We installed new skylights in the house & haven't got around to boxing in the interior. I was watching T.V. & a bat goes flying by. I managed to block him off in a bedroom & sealed the doorway shut by throwing a blanket up & duct taped it to the frame. My neighbor stopped by & said "just turn your shopvac on & put it in the room, he will fly right in" I did this & he was right!! The bat thought that it was a cave when he heard the suction & flew right in there!!!! Takes about 3 seconds & I heard "Thump". Awesome!! It worked better than a tennis racket.

 

wow. thats pretty cool....did it kill it or just trap it?

 

I took the shop vac outside & he was hanging on the side of the barrel on the inside. He was alive & well.

 

Don't have to worry about PETA now. Whew!!!

 

Glad he made it out alive, a single bat can eat something like 15,000 mosquito's in a single night Around here we make bat houses for them to live in

I had about a thousand Hornets move into a wall out side through the tiniest of cracks. Little buggers were EXTREMELY aggressive and letting them be room mates was not an option..it needed to be done and done NOW!

I got the idea of grabbing the vacuum cleaner and putting all the extension pieces I could find on it. Then I taped the mess to the vacuum cleaner with the end of the pipe at just the right height.

I turned it on and wheeled it into position about a half inch from the hole. It immediately went to work and gobbled up every one of those angry devils as they came out to fight me.

Over a two day period I filled that basket 3 times with angry stinging hornets, it worked... Got rid of all of them Man those things are not something you want to tangle with any time soon.

Mr Hoover to the rescue!

 

Never would have thought about a shop vac and the bat I ll have to keep that in mind if I ever end up with another one in the house. Mine came in the basement when I was cleaning it out with the door open and made its way upstairs. Finally got it to go out the door.

 

I tore a house down one day & the walls were full of bees, hornets & wasps. The first wall fell & they went into attack mode. I had to keep the windows closed on the excavator the entire time. Millions of bees & they were very angry to say the least.

 

You aren't gonna believe how well this works. The tennis racket works great too, but nothing like this.

 

<Get it? 'Sucks'. 'Shop-Vac'... nevermind.>

You can get rid of hornets in a wall very easily by starting a fire in the wall. No need to go thru the hassle of getting out an extension cord, the shop-vac, and then trying to figure out what to do with a shop-vac full of bees!

No need to thank me, just being my usual kind, friendly self.

chaikwa.

 

What no batty Top jokes yet you guys are slipping!

 

We also put up Bat houses and I hate hate hate Hornets. Wish the Bats would eat them.

 

I get them all the time, they like to crawl in between the 1"x4" window trim I have on my log cabin. I am going to try it, I just hope the hundreds that fly around my area don't all head for the shop vac at once.


Tim

 

Works great for cockroach's as well.

Tim

 

Trust me, it works.

 

I had a bat in my house a couple of years ago, I turned all of the inside lights off,and left outside light on,and opened back door, the critter saw the light and flew right out. It was kind of neat to watch the thing fly around the house, it would fly right at the wall then make a right angle turn two inches before crashing into the wall. It's radar must of been working great.