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Old 07-09-2008, 12:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Wodnek View Post
Now that is a true horror story, having a hive in your walls!
We did, of yellow jackets! They only had one small opening by a faucet to get in and out, so we caulked it shut, they ate their way back out after about 1 day......so, I had the brilliant idea to stick our industrial (carwash vac with 13Amps of power! ) vacuum hose nozzle right by the hole....and powered it up....sure enough, they got sucked up as they came out, and as they came back from being (pun! ) away from the hive......so I left the vac on for about 3 hours and came back, removed the hose from the tank while it was running, got duct tape ready, turned it off, and taped the nozzle port shut SUPER well. Checked back on it about 1.5-2 weeks later......I'd captured about 400-500 some yellow jackets....all dead in the bottom of the vac....nice thick layer....tons of them! Scariest part of all.....when I took the duct tape off the nozzle port, the part they could get at was completely covered in stingers. a LOT of stingers.

Oh, they never came back to that hole again..... We caulked it shut extra extra good.

These were the type of bees:

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