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I have an enormous bald faced hornet (?) nest under the second story eaves on my house. At this point, it's between the size of a basketball and a beach ball . I know I shouldn't have let it get to this point but I did and now I have a problem. I rigged up a small bellows duster on the end of a pole and dusted the nest with Delta Dust for 5-10 minutes at about dawn on Saturday and Sunday morning. I was concentrating on getting enough dust on the entrance that it would be unavoidable for any insect coming/going. It's hard to tell how much I actually got on the nest, but I think I the entire entrance was white when I was done. The plan is to kill as much of the hive with the dust as I can and then climb up and cut the nest off the house (yes I have a bee suit I can use). Today there are a few of them dead on the ground under the nest and caked in dust, but not much of a decrease in overall activity of the nest. Do I need to just go ham and cake the thing in dust? Try to dust the inside of the nest through the entrance? kreeningsons fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Aug 21, 2023 |
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Aug 21, 2023 18:47
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So I ended up taking care of my bald face hornet nest by constructing a wooden box, forcing it over the nest, and simultaneously dislodging the nest from the bottom of the eaves and sliding a tight fitting cover on the back of it. Then I liberally dusted the site of the former nest with delta dust to get any stragglers. It seemed to work quite well, and 12 hours later any hornets that I didn't encapsulate are still dropping from the sky. The only problem is that I now have a sealed wooden box full of hundreds of angry hornets.
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Sep 4, 2023 23:50
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Are these springtails? They are emanating from a damp corner of the basement, which is patched up while I figure out how to repair some chronic water damage that Gary ignored for years. This is the best picture I can get of these black and minuscule insects 
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Jan 12, 2024 04:06
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