How long can a hornet live for stuck inside a fireplace? I just found a giant one of these frickers in my fireplace behind the glass and I sealed it off with duct tape everywhere so it can't get in the house. How long will it take for it to die? Because it looks like it's too moronic to find its own way out and I've read they can literally kill you so I'm not getting anywhere near it.
A long time. Just put it out of its misery. I had one stuck inside my lamp (somehow) so I opened it and left it there for 3 days and the dumbass just wouldn't get out it would just keep buzzing inside. Theyre dumb
If it was a honey bee, I'd say let it go. But frick hornets. Light that fricker up.
Since people never gave you an actual answer, it'll die of dehydration first.
That may take anywhere from a week to around a month, depending on how hydrated they were when they got in.
Your best best is to open a little slit and gas the chamber with a pest spray.
Wouldn't it smarten up and fly back in the way it came through the vent if it got desperate enough for water? Are insects really that dumb?
>Wouldn't it smarten up
no they're dumb as all hell and have basically zero visual awareness; wasps get stuck in my greenhouse often because they fly into a hole and can't find it to escape
>Are insects really that dumb?
yes
Any "Insects are so smart!! look they can play games!!" are just people misconstruing basic instincts for human characteristics.
Don't you have thick veiny wiener you should be sucking mucousy cum out of?
Light something and smoke it out
Is there any way you could light the fireplace to speed things up? I don’t imagine it would take longer than a few days but I wouldn’t want to wait that long
No because I already sprayed a ton of wasp spray around and inside the areas of the fireplace that I could and I'm pretty sure it's highly flammable so I don't want to risk even lighting the pilot light. I couldn't get any of the spray behind the glass areas itself where the hornet is without removing the glass panel and I'm not going to do that. I just sealed everything off with some duct tape and I haven't seen it or heard anything for like an hour now so I don't know if it flew outside back through the vent or what. Maybe the residual vapors from the spray killed it or it touched some of it and that got it?
This is the best picture I could get of it with the glare from the glass reflection.
and then, eat the cooked hornet!
this is most likely European hornet. I got lit up by them as a child, me and my grandfather disturbed a nest of them because they lived inside of the treestand we tried to enter.
Got 20+ stings and I was fine without medical intervention. You're being dramatic, depending on where your fireplace is, I'd try to darken the room and then open a window/door. It will go to the light and frick off, you can just wait it out from another room or outside.
Just open the glass and she'll fly off. She won't hurt you.
>MICHAEL
>MICHAEL
>DONT LEAVE ME HERE MICHAEL
>I've read they can literally kill you
Are you a caterpillar?
lol i doubt you have a "murder hornet"
The one in my fireplace is at least 2 inches long.
Hornets are deadly when they gangrush you and sting you plenty of times. Usually to protect their nests. A single hornet stinging even a few times is just very painful.
Dude it's just one hornet.