And a water balloon full of lighter fluid for the hive, and a shooting flare.
I hate those damn vicious beasties!
Was chased by a swarm on my tractor, got bit all the way to the house, filled my sprayer with full strength pyrethrin, and drove down there, cracked the wind wing, and emptied the whole sprayer into their hive.
Think I drowned them more than killed em, but it was a pleasure watching them seize
.RIP to the hiker.
They were probably just mad because you accused them of biting when they were stinging.
Kinda think you don’t like bees...
Interesting story. I’ve been successful blasting wasp hives with a shot gun, and finishing off the returning ones with wasp spray.
Last year I was helping a good friend disassemble a log home built in 1870. I disturbed a bee’s nest near a window opening. We knew they were in the structure somewhere, so we’d tooled up with enough cans of wasp spray.
Any way, after I got stung a few times, I beat a retreat some thirty feet away to let things clam down. After a moment or two I got stung again. Then again. etc. with increasing frequency. I finally realized the whole colony would not rest until the offender (me) was taken out.
With that, I grabbed two cans of spray and headed directly for the nest. I proceeded to bang on the logs to get them to exit. I just kept spraying; they were falling like rain. I was yelling out movie quotes; “Say hello to my little friend”, “Oh Warriors, come out & play”, etc. I blew through both cans. I probably lost six months of future hospice time with all the spray I inhaled myself