+*%#@^&# Yellow Jackets

[rekees4300]

Got nailed in the back a few days ago weed whacking. No nest around so he just did it for grins.

 

[creekbend]

To my knowledge, all "wasps" are carnivorous. A good way to kill a bunch of em is to take an old peice of meat, deer scraps, whatever, jam a rod through it (skewer) and place over a bucket of water. Yellow jackets especially, will eat so much they cannot fly. They fall into the water and meet their maker.

I didn't know that. I also learned something today. Thanks for posting.

 

[creekbend]

To the OP: If their nest is in the ground, please be sure to kill them at Both Holes. Ground nests have two holes. One for entering and one for exiting. Best wishes.

 

[LD1]

They like fruits too. We set up a bucket this year with an apple skewered over at my parents cause there were alot of Yellow Jackets eating the rotten fruit on the ground. Had maybe 50 of them suckers in a few hours time.:thumbsup:

 

[Kenneth in Texas]

After learning the hard way couple years ago, i always bungee cord a can a wasp spray to my tractor where its within easy reach of me, least when they come after me now i have the means to kill as many as i can of the the little ^%#$$'s.

 

[sshaw]

I hate yellow jackets as well. I got stung the other day too, and I've got two ground nests I need to take care of myself.

Anybody try the Waspinator? It's a fake hornets nest that's supposed to scare away wasps. I'm not sure if it works for yellow jackets.

I put one near the hummingbird feeder, which always had some sort of bees or wasps on it. The Waspinator seems to be working great so far at keeping them away from the feeder.

Amazon.com: Tanglefoot 300000430 Waspinator: Patio, Lawn & Garden

 

[MH8675309]

I've got two ground nests I need to take care of myself


DYNAMITE EM!!!

 

[DJ54]

On horseback is even worse..!! They seem to like to build nests on bridle trails, and around tree roots. If you're riding with a group, usually the 4th or 5th horse & rider gets stung. It takes the first one's to get them all stirred up... The drier the summer, the more problems we encounter with them. Usually try to keep some Benadryl in the horn bag, just in case. And mainly for my horse..!!

 

[Sysop]

As a teen I was running a string trimmer at my parents. Watching to not cut down my mother's flowers, I totally missed a basketball sized hornet nest in an Azalea bush I was near. Once they started stinging, I went into a panic sprint. Went full speed about 300 or so feet and jumped over a fence and stopped. After a couple seconds the stinging began again, I took off running again, about 300 or so more feet to where there was a swimming pool. Jumped in and waited them out. Just would shoot up for some air as needed and gave them about ten minutes to lose interest. Once out I was a bloodied mess with nearly a hundred stings on various places of my body. Hornet stings are easy to count, they draw blood...

 

[Ivan49]

I was bull dozing a new trail thru my woods a couple weeks ago and found a nest by a stump that had been cut at ground level and they were not happy. Usually when I make a new trail I go thru once and work on widening it later but this time I widened it as I went. I am glad I did because backing a dozer up in third gear needs more room. It was so dry that the dust was thick and they did not chase me. Went back the next day with the truck and a can of house fogger taped to a 10 foot piece of pvc and stuck the end in the hole and took care of them. They had a big nest in the roots when I pushed the stump out