anything non-metallic ends up in the slag.
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ekuNNN posted:it's really bizarre to me that people's first idea apparently is to just murder an entire wasps nest? I've had three summers at different times where wasps lived in the roof and also found their way inside the house. They dont want to be inside, so you just gotta make it easier for them to find their way out to the light than inside. Wasn't stung once, they're chill if you don't bother them. Just removed the dried out wasp's nest in the autmn and filled in the hole where it was. Well like I said, the ones that got into my house; there were enough of them that some found their way into awkward places like my bedsheets or headphones and then they naturally would get spooked and sting away. I'm lucky they didn't have a very intense pheromone thing going on or I'd have been stung half a dozen times before making it out of my room to go sleep upstairs in the kitchen. There are different breeds, too, and some have much more 'aggression' if you can even call it that. I worked at a summer camp for a few years that had a ground wasp problem - these fuckers were a bit more pale, their stripes were almost white, and they liked to make their nests in hot dry weather in densely-packed dirt, which meant there were a few right along some hiking trails. Imagine having some campers with anaphylactic beesting allergies, and being told you have to go on a hike. We weren't about to start carrying dead kids back through the forest, so a big part of the job was going out regularly and 'bombing' these nests with wasp spray, which inevitably meant you'd get stung a lot.
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 Bullheadedness doesn't increase safety!  Wear fitting clothes when... you are working in the vicinity of operating machines 
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https://twitter.com/ScarredForLife2/status/1594994597805031424?t=AvZnlOsR1h0ACURroOZ6wA&s=19 The Late Late Breakfast Show's penchant for having members of the public perform stunts would be its downfall, when Michael Lush fell 100 feet to his death while rehearsing a bunjee-jumping stunt in November 1986.
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Here a short doc on that show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Rj3N9Pmz8
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Two thousand pound penalty, how would the BBC ever recover from such a fine?
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SimonSays posted:A whole bunch of the history of architecture, Western and Eastern, emerges from churches and temples burning down and giving an opportunity for a rebuild. So we should burn more churches to get cool buildings?
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BlackIronHeart posted:It's safe to use melted-soda-can dishes to make food, right? Like, you're definitely not leeching anything into the food you're making, no? If they only use the cans it’s probably OK, but if they throw in other random scraps it might not be. I'd worry about lead.
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 I didn’t know there were places where they still put a living man in the foundations to make sure the gods don't make the building collapse.
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Man, the mafia's getting brutal. First they're all "time to dig your own grave", now they pull this "hey as long as you're here, why don't you give us a hand moving this heavy equipment too" poo poo 
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Non Compos Mentis posted:So we should burn more churches to get cool buildings? I think that just gets you bigger and cooler churches, but go for it
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Zopotantor posted:If they only use the cans it’s probably OK, but if they throw in other random scraps it might not be. I'd worry about lead.
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I'm the half-laughed "blya-haaa-t" at the end
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