RobD70
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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.