(R-Rated) Shop Vac + Yellow Jackets / Wasp Removal / Extermination Tutorial / How To

so it's the last weekend in September and we have a little bit of a lost problem Yellowjackets you can see them going in and out and we're going to get rid of those today but instead of using some sort of chemical we're getting something more effective we're going to use a shop vac what you have to do is you have to fill up the shot back with couple inches of water and for good measure a little soap that may be too much we'll see but that's about three four inches of water and some soap then what we're going to do is we're going to hook up to a ladder the hose like this I've used bungee cords to connect it to the pole from a broom and I measured it's about nine feet I didn't measure that carefully with the wasp around and this is adjustable you can slide this up or down and you just use these clamps as necessary to move it once it's in place then you go ahead and you connect this to the shop back and turn it on but rather than turn it on from right there what I'm going to do is I'm going to put this wire and put it underneath the garage door there see how this works so this is sort of a before shot of the the activity you can see they're coming in at least one per second pretty good right there and this is late in the season so I know they tend to be a little bit more aggressive so I'm going to be wearing some long sleeves and hats okay you can see I placed it there that's in the on position as soon as I plug it in it's going to turn on there definitely curious so let's see what happens when I turn this on it says my wife telling me I'm stupid so I'm gonna go inside we're gonna leave this on for a few hours last time I did this about four or five hours and it got rid of 95% of them so off to check back later let's turn this back on all right so I turn it off for a few minutes let the shopvac cool down they look angry let's go turn it back on you can already see it starting to slow down and they are angry so after about three to four hours of sucking and another to three hours to sit there while I went to the playground with my daughter I have disconnected the hose and nothing has flown out let's see what we've got in here and when you look we have at least hundreds some seem to float some seem to sink of Yellow Jackets and these guys are dead none of them seem that interested in me but most importantly they're not just dead they're gone and we didn't have to use any chemicals other than a little dish wash so here to get rid of them so we will dump these guys now four years ago when I did this I actually have an abundance of caution sealed the container up and let it sit in the Sun for two weeks and that was actually much more disgusting that was basically a protein shake but we have none coming in coming out seems to have worked this I think is way more effective than when you spray chemicals and obviously we're not spraying chemicals so I'm not worried about my family so that's it and that's me

Channel: PrerequisiteName

Views: 923,357

Rating: 4.8048992 out of 5

Keywords: Wasp (Organism Classification), Yellow Jacket (Organism Classification), Pest, Vacuum (Taxonomy Subject), Bee, Sting, kill, Vinyl, Siding, House, Home, Soap, Water, Control, Brick, Eliminate, bug, Awesome, Cleaning

Id: ytMcIpIRL3w

Length: 5min 14sec (314 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 29 2013

Reddit Comments

[u/Zedyy]

"The first time I sealed it and let it sit in the sun for two weeks"

This guy isn't taking any chances.

[u/Larry_The_Lobster]

Better yet, forget the soap and water. After sucking for a few hours, just reverse the shop vac and you have yourself a handy wasp flamethrower. You can achieve anything!

[u/GalileoGalilei2012]

"Theyre not just dead, theyre gone."

You sure about that? Enjoy the ghosts of 246 yellow jackets haunting your porch from now on.

[u/drmrmatty]

I've done that before- there was a giant bald-faced hornets nest right outside my window, and the weeds were growing up quite a lot. That was how I discovered it- I was pulling some of the vines growing up and around my window and the corner of the house, and I just see all of these hornets pouring out of the entrance. 0/10

I opened the window, cut a small hole in my screen, and hit the wall that was directly in front of the hive from the inside, pissing them off. I shook the hose a bit, and they went after that. It was a weird sensation- a thunk and a small vibration from their wings hitting the sides of the hose. I should find the pics I took of the receptacle; it was insane.

E- Here's a potato video I took, and the link to /r/WTF

[u/kumu]

Our Chinese friends has a better way dealing with wasps.

[u/SgtBanana]

Man, shop vacs are absolutely awesome.

A pro tip for anyone who is tired of having expensive vacuums crapping out/losing suction, buy a shop vac for your house. Just about every attachment that you use on your regular vacuum cleaner will be readily available for your shop vac (I personally use the Rigid, all of the attachments are available at Home Depot).

These things last forever, they have a larger storage capacity than any regular vacuum cleaner on the market, and they have way, way more suction power. You know those toy vacuum cleaners that they make for kids? The ones with the little balls that jump around when you push them? Yeah, my shop vac makes the biggest and baddest Dyson model on the market look like one of those. All for $90.

I've been through Dyson vacuum cleaners, Hoovers, you name it, but nothing really compares to my trusty shop vac. I'll never buy another weak "consumer" vacuum again. It looks a bit silly running a shop vac through your house, but it fucking works.

[u/GreatNorthWeb]

The last recorded words from that wasp, "My god it's full of stars".

[u/MakeItSoNumba1]

Damn it feels good to be a human when you think of some next level evolution shit like that. I could totally see myself doing that.

[u/_Jias_]

This was very satisfying