Wasp Protective Gear?

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Alright, so every other week I have yard work. Every other week I have to face a backyard of grass spiders, mosquitos, mosquito lions, garden snakes, centipedes, bees, and now wasps.

This would be tolerable except for the fact that I have an extreme fear - perhaps a phobia - of all the creatures listed above. My body tenses up, my heart races, and the entire experience feels like a bit of mental trauma each time.

So, I'm trying to figure out an inexpensive way to create a "yardwork suit" that I can feel secure in. I figure jeans and boots are a good start for the bottom half. For the top, I'm considering getting a bee jacket (the kind with a mesh hood).

I know it's inevitable that I will look a bit goofy, but I'd like to minimize that if possible. All the bee jackets I see are white and make me look like I'm wearing the top half of a radiation suit.

Anyone out there have any experience with such suits? Do they work well? Do they do well against wasps? Anything else I should look into that would be more convenient or effective?
 
Is this your own yard? I got tired of the hassle and hired an exterminator to spray my fence/home a few times a year to stop them from nesting. Might be worth the investment.
 
Toxic is right. Get an exterminator to go back there and get the inspects out of there. I have a company that comes out 4 times a year and they stop any nesting. If you have a phobia, it is better to get someone else to do that.
 
Hrmms that is tempting. How much does that kind of thing cost? Would this be something a company like Terminex does? Or is this something different?
 
Draft said:
The wasp is the king of the bug kingdom. Japan's insect death match proves this.
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Was that the video of the wasps attacking the honey bear colony and wrecking shit?

edit: meant bee, if wasps could take on bears holy fuck.
 
I have some experience with wasps. After everyone getting stung at least once in our flat full of 4 guys we figured those assholes out and waged war.

If this is your own house, find the hole the dig to live in. Go there in the night, they will be dormant, you can go right up to the hole and look at them, the line up in pairs as guards, but they sleep. Poor a LOT of petrol into the hole. Make sure you have a clear running exit.

It will kill them.

my suggestion is for NEW ZEALAND WASPS. I'm pretty sure it's the same, but check it out just in case :lol
 
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catfish said:
I have some experience with wasps. After everyone getting stung at least once in our flat full of 4 guys we figured those assholes out and waged war.

If this is your own house, find the hole the dig to live in. Go there in the night, they will be dormant, you can go right up to the hole and look at them, the line up in pairs as guards, but they sleep. Poor a LOT of petrol into the hole. Make sure you have a clear running exit.

It will kill them.

my suggestion is for NEW ZEALAND WASPS. I'm pretty sure it's the same, but check it out just in case :lol
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Uh...I don't think pouring gas into the group is exactly the best way to kill them.

Here's a link with a few home remedies you might try.

http://www.gardensalive.com/article.asp?ai=469&bhcd2=1280252212

I actually have Eastern cicada killing wasps on the side of my house. They're fucking awesome, especially since they don't hurt you.
 
Alucrid said:
Was that the video of the wasps attacking the honey bear colony and wrecking shit?
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No, but that is just further evidence of their total domination.

Google Japanese bug fights. The crazy fucks tossed random pairings of predatory bugs into a glass box and had them fight to the death. The wasp was destroying centipedes, praying mantis, whatever. It's a beast.
 
Alucrid said:
Uh...I don't think pouring gas into the group is exactly the best way to kill them.
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Actually, it's exactly the best way to kill them.

http://www.ew.govt.nz/environmental-information/Plant-and-animal-pests/Animal-pests/Wasps/


Physical control
You can destroy larger nests by pouring petrol or diesel into the nest[/B]. On flat ground, up-end a bottle of about a litre of petrol or diesel in the mouth of the nest. Leave the bottle in the hole to block the entrance. Do not light the fuel! The fuel and fumes will seep into the nests and kill the wasps. For nests in banks, walls, tree trunks or at an angle, use an insecticide or dowse a rag in diesel and push it into the hole with a stick.
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They sell a great wasp killer at every Lowes and Home Depot. It is a giant aerosol can of death and I get great satisfaction in melting their filthy nest and seeing them all go down so easily.

I once used a single can to take down a nest that was almost volleyball size and it killed almost every single bastard within a minute. A couple might have gotten away, but not many. The ground was filled with their evil corpses...

I used something similar to this but I think they all work the same.

http://www.drugstore.com/products/p...m=black_flag_wasp_bee_horn&CAWELAID=215858974
 
crisdecuba said:
Hrmms that is tempting. How much does that kind of thing cost? Would this be something a company like Terminex does? Or is this something different?
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I got a local Pest Control guy. I live in rural Ohio, so it might be cheaper for me. But I paid 110 for the first visit and 60 dollars for every visit thereafter. They spray for wasps/bees/ants and will even lay down poison for mice if you ask.


It's been worth it. Especially since I have 2 5-year olds running around the backyard all day long.
 
I was really hoping that this was a thread about protection from White Anglo Saxon Protestants.

What's a mosquito lion? That sounds awful. Is it just one of the really big mosquitos?
 
ToxicAdam said:
I got a local Pest Control guy. I live in rural Ohio, so it might be cheaper for me. But I paid 110 for the first visit and 60 dollars for every visit thereafter. They spray for wasps/bees/ants and will even lay down poison for mice if you ask.


It's been worth it. Especially since I have 2 5-year olds running around the backyard all day long.
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And you were able to notice a significant difference? My hope would be to be able to mow the lawn in peace.

Btw, I was able to destroy the wasp nest a little bit ago. Used the aerosol can poison suggested above. The buggers built their nest inside our old charcoal grill. Jerks.
 
crisdecuba said:
And you were able to notice a significant difference? My hope would be to be able to mow the lawn in peace.

Btw, I was able to destroy the wasp nest a little bit ago. Used the aerosol can poison suggested above. The buggers built their nest inside our old charcoal grill. Jerks.
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It was about $100 for them to do my house as well. I had to have them come out last year after I got stung by one and went to the doctor when I swelled up really bad, ended up going to the ER. We were infested with them, and they were actually in my basement and coming in upstairs too so we had to go overboard on killing them. So the exterminators went in our basement (unfinished) and used some kind of gas thing first, then another kind of liquid stuff, then they did a bunch of crap outside.. Haven't had much of an issue this year, except for two small nests that I could kill myself with a bottle of poison death from Lowe's. Almost didn't want to risk that, but I sprayed them at night when I was sure they were sleeping.

Just call a couple places and get some prices. A local pest control place was much cheaper, and probably did a better job, than Terminix.
 
Last weekend I was at a friends who has about 12 acres. We decided to move a bench he had out there, well about 10 steps in, I feel this sharp ass sting in my tit and look down. The side of the bench I was carrying was hollowed out and I had just pissed off a whole shitstorm of wasps. I took of running like Benny Hill across the property all the while a bunch of them were buzzing my head and face like Maverick and Goose. Good times.
 
crisdecuba said:
And you were able to notice a significant difference? My hope would be to be able to mow the lawn in peace.
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Yes. But you will have to specify/walkthrough where you want them to spray beforehand.

If you have any street signs in on your property, make sure they get them too. Those bastards hide in the pole (behind the sign) and when you lawn mowers grazes the pole, they will pounce on you.
 
This was a long time ago but one thing I remember about my short pest control career is DON'T attack a wasp nest yourself, get a professional. Partly because they will know where to look and how to deal with all of them but mostly if it goes wrong it can go very badly wrong. Like 70s disaster movie wrong. There was a guy who had tried to kill all his wasps off but had left some alive with a poisoned nest. So all the wasps split up and made new nests all around and inside his house. We did Michael Caine impressions all day:lol

I'm sure you can get white or camouflage suits but I haven't seen any other kinds. Just remember to tape around the joins if you are going to be moving around a lot:D
 
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