yellowjacket protection

[Slowpoke Slim]

I'll be right over! But, I ain't going to fall for the meat-on-a-string trick! :laughing:

Hahahaha. Good one.

 

[Ghostrider16]

I was reading up on how to deal with wasps/hornets and came up with a couple interesting methods, though I have not tried either yet.

First one was dousing a ball of hamburger with Front Line (the stuff you put on your pet for fleas/ticks) and letting them take it back to the queen, which supposedly kills her and the nest.

The other was for in-ground nests - Wait until early evening when they are less active and take a block of try ice and put it over the hole and cover it with an upside down bucket with dirt kicked around the edges to seal it. The CO2 from the ice permeates the hole and kills the whole lot of them.

Of course, there was the guy on the organic gardening site who apparently forgot who his audience was when he suggested pouring gasoline down the hole and firing it up. Sure didn't sound like most others on the site took too kindly to that suggestion.

 

[beowulf]

I am thinking these are what we call "meat bees." A helluva sting - or actually, I think it is more of a bite. And they bite instantly when they hit you - and never a stinger - just a little chunk of skin missing. As stated, they live underground. When I find one of their holes (not easy to do) I wait until the sun goes down so they have all returned and then use a gopher gasser. It seems to kill them all. Later, if you do that and then dig up the nest it is sort of like paper mache. Someone then told me it was illegal to kill them???

As for a trap with a meat or similar lure, I have read that that will draw more to the area as they can detect that sent for a very long distance. There are traps which work very well - some kind of attractant and water. We used to use those and would catch hundreds quite easily. But again, we may have been attracting more of them to the area.

Once you have been bitten by one you will always remember it.

 

[17 Oaks]

I leave them alone unless they are in a location where they can be a nuisance. Some are quite aggressive and sting if you just walk by the nest, I got stung 2 days ago on the back thru a heavy shirt. Other than some minor pain from the sting it really does not bother me much at all. Recently got stung by a Scorpion and while that really hurts, it has little effect other than that.. Guess getting stung as much as I haver over the years has developed an immunity...which does not seem to work on Poison Ivy and if anyone knows of a good paying use for that stuff let me know I can round bale it for ya I got so much...

 

[two_bit_score]

Now poison ivy on top of a yellow jacket sting would be misery for sure!