Best way to get rid of ground yellow Jackets?

Not as cool as gasoline and lighting them but the easiest and cleanest is the following.
Find the hole they are going in during daylight, go back about 10min before dark and dump a 5gallon bucket of water mixed with dawn dish liquid go real heavy on the dish liquid like half a bottle.
Flood the hole slowly pouring the whole bucket of liquid into the hole.

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Flood the hole slowly pouring the whole bucket of liquid into the hole.

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I like the idea, but this is making me cautious.

I’ve run into 5 or 6 nests since I moved out to the country. They aren’t nearly as aggressive as I thought - unless you run over them with a lawnmower or something to really set them off. I’ve gotten within a foot of them with a weedeater before noticing them without being tagged.
I just wait until after dark and then empty a can of foaming wasp/hornet spray into the hole. Any that try to come out get bogged down by the foam.

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Early morning or near dark.

Small bottle with long neck, fill about 1/3 with gasoline, place bottle neck first into hole blocking any escape.

Leave it a few hours or until morning. Any stragglers will be there trying to get in so carry a 25 ft wasp spray with you when you go.

If it will be in direct sunlight put a bucket or something over it.

It's crazy to think that bugs build something that seems so well designed and planned out.

I found a hole last weekend. Hit it with the dawn water that night, didn't see activity again until later in the week. I tagged it with the wasp spray, saturating into the hole multiple times and then another round of dawn water Friday night. My worry is there's a 2nd hole that is under the damn fiber/internet box thing, since the 1 hole is right next to that. Maybe they are smart like burrowing mammals to dig a path that allows water to flow away from the nest. I'm going to go rile them up now (hopefully nothing is alive to get riled) and see.

I've used a flame thrower attached with a long hose to a 5 lb butane (propane ?) bottle. I light the flame, point it toward the hole, walk toward the hole incinerating any that fly at me, then aim the flame down the hole for a while. I've done this several times and it works fine. Blasting them out of the air I find enjoyable. And it's quick.

I strapped 5 gallon diesel can on my loader forks ( cab tractor). Poured diesel in hole…
They were gone or dead the next day

Armadillo or something dug up some I've gassed before.