Under the metal shelter where my TT project awaits paint is a very busy yellow jacket's nest. I can see the entry hole. My thoughts are to spray some gasoline from a tank sprayer into the hole after dark and make a 10 ft fuse along the ground and light it :beer .. Alcohol would probably be involved.. I don't want to blow a big hole in the ground though. What other ideas are floating aroung out there?? I can't get water to it.
just shoot a can of brake cleaner down it...soak the ground..they will die get back about 3 feet, spray the ones ya see start walking towards the hole and keep the trigger pulled til its all gone ...works every time...dont jump around stay calm dont move alot....just stay steady... slow movements..they have fantastic vision,but they pickup on movement once nothing is moving spray another can directy in the hole and soak the ground......or go buy some hornet spray...lol
Just pour gas in the hole. No need to light it, the gas fumes will kill the nest and all the yellow jackets. This I know, having set off a nest of them early this spring. Oh, be prepared to run really fast after you pour the gas, a few may take offence at your efforts.
I was always told to wait until dark before doing anything with bee's nests. That way all the worker's are back in. Could be an ol' wives tale........o No:
This probably doesnt help, but just a little fun fact, we took off the light bezels to replace the rear bulbs in the rivi and when i took it off, there was the left overs of what was formerly a huge bees nest in the bumper! It was cool! haha
Buy a can of hornet/wasp killer. It's cheap. Wait till dusk or a rainy looking day and empty the can into the hole if it's a huge nest. These cans shoot over 10 ft.and drop them dead NOW. It's what I use at my storage place.
four or five m-80's should do the trick! hehe, but realy, brake cleaner works great, I have also heard that the hornet/wasp spray can kill those suckers too. or pour some cement into the hole. dig it up later, it could be pretty cool, mix it thin.
Jay, If they are the Ground hornets plug the hole after dark and soak the ground with liquid Diazinon shoul do the trick, and not poison the soil. Dave
I see brake cleaner mentioned here much be careful when using chemicals outside of there intended use ie http://www.v8buick.com/showthread.php?t=184814&highlight=brake+cleaner
If you have a pool run and jump in it after spraying them. I used to spend many Saturday afternoons teasing the wasps' nest we had in our backyard as a kid this way. I'd get the garden hose with the sprayer on the end and swim underneath the water to the edge of the pool where the nest was in a shrub. Spray the hell out of them then swim underwater to the other end of the pool. Hours of enjoyment and never once got stung! Man, times were a lot simpler back then. It didn't get rid of them, but was a lot of fun. p
Permatex gasket remover. Nothing survives that stuff. Figured it out when I was at home years ago and had bees but no bee spray or money.
I had a problem with yellow yackets last year. The nest was 15' high in my siding. I used the Wilson foam hornet and wasp foam at night. In the daytime it was useless as the bees were always coming back to the nest. And on a ladder it's not the best scenario. :eek2: At night they are all in the nest. I proceeded to use the foam at 2:00 in the morning spraying it in the siding then again at 3:00 and caulked the opening up when the foam dissipated. The next morning about a hundred were in my basement DEAD. I don't know how they even got there but I never had a problem after that night. The key is get them at night. That''s when they are all in the nest. During the day they will attack you. Not Good. The Ortho Bug Be Gone don't work. It's :moonu: . It don't work on flies. With the the Wilson Foam as soon as the bees touch it they drop. Good Stuff. Ray
The foam stuff works great to fill the nest as it expands. kills them all. Evening/night is good advice. Watch the nest ahead of time for a back exit too. The last yellowjacket nest I had here - had a big front door and a small back door about 3 feet away. The foam did the trick. When I dug it up it was about 10" in diameter. Just to be sure I doused it all in gas and burned it.
Yellowjackets are very temperature sensitive. The cooler, the less active. A cool evening is the best time to exterminate them. I would strongly advise against using gasoline. Because it's such a part of our everyday lives we take it for granted. It is seriously nasty stuff; dangerous as hell. If you have a fire or explosion, your insurance company will probably not cover you. Use a yellowjacket spray. And give them an extra shot for me. I hate the little bast--ds.
Boy do I hate those suckers.:af: Had a nest fall off our Alligator pear (mirliton) vine and go down my back as a kid. 52stings!!!! Later while on my first hike as a Scout,a dog following us jumped into a nest in a shrub. 40-something stings! Try peeing on them. :TU: Wait, maybe that's just for ants. :idea2: Hit 'em with the above suggestions. That spray will go 20 ft. Break cleaner works good too. :TU:
I have a Jack Russel terrier named Bugs who hates those things.Kills everyone that gets too close.I can send her over but you would have to get the wasps to line up one at a time...:beer
I use the bee spray,works fine.Do it at first light,while theyre still asleep.It's cooler in the morning than dusk.How alert are you that time of the dayuzzled:
Agree with not using gasoline... had a friend who thought it was a good idea to kill ants with it, ended up melting the vinyl siding off the side of the house! Even if you don't light it, its not good to be pouring gasoline into the ground either. We had a wasp nest under the soffit at my dad's house, I got a can of raid wasp/bee killer. One evening I stood on a box and sprayed the opening to the nest, held the trigger down till the can was empty, the wasps would come out and as soon as the spray hit them, they fell to the ground. Easy $5 solution and no bites either!
