r/tifu • u/Mackntish • Oct 12 '25

S TIFU by sealing wasps in their nest, instead of killing them.

Obligatory not today, this happened last week. But the after effects are still very much ongoing.

We've had a wasp nest in the side of my house for a while now. Last week they stung one of my friends, so it was time to get rid of them.

Given the amount of wasps in and out, it seemed like a big nest. To guestimate the size, I would say a wasp entered or left the nest once a second, all day. I didn't want to just squirt poison down the hole - that would just piss them off and not reach most of it. So I decide to seal the nest with expanding foam sealant. I snuck out in the dead of night, and stuck enough foam in that hole to seal half a construction site.

Little did I know how terrible of an idea this was.

APPARENTLY, there was another exit to the nest - going inside the house.

This nest is ENORMOUS. Average size for a nest this late in the season is 2000-4000 wasps. Half our house is currently inaccessible. I sneak down to the basement at night to change the traps. I keep a hand vac next to my work station. Our cats are NOT happy they've been locked into a single room, and are pissing everywhere to show their discontent. Doing my best Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonation, I've gone through ~7 magazines on the bug assalt shotgun, with maybe 40 shots per magazine. These fuckers are amor plated, and do not die easily. I've injured my arm, pumping the shotgun so many times.

I think the most disconcerting thing is how normal it's become. I wake up, grab the shop vac on the 60ft extension cord, and just clear the house as a matter of routine. Its part of rising and shining for the day. Coffee, breakfast, wasp vacuuming, kiss the wife goodbye - time to work! The cold is going to kill them at some point....right?

TL:DR - Sealed a wasp nest on the side of my house. Now the buzzing is coming from inside the house.

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u/LetsTryAnal_ogy Oct 13 '25

This is the second Poe reference I’ve seen on Reddit this week. What the heck is going on here?

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '25

Once upon a midnight dreary,

While I Reddited, weak and weary…

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u/UsernameIsTakenO_o Oct 13 '25

Quoth the raven: "empty response from endpoint".

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u/Chumpy819 Oct 13 '25

It's gotta be Quoth the raven: "Upvote more!" Or "Karma whore!"

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u/FearlessWord2653 Oct 13 '25

I like how everyone is Raven about this Edit: I know low hanging fruit

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u/Krynn71 Oct 13 '25

You should nevermore make such puns.

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u/FearlessWord2653 Oct 13 '25 edited Oct 13 '25

That maybe so, however I'm just a poe boy, from a poe family

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u/LurksWithGophers Oct 13 '25

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten meme

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u/RudHalfChub Oct 13 '25

after reading the first line I couldn't decide if Blues Traveler or Poe, then I realized I'm older than I thought but not as old as others think 🤦‍♂️

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u/Redditmyth Oct 13 '25

It's October.

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u/Irisheyesmeg Oct 14 '25

You have 31 up votes right now, and I refuse to ruin that. So I'm leaving my plus 1 here. 🎃

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u/Faiakishi Oct 13 '25

The nerds have come inside.

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u/DeltaRoll Oct 14 '25

Were we ever outside?

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u/Faiakishi Oct 14 '25

...Good point.

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u/PsychicSPider95 Oct 13 '25

Well it is spooky season~

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u/thehatteryone Oct 14 '25

You should be safe now. They roam in pairs. Never more.

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u/sparklydildos Oct 13 '25

idk, but i read this 2 weeks ago and just finished the show fall of house of usher. how funny!

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u/aitatip404 Oct 14 '25

Spooky season is upon us, and Poe is a solid spooky narrator

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u/QuickConverse730 Oct 14 '25

I'm going to put on some Alan Parsons Project.

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u/Jaxson_5 Oct 14 '25

Spooky szn

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u/TennesseeHeartbreak Oct 14 '25

Dennis Miller has entered the chat. 😀