I dreamed I got a heavy-duty draw string plastic garbage bag. At night I went to a hornet’s nest, put that garbage bag over it, drew it tight, and extracted it from its mooring. I don’t know what I did with it after I got it. And I don’t know if a hornet will bore through a plastic bag or not. If he can, that could be a problem. I have never done this, but I have taken a wide-mouthed clear jar, put about a table spoon of lacquer thinner in the bottom of it, and at night, when all the wasps are at home, ease that jar over the nest. I just hold it there for about forty-five seconds. You will see them drop off the nest into the jar, stone dead from the fumes. Or, if the nest is on a flat surface, you can drag that jar side-ways, and it will dislodge it and the nest and all will fall into the jar. If the nest is in an area that is not a flat surface, I have taken a little lacquer thinner in an open container and doused the nest with it. By the time the wasps hit the ground, they never move a muscle—dead! One more trick, while we are wasp hunting. In cold seasons, in older houses on days that it warms up, the wasps that are in the walls will make their way into the warm house. One time I was working in an older house, and on one of those warmer days, scores of wasps came inside (it wasn’t a tightly built old house). Well, I needed to work, and there were other occupants in the house. I took my little hand-held shop vac and went around and sucked ‘em all up! You just ease it up on one, and he doesn’t know what’s happening. He’s tryin’ to hold on. Then as you slowly get closer, poof! He’s gone! Then you gotta figure out what to do with them once you get them in your vacuum cleaner. If I remember right, I sucked up a little lacquer thinner and just let them sit there for a while. But you have to be careful with lacquer thinner. It can eat up certain plastics. Here’s the deal. We live in a physical world with spiritual forces working behind the scene. The Bible says we wrestle not with flesh and blood, but with unseen spiritual principalities and powers. Many times, what appears to be a person acting up, is nothing but a stinging demon influence being expressed through that person. A believer who is submitted to God is to be loving and truthful to the person, but in prayer, in the “night” of the prayer closet, we are to take authority over those spirits and bind them up and cast them out. We keep our focus on presenting Jesus to the world, but sometimes in the night, we need to deal with the wasps.
Dealing with Wasps
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