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Thread Number: 28332
/ Tag: Recent Vacuum Cleaners from past 20 years
Vacuuming up wasps, bees etc. |
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| Post# 316377 2/22/2015 at 00:46 (3,342 days old) by niclonnic (Bonney Lake, WA) | ||
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. | ||
| Post# 316386 , Reply# 1 2/22/2015 at 04:33 (3,342 days old) by parwaz786 ( ) | ||
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Its effective, I done it before a few times, but if its still alive, then vacuum up some pest repellent powder | ||
| Post# 316387 , Reply# 2 2/22/2015 at 05:31 (3,342 days old) by marcusprit () | ||
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Or you could just open a window and let it fly out. :-) | ||
| Post# 316389 , Reply# 3 2/22/2015 at 07:32 (3,342 days old) by kirbymodel2c (Nottingham, England) | ||
Or... | ||
| Post# 316399 , Reply# 4 2/22/2015 at 08:47 (3,342 days old) by vacuumlover (UK) | ||
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Ill'd use a dirty air. Kill the buggers lol | ||
| Post# 316403 , Reply# 5 2/22/2015 at 09:01 (3,342 days old) by marcusprit () | ||
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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 :-p | ||
| Post# 316409 , Reply# 6 2/22/2015 at 09:32 (3,342 days old) by columbus (South-Africa) | ||
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 | ||
| Post# 316411 , Reply# 7 2/22/2015 at 09:37 (3,342 days old) by marcusprit () | ||
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Well if reincarnation is true i hope i don't come back as a wasp in your home. Haha | ||
| Post# 316416 , Reply# 8 2/22/2015 at 11:26 (3,342 days old) by niclonnic (Bonney Lake, WA) | ||
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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! | ||
| Post# 316418 , Reply# 10 2/22/2015 at 11:42 (3,342 days old) by parwaz786 ( ) | ||
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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 | ||
| Post# 316465 , Reply# 11 2/22/2015 at 15:36 (3,342 days old) by moojuiceuk (Southampton, England) | ||
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. | ||
| Post# 316468 , Reply# 12 2/22/2015 at 15:55 (3,342 days old) by citroenbx (england) | ||
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| Post# 316472 , Reply# 13 2/22/2015 at 16:20 (3,342 days old) by marcusprit () | ||
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I know a good way to get rid if flies. Get a Venus fly trap :-) | ||
| Post# 316476 , Reply# 14 2/22/2015 at 16:35 (3,342 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2) | ||
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| Post# 316499 , Reply# 15 2/22/2015 at 22:58 (3,342 days old) by niclonnic (Bonney Lake, WA) | ||
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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! | ||
| Post# 316501 , Reply# 16 2/23/2015 at 02:08 (3,341 days old) by columbus (South-Africa) | ||
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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 | ||
Post# 316528 , Reply# 18 2/23/2015 at 09:14 (3,341 days old) by jfalberti  (Visalia, CA) |
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I used to have a wasp problem | ||
| Post# 316533 , Reply# 19 2/23/2015 at 09:46 (3,341 days old) by Dysonman1 (the county) | ||
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Post# 316536 , Reply# 20 2/23/2015 at 10:33 (3,341 days old) by bvac6 (Fort Wayne, Indiana) |
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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.
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| Post# 316537 , Reply# 21 2/23/2015 at 10:50 (3,341 days old) by Turbo500 (West Yorkshire, UK) | ||
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. | ||
| Post# 316541 , Reply# 22 2/23/2015 at 11:57 (3,341 days old) by columbus (South-Africa) | ||
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Well Done James- | ||
| Post# 316547 , Reply# 23 2/23/2015 at 13:33 (3,341 days old) by niclonnic (Bonney Lake, WA) | ||
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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! | ||
| Post# 316548 , Reply# 24 2/23/2015 at 14:25 (3,341 days old) by parwaz786 ( ) | ||
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Hehe thanks , you have a good taste in music too | ||
| Post# 316549 , Reply# 25 2/23/2015 at 14:26 (3,341 days old) by parwaz786 ( ) | ||
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Btw ants can survive for up to 2 weeks underwater! | ||
| Post# 316582 , Reply# 26 2/23/2015 at 21:54 (3,341 days old) by Dustin (Jackson, MI) | ||
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.
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| Post# 316584 , Reply# 27 2/23/2015 at 23:25 (3,341 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
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! | ||
| Post# 316594 , Reply# 29 2/24/2015 at 03:25 (3,340 days old) by columbus (South-Africa) | ||
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Dustin- | ||
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