Wasps are a pest of insurmountable proportion. This is especially true if you or any of your family is allergic to bees. The wasps carry the same poison as the bees, but they can sting you as many times as they want. For those unfortunate people who are afflicted with this problem, the sight of a wasp or a wasp’s nest is enough to strike fear into their hearts. When you add hornets, those black and yellow meat eaters that make wasps look like a small house fly, you have a deadly dose of human killers on your hand. The wasp and hornet killers out there will spray up to 50 feet, so you don’t have to get anywhere near them, but the amount of chemicals and pesticides that are unleashed in one spray is enough to kill all vegetation, any other insect around and even your cats and dogs if they get hit with or ingest the stuff. There are a few “green” products out there, but the price of them is enough to break the bank. However, if you have the money and the ability to buy the natural wasp killers I would highly recommend any of them. If you don’t, there is another way: Fire.
Aerosol sprays in general are horrible for the environment and destroy our precious ozone layer. However, when a flame is added to these aerosol sprays, the “alcohol and content are used up so quickly to produce the flame the only byproduct is oxygen and hydrogen.”(science.com) since this is the case, you have a new wasp and hornet killer. Find any aerosol can, the more earth friendly the better, or just flammable spray product really and your wasps and hornets don’t stand a chance. The other nice thing is that this will produce a flame that is a good 10 feet; and since you’re using fire, not a single bug is going to try to attack your for destroying there home. Natural “bug instincts” take control and they are gone as fast as possible.
What you do is take your can of “hairspray” and hold it in your non-writing hand. You don’t need a lot of dexterity to push a button on a can. Hold a regular household lighter or a barbecue lighter in front of the can with your other hand. Walk up to the wasp nest, put your hand with the lighter as far away from you as possible and put the spout of the can as close to where the flame is going to come out as you can. Turn on the lighter, push the spout. There will be a large plume of fire that bursts out and obliterates the entire nest and any insect that is flying by. The more you do this, the more control you will have. Caution: You are playing with fire, so please use care in where your plume of fire is going. Soon the wasps and hornets will get the idea that this is a “Fire” zone and they will leave you alone. The other grand thing about this is that the products are inexpensive.
