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War with "underground" yellow jackets. Need OB's help
Posted on 7/27/20 at 10:00 am
Posted on 7/27/20 at 10:00 am
Alright, I think I know what advice I'm going to get before I even post, but I've got a nest of these guys that I can't seem to get rid of.
I crawled up on top of the Travel Trailer a few weeks ago and nuked a group that had taken refuge in my trailer's AC cover. Well, I think the moved under the concrete pad by the driveway where I keep my garbage/recycling cans. I found there nest when one of the little &%@$% popped me on the ankle.
I've tried everything I can think of to run them off but they keep coming back. I've killed tons of them, but they keep hanging on. I've gone through about 4 cans of Spectracide but can't get far enough up under the pavement to kill the nest. I've flooded them, I've piled dirt over the entrance to the nest and they've tunneled out. This is what I feel like right now.
So beyond "kill them with fire" (which is high on the list of considerations right now, what do you got for me? I just don't want one of the neighborhood kids to get popped.
Edited to add, I've been stung 3 times in the past four weeks (including yesterday on my buddy's boat in the middle of the lake. (How does that happen?). That's gotta be a summer record for me.
I crawled up on top of the Travel Trailer a few weeks ago and nuked a group that had taken refuge in my trailer's AC cover. Well, I think the moved under the concrete pad by the driveway where I keep my garbage/recycling cans. I found there nest when one of the little &%@$% popped me on the ankle.
I've tried everything I can think of to run them off but they keep coming back. I've killed tons of them, but they keep hanging on. I've gone through about 4 cans of Spectracide but can't get far enough up under the pavement to kill the nest. I've flooded them, I've piled dirt over the entrance to the nest and they've tunneled out. This is what I feel like right now.
So beyond "kill them with fire" (which is high on the list of considerations right now, what do you got for me? I just don't want one of the neighborhood kids to get popped.
Edited to add, I've been stung 3 times in the past four weeks (including yesterday on my buddy's boat in the middle of the lake. (How does that happen?). That's gotta be a summer record for me.
This post was edited on 7/27/20 at 10:03 am
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Posted on 7/27/20 at 10:17 am to Lonnie Utah
Fill a two liter bottle 3/4 full of gas
Wait until dark
Stick bottle in the hole and let the gas drain down the hole
Leave the bottle stuck in the hole to block it off
Go to bed
Pick the bottle up the next day and throw away
Have a beer and piss down the hole
Posted on 7/27/20 at 10:19 am to Lonnie Utah
I dumped old gas down the hole where I had some along my fence
Did it later in the day when they weren’t moving while covered in a blanket
I’m allergic I guess, got popped bad a few years ago & my leg was so swollen I could barely bend my knee
Did it later in the day when they weren’t moving while covered in a blanket
I’m allergic I guess, got popped bad a few years ago & my leg was so swollen I could barely bend my knee
Posted on 7/27/20 at 10:22 am to LSUJML
I usually mix gas with a little old gear or motor oil and pour that down the hole.
It's been a bitch this year though, Have foud 4. So i'm gonna try some permethrin powder and see how that does.
It's been a bitch this year though, Have foud 4. So i'm gonna try some permethrin powder and see how that does.
Posted on 7/27/20 at 10:23 am to WPsportsman
quote:
Fill a two liter bottle 3/4 full of gas
Wait until dark
Stick bottle in the hole and let the gas drain down the hole
Leave the bottle stuck in the hole to block it off
Go to bed
Pick the bottle up the next day and throw away
Have a beer and piss down the hole
This. The fumes from gas really does the trick.
Posted on 7/27/20 at 10:27 am to Lonnie Utah
Right at dusk or at night flood the nest hole slow with a mixture of soapy water half a bottle of dawn liquid to a five gallon bucket keep dumping it till the hole will not take anymore water.
Posted on 7/27/20 at 10:38 am to LSUJML
quote:
I’m allergic I guess, got popped bad a few years ago & my leg was so swollen I could barely bend my knee
Me too....caught a nest mowing along a fence line a couple of year ago...I got popped 3 times in my leg and 2 times in my arm...I could barely walk for a couple hours.
Posted on 7/27/20 at 10:44 am to Lonnie Utah
I watched this Baw's video last year and wiped 'em all out.
Welcome to the Hotel California
You can check out any time you like / But you can never leave
This is just a small container example. Attach some chicken carcass to the plastic container, fix it to where they can't take off and they drop in the soapy water.
Welcome to the Hotel California
You can check out any time you like / But you can never leave
This is just a small container example. Attach some chicken carcass to the plastic container, fix it to where they can't take off and they drop in the soapy water.
Posted on 7/27/20 at 10:45 am to Lonnie Utah
The foolproof 2 step method is:
1. At night, mix Viper in a spray canister and pump the hole until you either run out of liquid or the hole is full.
2. The next day, fill the hole with foaming wasp spray.
1. At night, mix Viper in a spray canister and pump the hole until you either run out of liquid or the hole is full.
2. The next day, fill the hole with foaming wasp spray.
Posted on 7/27/20 at 10:52 am to Lonnie Utah
I don't think this will work for you, but I use the racoon method. Pour honey down the hole, spread some peanut butter around the outside. This will attract racoons then they'll dig for the honey, discover the nest and eat every last bit of it. Have done this 3 times. They leave nothing behind, they eat every yellow jacket and the nest.
Posted on 7/27/20 at 11:27 am to Lonnie Utah
Thanks to everyone for the ideas. 
Posted on 7/27/20 at 11:45 am to AlxTgr
That Bengal spray foam works great by it's self.
Posted on 7/27/20 at 11:47 am to unclejhim
I've had the best results by pouring ammonia into the nest. Dump a couple gallons at dusk and cover with a bucket
Posted on 7/27/20 at 11:53 am to Lonnie Utah
Used to use sevin dust on bumble bees, and ground hornets. Spread over entrance after dark. The dust is highly toxic to bees and such. Gas methods also work too.
Posted on 7/27/20 at 12:04 pm to Lonnie Utah
I found a nest with both entrances very close to each other. I covered those entrances with a clear Pyrex casserole dish and roasted those motherfrickers alive.
It is one of the most satisfying things I have ever done.
It is one of the most satisfying things I have ever done.
Posted on 7/27/20 at 12:06 pm to VanRIch
quote:
I don't think this will work for you, but I use the racoon method. Pour honey down the hole, spread some peanut butter around the outside.
I will pour the honey, you get to spread the peanut butter
Posted on 7/27/20 at 1:32 pm to WPsportsman
Don’t need that much, a longneck half full will do the trick. Make sure it’s well after dark to all the homies are in house. If not there’ll be a nice little swarm of angries around that bottle
Posted on 7/27/20 at 1:55 pm to Lonnie Utah
Wait till dark and empty a can of foaming wasp spray into the hole.
Done.
Done.
Posted on 7/27/20 at 2:58 pm to Ace Midnight
quote:
roasted those motherfrickers alive.
I found a nest at the back of the yard on a hillside the hard way last week. Saw some weeds in the middle of an Indian Hawthorn there and went to snatch the weed out. Didn't know yellowjackets had a nest in/under that bush. Got nailed on my left hand 4-5 times and my right bicep as I was hauling arse away.
Went back that night around 10 oclock when I was positive the whole hive was in for the night and poured a pint of gas in there and lit them bastages up. It was glorious,
I walked back in the house with a smile on my face like the wife has rarely seen before. Told her now those yellow m-fer's know how those other little yellow bastards in Hiroshima felt back in '45.
Sat down in the recliner with a glass of bourbon and a good cigar and relished the moment with supreme satisfaction.
(After I went back and threw a pail of water on what was left of the bush that is )
Posted on 7/27/20 at 3:34 pm to Shaken not Stirred
quote:
I found a nest at the back of the yard on a hillside the hard way last week. Saw some weeds in the middle of an Indian Hawthorn there and went to snatch the weed out. Didn't know yellowjackets had a nest in/under that bush. Got nailed on my left hand 4-5 times and my right bicep as I was hauling arse away.
Went back that night around 10 oclock when I was positive the whole hive was in for the night and poured a pint of gas in there and lit them bastages up. It was glorious,
I walked back in the house with a smile on my face like the wife has rarely seen before. Told her now those yellow m-fer's know how those other little yellow bastards in Hiroshima felt back in '45.
Sat down in the recliner with a glass of bourbon and a good cigar and relished the moment with supreme satisfaction.
(After I went back and threw a pail of water on what was left of the bush that is )
The more I read, the more I laughed.
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