http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/ How to Get Rid of Things: Forum Tag: hornets - Recent Posts en Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:23:11 +0000 http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/topic/hornets-in-a-high-rise#post-1956 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:00:53 +0000 Dana 1956@http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/ <p>Nah, it's not possible. I am way too selfish to ever give up one of my own offspring for adoption (obviously)... at least, not until they're about 13 or so, and by then the government won't take 'em. You and Getagrip are both hilarious... my stomach muscles still hurt. </p> http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/topic/hornets-in-a-high-rise#post-1954 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:21:11 +0000 samoya22 1954@http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/ <p>I am adopted...I suppose it's possible? There's nothing in my documentation about my birth mother being a gorgeous deaf woman, so maybe it's not you. :)</p> <p>Just to clear things up, Getagrip doesn't actually get paid (yet). He does this forum stuff out of the kindness of his heart--and he loves to make fun of/with/at people. He deserves a cookie. And some beer. And some beer flavored cookies. Or cookie flavored beer? </p> http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/topic/hornets-in-a-high-rise#post-1953 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:05:37 +0000 Dana 1953@http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/ <p>You two appear to belong in MY family. In fact... did I give birth to you and just not remember it? I feel like I'm talking to my own kids. </p> http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/topic/hornets-in-a-high-rise#post-1952 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:43:04 +0000 Dana 1952@http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/ <p>HOLY Sh...... {dying laughing here..}.......... {gotta go smoke a cig..... roflmao.....).......</p> <p>... Okay, I'm back. Time to get serious. {Oh, god... I'm laughing again.... can barely type......}..... I "take J's side in everything???" ROFMAO!!!!!!!!! </p> <p>I swear... I haven't laughed so hard since... maybe when my 18 y/o and 11 y/o daughters were screaming at each other and lunging at each other nearly two years ago (don't ask ME why; I can't hear anything), like two hours after my Marine Corps son Kyle came home from the worst, deathly region in Al Anbar, Iraq, between Baghdad and the Syrian border (you understand, where people's heads were getting blown off, etc.), and my 20 y/o daughter Rachel and I were alREADY laughing at how ridiculous the girls were being... and Kyle poked his head back out of the refrigerator at his dad's house, looked at his little sisters with this "JESUS!" look on his face, and Mariah (9-1/2 at the time) jumped on K.C. (17 at the time) and was SCREAMING... and when Kyle decided everything in his dad's refrigerator was inedible, he walked back through the living room right past those girls as if nothing was happening, and Rachel smacked my arm (to get my attention) and said, "Mom... can you just IMAGINE what KYLE'S thinking right now? 'Ahh.. the memories...'"</p> <p>Crap... my face and stomach hurt because I just reread "you obviously take J's side in everything," and that is... can you even KNOW how funny that sounds to me???? I don't even know you, and I can SEE you saying that.</p> <p>All right. I have a thousand more killer stories to tell, including the one about Kyle telling the cop that pulled him over in Wyoming that he'd had "about 30" beers, but... back to the HORNETS.</p> <p>The people above have a problem with HORNETS. Jonathan's calling 'em "wasps," and YOU (can we have a name here, please?) are calling them "yellow jackets." These little mothers are COMPLETELY different buzzers. (Actually, I think hornets and yellow jackets are the same thing, but wasps are different.) Wasps don't attack people unless they're feeling threatened; hornets/yellow jackets attack them just because they CAN. HUGE difference.</p> <p>Yep, I whacked that sucker, open-handed, smacked him to the ground, and then stomped him. Then kicked him off the deck. My best Kung Foo (fu) efforts EVER. (I was THAT pissed already.)</p> <p>Oh, no... game freaks (which... and can I please vociferously express this?... I am NOT... got a bunch of kids who are, though; my oldest, age 24 and currently deployed to some tiny third-world country at the moment owns over $40,000 worth of DVD movies, TV series, and games... and he wonders why he can't get laid... and my kids are ALL funnier'n'sh--, just so you know).</p> <p>Man... Getagrip... if you want to get on my Facebook site to see the kids I'm talking about, have Jonathan send a "you may know this person" thing and do the Request. If you're actually putting games together, you might gain some visual cartoon perspective.</p> <p>Later... I've laughed so hard, my eyes are half-closed. </p> http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/topic/hornets-in-a-high-rise#post-1950 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:21:38 +0000 getagrip 1950@http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/ <p>OK your one of us..we accept just you as you are..but I want to go back to the yellow jacket on the deck incident..two posts ago..so you whacked it with your hand out of the air,then stomped it, then kicked it off the deck? Now that's Kung Foo pest control.<br /> The people at Wii are reading this right now..Watch out for a new game!<br /> It's a bitch your deaf but you seem pretty ok to me even though you obvisouly take J's side in everything, but that's ok. Let's keep this site kickin but with ALL kinds of input. </p> http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/topic/hornets-in-a-high-rise#post-1949 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:54:14 +0000 Dana 1949@http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/ <p>Also, except for being born and raised for two years in Germany (U.S. Army) after my mother was given a Rubella (German measles) immunization when she was pregnant with me, I've never been east of the Mississippi River. My travel history is... UNhistory... a lack thereof, really. </p> <p>OH! How about a "how to get rid of deafness caused by Rubella" blog????? (Did that sound self-pitying? It sincerely wasn't meant that way. I don't think I'd be able to handle not being able to turn my hearing aid off at this point. I'm deaf in my left ear... and can't hear with my right... at all... without the hearing aid, and I read lips 100% of the time; no sign language because I preferred not to get beat as a child. If I could all-of-a-sudden hear everything, I would never be able to sleep again.)</p> <p>In 1993, I went to visit my little sister stationed at March AB in Moreno Valley, CA... yeah, and I flew on real airplanes even... and other than sitting in the SLC airport in the smoker's fishbowl, I'd've NEVER made it through the plane transfer (or whatever that's called) that was delayed if it hadn't been for a Good Samaritan who guided me around and made a phone call on the pay phone for me, who was also from Montana, whose wife was a math teacher (wild that I remember that, but what I remember MOST was the RUSH when the airplanes took off). </p> <p>Virtual assistance, I can do. I can assist with basic physics (if I can see or know the parameters), and with caustic relief. If foul language works for you, I'm an expert. If I had the money, I'd have the keg delivered to the deck by helicopter; sadly, I can't assist with that.... so, please, while you're trudging up the stairs to the top floor, feel free to growl "Dana!" like Seinfeld does with "Newman!" </p> http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/topic/hornets-in-a-high-rise#post-1948 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:26:05 +0000 Dana 1948@http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/ <p>Careful. I KNOW that song. I can't sing it like the Beattles do, but BOY can I throw a lung! Drives my family nuts by the 20th rendition; up to that point, they're pretty tolerant because I sing pretty well for a deaf person. </p> <p>What're you guys, like Ghostbusters here? "... next stop some condo in Fla?" </p> <p>I don't know about swarms of hornets, but I recall the last time one was trying to terrorize me, I was already so pissed off anyway, I SMACKED him with an open hand (my aim was really good that day), and he went DOWN. Then I stomped him. With a flick of my thong (not the "thongs" that crawl up your butt... so "flip-flop" as they call them nowadays), I neatly swept him off my deck and sat back down to enjoy my victorious feat... and my beer and cigarette. </p> http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/topic/hornets-in-a-high-rise#post-1941 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:27:31 +0000 samoya22 1941@http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/ <p>Agreed. Welcome, Dana. We've got a future project coming up that I'm excited about. There's going to be a forum there as well. </p> http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/topic/hornets-in-a-high-rise#post-1936 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:06:14 +0000 getagrip 1936@http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/ <p>Welcome aboard the Yellow Submarine next stop some condo in Fla. You coming? We need all the help we can get. Your experiance is invaluable and really needed on this site. Looking forward to your input. </p> http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/topic/hornets-in-a-high-rise#post-1933 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:05:16 +0000 Dana 1933@http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/ <p>Okay... I guess I knew right away that I was "home" here when I read Jonathan's site about how to get rid of, well, Little Black Ants. This is only the second string I've read (besides my own), and I KNEW... KNEW!!!... you guys were both "one of the 20." Oh, crap... now I've got Dane Cook in my head again: "You don't even KNOW! You DON'T even KNOW! You DON'T EVEN KNOW!" Yeah... I knew. Deaf person here, so your personalities come through to me loud and clear because you really put yourselves out there in your writing. </p> http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/topic/hornets-in-a-high-rise#post-1931 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:48:16 +0000 getagrip 1931@http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/ <p>Tampa? Condo? Sounds like a tough job that will take our entire research dept a week..no..make that two weeks..to resolve. So send J about twenty sets of keys and we'll just move in and work on this day and night until we solve the problem! Can your elevator handle kegs of beer and people or do we have to use the stairs?<br /> If not..well..I have a hunch you're the top floor and yellow jackets are nesting in a space around the HVAC units on the roof. </p> http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/topic/hornets-in-a-high-rise#post-1926 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:28:10 +0000 samoya22 1926@http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/ <p>A similar thing happened to our apartment during the fall. I don't know why kind of wasps you're dealing with, so I can't tell you why they're attracted to your apartment. Perhaps it's the end of the season for wasps in Florida?</p> <p>I bet Getagrip would know.</p> <p>-J </p> http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/topic/hornets-in-a-high-rise#post-1924 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:32:56 +0000 cpa3917 1924@http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/ <p>We are in Tampa, FL and recently bought a condo unit on the 20th floor of a high rise. Depending on the weather (it seems worse when cooler) there are swarms of hornets on the outside of our outside spaces (balconies, decks, etc.) but they never seem to come near us. They swarm around the outside of the building. We spoke to the association but they have not answered us yet. Any ideas? </p> http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/topic/hornets-attacking-ppl-on-balcony#post-1535 Fri, 01 May 2009 22:14:11 +0000 getagrip 1535@http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/ <p>Now here's the really fun part..in each hole the female lays about 8 eggs, when they emerge they like to stay close to home and mate and do it all over again! So..let's see 8 times 8 = 64? ( one year) 64 times 8 = uh..something (second year)So..Heather have you called the rental office screaming yet? </p> http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/topic/hornets-attacking-ppl-on-balcony#post-1534 Fri, 01 May 2009 17:30:41 +0000 heather7 1534@http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/ <p>I looked it up--that's what they are!!!! They were making a nest in a hole!! </p> http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/topic/hornets-attacking-ppl-on-balcony#post-1532 Fri, 01 May 2009 11:06:27 +0000 getagrip 1532@http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/ <p>Yikes..they're acting like carpenter bees! Ask the office when the pest guy is due again..they usually don't go out on balconies unless told to do so and they're usually in a hurry so if you could get a dead one for them to identify it would help. </p> http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/topic/hornets-attacking-ppl-on-balcony#post-1530 Fri, 01 May 2009 01:04:57 +0000 heather7 1530@http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/ <p>There's another balcony underneath it but no nest there. They are bumping up against the ceiling and corners and the walls, and trying to crawl into nooks and crannies (I taped all of these up so they can't make a nest IN anything). First I bought a store hornet trap, then I made a vinegar trap. And when I have 2 or more flying at me what do I do? I don't want to get stung! They are way overpopulated here and I wonder if that is why they are so aggressive. I live in an apartment and the landlords say they've had exterminators by already. They hover a foot or two right in front of whoever is on the balcony before dive bombing anyone on the balcony, they are definitely targeting the people. Sorry for the length, this is making me crazy. :( </p> http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/topic/hornets-attacking-ppl-on-balcony#post-1526 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:31:48 +0000 getagrip 1526@http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/ <p>Anybody look UNDER the balcony? Look for a grayish ball with a hole in the front. Or they may be reacting to thier own reflection in the glass door(during the daylight as you said) or your dark sunglasses.Like most things in nature just don't react with fear or panic..stay calm and they'll leave you alone.What kind of trap did you make? </p> http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/topic/hornets-attacking-ppl-on-balcony#post-1524 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:13:39 +0000 heather7 1524@http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/ <p>Hi-I didn't find any info on this. I have a very small balcony, and baldfaced hornets keep flying into it and directly at the people on it. I think they're looking for a place to nest, and there is a lot of competition for nesting sites. I can't use the balcony and the hornet trap I made didn't work. I try to spray them with hornet spray but they're too fast. A hornet is there hovering or flying around the balcony whenever there is daylight, no exaggeration. There are no active nests there right now. There are many many trees nearby so I have no idea where active nests may be. Pleeeease help! </p> http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/topic/hornet-control#post-106 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:08:55 +0000 samoya22 106@http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/ <p>You can do that here: <a href="http://www.pestbegone.net/index.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.pestbegone.net/index.htm</a> </p> http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/topic/hornet-control#post-103 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:51:41 +0000 FAB 103@http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/ <p>Where can I purchase the Skone hornet device referred to in the article on "How to Get Rid of Hornets"? I called around to some garden centers, but they don't carry it. </p>