Exterminators probably encounter all sorts of extreme cases of infestation, but one wasp exterminator recently came across a nest that appears to have shocked even him.
The nest in question was built inside of a sixth-generation Chevrolet Malibu that had been left in a field. As you will see in the video, the nest is huge, covering the passenger seat and passenger footwell, center console and rear passenger footwell. In a separate video also posted by the same YouTube channel, fittingly named Stinger Creations, the wasps are seen attacking a plastic dummy head after the exterminator pokes the massive hive with a stick.
According to the uploader, the owner of the property called his company, Stinger Exterminating, after believing the car was filled with honey bees. The reality was actually much more unpleasant, though, as the car was filled with southern yellow jacket wasps. Worker bees of this species can sting multiple times and also produce a venom, so attacking a hive like the exterminators due is obviously not a good idea. The exterminator even remarks that he can smell the wasp venom when he enters the car and notices that the venom has left a damp patch on the driver’s seat.
We’re waiting to see if Stinger Creations uploads a video of his company getting rid of the Chevrolet Malibu wasp colony. It seems he easiest solution would be to set the car alight and call it a day..
For now, you can see Stinger Creations documenting the nest before its destruction in the videos embedded above and below.
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Cost?
Be cheaper just pouring gasoline over the entire car and letting it go up with all those little bastards inside.
No, that will be cruel (to the Malibu). Just get a large industrial vacuum cleaner, and suck all the insects and nest material. Then redo the interior for a lot less money.
It’s a 6th gen Malibu, the automotive equivalent of plain Cream of Wheat. No one would weep over its demise.
Think it’s a little too late to save, make it a couple of gallons of gas I’ll buy, NOT CRUEL !
All they’d have to do is roll up the windows and walk away; the hot sun and lack of water will do the rest in just a day or so.
Not much ‘drama’ to post about if done that way though.
You assume this vehicle is still completely airtight, and a wasp couldn’t find a way out?
The vehicle doesn’t need to be ‘airtight.’ This time of year, they won’t last long enough to find their way out; they’ll mass at the windows (like a wasp that gets into your house and looks for a way back out) until they drop from the heat.
Over thinking. Gas
Open all of the windows about two inches. Wait until well after dark when they’re all back in the hive and dormant. Suit up four or six people lined up along both sides of the car and equip them with industrial sprayers. Spray every square inch of the interior and close the windows. You’ll get ninety percent of them, missing those under the seats and dash. Once things calm down a bit, send the two bravest guys on the crew into front and rear seats to spray under the dash and seats and call it a night.
Another method would be to freeze them to death by loading the interior with four or five hundred pounds of dry ice, in the middle of the night. There’d be less damage to the interior but, from the look of the car, it may not be worth saving.
Just my opinion having dealt with large amounts of flying, stinging insects before.
Montana Bob
Gas way more fun !!! Less time and not endangering people, venom? Bob you’re over thinking it, way over thinking it.