There's a hornet nest right near the backdoor of my house in the garden. it's pretty big. Basketball++ size. Normally I wouldn't care if they were say up in a tree but they're under my roof near the patio and door. I'd like them gone but I hate to just kill them if it can be avoided. Problem is of course I'm not equipped to relocate them. So my options are... Buy some spray and get busy or get some people out to relocate them. That's $150 so not cheap. Any other gardening comrades have thoughts on how to handle?
Ask a neighbor kid to knock it down with a baseball or a rock and then don't go outside for a few days. I think once they get big enough they're too established to relocate, at least without paying someone else to do it, and bigger than basketball sounds like it's way too big
My brother did this when he was a kid, threw a large stick at a massive nest, pierced it and knocked it down, in their neighborhood. Whole block of apartments literally had to go on lockdown, like officials involved telling people to stay indoors, for a few days while the city dealt with it lmao.
There's always more wasps than you think in those nests
My dad accidentally cut a nest almost done the middle when I was a kid and they were fucking pissed. Once they left we got a sweet item to bring to show and tell at school though.
why not throw the rock yourself
plausible deniability, the hornets won't know the neighbor kid is your shooter
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maybe throw from a window
It is right outside a window near my laundry machine.