calmloki
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Had a large nest of the evil angry little mini-bastids take up residence above the second story of a daylight basement building. I've fought nests in the same location before - they are either in a corner of the attic, or hidden in a wall channel, because poisons don't phase 'em. VC tunnel or Tora Bora style warfare, and I am NOT crawling in after them!
A shop-vac, 12' of ABS 1 1/2" pipe, and the always handy tape did the trick. Run the vac during the daylight hours for several days, picking off any newly hatched brood as they venture forth to find food for the queen and you get a nice harvest of dead or dying bugs. Did feel like one of the expendables setting a bangalore torpedo under sniper fire stuffing the pipe into the brood in the daylight....
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A shop-vac, 12' of ABS 1 1/2" pipe, and the always handy tape did the trick. Run the vac during the daylight hours for several days, picking off any newly hatched brood as they venture forth to find food for the queen and you get a nice harvest of dead or dying bugs. Did feel like one of the expendables setting a bangalore torpedo under sniper fire stuffing the pipe into the brood in the daylight....
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