On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:38:29 -0700, zootal
wrote:

I have discovered a bald faced hornet nest in my garden. It is about the
size of a softball so far, but growing. My daughter has already bee
stung by one of them. I'll tolerate paper wasps and honey bees and mud
daubers, but these things have to go. How can I get rid of them without
getting all stung up. Can I just hit them with horner spray after dark?
Or will they be active enough to come after me even after dark?


I recall a story from the 70s when hair spray-on nets were the rage.
This lady used the spray to immobilize all manner of insect pests as
once sprayed it held down their wings and slowed down their legs. I
never did get around to testing it.

My innovation was to use a badminton racquet to swat yellowjackets
from a nest under my front door concrete landing. I couldn't reach
the nest by any method. I could hardly miss with the racquet and the
strings cut up the YJs neatly midflight before they could send out any
alarm signals.