Man burns down building in wasp hunt

[Scot]

Note to self: forget the lighter when you try to exterminate wasps. My guess is this guy just learned that lesson.



http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=573&e=6&u=/nm/20030827/od_nm/wasp_dc

 

[Shovelhead]

But he did get rid of the wasps. :--)

 

[RMcCulloch]

Actually, most Wasp Sprays work best when sprayed through a flame from about 5' away.

 

[Lnwing]

The "old-timers" around here talk about a local farmer who built a new corn crib because the rats had completely undermined the foundation of his old one. He then torched the old one to get rid of the crib and the rats, but the rats, ON FIRE, ran to the new crib and burned it down also!!

 

[Will24]

We had a barn fire three weeks ago where a guy was trying to burn wasps out, lit the roof off on the barn!

 

[EricBu12]

I never have any problem with wasps. I use a spray that knocks them down instantly. There was about a dozen making a new hive and this stuff I have shoots a stream out and ZAP! they fall to the ground like that! like they just fell off and forgot how to fly they die in like 30 seconds when on the ground... .

 

[Shovelhead]

We in the telephone company used to have the best stuff for wasps.



It was called "Wasp Stopper" and it did just that.

Hit 'em in the air and they'd drop like a rock.



Then someone "up the food chain" decided that they could get another brand cheaper.



I hosed a wasp nest down with 2 cans of the new stuff and still had to run 'cuz all it did was tick-em-off.



They "eventually" croaked but nothing like the old stuff.

 

[illflem]

You can thank the EPA for that. Even though the active ingredient in the fast acting stuff, chlorpyrifos (Dursban, Lorsban), is proven safe EPA rules are requiring a reduction in all uses of pesticides. Since chlorpyrifos is widely used in agriculture they decided it was going to come off the homeowner market. Same thing is going to happen the opposite way with carbaryl (Sevin), agriculture is going to lose it but homeowners will still be able to buy it for garden sprays, flea collars, etc.



In a lot of ways this is good. When you use an insecticide the bugs that are resistant to it go on to reproduce passing on the resistant trait. The more widespread a certain chemical is used the faster this happens, pretty soon it doesn't work. Reducing the use of individual chemicals slows this down because there is a pool of insects that succumb to the insecticide to breed with the resistant ones. Resistance doesn't become widespread.