Yellow Jackets!

[Jstpssng]

Shop Vac. with 2 inches of water and some dish soap. Get enough of the workers and the nest will collapse. The Wasp Killer sprays don't work.[\QUOTE]
Results must vary. I have taken out many nests with it. I get as close as I dare in the evening when they are in for the night and start spraying the entrance. When they start coming out keep hitting them until nothing is flying. Hint; it's a good idea to carry two cans in case one fails or runs out.

 

[mapper]

For in ground yellow jackets I have found that one of the most effective treatments (not the approved method) is a couple of ounces of gasoline down the hole. Quick knockdown and the fumes are heavier than air so they sink down the hole. Sprays often don't reach the nest.

 

[Jstpssng]

For in ground yellow jackets I have found that one of the most effective treatments (not the approved method) is a couple of ounces of gasoline down the hole. Quick knockdown and the fumes are heavier than air so they sink down the hole. Sprays often don't reach the nest.

Are you "Thingy" reincarnated? He was a veteran TBN'er who's signature was exactly what you just described.

 

[Tractor Seabee]

A story about a yellow jacket. This happened nearly 3 years ago. For our firewood we keep it under a shed and have a small rack in the garage that holds about what 1 row across a full-size pickup bed holds. We haul that much to the garage when needed, then carry enough for a day inside as needed and stack on the hearth next to the wood stove. One night I'm carrying wood inside and I grab a split block in the middle on the pointed edge. Soon after I feel something poking in the middle of my palm, but I ignore it at first thinking it's just a splinter. As I'm trying to grab a piece with my other hand the pain keeps getting worse until I realize it's not a splinter. I drop everything and go inside to run cold water on it and get some ice (don't really know why, that's just the first thing I thought about). I start worrying about what it could have been. Was it a scorpion, I've never been stung by one, how bad could this get? Could it have been a brown recluse, would the reaction be that quick? I finally go out to see what it was and this is what I found.

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I don't know why it was in my firewood unless it thought that was a good place to hibernate.

As far as removal, I just just hornet/wasp spray after dark until I no longer see activity. Depending on where it is I may dig it up, otherwise I'll just keep coming back for a few days. I'll typically shine the area with my headlights, they tend to not be able to see me that way and just fly towards the lights.

That is what we call a yellow jacket places where I have been and now are. I think they are pretty universal around the country. They are nasty and are meat eaters. Cattlemen hate them because they sting the animal and inject their venom which causes the flesh to die. They then eat the soft parts leaving a sore area that is open, then the flies lay their eggs in the wound which that introduces maggots which make it worse yet because they go on into the live flesh. That is why around their sting your flesh dies and sloughs off. Nasty! Nasty!

They love to hibernate in wood piles. Bring wood into he warm house and soon there are several buzzing around. I have picked up a piece of wood and had them in my hand. they wake up pretty fast but slow and sluggish and easy to kill. I will take a bee sting any day over them. I have had them build nests in many strange places including in the ground. I queen can generate mega thousands of the buggers. queens that survive the winter each start a new colony in the spring. Never go after them in the daytime or warm nights.

Ron

 

[spitter]

Ran out of bee spray my kid tried a can of brake clean and he said it droped them in the spot.:thumbsup::cool2::drink:

 

[widefat]

I have used one of these with great success. And it is indeed quite fun -

 

[Rock Crawler]

Talstar Pro 4 oz per gallon of water in a garden sprayer will kill them. I spray the giant paper ball nest at night, saturate it and have it dripping and soggy. I try to get close and spray up into the hole slightly as well. Within 48 hours it is a dead nest. Even at night, be sure to wear long sleeves, long pants, and be ready to defend yourself from a few groggy sentries that will likely react.

Talstar Pro kills anything. If it creeps, crawls or flies..... it dies. It is a broad spectrum insecticide (the active chemical is available under a few various product names, Talstar Pro is the one I use) that works on almost all insects. I spray my bricks on the house, the edges of the basement, shrubbery and decorative plants, and yes.... I mix 25 gallon batches and spray my 3.5 acre yard from a boom sprayer. It kills just abpout every insect you'll ever want to see and many that you will wish that you didn't see. If I am late in the spring before I do the bricks on the house, I have to use a leaf blower to clean the corpses from the asphalt driveway. I have yet to find an insect that could survive this lovely product, and it is cheap to buy and use. It also lasts around 3 months of effectiveness before UV kills it. It does leave a slightly milky white film on glass, so be careful of that.

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[2LaneCruzer]

Don't forget! If you get stung, put some juice from an onion on it and it will stop the pain almost immediately. I didn't believe it either, until I got stung by a bumble bee in the palm of my hand; my 90 year old Dad said "put some onion juice on it". I did, and and it worked!

 

[Alien]

Lots of vids on you tube.
blowing up wasp nests youtube - Google Search

One chap used to post quite regularly but then he stopped. His wife later posted that he had been killed in a car accident. Very sad.
This is the guy here. Bothering Bald faced hornets with an Action Drone AD-1 - YouTube