Help me get rid of my yellow jacket nest.

I agree with everyone here. They call it Wasp and Hornet Spray for a reason; It works. :TU:

 

My Dad had a large one in the side of his house. He simply waited until nightfall & hooked up his wet & dry vac up to the hole. 10 minutes later, he had HUNDREDS of dead bees.

 

I like the expanding foam idea, it'll give you something fun to dig up later on.

 

I have used this process a couple of times when a hornet nest is just too close to a structure to use gasoline or ignite anything fun ...

I use a large shop vac and run an extension cord out to about 10 or so feet to the nest, but do not plug the extension cord in to the electrical source. Then, turn the vac switch 'on' (no electricity hooked up) and slowly move the shop vac into position where the hose (with extension if you have one) can be pushed into position close to the nest hole. Then, plug in the extension cord which turns the vac on. The vac sucks up the hornets and the noise and vibration just keep pissing the hornets off more. after about 5 minutes or so, spray some WD-40 or Wasp Killer into the vac nozzle and they're dead & collected. .02 cents.

 

I like Hawkens idea.

I shoot down yellow jacket nests with a BB gun and then run like hell.

 

Maybe I didn't make myself so clear to some of you.. Yellowjackes are groung dwelling creatures. They excavate an underground burrough and build a nest on the top of the of it.. Getting something to directly contact the nest is sometimes difficult depending on the way it is built.

I have some ant and termite killer that is designed for ground application. I think I will try that first, along with some wasp and hornet killer after dark tonight..

Shooting at it with an AK-47 would be fun..

 

We get the yellow jackets that make nests like this that hang from the overhangs of porches, balconies, tree's, etc..



I googled for the type you're talking about:

 

http://www.masterbeekeeper.org/stinging/groundyellowjacket.htm

This is the type get underground..

Rockstar.. The first picture is the nest of a paper wasp.. We have plenty of them too.

They are easy to kill. Starting fluid and a lighter will work. Just don't stand under the nest..

 

Thanks for the info. You learn something new everyday...

 

Last weekend I found bees had made a nest in the concrete foundation block of my house.
Tried the usual sprays, but I couldn't get the spray aimed wherever the nest was. o No: Wish you could buy a can with a straw on it.

After making sure there was no escape route into the basement of the house, I stopped at Home Depot and bought a can of that expanding foam spray and filled the entire void in the bricks with a full can of it.

:laugh:

 

before buying a product, read the msds. i check the wilson foam sheet and i dont think i'll be using it. plenty less human toxic chemicals out there.

 

That doesn't work, trust me.
That's my go to move for every situation. Rusty bolts, finger prints on glass, mold in the bathroom, road grime on the undercarage. Unfortunately, it hasn't worked on any of these things, but I'm confident that one day I will find something that it is a solution for.

 

Way to stick to it!!!!!:beer Never give up!!:TU:

FWIW It will end ant piles.

 

I was told it works on athletes foot o No:

 

Whatever solution you try, get it on tape. You too can be a YouTube rockstar (for at least 15 minutes).

 

Tim, the wife has an issue treating my feet like that in the shower. o No: Something about "class". I've explained that I no longer pee in the pool.:TU: You'd think that would be good enough, but nooooooooooo! :rant:

 

All it would take is a few tactical m-80's placed around the nest. Light, run and enjoy the show.:blast:

 

I had a nest of these little turds in my yard last summer. I was out mowing the lawn and had no idea that they were there, until a bunch flew out and stung the hell out of me!! They went in my socks and even crawled up the legs of my shorts (Ouch!!) I ended up with almost 60 stingers being pulled out by my wife and nausea for the next few hours.

I tried the gasoline trick, I used about a gallon, but they repopulated the nest after a week or so, then I used wasp killer (yellow jackets are actually a type of wasp). The wasp killer stuff worked pretty good, but then they came back again. Some guy on a forum told me to take a glass bowl and flip it upside down and put it over the hole. It took a day or two of hot, sunny weather, but that took care of all of them. The bowl acts like a magnafying glass and either cooks them or cuts the air off. Now if they have a backdoor, this won't work, but mine was simply one big hole (about 2" in diameter). I'm just very careful when I mow aroudn that area now, I don't need more stingers in my nuts!!! :grin:

 

That had to be a little awkward, not to mention wet:shock: :grin:

 

Ether [starting fluid] will go down in the hole and just lay there because it is heavier than air.... Kills the crap out of them.... works on gopher rats too....:Smarty: