So, I go outside yesterday to chuck the garbage. I toss the garbage into its place - and moments later I hear an unmistakable noise. A noise I like to call "time to run." I look back to see hundreds of wasps swarming and I head indoors.
I decide I'll grab my camera and go back out. I go back out and see things have calmed down considerably. Probably a hundred wasps swarming the garbage. I don't get very close, but took a picture zoomed in to the top of the garbage. Looks like 20 or so wasps just in the frame.
Yeah, so the next is UNDER the box I built to hold the garbage. Not easy to access but I decide to brave it and attempt to spray the thing. Lots of wasps make a hasty exit and try to sting me. Bastards. So I keep spraying though and finally they stop coming out. I wait overnight.
Carefully removed the wasp nest because I read...online...that there will likely be a lot of wasps still in the nest even though it may appear like there isn't any. Well, I take the thing out - not a sign of life so I get a couple pictures of the nest. Here is one of them.
I guess you're supposed to put the nest in a cloth bag, and then into water to drown them all. I decide against the cloth bag (my mistake, oops) and just put the nest into water. Yup, there are still wasps in there, and lots of them! Looked totally dead, no activity, but once they went in the water...they started to come out (mostly drowned)
Here's a close up of the one of the sections of the main hive. I sliced it open into each of its sections. Very cool shit inside. I had no idea how many wasps could come from a relatively small nest. Hundreds of larva still in the nest, some just hatching too.
Anyhow, lots more wasps came out and I should go take some more pictures of these things. Probably still 50-75 wasps floating around in the water.
BTW, after I sprayed the nest last night, it appears that the wasps that didn't die ... or a large majority of the wasps ... ate their way out through the bottom of the nest. (The entrance was near the top) I guess that was to avoid the poison. Little bastards.
Anyhow, if you have a wasps nest and think spraying it is good enough before you take it down, think again! Be sure to drown the whole nest because there will still be tonnes of those buggers inside what appears to be a dormant nest.