Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire New yellow jacket nest to me....

Glad he didnt move it during the day.

Holy spit, Batman!

You mean like this?

Thanks man, I didn't need to sleep tonight.



Now I feel like I've got the fuggers crawling all over me....

Truth be told I hate spiders as well, their just fuggin' creepy!

wait until dark then just dump a five gallon bucket of water with dish detergent. No mess, no clean up, no big fire, just dead yellow jackets. I have killed nests just like that with soapy water many times.

Dunno if one of those overpriced Epi pens would have saved me from that bunch.

Not had to use a pen yet, but told to keep one around at all times.

Last sting no prob.

One before that? ER and a month and a half of hives (all over).

Got nailed by a bunch in HS, swatted/killed em, itched a little. No big deal.

10 yrs later stung twice and felt like I had the flu. A yr later and an arm sting has my arm swell up 1.5X and go beat red with intense heat (hours later) and then was OK.

Bounced one of the Jeep mirror 5 yrs later and that the ER visit.

Used to freak me out in early goose season, cleaning the birds.........damn YJ's between fingers buzzing. Never stung, they were too busy eating.

But icewater would flow through my veins when they'd vibrate between my fingers.

Yeeesh.

Nest like that? Proly scorch earth at least an acre.

Discovered a huge nest this year under the house metal roofing, so I gave them as good of a dousing with wasp spray as I could.
What they soon did, within hours, was eat thru the lath and plaster on this old place right into the living room.

Couldn't have that, so I tried to shoot some spray into that tiny hole.

BAD IDEA!

They stung me 6 or 8 times before I could get away, then go back and get it plugged with calk to keep them from coming inside the house.

Ended up shooting enough bug fogger for an entire attic under the roofing.
Risky, was almost stung again, but it worked without having to call a pro.

Hate them little yellow bastids

Looks like the handle is broken off. He was waiting to get it repaired.

Damn, that's a bad MFer

One of three I had to spray this past summer. 2x6 rafter for reference.

Is that an old Griswold, or Wagner or Lodge? Old unmarked Lodges will have 3 notches in the heat ring.


https://youtu.be/BRVtqQQi1FI

works wonders on satan's flying spawn...

I get lots of calls from people wanting me to remove yellow jackets and hornets. They either mistake them for honeybees, or they figure since I have the suit and equipment that I can handle them. Problem is they can sting right through a bee suit.

A good way to get rid of yellow jackets without gas is to get some Sevin dust, wait until sundown, and then toss some of the dust on the entrance to the nest. The yellow jackets pick up the Sevin dust on their bodies as they enter the hive, and it will quickly wipe out the whole hive.

BTW skunks love to dig up yellow jacket nests and eat the larvae. Skunks will also sit outside beehives and eat honey bees at night. They will tap on the hive with their front paws, and when the bees come out to investigate they get eaten.

Had a ground nest under some logs.

Drove over it with a dually to loosen things up. The smacking sound in the video is them hitting the windows like a hail storm.

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Tack strips used in carpet laying placed in front of a bee hive will stop that as will a 22 K-hornet properly placed through the hear and lungs.

At least you could see the darn thing to spray it. The bastids set up shop by the entrance to our house, but there's a ~6' deep covered eave so I have no idea where the nest is to and spraying the entrance several times didn't do the trick. Nor could I find it by running a cheapy usb endoscope into the hole they were accessing the nest from. I will be plugging said hole now that they have quieted down for the year.

At my old apartment there was a large tree not far from my balcony and one fall as the leaves dropped it exposed a large hornet nest, probably twice the size of a football. I told landlord about it and they said they would take care of it. It was still there in the spring, but eventually they had it cut down. Landlord said it was empty when it was removed.