Anonymous
Post 04/18/2026 23:15     Subject: wasps!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I just encountered one in my master bathroom where there’s no window. Tried to calm my panic and got creative with the way to kill it: threw Listerine and smashed it under a rug.

I thought that wasps emit a scent when they are squashed which signals other wasps to come and attack. I hope that just an urban myth!


It's not an urban myth.

My kid has a severe vespid allergy. During tge treatment I learned all kinds of wonderful trivia about those vile creatures.

Honeybees and other polinators ard a blessing.

Yellow jackets are a curse with no redeeming value.

Sorry about your child’s allergy, truly, but yellow jackets and wasps are important parts of the ecosystem, and it never makes sense to use chemical sprays unnecessarily. If they find their way inside of a house where no one has a severe allergy, it’s usually pretty easy to cover them with a napkin and release them outside.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2026 23:01     Subject: wasps!
Yellowjackets are the pitbull of the flying insect world. They have zero redeeming value
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2026 21:36     Subject: wasps!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I killed 2 wasps inside yesterday with my handy wasp spray. I think they were looking for water, it’s so dry. Maybe put a dish of water a good distance from your house.
I’m a beekeeper, and while bees are easy to move if they follow me inside, they are vegetarians. Wasps, hornets, yellow jackets are all carnivores that eat honey bees in cruel ways. I hate them very much.
When it cools down below 45, they will go dormant. Use this chance to destroy any nests you find, or to block holes. Wear protection. Use smoke if you can, it calms them.

This is op. I have now removed 12 yellow jackets (thanks image search) since last Monday. The expert comes on Monday. These yellow jackets are trying to exit and I help them out. I hate killing and wasps are pollinators, too, right? I can't tell how they are getting in.


Do you have yellowjackets or wasps? I suspect yellowjackets this time of the year.


Yellowjackets, which are wasps and pollinators.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2026 21:21     Subject: wasps!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I killed 2 wasps inside yesterday with my handy wasp spray. I think they were looking for water, it’s so dry. Maybe put a dish of water a good distance from your house.
I’m a beekeeper, and while bees are easy to move if they follow me inside, they are vegetarians. Wasps, hornets, yellow jackets are all carnivores that eat honey bees in cruel ways. I hate them very much.
When it cools down below 45, they will go dormant. Use this chance to destroy any nests you find, or to block holes. Wear protection. Use smoke if you can, it calms them.

This is op. I have now removed 12 yellow jackets (thanks image search) since last Monday. The expert comes on Monday. These yellow jackets are trying to exit and I help them out. I hate killing and wasps are pollinators, too, right? I can't tell how they are getting in.


Do you have yellowjackets or wasps? I suspect yellowjackets this time of the year.

Anonymous
Post 04/18/2026 20:52     Subject: wasps!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I killed 2 wasps inside yesterday with my handy wasp spray. I think they were looking for water, it’s so dry. Maybe put a dish of water a good distance from your house.
I’m a beekeeper, and while bees are easy to move if they follow me inside, they are vegetarians. Wasps, hornets, yellow jackets are all carnivores that eat honey bees in cruel ways. I hate them very much.
When it cools down below 45, they will go dormant. Use this chance to destroy any nests you find, or to block holes. Wear protection. Use smoke if you can, it calms them.

This is op. I have now removed 12 yellow jackets (thanks image search) since last Monday. The expert comes on Monday. These yellow jackets are trying to exit and I help them out. I hate killing and wasps are pollinators, too, right? I can't tell how they are getting in.


Wasps are not pollinators. They seek, kill, and eat pollinators like bees. Only good wasp is a dead wasp.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2026 20:33     Subject: wasps!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I killed 2 wasps inside yesterday with my handy wasp spray. I think they were looking for water, it’s so dry. Maybe put a dish of water a good distance from your house.
I’m a beekeeper, and while bees are easy to move if they follow me inside, they are vegetarians. Wasps, hornets, yellow jackets are all carnivores that eat honey bees in cruel ways. I hate them very much.
When it cools down below 45, they will go dormant. Use this chance to destroy any nests you find, or to block holes. Wear protection. Use smoke if you can, it calms them.

This is op. I have now removed 12 yellow jackets (thanks image search) since last Monday. The expert comes on Monday. These yellow jackets are trying to exit and I help them out. I hate killing and wasps are pollinators, too, right? I can't tell how they are getting in.


You are a fool to let them out. Kill it.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2026 20:03     Subject: wasps!
Anonymous wrote:I killed 2 wasps inside yesterday with my handy wasp spray. I think they were looking for water, it’s so dry. Maybe put a dish of water a good distance from your house.
I’m a beekeeper, and while bees are easy to move if they follow me inside, they are vegetarians. Wasps, hornets, yellow jackets are all carnivores that eat honey bees in cruel ways. I hate them very much.
When it cools down below 45, they will go dormant. Use this chance to destroy any nests you find, or to block holes. Wear protection. Use smoke if you can, it calms them.

This is op. I have now removed 12 yellow jackets (thanks image search) since last Monday. The expert comes on Monday. These yellow jackets are trying to exit and I help them out. I hate killing and wasps are pollinators, too, right? I can't tell how they are getting in.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2026 08:02     Subject: wasps!
I killed 2 wasps inside yesterday with my handy wasp spray. I think they were looking for water, it’s so dry. Maybe put a dish of water a good distance from your house.
I’m a beekeeper, and while bees are easy to move if they follow me inside, they are vegetarians. Wasps, hornets, yellow jackets are all carnivores that eat honey bees in cruel ways. I hate them very much.
When it cools down below 45, they will go dormant. Use this chance to destroy any nests you find, or to block holes. Wear protection. Use smoke if you can, it calms them.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2026 07:46     Subject: wasps!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I just encountered one in my master bathroom where there’s no window. Tried to calm my panic and got creative with the way to kill it: threw Listerine and smashed it under a rug.


Same here. it stung me and it hurts.

I wonder if it got in through the fan vent?


Be aware that if the creature was a yellow jacket, when they sting you they release a pheromone into your body that will mark you as a predator who needs to be found and attacked by its yellow jacket friends.

Until the pheromones work their way out of your system, you are a target to get stung again.


NP. OMG.

How does everyone find these holes they come in by? I walk around the house but I have no idea how I'm supposed to find such a tiny hole.


You don't in most cases. You just need to destroy their hives (usually underground).
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2026 07:38     Subject: wasps!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I just encountered one in my master bathroom where there’s no window. Tried to calm my panic and got creative with the way to kill it: threw Listerine and smashed it under a rug.

I thought that wasps emit a scent when they are squashed which signals other wasps to come and attack. I hope that just an urban myth!


It's not an urban myth.

My kid has a severe vespid allergy. During tge treatment I learned all kinds of wonderful trivia about those vile creatures.

Honeybees and other polinators ard a blessing.

Yellow jackets are a curse with no redeeming value.
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2026 22:14     Subject: wasps!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I just encountered one in my master bathroom where there’s no window. Tried to calm my panic and got creative with the way to kill it: threw Listerine and smashed it under a rug.


Same here. it stung me and it hurts.

I wonder if it got in through the fan vent?


Be aware that if the creature was a yellow jacket, when they sting you they release a pheromone into your body that will mark you as a predator who needs to be found and attacked by its yellow jacket friends.

Until the pheromones work their way out of your system, you are a target to get stung again.


NP. OMG.

How does everyone find these holes they come in by? I walk around the house but I have no idea how I'm supposed to find such a tiny hole.
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2026 14:56     Subject: Re:wasps!
Last year we had a yellow jacket nest in our crawl space above our garage. There were multiple places where they could enter the house. It was awful. It was months before they all died off. My son patched the spot where he believes they came in. But honestly, at first sight of one this year, I'm calling an exterminator.

A few years back, we had honey bees. We never did figure out that mystery. But, between the two, I still have nightmares.
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2026 12:48     Subject: wasps!
Anonymous wrote:I just encountered one in my master bathroom where there’s no window. Tried to calm my panic and got creative with the way to kill it: threw Listerine and smashed it under a rug.

I thought that wasps emit a scent when they are squashed which signals other wasps to come and attack. I hope that just an urban myth!
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2026 12:41     Subject: wasps!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I just encountered one in my master bathroom where there’s no window. Tried to calm my panic and got creative with the way to kill it: threw Listerine and smashed it under a rug.


Same here. it stung me and it hurts.

I wonder if it got in through the fan vent?


Be aware that if the creature was a yellow jacket, when they sting you they release a pheromone into your body that will mark you as a predator who needs to be found and attacked by its yellow jacket friends.

Until the pheromones work their way out of your system, you are a target to get stung again.
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2026 10:32     Subject: wasps!
Anonymous wrote:I just encountered one in my master bathroom where there’s no window. Tried to calm my panic and got creative with the way to kill it: threw Listerine and smashed it under a rug.


Same here. it stung me and it hurts.

I wonder if it got in through the fan vent?