hornet!

[rm]

Yesterday I come home from work and Patty says, "I got chased out of the bedroom by a hornet this morning, but now I think it is gone."

Okay.

I forget about it.

We go to sleep.

We wake up a couple of hours later, and then I hear it. Buzzzzz.

I've forgotten about the hornet.

Patty says, "It sounds like a cell phone."

I put my head back down on the pillow, it's really loud.

I sit up.

"No. Turn on the light."

The buzz changes pitch.

We discover a hornet right by our heads on the wall.

We evacuate and sleep on the couch/floor in the living room.

So I ask you:

- How long do hornets live?
- How do we get the hornet out of our bedroom?

Comments

[nickelchief.livejournal.com]

You don't ask how to kill it. Perhaps you hold the life of the hornet in high regard? In any event, common household cleaning products with spray nozzles (409, Windex) are a fine way to kill the thing without getting too close or using truly terrible chemicals indoors.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Ah it didn't occur to me there was a way to kill it without getting stung.

[shield-toad111.livejournal.com]

How do we get the hornet out of our bedroom?

I've always been a fan of the large cup and stiff card approach. (Cover hornet with cup. Slide card between rim and wall. Open window, remove card (with cup pointing outward), let hornet go about its business while you close the window and hope it never comes back.)

[nickelchief.livejournal.com]

It may take a few squirts, but that stuff is toxic enough to do them in. Death by disinfectant!!

[these-3-remain.livejournal.com]

Also: hairspray. Gums up the bug's wings so he can't fly, then you have the satisfaction of squishing him with a shoe!

[erratic0101.livejournal.com]

I too vouch for the home cleaning supply death.

Windex is useless (mostly water and alcohol).
But whatever is in Formula 409, wow!

Also Lysol does a decent job.

Strangely enough we had two hornets in our kitchen the other day.
They were trapped inside the window though. So my roommate and I timed opening the window a crack and letting fly with the RAID.

[rackmount.livejournal.com]

you know, i wonder if hornets respond to smoke the way bees do? i used to have a box of bees in my backyard, and they would leave peacefully, no problem, when smoked out.

[featherofeeling.livejournal.com]

Yup. I do that all the time, only with a door.

Mind you, it does have to be a large cup.

[shield-toad111.livejournal.com]

I was only thinking a large cup to maximize distance from the hornet.

[dacuteturtle.livejournal.com]

I think that they like sweets. Honey in a jar, close the jar.

Hornets are harmless unless they are mad. If one lands on you, you blow it off.

You can let the apartment get cold tonight, then bottle it while it is torpid.

You might also try opening the window and hoping that it wants whats out there.

[dacuteturtle.livejournal.com]

Oh, and don't forget the vacuum cleaner. They don't survive in the vacuum bag very long.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Useful methods: spray cleaners like 409 or Windex, pest spray (Though I doubt you want to use that right over the bed), fire, vacuum nozzles

[popfiend.livejournal.com]

Did it have BOEING written on the side?

[heron61.livejournal.com]

I (or rather one of my less arachnophobic partners) use that process for spiders, but I'd be terrified to use that on a flying stinging arthropod. One mistep in the process puts you in very close proximity to a very annoyed hornet.

[blucrowlaughing.livejournal.com]

The swifter is your friend.


heres what you do:

turn off lights on other rooms grab swifter with out and swifter pads, grab adult-drinkie-drink/tea/donut or what ever else you need to boost you dumb level.

1) eat/drink supportive food

2)holding swifter like foil lunge (flat end to horrible insert)

3)retreat to dark hornets and wasps dont like the dark.

repeat 1-3 untill one of you is dead.

disposed of a rather large early/late season hornet that way this winter.

[newsbean.livejournal.com]

A caution on this and hornets: it not only has to be the right kind of smoke, but it also has to be a lot of it. Maybe not best to use this method indoors... (Bee keeping runs in my family. Love the little critters.)

[ithinkitisayit.livejournal.com]

I was totally about to mention that. We've used pledge in the past, or anything sprayable, really. As far as I know, insects can't fly when their wings are wet.

[these-3-remain.livejournal.com]

*nods* I think this is why cleaning products work. Even if it doesn't kill the insect, it immobilizes him so you can get close enough with a blunk object.