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Hahaha! No but thanks for the rush I got watching that. Outside of domestic bees I'm quite ignorant so I can't tell the difference between hornets and wasps other than I think wasps are the ones with the long butt thing and hornets have the normal short butt. I don't care for either even if they have their place in nature. So, they should stay in nature and away from houses.
I did see the one where a guy went to war with his yellow jackets infesting his house. He did one where he used a similar (though much less dangerous) contraption with a small grid and a hotdog inside that he drew a little man face on.
His next attempt to wipe them out was using a weed wacker next to the entrance to their nest on the side of his house. That was amazing. He left it on for hours and the spinning wacker filament slaughtered them until hardly any were flying and there was a pile of mangled bodies on the ground. It was amazingly effective as it turned their natural defense against threats against them so they became enraged and attacked the spinning filament.
With bees many suppliers to pharmaceutical labs use a less than lethal charge on a grid with a cloth under it to elicit a sting response. It pulses on and off so the bees get released after stinging. The material is such that it doesn't catch the stinger and rip it out as it would on skin so the bee stings and then walks up into the hive. The collected venom is used to make anti-venom for people who are allergic to stings.
Worth knowing is that wasp and bee venom have different components so the anti-venom derived from bee venom is not that effective for people allergic to wasp stings. Also worth knowing, if you are allergic to bee stings you might not be allergic to wasp stings and vice versa. Wasp venom is more painful and lasts longer. Also worth knowing: localized swelling from a bee sting is not indicative of allergic reaction. An allergic reaction would be general hives all over the body and or swelling and itchiness all over the body and possibly difficulty breathing and general weakness or reactions with the heart. The breathing and heart reactions are symptoms that can be deadly for those with allergies. If you notice those symptoms you should seek medical help.
His next attempt to wipe them out was using a weed wacker next to the entrance to their nest on the side of his house. That was amazing. He left it on for hours and the spinning wacker filament slaughtered them until hardly any were flying and there was a pile of mangled bodies on the ground.
Haha, saw that one.
There's another one where some guy uses a hard-disk motor with a wire, same result. The fuckers are getting mad at it trying to sting it ending up sliced into pieces.
I may be wrong since I'm not real sure of wasp and hornet biology but I think as soon as they can fly they are all capable of defending the nest so such a device would be sort of lethal to the continuation of the nest. So long as the nest is there and the device is employed they will just keep attacking until all are dead.
With honey bees they go through stages of behavior. Newly hatched mope about a bit until their chitin gets dry and then go to work as cleaners and queen tenders or other domestic duties. They won't even bother to attack.
Then they become fanners, in that they actively just hang on to areas around the entrance and along the combs and fan their wings to dry the honey and regulate temperatures.
Then they become defenders. After that another switch will click in their brain and they become foragers. There's a couple other stages I skipped, like hauling out dead bees and other trash. So, you could employ such a device next to a bee hive entrance and all it would do is slowly weaken the hive. To wipe out a bee hive this way would take months if they have enough honey and pollen stored up. Eventually though they would run low on workers as the defenders were depleted. So long as there's food in the hive the queen will just keep pumping out more eggs.
Why are the wasps attracted to that?
Because it’s right over their underground nest.
Oh, okay that makes sense.
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