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Nope, it does nothing. You have to flood them. Really only works on ground nests.

That statement reminded me of this old cartoon.

Crews have been coming back about 2-3 times per week lately stung, they are starting to get pissed about it.

Around here, the fall bees are the worst. Super aggressive. Best time to wholesale slaughter the little bastiches. Oh, my heart sings at the thought of it.

Was bowhunting elk one year near Crater Lake when there was a freak snowstorm. One day 85 degrees, the next 4" of snow. Came across a whole pile of bees on the ground that got caught outside the nest. Laughed my ass off! HAAAAAAAAAA!

Basterds.

I've been calling them the wrong name for 60 years...damn.

Me too,,, boy do I feel stupid.

At our range, we found, though they have "official bee catchers jars", a 1 liter soda bottle with the top cut off right where it joins the bottle proper, and turned upside down, and some ORANGE soda, not much , poured into the bottle, will attract yellow jackets like a magnet they seem to like the orange soda most. One day, I had a can of orange soda setting on the shooting table with the tab opened. picked it up to take a drink and when the liquid hit my tongue, felt the solid object and tried to spit it out, but not fast enough and got stung on the tongue by the bee. OUCH..

They like beer too,,,, don't ask me how I know,,, but I now have a little flat rock that fits perfectly on the mouth of a beer bottle that's lived on my patio table for several years now.

Now after reading this thread, I don't know exactly what they were, always thought it was a big yellow jacket nest on a satellite dish I was charged to repo for my employer at the time. I had nothing to get rid of them but a plastic bag, I opened it wide, ran in and snatched the whole nest in one quick move and smashed it into goo, 1 escaped I was able to kill with my ball cap.

Happened to me but it was not the brightest honeybee, taking a swig from my open can of TAB.

In ground yellow jacket nests are very common.

ATF (Automatic Transmission Fluid) seems to attract them and kill them too. In my teens I spent a summer doing concrete curb and gutter work. We'd use ATF as a release agent on the steel forms for the concrete. Whenever we left an open pan or bucket of ATF out it would invariably fill up with dead yellow jackets.

Dawn Dishwashing Liquid squirted right down the entrance to their nest (small opening where the door frame and concrete met on the front porch) wiped out most of the colony. A second application took care of the stragglers....

The sevin dosed meat sounds like a great idea.

We used to hang a chunk of meat about 1/4" above a pan of oil. They'd eat so much that when they tried to fly they'd drop into the oil before they'd develop enough lift to fly back to the hive.

I stumbled into a hive once when my brother and I were fishing along a creek. They were in a rotten log and damn what a swarm came out when I stepped on the log, my brother and I were stung 40-50 times each. Since then stings don't seem to hurt as much. I was stung by a bald faced hornet (the black and white one) last fall in my tent and it barely roused me from my sleep.