Mowing Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later..... and today it was my time

[RobD70]

Update: Last night around 9:30pm I rode my 4-wheeler back to the yellow jacket nest with a jug of gasoline and some deadly intentions. The nest is right at the edge of the gas line where I plan to put in a food plot in a couple of weeks, so it had to go. If it had been somewhere else, I would have just marked it off with stakes and flagging tape to avoid it, and left it alone.

I parked the atv about 30ft from it, with the headlights shining on it and shut it off. I slowly eased up to it with a flashlight and got about 6ft from it. Shining the light on the hole, I could see about 30 or so guards that were, well.... guarding the entrance. Very slowly I eased back to the atv and poured up a cupful of gas.

Eased back to the hole and got as close as I dared, took careful aim, and threw the gas around the hole. Perfect aim! None of them were able to fly off! I repeated that to make sure I got all the guards around the entrance. Then, I dumped about a gallon of gas down the hole. I covered it up with a flat 12x12 patio block I brought, and left it.

This morning I went back around 8am and just watched where the hole was at, and the area around it for 5-10 minutes. I did see a couple scouts trying to get back in the hole, but they left after they figured out they couldn't find it, or get back in. I prepared another cup of gas, and lifted up the block and doused the hole at the same time. None came out, or appeared to be alive. I did pour another gallon of gas down the hole, and covered it up again.

Mission accomplished. Next weekend I plan to start turning the food plot under. but I will watch that area again, before I get close to it, JUST to be sure there's no activity around it.

Suspense was building, I was waiting for you to say you threw gas on them, then poured a gallon of gas down their hole and tossed a match in there to. Now that would of been interesting. You may be hairless after that, but a **** of a story. Im sure I will find more bees in the future. A guy I work with was I believe mowing grass and stirred up a bees nest. He got stung 11 times, he said they got inside his shirt and nailed him that many times before he could kill them or get them out.

 

[AchingBack]

A guy starts a thread about yellow jackets and it winds up full of stories about bees and wasps, for which there is no comparison. You haven't been stung until you've wandered into a yellow jacket's nest.


Hint, hint. If you discover a YJ nest on your property and you would like to eliminate it without the use of pesticides or gasoline, at night,put some raw liver next to the hole. The aroma will draw the nearest skunk who will also discover the nest, and handily tear it to pieces, eating the contents in the process.

 

[weedpharma]

Your "yellow jackets" appear to be what we call European wasps. So far they have not setup home in any big way in West Australia. Our Agriculture Dept and Local Councils have managed to keep them at bay. They have invaded eastern Australia.

Weeddpharma

 

[kebo]

Suspense was building, I was waiting for you to say you threw gas on them, then poured a gallon of gas down their hole and tossed a match in there to. Now that would of been interesting. You may be hairless after that, but a **** of a story. Im sure I will find more bees in the future. A guy I work with was I believe mowing grass and stirred up a bees nest. He got stung 11 times, he said they got inside his shirt and nailed him that many times before he could kill them or get them out.

I don't think it would be wise to strike matches to gas that is about 15ft from a natural gas line!! Yeah, it's buried probably pretty deep, but still, just don't need to be tempting fate lol.

 

[tcreeley]

Park a mower over the hole, blade spinning and they are killed as they exit. -Not much in the way of pollution. Worked for me.

 

[dfkrug]

This last winter was the second time I have been attacked at 40F. Seems these buggers
mount sentries even in cold weather. It has happened while cutting dead trees, and any
vibration sets them off.

This time I located the nest, but it was in the side of a very large dead stump and
there was no way to flood them out.

For me, YJs hurt a lot for a day or two, then itch for nearly 2 weeks. Bad stuff.

This spring it was WW3 against YJs here. I got a bee-keeper's smock and put
out bait traps.

 

[jimpen]

Artist criticized for creating sculpture by pouring molten aluminium into fire ant colony mound.

 

[the old grind]

Park a mower over the hole, blade spinning and they are killed as they exit. -Not much in the way of pollution. Worked for me.

Hey, wicked cool idea :devil: as the vibration seems to brings 'em out, and who wouldn't want revenge for all the times they've been stung. Makes me wish I still had a 'pusher'. :thumbsup:

AchingBack, I didn't need to bait the skunk that found this mother-lode last Summer. That's an old-school 3' yardstick in the pic. Took half a 5 gal bucket or so to re-level where the stingers had mined it out. Ol' polecat really went after 'em.



btw, I just ran out after reading this thread & gave a recently discovered nest a healthy dose of Spectracide Pro (the 'long-shooter') right down the 45^ entrance and topped it with a cardboard box. No skunk needed.

 

[two_bit_score]

Artist criticized for creating sculpture by pouring molten aluminium into fire ant colony mound.

I've got a few he can use for practice if needed.

 

[wawajake]

I have learned that as you get older.........your body no longer tolerates the wasp or bee stings...........in decades past it never was a problem to get a few stingers the odd time...........but a couple years ago my tractor stirred up a few of the buggers and I got three stings on legs...........and again no reaction other than sore spots, but a couple weeks later I developed a bad case of Shingles and that was partly due to my immune system being compromised by the bee stings.