Hornets nest outside my bedroom window

[Eddh]

I had 2 hornets in my bedroom last night, I was lay there in bed reading and heard a buzzing noise. I took this to be a bee or a wasp or some other sort of insect so I ignored it and carried on reading.

All of a sudden a hornet goes whizzing past my face and I proper st it jumped out of bed and ran out of my room slamming the door behind me.

So there I am stood outside my room peeping through the window above the door and can see these things flying around the top of the room. one flew up to the glass and was walking around on it, this thing was massive! It must have been about an inch and a half in length!

While stood outside my room in my boxers I decided that I wasn't going to sleep on the landing so the only option was to attack. I gathered my courage and armed with a towel and a slipper waiting until the buzzing had died down and opened the door, one was perched on my chest of draws so with all the elegance of a cat I pounced and SLAT nailed it. The other must have then seen what had happed to his mate so took flight again buzzing round the room so there I was stood there in the middle of my room wearing only a pair of boxers swinging a towel around my head.

I managed to make contact with the other hornet and then... nothing... I looked around for a bit and couldn't see it... Then looked down at the towel I was holding, there it was crawling up the towel towards my hand looking majorly pissed off. At this point I dropped the towel and pegged it out of the room again slamming the door behind me once again.

bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz the thing is now at the window above my door again buzzing against trying to break through and attack me. Long story short I went in there again with the slipper and splatted it against the window almost breaking it...

So later this afternoon I am going to go hunting for the nest, the question is once I locate it what is the best way to deal with it?

I was thinking rag soaked in petrol on the end of a really long stick and set fire to it? I don't fancy getting too close really.

[Romanymagic]

Have you tried a conciliatory approach?

Perhaps when you find the nest, invite the leader around for a cup of tea and work out a shared rosta. Perhaps when you go to work the hornets can come in and fly around a bit, with no fear of swattage and likewise when you return home you can sit around in your boxers with no fear of stingage!

[Lemmonie]

Only one thing for it.






Move

[W333]

You faired better than I once did. I stayed in a villa in France that had a nest of those bd Euro wasp thingies in the chimney, and I popped to the loo which had the window open and was directly underneath the chimney. I was happily doing my business when one of the fkers flew in and made a bee-line (excuse the pun) for my ck. I have never moved so fast, and I guess the cleaner wasn't expecting to see a trail of piss the length of the corridor either.

[Wacky Racer]

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[Adenauer]

I was dive bombed in my garden by a few angry Hornets the other week, think Japs and Pearl Harbour, that sort of thing! Anyway, I later asked a few Germans what I could do about it? "Nothing, they're a protected species in Germany" came the reply. Damaging a Hornets nest over here carries a maximum fine of, wait for it, €50,000

Hence this bloke actually sts himself when he sts

[JDMc]

Lemmonie said:

Only one thing for it.






FIRE

EFA

[Eddh]

Wacky Racer said:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

These are hardcore hornets though not little faggy wasps!

[Oakey]

Photos man, for gods sake, photos!

[ShadownINja]

There's a thread about some arse of a policeman neighbour who parks outside some PHer's house. You should take some tips from there.

Or...

Be a man and grab one of these things:

Edited by ShadownINja on Thursday 4th June 11:06

[Eddh]

Oakey said:

Photos man, for gods sake, photos!

They are currently lying in my waste paper basket with their heads cut off, I will get some later.

[Elskeggso]

Go medieval on them, stick the severed heads on a pike outside the window facing the nest

Edited by Elskeggso on Thursday 4th June 11:50

[LukeBird]

Oakey said:

Photos man, for gods sake, photos!

+1
Befriend some other hornets and create hornet wars...

I'll buy the film rights if you like.

[IanMorewood]

Blow torch the nest if you find it, 1800+c is enough to make even the hardest bad ass hornet little more than a crispy cinder within a few 100ths of a second, oh and its safer than playing with petrol and rags.

[RedLeicester]

Time for this pic again -





They are evil sods. Any idea which type you have?

Word to the wise. DO NOT squish them. Most species of hornets release pheremones when they die which attract the rest of the nest to pulverise whatever just killed one of their number. Trap them and then kill them with death elsewhere, or just let the sods suffocate.

[RedLeicester]

Oh, and again, depending on the type you have, one or two stings, maybe a couple more WILL put you in hospital. These things are not to be fked with - even the pansy european ones.

Edited by RedLeicester on Thursday 4th June 18:33

[Eddh]

I would say the one is simerlar size to that one, the other is slightly smaller, I have some pictures I will upload.

[Eddh]

The attackers, the one looks smaller as it is missing a head:







And where they stand at the moment to warn any other invaders (BTW they aren't little hornets those are big matches):

[Stu R]

[tdm34ds]

Better nuke them from orbit then, just to be sure