Yellowjacket nest defied my first effort at elimination
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Last month I discovered a yellow jacket hive under a deck in our side yard. Got stung about 5 times as did the wife/son. I tried the spray foam - did not work. They were back by the end of the next day.
So I got creative. I connected a 1/3 hp shop vacuum to a remote control AC switch ($18) :
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Woods-Ou...H=REC-_-PIPHorizontal1-4-_-NA-_-203638969-_-N
I put the hose end of the vacuum at the entrance to the hive (by taping it to a 10 foot section of PVC pipe as a long handle) and hit the remote control switch. It sucked up 80% of the hive within seconds.
From that point on, it was a pretty fun game for the kids: "If you see a yellow jacket entering the nest, press the remote control 'on' button". One by one the kids sucked them all up - over about four days. I found that once the vacuum was on I could jump up and down on the deck to piss them off and score even more. Nest is dead now.
I will always use this technique in the future.
So I got creative. I connected a 1/3 hp shop vacuum to a remote control AC switch ($18) :
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Woods-Ou...H=REC-_-PIPHorizontal1-4-_-NA-_-203638969-_-N
I put the hose end of the vacuum at the entrance to the hive (by taping it to a 10 foot section of PVC pipe as a long handle) and hit the remote control switch. It sucked up 80% of the hive within seconds.
From that point on, it was a pretty fun game for the kids: "If you see a yellow jacket entering the nest, press the remote control 'on' button". One by one the kids sucked them all up - over about four days. I found that once the vacuum was on I could jump up and down on the deck to piss them off and score even more. Nest is dead now.
I will always use this technique in the future.
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Seven dust works great. usually gone within one day... A little late on the post but there's always next time...
mustangwagz
Feeling the Heat
Yah sevens dust OR get on "domyownpestcontrol.com" and get yourself some bee powder, lots of different stuff on there. Get a wand to mist it too, kind alike a turkey baster with a really long metal tube and fine pointy tip for getting into holes. I dusted bee's last time i found some in the outter house walls, within 3 hours they had quit coming in and out, theyve yet to return also.
Retired Guy
Minister of Fire
After fighting yellow jackets for years I now trap the queens in early spring and for the few that are left, I dust the nests during the summer and fall. Quick and easy.
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Ashful
Minister of Fire
Elaborate, please. I have a yellow jacket nest under a tree by my back door, and with the weather finally turning cool, was set to take it on this week.
I'd love to know how you go about trapping the queens in spring. I can get the hornet queens (paper nests hanging from soffets and doorways are obvious), but yellow jackets in the ground defy my best efforts.
Me too.
I found a yellow jacket in my bed last week - or rather it found me, my behind specifically.
I'm ready to escalate the fighting.
Retired Guy
Minister of Fire
I just buy yellow jacket traps at the local garden center in the early spring and set them around the wood stack and the areas that yellow jackets are usually found. I usually trap 2 or 3 queens (big yellow jackets) in each.
I use brake clean ...a nest with a in and out hole ..gets a shop vac about 1/3 full of water and some dish soap place the hose near the "hole" and plug her in... then raise some hell nearby/smack the ground an such .... u will not believe how many u will have drowned Q
SONOCATIVO
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WD40 will rid them, Ive used it a few times. This past summer I was mowing and looked back, there was a swarm of yellow jackets coming from the ground. I waited and looked, found the nest entrance. Charcoal lighter fluid, a match and a small pile of twigs....havent seen them since.
SONOCATIVO
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I got giant wasps going into openings around my roof, I know im going to need a pro to kill and seal that up.... Im alergic, let alone kill myself diving off the roof...lol
SONOCATIVO
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I've been bit by all kinds of bees, wasps, etc. Hurts, you get over it. I've had bones broken, etc. Hurts, but its a pain you can understand. A hornet stung my hand and I felt like death itself was creeping up my arm. I tied it off at the bicep like a junkie because I didn't want it to reach my heart.
SONOCATIVO
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I worked in a machine shop before, got off and into my Jeep, kept feeling something stick me in the back like a metal splinter... turned out I sat on a wasp, kept jabbing me in the low back... no wonder I couldnt find that thing in my shirt, it was on the seat....lol
Ashful
Minister of Fire
Similar incident here. Felt something jab me in the palm when I was pushing some cardboard down in a trash can, and thought I just hit a sharp bit of packaging. Moved my hand over a few inches and pushed down on the pile again... then whammo! Took a look at my palm, and this poor hornet was just furiously dangling there by his tail, probably couldn't even pull out if he wanted to.
Hurt like hell for a day or two.
SONOCATIVO
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I had a bee nail my fingertip while washing my truck, little bugger was in the hole with the lug nuts, Stuck my finger in with a thing rag to wash the dust out and felt a burning sensation, kept getting worst, I pulled my finger out and seen a bee fall out, looked at my finger which was burning like crazy now and sure enough a stinger stuck in it, wasnt deep but enough to hurt, as my fingertips are a but tough from work and playing guitar. Im allergig but luckily neither incidents cause a bad reaction... reminding me, I need to get a new Epi-Pen next spring.Similar incident here. Felt something jab me in the palm when I was pushing some cardboard down in a trash can, and thought I just hit a sharp bit of packaging. Moved my hand over a few inches and pushed down on the pile again... then whammo! Took a look at my palm, and this poor hornet was just furiously dangling there by his tail, probably couldn't even pull out if he wanted to.
Well, the bald faced hornets are gone. They split for the winter, and I tore the nest apart. It was huge, and built in and around a pallet.
Now I can get to stacking my wood.
Now I can get to stacking my wood.
I know this is an older thread and most people's wasp problems have solved themselves due to the cold, but come spring if you have a problem with these things and the nest is hard to get to, you need a product called Drione Dust. They sell it online to most states, some are excluded but the stuff really works. I've used it to get rid of 3 hard to get to nests. The first one was in my lawn. the second, in between the bottom of my metal shed and the concrete slab it rests on. the third was in the garage soffit. I was a bit worried with the supplied duster as i didnt want to get stung so i put some of this stuff in a paper cup, snuck up on them real quietly at night, bombed their entrance way with the power and ran like hell. must have been quite a sight but it works each and every time. in 2 days, no more wasps, even if it rains after you applied it.
Before i discovered drione dust, my way of getting rid of ground wasps was to take a big cardboard box, cut a hole in it for the shopvac hose and duct tape it sealed. at night sneak the contraption over the hole (i left the shopvac switch on and plugged it in via long extension cord. i'd plug it in the next morning and they would all get sucked up. seal up the vac, leave it in the sun and problem solved. I did mount a wireless cam in the box once and it was amazing to watch, but this was before those cams had the ability to record, otherwise i'd post it.
Before i discovered drione dust, my way of getting rid of ground wasps was to take a big cardboard box, cut a hole in it for the shopvac hose and duct tape it sealed. at night sneak the contraption over the hole (i left the shopvac switch on and plugged it in via long extension cord. i'd plug it in the next morning and they would all get sucked up. seal up the vac, leave it in the sun and problem solved. I did mount a wireless cam in the box once and it was amazing to watch, but this was before those cams had the ability to record, otherwise i'd post it.
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