How to Stop Bees: Do Not Try This at Home

The Painter has another story about bees:

There was a garage with a soffit made up of the stringers coming across. There were five or so wasp nests. We didn’t have any spray and we needed to paint where they were. So we sucked them into a shop-vac directly out of the nests or even in the air as they flew around. We had 100 to 150 bees so we also sucked up some powdered sheet rock compound so it caked them up so they couldn’t fly.

PW: Nice touch with the sheet rock compound. Makes their limp chalked up bodies easier to dispose of. I think we could launch a new ad campaign for Shop-Vac. Show a painter waving a vacuum wand wildly in the air sucking down wasps. Sooo not OSHA approved.

This is not from the Painter's story but wow - somebody had some bees in a shop vac.