Help yellow jackets in the ground!!!!!

frankva · #21 07/08/09, 08:17 AM

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Originally Posted by deaconjim

A very light (barely visible) dusting with Sevin dust around the opening every day until they are gone.

This works well. They land on the edge before going down the hole. I just try to cover the outer rim of the hole. Like dusting a cake pan.

After they are toast, sprinkle with water. Just in case the rugrat decides to explore that spot.

Gary in AL · #22 07/08/09, 08:33 AM

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Originally Posted by kendall j

We always used plain old gas. Didn't even light it, just pour it down the nest after they are all in for the evening.

I agree with kendall. The fumes work their way into all the crevasses.

popscott · #23 07/08/09, 08:46 AM

Never had a nest in a location good enough to do this...... but heres from homesteadingtoday.com

http://homesteadingtoday.com/vb/showthread.php?t=15909

I posted this before, but it's that time of year, so I repeat: THE best way to kill the entire nest of yellowjackets is with sand. Find the nest in the ground in the daytime. Put 6 inches or so of DRY sand in a 5-gallon bucket. Turn it up over the nest after dark, when they are all in the hole. They will climb out thru the dry sand, but can't dig back down thru it. They will die in the heat of the day, but leave it in place for a couple days, they'll all be dead there on top of the sand. I have done this several times, so it works good.

Oh, did I mention the reason you kill all the adult yellowjackets is so you can dig up the nest and use their babies for trout bait. It is the best there is, tho illegal in some places...

Thanks,
Scott

pheasantplucker · #24 07/08/09, 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Mama Crow

What about boiling water?

They'd probably enjoy a cup of tea or two, before stinging you!

Michael W. Smith · #25 07/08/09, 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by kendall j

We always used plain old gas. Didn't even light it, just pour it down the nest after they are all in for the evening.

Well, what fun is that?!? If I'm killing yellow jackets, they are "going out" in a blaze of glory fire!!! (Yeah, you don't need much gas as Shrek said!)

For the environmentally friendly way, you find their hole and after dark you put a glass jar over it. (Make sure the jar seals to the ground - no gaps.) When the yellow jackets wake up the next morning - they fly out of their hole only to discover they are trapped. They aren't smart enough to know to dig around the jar - they just keep trying to get out. The heat of the sun will "bake" them and in a few days, you should have no yellow jackets. (Just make sure the jar stays on the hole until they are all "baked" - they won't be happy!)

It's much funner and easier to blaze their nest with gas though!!!!!!!!!!!

bringselpup · #26 07/08/09, 09:23 AM

I did 50/50 gas/diesel once many years ago for a neighbor who found a nest in his field while mowing. We marked the area and I snuck in after dark and poured about a quart of the mix down the hole. Didn't dare light it off as the field would have caught fire. The sound that came from the hole was absolutely spine tingling. This hum-thrum I can still hear today. I knew I'd hit em hard and they weren't supposed to fly after dark but I lit out of there fast as I could. It was a dead hole in the morning.

swamp man · #27 07/08/09, 09:55 AM

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Originally Posted by kendall j

We always used plain old gas. Didn't even light it, just pour it down the nest after they are all in for the evening.

Yep, wacks 'em all, every time.

I cram a long funnel into the hole first, step away for a minute to make sure I didn't wake them, then pour a little gas down the funnel.

doesn't take much.

Yellow jackets are pure evil. Being a landscaper, I'm alaways upsetting the various stinging critters what with pruning bushes, operating equiptment, chainsawing in the woods and whatnot, and it's always the yellow jackets that catch me. The wasps come out all slow and stupid, just droning around indecisively for a moment, but the yellow jackets come out of the hole like a bullet, they know where they're going, and they know what they're gonna' do when they get there. It's pretty rare that I get stung by just one yellow jacket....of I upset a nest, I'm in for a beatin'.

I was next door having beers with the Colonel last summer, and warned him that his throwing a basketball repeately at a stack of crossties to see where the yellow jackets were coming out warn't a very good plan. .....but he found 'em allright, and they dang sure found HIM, too. Never seen a man who's undergone double knee replacement run so fast, not perform such a perfect swan-dive into a catfish pond.

**Shrek** · #28 07/08/09, 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by swamp man

Yep, wacks 'em all, every time.

I cram a long funnel into the hole first, step away for a minute to make sure I didn't wake them, then pour a little gas down the funnel.

doesn't take much.

Yellow jackets are pure evil. Being a landscaper, I'm alaways upsetting the various stinging critters what with pruning bushes, operating equiptment, chainsawing in the woods and whatnot, and it's always the yellow jackets that catch me. The wasps come out all slow and stupid, just droning around indecisively for a moment, but the yellow jackets come out of the hole like a bullet, they know where they're going, and they know what they're gonna' do when they get there. It's pretty rare that I get stung by just one yellow jacket....of I upset a nest, I'm in for a beatin'.

I was next door having beers with the Colonel last summer, and warned him that his throwing a basketball repeately at a stack of crossties to see where the yellow jackets were coming out warn't a very good plan. .....but he found 'em allright, and they dang sure found HIM, too. Never seen a man who's undergone double knee replacement run so fast, not perform such a perfect swan-dive into a catfish pond.

You ain't lying about landscapers and yellowjackets. The landscaper I hire to do tree surgery for me thats out of reach of my pole saw has been nailed so much in his 30 year career, when he gets stung , they only swell up like mosquito bites and go down in just a few hours. I wish I could get the immunities from him in a blood transfusion.

ronbre · #29 07/08/09, 11:51 AM

sending this to my son, he LOVES bees (NOT) and just cut a yellow jacket nest in half with the tractor the other day..needless to say he has not taken the tractor back there for round two yet...maybe after reading this he'll have some clever ways to deal with them.

Wis Bang · #30 07/08/09, 03:10 PM

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Yellow jackets are pure evil.

I was next door having beers with the Colonel last summer, and warned him that his throwing a basketball repeately at a stack of crossties to see where the yellow jackets were coming out warn't a very good plan. .....but he found 'em allright, and they dang sure found HIM, too. Never seen a man who's undergone double knee replacement run so fast, not perform such a perfect swan-dive into a catfish pond.

My father told a story involving a horse drawn sickle bar on the canal topath. He was 'bout 12 driving the ride on mower when the horse stepped on the nest & decided to speed up when stung pulling dad into the resulting crowd of angry yellow jackets.

He dove into the canal and was POed when granpap went after the horse w/ the salve leaving him in the water...

He ALWAYS lit the gas...

deaconjim · #31 07/08/09, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Wis Bang

My father told a story involving a horse drawn sickle bar on the canal topath. He was 'bout 12 driving the ride on mower when the horse stepped on the nest & decided to speed up when stung pulling dad into the resulting crowd of angry yellow jackets.

He dove into the canal and was POed when granpap went after the horse w/ the salve leaving him in the water...

He ALWAYS lit the gas...

I once bushhogged a bumblebee nest. I found out that an 8N Ford can go faster if you really need it to.

starjj · #32 07/08/09, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by deaconjim

I once bushhogged a bumblebee nest. I found out that an 8N Ford can go faster if you really need it to.

When I was about 9 my friends and I rolled a log over and found a yellow jacket nest. I CAN and DID run faster than a 8N Ford LOL

TSYORK · #33 07/10/09, 04:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Shrek

We had a yellowjacket nest in the yard when I was a teenager and Dad told me to pour gas down the hole we saw, wait a few minutes for it to fume and toss a match in and run. What he failed to tell me was to use only a quart . I poured in a 5 gallon can and let it fume for about 20 minutes. When I lit it, I blew the doors off our 8 x 10 Sears garden shed and lifted one side of it off off its slab.

I have to admit he took the demolished shed in stride because all he said was " Well we know where their back door was. Glad we had the riding mower out. The roof was starting to leak anyway. I should have told you how much gas to use. You should close your mouth and go change your drawers if you need to. While this explosion was impressive , its not as spectacular as when I blew up the officers latrine when I was stationed in Korea and used gas instead of diesel fuel to burn out the pit. Lets go buy a new shed kit and don't make any plans for next weekend because I will be teaching you how to assemble a tin shed."

Then my mother came out and looked at us and said " I see you are in the middle of a father / son moment and nobody is injured. Are you two coming inside for a shot and a beer or do you want me to bring the fixings out to the patio for the "You aint gonna believe this story?""

THANK YOU!!! I NEEDED THAT TODAY! I laughed till I just about wet myself!