Removing trees is a way of life inside Crossing the Animals: New Horizons. It offers you all kinds of good things like money, branches of trees, and fruits, and – we can argue – or happiness itself, but it also provides you with the bane of any poor citizen. Haunted.
As veterans of the series will know, the traditional way to avoid being defeated by a wasp is to simply hold a lump in your net before you have a chance to attack you. Even if you have a lot of experience, sometimes this can go wrong. Fortunately, there is something else, illegal
The plan is well documented below by Twitter user @acnh_tip; by grabbing a party popper before shaking your chosen tree, you can simply shoot the wasters in a crash before you have a chance to descend. It's pretty brutal, but it's also very satisfying.
If you're wondering, you can find a party popper at Nook Twins, either at their Nokt Cranny store, or at the Real Services tent if you haven't opened the store.
Can we now whistle and shake by pressing a single button? That's fine.