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    My grandpa loved to use his WWI or possibly it was a WWII flame thrower to remove the plate sized red wasps nests from the bodark trees that he was planning to cut down for corner posts, if a few dead branches burned in the process and the softball sized hedge apples happened to char so much the better. Fr smaller palm sized nest he would soak a rag in gasoline hold it in his outstretched hand then reach up and encompass the whole next crushing it and all wasps in his hand, same technique for a hornets nest only he wouldn't crush it he held the rag against the hole while removing the nest then dropped it into a steel 5 gallon bucket with a little gasoline in the bottom and covered it later just uncover and set it on fire.

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    I've shot the hornets and wasp nests down with a BB gun before while inside another house or vehicle. Gasoline also works in the ground, dumped on the nest in the ground and then set on fire a few hours later. User a large cloth garmet to cover the hole immediately afterwards and then pour more on it and light it when ready.

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    Done something similar with a paper bag on a paper wasp nest. Didn't get stung, slow and steady won the day.

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    A simple soap solution works very good on paper wasps here in South Texas. The soap solution suffocates them. I usually mix the soap and water in a large mouth container and then just throw the liquid on the nest. They drop like it was gasoline.



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