I had a nest of wasp near the water spigot. The guy from pest control came,=
 and used a very fine powder spray. I asked what it was, and he told me tha=
t it was silica gel very finely ground. He explained that the wasp would br=
eeze the stuff and got dehydrated from the inside out. Then he just removed=
 the nest from the wall.

That was fairly quick.

Jean-Paul
AC9GH

On May 23, 2014, at 4:28 AM, alan.b.pearce@stfc.ac.uk wrote:

>> Rich,
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>> How did you get rid of the hornets in that huge nest in the wall?
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>> Sean
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> My father used to keep bees as a hobby, and as a member of the local beek=
eepers association got involved sometimes when people reported a bee swarm =
or wasp nest. One of his successful methods was to use about a cc of 'Borer=
 Bomb' powder in a little metal container on the end of a long stick, which=
 he could poke through the wall of a wasp nest. Then he had a piece of fuse=
 wire that glowed nicely with 6V applied to light the powder, and the resul=
ting noxious fumes would take out the nest in grand style. Wasps would come=
 tumbling out of the entrance almost dead before they hit the ground.
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