Vacuuming up wasps, bees etc.

[niclonnic]

Here's an unusual subject:

Today I went to my mom's apartment for dinner.

While we were eating, we heard something buzzing near the ceiling fan lights. I looked closer, and it was a wasp!

So after eating, I whipped out the Dyson, plugged it in (it was still on, and scared the heck out of me!), grabbed the hose and vacuumed up the wasp. Now it's trapped inside the canister, and still alive!

Now, do you think a vacuum cleaner would be an effective weapon against bees, wasps, yellow jackets and the like? I couldn't get a good picture of the wasp inside the Dyson canister.

 

[parwaz786]

Its effective, I done it before a few times, but if its still alive, then vacuum up some pest repellent powder

 

[marcusprit]

Or you could just open a window and let it fly out.

 

[kirbymodel2c]

Or...

<span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">you could of used a dirty air vacuum like a Kirby, Metal Royal etc with it's hose. It wouldn't of been alive then...</span>


 


<span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">I've sucked up quite a few wasps in vacuum cleaners before.</span>


<span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">I do avoid sucking up bees as their good for the garden etc.</span>


 


<span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">James

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[vacuumlover]

Ill'd use a dirty air. Kill the buggers lol

 

[marcusprit]

By the time you took the floorhead off the Kirby and attached the hose the wasp would be long gone!And the noise would scare the $%#* out of it

 

[columbus]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

James and Marcus,

It certainly has its pro's and cons. I have an adorable little miniature duschund who is so inquisitive at anything moving. A wasp tackled her and her little head swelled up twice it size. To me she is my child and goes to work with me, and travel where I go.

After a celesta mine shot, she settled, but yes, in protection of my child, wasps certainly need to be watched. By only killing it, I found that there usually is a nest somewhere, hidden underneath a sideboard, table or chair and more effective to follow it and then bring in the Kirby, or Hoover, something with a metal fan, as the nest is a mud alike cocoon.

Strangely that you also mention that killing a bee is not a good gesture to nature, many people think that way, yes and as a matter of fact, once a bee stings someone, or something, it dies.

Like with a snake I also believe the only good wasp is a dead one. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA

Very interesting, thanks

Adrian Smith

 

[marcusprit]

Well if reincarnation is true i hope i don't come back as a wasp in your home. Haha

 

[niclonnic]

Nice!

As always, it was very interesting to hear about your experiences with capturing wasps! If one was still alive, I would do regular vacuuming; the dirt captured would bury the wasp and it would eventually die. And I would wait until the canister gets full, rather than emptying it after every use.

As for dirty air vacuums, those would be even more effective! Having a wasp pass through the fan will make for a 0% survival rate. Then it would remain forever trapped inside the bag until you throw it away!

 

[parwaz786]

Once I vacuumed a bee with a Dyson DC03. The bin was full I think,mor almost. By the time I was done vacuuming other rooms in my house, the bee had been buried halfway through the bin full of dirt. The bee was still alive.

Another time I was vacuuming the car with my Dyson DC01 Destijl. A bee came towards the Dyson because of the bright colours, thinking it was a flower. I was in the car so there was no escape. The bee could have came in and stung me. I couldn't open the other door because The road my mouse is located in has no drive ways, but people, park their cars outside the curb and my road is a main busy road with traffic lights. So I was holding the hose and sucked up the bee. It was flying around and looked like it was dying. It stayed still and looked dead all day. So in the evening I decided. I would take it out because it was dead. So I has in the bedroom. As soon as I took the bin off... IT CHASED ME!!!!!! OMG I THOUGHT IT WAS DEAD, BUT IT WAS PLAYING DEAD!!!

 

[parwaz786]

I heard somebody used a Dyson DC08 to vacuum up a cockroach and it got ripped apart. I believe it because the DC08 is more powerful than the DC07

 

[moojuiceuk]

Flies

I find a Henry is excellent at sucking up flies in the summer. If one flies into the kitchen, they tend to land on the blinds in the window. Swatting a fly is nigh on impossible when it's landed, so I creep up on them slowly with the Henry, crevice tool on the hose and switched off. Once im within 2 inches, switch on and the fly is captured! They never survive in a Henry along with all the dust.

If a fly is still buzzing around mid air (especially the stupid type which do square shaped flight pattern laps in mid air) you can thwack em mid flight if you time it right. The best tool for that job is an old metal biscuit tin lid. Makes a satisfying donk noise on the lid. They can then be disposed of once they hit the deck.

 

[citroenbx]

 

[marcusprit]

I know a good way to get rid if flies. Get a Venus fly trap

 

[sebo_fan]

I never kill bees but I can't abide wasps. I've always SEBO'd them up or used my Miele. They don't tend to get a chance to escape either due to the force of the suction in the dust bag or being heavily laden in dust in general.

 

[niclonnic]

Parwaz786, that was a funny story! The Dyson in my profile pic is a DC07. If I were to use a newer Dyson, such as the Dyson Cinetic Big Ball, I believe that a pest would be ripped apart, too! BTW, I like your Taylor Swift profile pic! I love her music

Citroenbx, those were some good videos! The lady in the first vid was hilarious.

Marcusprit, the funny thing is, I had a Venus Flytrap plant a few years ago! Unfortunately, it never captured any flies. Those things are hard to keep alive!

 

[columbus]

HAHAHAHA Such Subject about nothing really.

Here in South-Africa we are currently experienceing, rather warm wheather, which has the tendancy to become hovered prior to rains.

During this time before rain, we find that no matter how clean and hygenic your surrounding is, there will be a fly or two, hence then the ants too. especially coming from outside to escape the heat and find a cool place.

Please tke my advice, DO NOT KILL AN ANT, for everyone you kill there is about another 1 million that comes to the funeral. LOL. Once it is killed, the steam machine sanitizes and cleans the evidence. That takes care of killing the evidence and claiming a dissapearance of an ant without a race. meanwhile he sleeps with the Fish, Cabish???


HAHAHAHAH

These stories you tell, really makes me smile, very amusing, and the way it is told, extremely anticpating the climax.

Adrian Smith

 

[parwaz786]

Hi Nick: Yes! Lol I want the DC41 mk2. PS high five! Taylor swift is a good singer. Thanks for the complement on my pic! I also like your picture of the DC07 the songs I like are shake it off, blank space, 22 and I knew you were trouble lol
I also like other artists like Eminem, Beyonce, Nicki minaj, Ariana Grade, Rihanna, Avril Lavigne, Demi Lovato, Jennifer Lopez, Jessie J, Katy Perry, I hate lady gaga but like two songs ( Bad romance and Applause), I also like Miley Cyrus, Iggy Azalea and Trey Songz

 

[jfalberti]

I used to have a wasp problem

and used my Rainbow D2 to get'em. Worked every time. Of couse, it took a little time to fill the pan, but the buggers always seemed to hang around long enough ...

 

[dysonman1]

Of course. If you're going to use a vacuum cleaner to suck up insects, make sure it is a rainbow. Drown the little bastards.

 

[bvac6]

Waspids

LOL, my grandmother, who was from the old south, had her way of pronouncing things. Wasps were Waasps (pronounced like rasps) multiple wasps were waspids. But, a fan suction machine like Kirby, or Royal, Hoover Elite, etc are ideal to vac up flying pests as the fan obliterates them into a million indistinguishable pieces.

 

[turbo500]

I'm with Nar, I never kill bee's if I can help it. I don't like them, but they have a purpose. Wasps, on the other hand, need to be killed if they come near me.

We had such an incident the other week. My partner was home from work late and had bought some sushi for dinner. We were sat on the sofa munching away when the cat started staring up at us. He said "Aww, she can smell the fish". I happened to glance out of the corner of my eye..."OH NO SHE CAN'T, she's eye-ing up that f*cking HUGE wasp that's buzzing around your head!". This was in the middle of January! Thankfully, the cat jumped on it and killed it - I just had to vacuum up what was left of it.

We suspect that it was a queen wasp that had been disturbed from it's hibernation when we turned the heating up. Queen's are the only wasps alive at this time of year and should be hibernating.

Now...spiders.

As a child, I was TERRIFIED of spiders. My mother would always get the vacuum on them. I've gotten braver as I've got older and can now put a glass over them and put them outside, but if they're particularly big or if they're running around a lot, the vacuum comes out.

 

[columbus]

Well Done James-

Whilst the rest of us want to see blood, arms, legs taken off by the dirty fan machine, we had totally forgotten about the Rainbow, Drown them. HAHAHAHAHAHAH

Adrian

 

[niclonnic]

Well done

Parwaz786, you're welcome! I can tell that you have a good taste in music.

Yeah, a water filtration vacuum would work GREAT in these situations.

Turbo500, I agree with you. It's a good thing you have a cat to take down pests! As for spiders, I, too, vacuum them up, as my sister is also terrified of them. If I spot a cobweb, I take the vacuum to it!

 

[parwaz786]

Hehe thanks , you have a good taste in music too

 

[parwaz786]

Btw ants can survive for up to 2 weeks underwater!

 

[dustin]

Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever vacuumed a wasp or bee. I don't waste the time to get a vacuum out and plugged in- either I run screaming bloody murder, or if it happens to be sitting on a hard surface, whack it with a shoe. I'm allergic to all the little nasties so I don't mess around. I don't typically stick around if I see them, especially wasps or hornets. Bees don't bother me so much, you really have to tick them off to get stung, hornets and wasps don't need an excuse.

 

[human]

My mom used to vacuum up live cockroaches with her Dustbuster.

Funny thing about wasps. If you've ever noticed their tendency to become more aggressive in the late summer and early fall, there's a good reason for it. As their normal food supply dwindles with the change of season, they take to feeding on fallen fruits and berries, which ferment as they rot, creating trace amounts of alcohol. Turns out wasps are mean drunks!

 

[tolivac]

Wasp and bee,insect vacuums--I like the NSS M1 Pig.One time at a transmitter site service job-there was a large wasp nest in the corner of the trasnmitter room.It was a cool day so the wasps were calm-so slurped them up with the NSS!That day had the cloth dump bag on the machine.After cleaning out the transmitter and the building-just dumpted the chopped wasps and dirt mess outside.As one wasp was trying to get away-say to my freind--"Nothing,Nothing escapes the bag and pig!"One time in my Moms Florida home attic was a huge football size nest of wasps-had to go up there to unclog her NuTone central vac.The portion of the plumbing that comes apart was up there.Quietly did my thing and went back in the home and informed her to call an exterminator to get rid of the wasp nest.She did that and the exterminator disposed of them.Wished I had the M1 that day!I have picked up the HUGE roaches around here with my Water-Filtermatic vacuum-the suction and impact into the air deflector in the tank smashes them.The remains get dumpted outside in the plant bed.Same with I I use the Rainbow.Vacuum spiders-esp Black Widows.These guys love to live in the transmitter blower rooms.The blower rooms get VERY hot in the summer and attract LOTS of bugs-the blowers suck them in-and the Widows have a meal.When I vacuum out a blower room stomp on the bag afterwards.The Widows leave funky pinkish yellow stains on the vac bag after being crushed.Hate those things!!!Need to use my MI Pig on the wasps-but its at home adn the blower room is at work.So use the Greenville Sew&Vac Porta Vac for this job.One time while cleaning a fan room one of those buggers dropped down almost in my face slapped him down on the floor and stompted him-or is it her-the remains was on the bottom of my shoe for a long time!Found a Recluse spider in my house a picked him up with one of my M1's glad the fan is there-chopped him up!HATE Bitey,Stingy bugs!!When they bite me-make me VERY angry!!They then get "stung" by me!