chucko
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what ever you do have a camera ready just incase you do something stupid.
BTW Brake cleaner works good on wasp
BTW Brake cleaner works good on wasp
Yellow Jacket Execution
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Poppa
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Doug, one suggestion for the pedestal BBQ. If you have a big garbage bag that would cover the whole thing, slip it over, AT NIGHT!! spray the can into the bag and then tie her shut.
I did this once to a hornet nest in a tree. Now, don't get the idea that this is an easy task. I was so hopped up on adrenaline I could barely stay on the ladder and my hands were shaking so much that I was spraying the killer before I even had it in the bag. And you can't even imagine what a crazy man looks like as he is trying to tie a knot in the bottom of a plastic bag while up a ladder in a tree in the dark.
I know, you are wondering why I bothered with this when the nest was in a tree. Well, it was a beautiful nest and I had visions of keeping it. Problem was that after the experience I couldn't stomach ever looking at it again. Should have just used the 12 gauge method.
One last thing, if it is dark and you use a flashlight to see if there is any activity at the nest and then poke the nest with a stick while the flashlight is pointed at the nest, the flashlight will become a hornet/yellowjacket magnet. The only thing worse was that the wife was holding the flashlight, I had the stick.
If no posts from you tomorrow, I will assume serious swelling.
EDIT: I just read your post aboutjumping off a roof while being chased. Maybe you do know what I looked like up that tree.
Mike
I did this once to a hornet nest in a tree. Now, don't get the idea that this is an easy task. I was so hopped up on adrenaline I could barely stay on the ladder and my hands were shaking so much that I was spraying the killer before I even had it in the bag. And you can't even imagine what a crazy man looks like as he is trying to tie a knot in the bottom of a plastic bag while up a ladder in a tree in the dark.
I know, you are wondering why I bothered with this when the nest was in a tree. Well, it was a beautiful nest and I had visions of keeping it. Problem was that after the experience I couldn't stomach ever looking at it again. Should have just used the 12 gauge method.
One last thing, if it is dark and you use a flashlight to see if there is any activity at the nest and then poke the nest with a stick while the flashlight is pointed at the nest, the flashlight will become a hornet/yellowjacket magnet. The only thing worse was that the wife was holding the flashlight, I had the stick.
If no posts from you tomorrow, I will assume serious swelling.
EDIT: I just read your post aboutjumping off a roof while being chased. Maybe you do know what I looked like up that tree.
Mike
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Don .. toting that thing up a ladder would be just as devilish. No matter what you use, being on a ladder trying to kill stringing insects is called being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Still thinking here.
Still thinking here.
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"( I use a 12 ga. with #8 or #9 shot. )
Very effective, but I've found that a bit hard on the fascia and soffit."
Not to mention the BBQ! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
Very effective, but I've found that a bit hard on the fascia and soffit."
Not to mention the BBQ! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( EDIT: I just read your post aboutjumping off a roof while being chased. Maybe you do know what I looked like up that tree.
Mike )</font>
Indeed. I like the bag idea but it too proposes problems.
All sadistic kidding aside, the reasonable goal here is to have these things do their business somewhere other than where they are doing it. This year however, they seem to be prolific. I have in the past and will in the future just leave em bee (pun), but this year's nests are getting in the way due to their size and proximty. I've got about 10 nests that range in size from a golfball to a football on the house.
It's always a tradeoff. This year it's yellowjackets in hoardes but the deer and dog ticks are mysteriously sparce.
Lastly .. I have one other nest to disembowel. It's gray, smooth bands and the critter goin into the hole is a black wasp with big white bands on his booty. I've not seen this type before. Any ID?
He decided to build this nest/hive on a bench seat from an antique child's wood row boat I restored.
Mike )</font>
Indeed. I like the bag idea but it too proposes problems.
All sadistic kidding aside, the reasonable goal here is to have these things do their business somewhere other than where they are doing it. This year however, they seem to be prolific. I have in the past and will in the future just leave em bee (pun), but this year's nests are getting in the way due to their size and proximty. I've got about 10 nests that range in size from a golfball to a football on the house.
It's always a tradeoff. This year it's yellowjackets in hoardes but the deer and dog ticks are mysteriously sparce.
Lastly .. I have one other nest to disembowel. It's gray, smooth bands and the critter goin into the hole is a black wasp with big white bands on his booty. I've not seen this type before. Any ID?
He decided to build this nest/hive on a bench seat from an antique child's wood row boat I restored.
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While we're on the subject of bee's. I good friend of mine decided to rob a honey bee nest that was in the wall to his barn (you could smell the honey 10 feet away). He borrowed a bee suit and smoke pot from another friend. He donned all the gear and pried back the boards. While trying to extract the honey a few of the bee's, with calculated precision, got into his bee suit. One of the bees got in his ear and stung him in the ear canal. What a sight to watch him thrashing around with that bee suit on!!
Dap, be careful in your mission. Your enemy is mean, cunning and resourceful. They won't fight fair and will use every trick in the book to hand you a painful defeat.
Us TBN'ers expect you to provide a full debriefing on Monday along with a detail of your battle plan used for engagement.
P.S.
Photo's or video clips of the ensuing battle will help insure our belly laughs. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Dap, be careful in your mission. Your enemy is mean, cunning and resourceful. They won't fight fair and will use every trick in the book to hand you a painful defeat.
Us TBN'ers expect you to provide a full debriefing on Monday along with a detail of your battle plan used for engagement.
P.S.
Photo's or video clips of the ensuing battle will help insure our belly laughs. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Poppa
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This is getting good and so I have to ask that part of my first post be disregarded. I think it is only fair for all of us now that we have so much time and thought wrapped up in this execution that someone take pictures.
Yes, obviously from a safe distance but still, pictures are becoming more and more necessary.
Mike
Yes, obviously from a safe distance but still, pictures are becoming more and more necessary.
Mike
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Doug we used to be held hostage by wasps, yellow-jackets, bees, hornets, and all other insects that sting. They seemed to seek out our home and build nests under our deck, behind our shutters, in our pine trees, and burrow in our yard.
We were calling a professional on average of every other month in the warmer weather. And it was getting very expensive. Then on one visit I met the exterminator at his vehicle and watched him mix a brew of poison using a chemical called Cynoff Insecticide.
It didn't take me long to search the Internet and locate a supplier for the liquid Cynoff sold in quarts. Mixed to proper consistency this stuff whips up a full 32 gallons so it goes a long, long way.
I mix 1 ounce of Cynoff to 1 gallon of tap water and in most cases I now only need half that much. I put it in a pump up sprayer and spray it on anything that moves. It kills on contact and keeps killing for 3 months. I now mix 1/2 gallon every 3 months and do a maintenance spray all around the house to keep them away. It won't stain wood, vinyl, brick, or stone.
The first time I used it I had 2 large yellow jacket nests in my gutters and wasps behind my shutters. I waited for dusk, set up a ladder, had my wife hold a spot light from the ground, climbed up the ladder and misted them using the pump up sprayer. They had just enough strength to slowly crawl out of the nest and they all died on the shingles. We didn't see a one fly.
My house and premises has been pest free ever since. We won the war with Cynoff! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
We were calling a professional on average of every other month in the warmer weather. And it was getting very expensive. Then on one visit I met the exterminator at his vehicle and watched him mix a brew of poison using a chemical called Cynoff Insecticide.
It didn't take me long to search the Internet and locate a supplier for the liquid Cynoff sold in quarts. Mixed to proper consistency this stuff whips up a full 32 gallons so it goes a long, long way.
I mix 1 ounce of Cynoff to 1 gallon of tap water and in most cases I now only need half that much. I put it in a pump up sprayer and spray it on anything that moves. It kills on contact and keeps killing for 3 months. I now mix 1/2 gallon every 3 months and do a maintenance spray all around the house to keep them away. It won't stain wood, vinyl, brick, or stone.
The first time I used it I had 2 large yellow jacket nests in my gutters and wasps behind my shutters. I waited for dusk, set up a ladder, had my wife hold a spot light from the ground, climbed up the ladder and misted them using the pump up sprayer. They had just enough strength to slowly crawl out of the nest and they all died on the shingles. We didn't see a one fly.
My house and premises has been pest free ever since. We won the war with Cynoff! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
DiskDoctr
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For those of you who may be confused, let's use the following formula to determine the level of caution needed for yellow jackets.
1 honeybee = 1 sting
1 yellowjacket = lots of stings /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
In my opinion, yellow jackets are one of the worst. They often net inside something (including ground), are very aggressive, and are small and hard to see (as opposed to large hornets).
BTW- When you squash a yellow jacket, they leave a chemical scent on whatever they were in contact with (shoe, board, etc), which sends any nearby yellow jacket into hyperactive "Defend and Attack" mode.
Bees also attack based on carbon dioxide (CO2), which we all breathe out when we exhale. Don't ever blow on a bee or nest- this marks you as an immediate target.
Breathing only through the nose (Better yet, a hankerchief), and not near nest helps you get closer. Vibration, noise, and adrenaline also set them off.
Good luck, and keep your mouth closed when around bees. Okay, grit your teeth if stung, but don't open your mouth. That's how many people die by bee stings.
-JC
1 honeybee = 1 sting
1 yellowjacket = lots of stings /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
In my opinion, yellow jackets are one of the worst. They often net inside something (including ground), are very aggressive, and are small and hard to see (as opposed to large hornets).
BTW- When you squash a yellow jacket, they leave a chemical scent on whatever they were in contact with (shoe, board, etc), which sends any nearby yellow jacket into hyperactive "Defend and Attack" mode.
Bees also attack based on carbon dioxide (CO2), which we all breathe out when we exhale. Don't ever blow on a bee or nest- this marks you as an immediate target.
Breathing only through the nose (Better yet, a hankerchief), and not near nest helps you get closer. Vibration, noise, and adrenaline also set them off.
Good luck, and keep your mouth closed when around bees. Okay, grit your teeth if stung, but don't open your mouth. That's how many people die by bee stings.
-JC
