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Ok, who’s the bastid that snook in with a transplant?
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice. --ironbender
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I knew you folks had serious mosquitoes up there. I just about got carried away by some when I got out of the vehicle up close to Fairbanks on my first trip in 2014. But i had no idea you had wasps, hornets, and yellow jackets. What about snakes, ticks, fleas, horse flies?
Patriotism (and religion) is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Jesus: "Take heed that no man deceive you."
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The others are a nuisance... but
Black Flies Matter!
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Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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I knew you folks had serious mosquitoes up there. I just about got carried away by some when I got out of the vehicle up close to Fairbanks on my first trip in 2014. But i had no idea you had wasps, hornets, and yellow jackets. What about snakes, ticks, fleas, horse flies? No snakes in the wild here.
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Or skunks with 4 legs.
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Check out a spring hare here if you like fleas...
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Then there is the fipronil approach to yellow jackets. https://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=1566159&highlight=yellow+jacketsThe yellow jackets around our place can get so bad that it's tough to work in the garden. Every fall I'm surprised by how many nests are dug up by the skunks and bears in the meadow to the east and south of us. I have to put up with them in the woods, but have used the approach outlined in the link with good success around the house. Nothing like using a noisy chain saw and disturbing a yellow jacket or bald face hornet nest. Your first clue that you are in trouble is the first wham, especially when you look down and see your lower pants covered with them. This spring I also used the approach T O M used to limit the number of queens building nests. It really seemed to help.
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Horseflies out in Southwest. A few ground wasps.
You can piddle with the puppies, or run with the wolves...
Better living through chemistry!
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I’ve got a hive of bald faced hornets in the maple tree in my front yard. My dog got into a nest of yellow jackets in the back yard yesterday. I got the yellow jackets. But I’ve sprayed the hornets nest three times, still no luck!!
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Well we're Green and we're Gold, and we play better when it's cold. All us Cheese heads have our favorite superstar. We love Brett Favre.
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For yard and house protection from yellow jackets and hornets/wasps, take a paper grocery bag, fill it with something to keep it filled out. Shape the bag to mimic a baldfaced hornet nest. You can either make a shallow entrance hole or just magic marker one on the bottom. You can draw a couple of guard hornets around the entrance or not, we’ve done it both ways. Spray the “nest” with lacquer or other sealer if this decoy nest will be hung where rain can get to it. Hang them from the eaves of your buildings. Or hang them in trees near your buildings.
Voila! No yellowjackets or other wasps/hornets will invade a baldfaced hornet nests territory.
Mark
NRA Life Member Anytime anyone kicks cancers azz is a good day!
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Oh The Drama!
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Too cold and wet out this way. Even the resident bumble bees are huddled up on the fireweed. I'm glad I didn't start my bee colony this year. Poor bastids probably wouldn't come out of the hive. . I knew you folks had serious mosquitoes up there. I just about got carried away by some when I got out of the vehicle up close to Fairbanks on my first trip in 2014. But i had no idea you had wasps, hornets, and yellow jackets. What about snakes, ticks, fleas, horse flies? Some years the yellow jackets are horrible in the interior. Jake NoShoulders cannot live here. Fleas are making inroads. Blow flies infest the place. Not aware of ticks.
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Been trying to put in some fall food plots and have tilled up 2 nests of yellow jackets. Stung 7 times first go around and 5 the second time. Swelling is way worse this time got me twice in wrist and twice in other hand ring finger and once on back of head. Burned out first nest but haven't located 2nd one yet. Worst year we have seen in last 20 years or so. Been very dry here this summer
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