Ah yes. BFH's. Mean, aggressive and hurt like a mofo when they chew through your shirt and draw blood.

Was on the John Deere mowing the lawn around our huge filbert/hazel nut tree when next thing I know a BFH has bitten a hole through my shirt on my shoulder and drew blood! I look up to see I'm underneath a massive basketball sized nest they hade made in the tree. After putting that tractor in to overdrive and escaping, my life at that moment was dedicated to destroying this nest and all the occupants living inside and out of it.

First plan of attack was to fill up a squirt bottle with gasoline and spray the nest and anything flying. Worked great for a while, but between a now extremely pissed off bunch of wasps and heavy gas fumes from a gas-soaked nest, I had to retreat.

Next plan was what I thought to be nothing short of pure genius. I grabbed my recurve bow and wrapped some of my shirt around an arrow. I soaked the cloth in gas, lit that sucker up, and launched the flaming arrive at the nest.

It really didn't matter if I had hit the nest or not, as when that flaming arrow got within feet of the gas fumes clinging around the nest, the whole area exploded in the greatest fireball I've ever seen! The nest was instantly ablaze much like the Hindenburg on its ill-fated last journey!

WOOOOOSH!!!!

Only problem was that half of the tree went up in flames as well.... which promptly freaked out the neighbor, which brought the fire department to my house to put out the InfernoTree. The yard smelled like gas char-roasted hazel nuts for months!

Got in to a little bit of trouble for that stunt.....but was WELL worth it as not a single wasp lived to tell the tale!