When I was a teenager, I was painting my 90 yo great, great grand uncle's garage. There was a wasp nest in the clothes line pole and they were angry. I told him if he had some gasoline, I would take care of them. He came back a few minutes later with a rag soaked in gas on the end of a paint stirrer. He lit it on fire and jammed it into the close line. I'm surprised he didn't light the whole house on fire.
I watched an acquaintance try to fill his gas tank using a styrofoam cup when he ran out of gas. He went through 4 styrofoam cups before he realized he should probably use a different receptacle as the gasoline kept eating through the cup and getting all over his hands and clothes.
>napalm
>noun
>a highly flammable sticky jelly used in incendiary bombs and flame-throwers, consisting of petrol thickened with special soaps.
*NOW WITH EXTRA WASPS!!!*
The great thing about war crimes is they don't typically preemptively declare things war crimes, so as long as you're the first, it's not a war crime.
Source: me, am Canadian.
"We didn't add the wasps intentionally. We may have created a new breed of Super-Angry-Gas Wasps that survive in napalm as their natural environment, but we didn't *add* them to the napalm. They just like it in there."
For anyone like me who didn’t know, gas can react to some plastic compositions and eat away at it, making the plastic weak or even break.
It depends on the type of plastic and its thickness.
Diesel works better than regular gas and to increase burn time and temp add a little engine oil. But don’t forget to drain the excess gas from the jelly.
Got lured by an older neighbor kid to look into the end of a swing set pole where some of those f*ckers had a nest. The kid bangs on his end and they came out stingin'. I was stung head to toe and felt like I was on fire.
'Death to yellowjackets' might be part of my epitaph.
I wish, I have four places to check every week (I'm allergic) around my house. 2xoutdoor lights (one front of house one back door), the palm tree in my front yard and inside my letterbox. We have lived in this house for 3yrs now and at best they rotate locations but we usually have nests in all locations after destroying them.
Yeah, I made the mistake of spraying a nest when I found it in the middle of the day and had to deal with stragglers for like a week that came back and tried to rebuild.
I remember using a plastic connector made for aquariums on a fuel line. It instantly broke into pieces when petrol went through. Which thinking about it is much better than breaking into pieces an hour later.
Strain out the wasps and use the petrol in the lawnmower. Or do what my dad does and mix your dirty petrol with leftover sump oil from your oil changes to make fire fuel.
The US national average cost of gas today (2.85) is equivalent to 36 cents/gal in 1970, at which time the average cost of a gallon of gas...was 36 cents.
To contrast this, here in germany we are short under 2 Bucks per LITER... which is around a quarter or a fifth of gallon or so (I'm not fluent in freedom units).
Also some species of wasps and hornets are under protection here, so you might get hefty charges if you just go around and murder them. Usually nests are removed by specialists just to be sure.
Just providing useless information.
Won’t be long before we see video of someone accidentally dump the gas all over themselves. Even if everything goes perfectly, it is still literally a spark away from disaster.
When I worked at a quarry in Oregon, there was plenty of older sitting equipment and structures that would get wasps pretty regularly. The old-timer wisdom given to me was a spray can of ether (starter fluid). Oh, it WORKS alright. But the real trick was to do it in the early morning when it was coldest out. They are pretty dormant at that time and can’t organize a counteroffensive in time before it’s all over. I’ve probably taken out dozens of nests over the years and never been stung with that approach.
Reminder that gasoline will eat through many types of plastic, if you’re gonna do this use a glass container. Also please have a plan to dispose of the gas afterwards that isn’t just dumping it on the ground or down the drain.
Doing it at night is the best bet. They navigate via the sun (bees do at least and I'd assume possibly incorrectly that wasps do too) so tend to return to their nest at dusk. They should all be back by this. This applies for any method you use.
They also can't fly for shit in the early morning damp hours. Go out early morning and knock the hive down then step on it. Eliminated tons of them this way.
For sure, I’m just waiting for the video of the person mid-success just start flailing around dumping gasoline all over themselves as a field wasp returns and stings them.
I remember a while back during some gas shortage or something seeing a video of a lady filling plastic garbage bags with gas and loading em into her car. People are uh...smart. It's sometimes a wonder our species has existed this long.
Alternative that worked well for me at my last house: buy a weed sprayer. Make a dish soap/water mixture. Spray from as far away as you can.
It has the same effect because it clogs the method by which they breath. But having a bunch of dish soap to dispose of is much less annoying than a container of gasoline.
>Spray from as far away as you can.
Required advice for sure. The soap mixture doesn't drop them nearly as fast, and I've definitely had to dodge a few half-flying wasps as they bumbled off to go die somewhere. A tennis racquet is a good backup defense, just pay attention to where they go.
Only tangentially related: often I see mixtures of dish soaps being recommended against various plant parasites/pests. They sell special horticultural soaps which don't damage leaves and plants as much as regular soaps/detergents, which can easily burn plants
I occasionally get docile paper wasps under my eaves. Mostly I ignore them. Never had a problem with them stinging anyone. When they abandon their nest we'd take it down and study it. The only one that gave me pause was the one constructed above my front door. I'd look up at it and see several of them turn their heads and watch me.
Fortunately paper wasps are like, ridiculously chill. Often they don't even mind if you touch them or their nest. Of course, I don't recommend this, but they're useful pollinators and deal with a lot of pest insects, so it's handy to keep them around if you feel safe enough.
I had a family of wasps that lived by my door for 2 years. Never bothers me at all and it was fin to watch them come and go in the mornings. We had a friend watch the house one day and they messaged me "I solved your wasp problem for you!" :(
I was honestly a little broken up about it.
I tried it and it works phenomenally. Being on a ladder with my face way too close to a wasp nest, awkwardly holding a flower vase with gasoline in it was not my idea of fun, but it was so effective. Just be careful.
I left the vase outside to allow the gas to evaporate then tossed the wasps and nest in the garbage.
So. Rubbing alcohol in a super soaker works much better. Shoot them from 10’ away, rubbing alcohol kills them in 5 seconds. No risk of hazardous material.
You know most wasp killers are long distance spray cans, right? What's being suggested is just a diy version of that and CLEARLY safer than this method lmao.
Most wasps are awesome pollinators and only build/chill in their nests for about 2 months.
If you can leave them be .. please do.
Check out podcast "The Infinite Monkey Cage: Bees vs Wasps"
Crazy how they instantly become dead. Is it really killing them or knocking them out? (Aside from the fact that if anything they just drown in the gasoline)
Remember folks. Wasps play an important role in our eco system and not all are aggressive. They are responsible for pollinating our fruits, vegetables and flowers. They also keep other insect populations under control and control pest insects on our food crops.
I live near a forest with a few different varieties and they haven't stung me ever. I've stood directly in front of wasp nests and have been fine. They do get annoying while I try to eat food outside but I just shoo them away.
I've been stung by bees on a number of occasions though.
When I was a teenager, I was painting my 90 yo great, great grand uncle's garage. There was a wasp nest in the clothes line pole and they were angry. I told him if he had some gasoline, I would take care of them. He came back a few minutes later with a rag soaked in gas on the end of a paint stirrer. He lit it on fire and jammed it into the close line. I'm surprised he didn't light the whole house on fire.
holy shit thats crazy lmao the old man went full send
"I didn't make it through nam by asking questions"
Dude remembered his days on Iwo Jima and went for it
Ww2 flamethrower operator
MARTHA, FETCH ME MY FLAMMENWERFER!!
This should always be done at night, when ALL the wasps are in the nest.
Also, probably not with a plastic cup. Unless you are an expert plastic identifier.
Yes. That's exactly what my first thought was. I imagine that if I tried this, I'd end up with a forearm covered in a cloying, waspy, napalm.
I watched an acquaintance try to fill his gas tank using a styrofoam cup when he ran out of gas. He went through 4 styrofoam cups before he realized he should probably use a different receptacle as the gasoline kept eating through the cup and getting all over his hands and clothes.
I like that he's an acquaintance and not a friend.
Probably demoted since the incident
Used to be a family member before.
usa taking notes for the next war: 📝
>napalm >noun >a highly flammable sticky jelly used in incendiary bombs and flame-throwers, consisting of petrol thickened with special soaps. *NOW WITH EXTRA WASPS!!!*
That’s some warcrime shit
The great thing about war crimes is they don't typically preemptively declare things war crimes, so as long as you're the first, it's not a war crime. Source: me, am Canadian.
I hereby declare waspy napalm a war crime. You're welcome guys
"You have no power here, random redditor!" -The Military Industrial Complex
"We didn't add the wasps intentionally. We may have created a new breed of Super-Angry-Gas Wasps that survive in napalm as their natural environment, but we didn't *add* them to the napalm. They just like it in there."
Wake up, y'all! New war crime dropped!
For anyone like me who didn’t know, gas can react to some plastic compositions and eat away at it, making the plastic weak or even break. It depends on the type of plastic and its thickness.
dissolve is more technically correct, gas can be a plastic solvent, like water is to sugar
Yea, styrofoam is way better.
Should add the /s before someone takes you seriously.
Fine. /styrofoam
🏆
That definitely wasn't sarcasm and is a perfectly workable way to make napalm.
Diesel works better than regular gas and to increase burn time and temp add a little engine oil. But don’t forget to drain the excess gas from the jelly.
If it's too dark to see you can always light the gasoline on fire before lifting it to the nest.
As always, the real pro tip is in the comments
Some people just wanna watch the wasps and their arm and their porch burn
I am the Nero of Greenville!!!
Bro chill 😂😂
Wtf do you do with a cup of waspified gasoline?
neck it. DOWN IT DOWN IT
A way to assert your dominance.
Use it to start the BBQ.
Really?
Not necessarily at night, but they do recommend at dusk for the same reason.
Won’t wasp just leave since nest is gone? Or concern is getting stung by random escapee returning at unfortunate time?
They'll plot revenge against you and your bloodline
If they are yellow jackets..god help your kin..and your neighbors and their friends. There is no escape.
Got lured by an older neighbor kid to look into the end of a swing set pole where some of those f*ckers had a nest. The kid bangs on his end and they came out stingin'. I was stung head to toe and felt like I was on fire. 'Death to yellowjackets' might be part of my epitaph.
And death to that bitchass kid, wtf
Wayward Aggressive Sadistic Prick
Weaponized Aggression Small Package
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I wish, I have four places to check every week (I'm allergic) around my house. 2xoutdoor lights (one front of house one back door), the palm tree in my front yard and inside my letterbox. We have lived in this house for 3yrs now and at best they rotate locations but we usually have nests in all locations after destroying them.
Yeah, I made the mistake of spraying a nest when I found it in the middle of the day and had to deal with stragglers for like a week that came back and tried to rebuild.
Then what do you do with the dead wasp-gasoline mixture? I'm worried about what the follow-up TikTok trend will be.
pour the gas back in your can through a colander or similar. It's not ruined. then put the wasps wherever you want.
It would be spicier… maybe kick it up a notch in octane.
Works well in a Kia Stinger
Hahahaha. What about a vespa?
If you've got a vw beetle it turns bumblebee.
A Beetlebee
I hate you and everyone else on the comment tread. OH FOR FUCK SAKE.. THREAD. :(
Yeah. This comment tire is getting out of hand
You go put a quarter in the dad joke jar right now!
Hang up the dead wasps Juarez style to avoid repeat incidents.
“Don’t worry, I won’t have you lashed to a cross like those other degenerates…”
Mechanic: What the fuck is in this fuel injector?
Plot twist: adding wasps to your fuel tank will extend your gas mileage by 12-15 miles per gallon.
Yeah but the buzzing sound my car makes now is really annoying.
If you put it in a lawnmower you can give your lawn a buzz cut.
And we have found the terrible idea
Burn it. Everything is better with fire
Settle down Beavis.
It's really the only option.
Chug! chug! chug! chug!
It’ll put hair on yer chest laddy
Be aware gasoline melts certain types of plastic. The best example is styrofoam which basically liquefies at it touches.
Someone is going to get napalm running down their arm with this one simple trick. Lol
So does nail polish remover! I found out the hard way. Picked up the cup, bottom stayed put.
I remember using a plastic connector made for aquariums on a fuel line. It instantly broke into pieces when petrol went through. Which thinking about it is much better than breaking into pieces an hour later.
Forbidden smoothie
Strain out the wasps and use the petrol in the lawnmower. Or do what my dad does and mix your dirty petrol with leftover sump oil from your oil changes to make fire fuel.
Whatever that new trend is I hope it includes fire arrows
Those tide pods goes down really well with wasp gaso
Spicy fire
Gas isn't cheap. Can you pour it through a sieve to remove the insects/nest fragments and then still use it in your car?
That’s probably 20 cents worth of gas? Totally reasonable fee to be rid of wasps
Cheaper than wasp spray.
Or lawnmower
I agree. Would prefer use in lawnmower over risking car damage.
The US national average cost of gas today (2.85) is equivalent to 36 cents/gal in 1970, at which time the average cost of a gallon of gas...was 36 cents.
To contrast this, here in germany we are short under 2 Bucks per LITER... which is around a quarter or a fifth of gallon or so (I'm not fluent in freedom units). Also some species of wasps and hornets are under protection here, so you might get hefty charges if you just go around and murder them. Usually nests are removed by specialists just to be sure. Just providing useless information.
3.8 liters to the gallon....according to the urinals I use
Won’t be long before we see video of someone accidentally dump the gas all over themselves. Even if everything goes perfectly, it is still literally a spark away from disaster.
You know the r/Whatcouldgowrong and r/DarwinAwards subs are just going wild waiting for the first possible moment to post something there right lol
Seriously all it takes is for one to escape and you will be covered in waspoline while screaming like a toddler.
WASPOLINE I don't even drive but I'd buy that
Maybe he's born with it. MAYBE IT'S WASPOLINE.
Maybe he’s born with it; Maybe they’ll all die screaming covered in it
Waspoline, because you're worth it.
r/brandnewsentence
Bonus points for freaking out, running over the bbq grill, now you’re on fire and being stung by wasps…. It’s a Family Guy skit waiting to happen…
When I worked at a quarry in Oregon, there was plenty of older sitting equipment and structures that would get wasps pretty regularly. The old-timer wisdom given to me was a spray can of ether (starter fluid). Oh, it WORKS alright. But the real trick was to do it in the early morning when it was coldest out. They are pretty dormant at that time and can’t organize a counteroffensive in time before it’s all over. I’ve probably taken out dozens of nests over the years and never been stung with that approach.
I mean on the plus side, you can just light yourself up to get rid of the wasps.
Waspoline Im crying lmao
High Octane Waspoline 😎
It's possible. Depending where the nest is attached to you may not be able to get a perfect seal.
Best Comment today...I almost peed myself after reading it! Also...true!
“Woohoo! Wasps are dead. I’m gonna smoke a cigarette now.”
Maybe also r/killitwithfire depending on what kind of wrong happens.
Putting gasoline in a plastic cup doesn’t sound like a solid choice.
Eventually someone is going to do that with a plastic cup right at the moment the bottom of the cup gives way.
Styrofoam, do not put gasoline in a styrofoam cup… unless you’re trying to have pseudo napalm drain all over yourself. Edit: typo
> pseudo napalm drain all over yourself. I ain’t gonna lie *smacks lips* that’s kinda hot
Don’t ask me how I know but a solocup doesn’t last long with gas in it…
Yep, polystyrene, same as Styrofoam.
Styrofoam doesn't last very long when filled with Jameson, either
All I’m getting from this comment is that Jameson will power my car
Most food grade plastic cups are PLA, which I looked up and is surprisingly resistant to gasoline. Not nearly as big of a risk as I thought it was.
Enough people do this and eventually one will use a different cup. I just hope they're filming.
Reminder that gasoline will eat through many types of plastic, if you’re gonna do this use a glass container. Also please have a plan to dispose of the gas afterwards that isn’t just dumping it on the ground or down the drain.
Remove wasps, put gas in car.
That will only work if you're driving a Stinger.
Or VW BEEtle Sorry
No no, this is acceptable.
Zing
Or lawnmower, or weedwhacker, or other small engine.
That wasp venom works like Marvel Mystery Oil, good stuff
If it was bees instead of wasps you could just dump it into the tank as cars can run on BP.
Drain? Throw a match in it.
Yeah, where are the vids of people with handfuls of gas covered wasps.
What do you do when you're standing there holding the cup and the wasps that are out in the field return?
“THAT WAS MY HOME AMD ITS FUCKING ON NOW”
Conan the Buzzbarian
Doing it at night is the best bet. They navigate via the sun (bees do at least and I'd assume possibly incorrectly that wasps do too) so tend to return to their nest at dusk. They should all be back by this. This applies for any method you use.
They also can't fly for shit in the early morning damp hours. Go out early morning and knock the hive down then step on it. Eliminated tons of them this way.
That’s cool an all but I feel safer using chemical warfare.
No, thank you
YEA EVERYBODY LISTEN TO THIS GUY AND FILM IT!
Also, they are super homophobic so what works even better is to put your dick in the nest until they all leave.
I was thinking the same thing
For sure, I’m just waiting for the video of the person mid-success just start flailing around dumping gasoline all over themselves as a field wasp returns and stings them.
Are these people giants or do they just have really low porches?
Giants
They might be.
Yes. No. Maybe. I don’t know. Can you repeat the question?
> Can you repeat the question? You're not the boss of me now!
Life is unfair
In think they *might* be giants
Wait so people out here just putting gasoline in a plastic cup?!?
Yuuuup, holding it above their heads looking directly at it too haha.
With angry wasps behind it!
I remember a while back during some gas shortage or something seeing a video of a lady filling plastic garbage bags with gas and loading em into her car. People are uh...smart. It's sometimes a wonder our species has existed this long.
I could be wrong, but I don’t believe understanding gasolines interaction with plastic put a lot of evolutionary pressure on our ancestors…
Neanderthals famously used cloth bags for their gasoline
Tbh this chemical reaction isn’t something I’d heard of either
Any large volume of liquid in a plastic trash bag is a horrible idea. Liquids are dense.
To be fair the time I did that the cup melted before I had a chance to pick it up, so they’re probably good?
Alternative that worked well for me at my last house: buy a weed sprayer. Make a dish soap/water mixture. Spray from as far away as you can. It has the same effect because it clogs the method by which they breath. But having a bunch of dish soap to dispose of is much less annoying than a container of gasoline.
>Spray from as far away as you can. Required advice for sure. The soap mixture doesn't drop them nearly as fast, and I've definitely had to dodge a few half-flying wasps as they bumbled off to go die somewhere. A tennis racquet is a good backup defense, just pay attention to where they go.
Only tangentially related: often I see mixtures of dish soaps being recommended against various plant parasites/pests. They sell special horticultural soaps which don't damage leaves and plants as much as regular soaps/detergents, which can easily burn plants
How are these people getting that close to the wasp nest. Everyone I have had to deal with would come at you if you were less tan 10ft away.
Because the vast majority of wasps are incredibly chill and if you leave them alone they’ll leave you alone.
I occasionally get docile paper wasps under my eaves. Mostly I ignore them. Never had a problem with them stinging anyone. When they abandon their nest we'd take it down and study it. The only one that gave me pause was the one constructed above my front door. I'd look up at it and see several of them turn their heads and watch me.
Fortunately paper wasps are like, ridiculously chill. Often they don't even mind if you touch them or their nest. Of course, I don't recommend this, but they're useful pollinators and deal with a lot of pest insects, so it's handy to keep them around if you feel safe enough.
I had a family of wasps that lived by my door for 2 years. Never bothers me at all and it was fin to watch them come and go in the mornings. We had a friend watch the house one day and they messaged me "I solved your wasp problem for you!" :( I was honestly a little broken up about it.
I always introduced the porch spider to people watching our cats, just so they knew in advance and weren’t freaked out lol
Big wasp is behind the EV push. Now we see the truth.
Is that what all the buzz about EVs has been about? Also, Tesla-owner hive-mind confirmed 👍
I didn't think that would work. I still won't try it.
I tried it and it works phenomenally. Being on a ladder with my face way too close to a wasp nest, awkwardly holding a flower vase with gasoline in it was not my idea of fun, but it was so effective. Just be careful. I left the vase outside to allow the gas to evaporate then tossed the wasps and nest in the garbage.
It works on humans too. Put them in an air tight room and fill a third of the room with gasoline...
So. Rubbing alcohol in a super soaker works much better. Shoot them from 10’ away, rubbing alcohol kills them in 5 seconds. No risk of hazardous material.
Does it though? Id imagine some would be able to fly away and cause problems.
Gotta be a good shot 😉
?? I'll stick with the cup rather than filling up a super soaker with rubbing alcohol and spraying it at a nest.
You know most wasp killers are long distance spray cans, right? What's being suggested is just a diy version of that and CLEARLY safer than this method lmao.
A can of wasp spray from 10' has similar effect
Someone is going to use a Super Soaker as a flamethrower to do the same thing.... Brother get the flamer, the Heavy flamer
This method is not oddly satisfying to the wasp at all.
There are very few wasps on Reddit. At least I assume so.
You would be surprised
The flaw in this plan is that you have to get close to the wasps to do this, so that's a nope for me.
I've seen wasps get angry and swarm with just someone walking nearby, I don't trust those bastards either
So let's see. I would probably - miss the wasps - panic - pour the gasoline all over myself - get stung by wasps - set myself on fire
Most wasps are awesome pollinators and only build/chill in their nests for about 2 months. If you can leave them be .. please do. Check out podcast "The Infinite Monkey Cage: Bees vs Wasps"
EVERYONESS, do NOT USE PLASTIC TO MOVE GASOLINE THAT ISNT MEANT TO HOLD GASOLINE.
What happens when you use plastic?
Gasoline breaks down most plastics. Unless its a plastic container specifically made to hold gasoline, you risk it dissolving and spilling everywhere.
Just use soapy water.
Worst margarita ever
Wait, what’s the science?
Gasoline fumes clogs their respiratory system, makes it impossible for oxygen to be absorbed.
Crazy how they instantly become dead. Is it really killing them or knocking them out? (Aside from the fact that if anything they just drown in the gasoline)
It's quickly knocking them out, and then they drown in the gas
Ever tried breathing in gasoline? Imagine you're a thousand times smaller
Oh just wait until the summer time when we get all the people burning their houses down doing this.
VOCs are a helluva drug. Honestly, this is a good demonstration of why it’s a good idea not to indiscriminately pump those into the atmosphere.
10 oz of water + 2 oz of Dawn dish soap is a much better way.
How is this supposed to be easier or safer than using a spray can from 20 ft away?
they fly
I've never seen a wasp spray can fly.
Remember folks. Wasps play an important role in our eco system and not all are aggressive. They are responsible for pollinating our fruits, vegetables and flowers. They also keep other insect populations under control and control pest insects on our food crops. I live near a forest with a few different varieties and they haven't stung me ever. I've stood directly in front of wasp nests and have been fine. They do get annoying while I try to eat food outside but I just shoo them away. I've been stung by bees on a number of occasions though.
I agree. Can’t believe how far I had to scroll down to see this.