Posted on 08/24/2021 5:23:51 PM PDT by blueplum
...When fed a steady stream of ultraviolet rays, all of the nests glowed, each with a bit of regional flair: The four from Vietnam all pulsed in green, while the other two, from Europe and South America, were a more muted teal-ish blue. ...
...The wasps themselves didn’t light up; neither did the topmost parts of the nests, constructed out of chewed-up wood (hence the “paper” moniker). The glow, the researchers found, came from....
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The glow, the researchers found, came from a layer of silk stitched across the openings of the hexagonal cells at each nest’s base.So nobody has to give a click to the Atlantic.
Put on a beekeeper’s outfit, douse the nest in kerosene, and strike a match.
In just a short while, what’s left of the nest will be glowing.
I loath wasps, especially yellow jackets - feels like getting punched when stung. I agree with grey whiskers there above. Would not mind seeing the glow of the nest on fire.
I had yellow jackets behind the molding around my front door. After unsuccessful tries with several products to get rid of them I stumbled onto Sevin dust. I sprinkled it around the opening and some inside. The entire nest was dead in a day.
Wasp sprays that foam are really good but you have to use them at dusk, when all the resident bugs are tucking themselves in for the night. The foam stops (almost all) from getting out. If you spray during the day when most of the colony is off foraging, the wasp can smell or sense it, spread the word and off they go to make a new nest.
Sevin dust works good, too, but you have to get pretty close, don’t you?
Wasp sprays that foam are really good
they work well on bigger critters also like car jackers
Lambent wasps?! I can’t imagine how much that would suck...
Nuke’em from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.😋
Gives new meaning to the song “Glow Little Glo-Worm”.
Give a wasp a match and it will be warm for a minute. Set a wasp on fire and it will be warm for the rest of its life.
I was once welding and had a wasp land right in the arc. Biggest bug zapper ever — the wasp evaporated. Just a couple of wings and legs left.
I did it at dusk when they had returned to the nest.
Agreed, also work on hornets and carpenter bees
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