I know that it's gas, and gas is well, GAS, but

[ruffdog]

I just found another hive in the ground and this one is really active. I will have to decide which method to use....

 

[ruffdog]

Here is a video of a guy using Sevin at the entrance of the yellow jacket hive. I like the idea of using a puffer bottle to get it further into the hole though.

 

[MossRoad]

I had never seen what the nest looks like underground.

 

[jyoutz]

I had never seen what the nest looks like fortunately underground.

I’ve seen what the nests look like inside a rotten log. Unfortunately, my work buddy was standing on the log when it broke open and was stung 21 times.

 

[Mtsoxfan]

I dug one up once, it looked like a highrise apt for yellow jackets...

 

[jyoutz]

I just found another hive in the ground and this one is really active. I will have to decide which method to use....

The method I described is the most fun.

 

[5030]

Being the SOB that I am (and I suspect a lot of posters on here would agree with that), I like to take my gasoline push mower and park it over the nest hole and let it run so the blades 'puree' the little buggers.

 

[Jstpssng]

Yes, well, I grew up around and used lots of pesticides that I know more about now, too.

The local parks use diatomaceous earth or talc because of the lack of off target environmental effects. They can open the trails to use in half an hour or so.

One of our horses came close to an anaphylactic shock reaction. It was a trail ride and my with and the horse were probably #25 or so. By the time they got to the yellow jacket hive in the ground, the yellow jackets were definitely PO. At the next vet check, she went to the vet and said "hey, I know that my horse passed the vet criteria, but I don't think that he's doing ok". She pulled him from the ride. We call it "ADR", "ain't doin' right", where you know the horse isn't right for himself, even though he looks ok otherwise. In another half hour he had welts everywhere, and the poor guy ended up on high dose IV antihistamines, and an IV bag of fluids for a couple of hours. The next day grooming him, I found and removed thirty two spots with yellow jackets still attached. Who knows how many more times he was bitten. He was fine in twelve hours or so, and a real trooper, but that experience put the fear of Yellowjackets in all three of us, and we learned to scoot down the trail at the first sign of one.

Stay safe out there,

All the best,

Peter

My first thought as I was reading this was how lucky you were that it was a planned hike with a vet nearby.

I had never seen what the nest looks like underground.

This nest was just a paper wasp nest laying in a concave spot in the ground.

Being the SOB that I am (and I suspect a lot of posters on here would agree with that), I like to take my gasoline push mower and park it over the nest hole and let it run so the blades 'puree' the little buggers.

I was hooking up my bush hog a few years ago and discovered there was a nest in the mowing area. As I said before, for some reason they don't go after me like they do others so I continued hooking up the mower, then got on the tractor and engaged the PTO shaft.
No more hornets.

 

[ruffdog]

The method I described is the most fun.

I did the boring way on the new ground hive. I put a small amount of Sevin in a 8 oz plastic bottle and dusted the enterance. I just checked and there is no activity only a few hours later.

 

[jyoutz]

I did the boring way on the new ground hive. I put a small amount of Sevin in a 8 oz plastic bottle and dusted the enterance. I just checked and there is no activity only a few hours later.

Sevin does work. I use it in the garden for squash bugs. And when my boys were young and showing 4H animals, we used to wear rubber gloves and masks and comb a bit of dust into bird feathers and animal fur before the shows to treat against mites and fleas. It worked well and the animals never showed any bad effects from the treatments. No doubt it works well for ground hives too, but not nearly as fun as my method (or 5030’s method).