Re:Washington crews destroy first U.S. “murder hornet” nest
by supernova87a on Sunday October 25, 2020 @01:49PM
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Isn't that when you finish it off by pouring 10 pounds of molten aluminum down the hole?
Re:Washington crews destroy first U.S. “murder hornet” nest
by krtkush on Sunday October 25, 2020 @01:23PM
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Won't you want to destroy the nest once the vacuuming is done?
Re:Washington crews destroy first U.S. “murder hornet” nest
by mlavin on Sunday October 25, 2020 @02:40PM
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That's why you use dust or pyrethrin spray as well, and seal them in afterwards. Hot burning wasp death!
Re:Washington crews destroy first U.S. “murder hornet” nest
by lostlogin on Sunday October 25, 2020 @07:00PM
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Vespex is used here in New Zealand and has been a game changer. Wasps are the greatest pest in New Zealand if you measure pests in “kgs per hectare”.
With Vespex you don’t go looking for nests, you let the colony poison itself.
Because it is protein based and not sugar based, it’s not attractive to as many species. The downside is that the wasps only take it at a specific time of year - when they are consuming protein.
My impression is that if you put a vacuum cleaner next to the entrance you may, if you're lucky, catch nearly all the wasps that leave the nest, but the queen never leaves the nest, and the eggs and larvae don't leave the nest, and I think there may also be some workers that stay in the nest looking after the larvae, so things will be quieter after you've finished vacuuming, but the colony will probably regenerate itself in a week or so.