Bastids run me off the tractor Sunday discing a food plot there in the ground what might be the best approach 2 nests 50 yds apart

They hurt when they sting, been had many times.

Messed up my nostalgia hood

Dam near killed my camera multiple stings on my hard head

Gas, fire. Apply liberally. Got me two years ago, stung me all around my hatband. 6-7 stings in the melon suck.

Dump a 5 gallon bucket of soapy water into the hole.

Bring several large cans of wasp and hornet spray. Hit the holes at night.

I do it with a can in each hand from about 10’ or so back and steadily walk up to the hole while spraying until the cans are empty.

They’ll damned near make you jump off a running tractor to get away.

Soapy water in a pump sprayer

Fipronil

https://www.ifish.net/threads/yellowjackets-no-more.1566159/

It really works.

I had a ground nest full of them too. I bought can of bee killer specifically made for ground nests. I marked the opening with one of those little marker flags. I went out a couple of hours after sunset and emptied the whole can into the hole. The spray foams up and expands. Next morning there wasn't a yellow jacket to be found.

https://www.doyourownpestcontrol.com/yellowjackets.htm
This stuff will get 'em. I keep a supply on hand.

Ran over an in ground nest one time with my lawn mower while wearing shorts. Lit my ass up.

Dress like a beekeeper,and spray gas in the nest?

It wouldn't hurt to have a plan B in worse case scenario.
If they somehow win this battle, is there a back up plan?
Maybe just a few stings and you get back in.
I use a venom extractor, but it's good for only a few stings since it draws one at a time and time is of the essence. That's followed by a neutralizer.

Poison some hamburger and let them carry it back to the nests. You'll kill every yellow jacket in every nest as far as they travel.

TFF

Fire? Soapy water? Hmmmmm….
This is a no brainer man.

Last ground nest I took out I went at with a weed burner. Then gas in the hole, more weed burner, some wasp spray, and more gas.

Then I dug up the hole with a shovel and repeated the whole process until I killed them again, 4 or 5 times.

Then I pissed on their corpses. Or, what was left of them at least.

It actually works well.

Old wives tale.

Hit the holes with foam wasp spray just before dark and be done with it.

I’ve seen the soapy water thing on YouTube. Looks like a neat idea. I‘m a poison spray guy myself, but I might try soap next time. It seems like a ground nest would be a great place for it.

Two in our family have had anaphylaxis from stings, so it’s all out war at our house. Take no prisoners!

They built a nest in my receiver hitch when I was out of town. I soaked them with brake cleaner...

I like your thinking. Shoot ‘em, and then hang ‘em, and then burn ‘em. Can’t be too dead to suit me.

You need more skunks and armadillos.

Sheet, I have plenty of skunks and armadillos, plenty of yellow jackets too.

Im an exterminator by trade. Ive dealt with 8-10 nest the past week. Delta dust or Tempo dust in a puffer. Walk up to nest insert nozzle and give a couple hardy squeezes. This dust doesn't seem to get them excited. Ive not been stung in a long while doing this.

Leave the gas for the car, especially if you plan on lighting it up. I had a friend that his mother poured about a gallon or so into a hole. She went back inside to get a match. It was late summer, humidity was high. Gas vapors stayed near the ground, when she lit the match and tossed it near the hole it the flames engulfed her. She died a couple later in a burn center. She was 82.

That's a great idea..

Just remember to bring in Grumpy Cat and Tooner.

You’ll get a lot more satisfaction if revenge includes some flames. 😁

If I had a ground nest with 1 entrance I would hit the entrance with the foam in a can, no poison needed and they will quickly suffocate and there are no poisons

Woah! That's sad.
Thanks for the warning.
We all need a reminder from time to time.

The worst chain saw accident was a feller who was out logging.
He took a break and lit a cigarette without thinking about the gas he spilled on himself when he filled the chain saw. People do foolish things when tired.

One question High octane.

Have you ever dusted them with borate dust.... Boric acid?
It's an OCT for ants.

Not hardly. YJ’s and many other wasps are attracted to proteins like meat, especially in the spring and early summer.
Mix some poison, like the aforementioned fipronil, in a bit of raw ground beef. Works well.

Jack you need to think about who is steering clear of starting fires in confined spaces. Do you really think I should be doing that? My thread headline tomorrow...How Long Does it Take Eyelashes and Eyebrows to Grow Back Out?

lolololol

I'm all in favor of that. I hate those bastards, and yes I'd kill them repeatedly then defile their little hellish corpses...

Fipronil

Kill em in the whole area.

get it here,

https://www.domyown.com/

Exactly how many days will this silly method take to kill off a couple holes of wasps versus foam spray or High Octanes method that works instantly? Especially since it’s not spring or early summer.

Mark their location. Go back about dusk and pour about a cup of gasoline in each hole. End of problem.

Ignore the idiots telling you to light it. A bee that comes in contact with gas fumes will shrivel up amd turn black just like he was burned right before your eyes.

I've killed them with the long range wasp spray down the hole as well as a gallon of gas, a gallon of diesel, and just today I used a gallon of used motor oil down the hole because I was out of diesel and didn't have anything else handy. So far the used motor oil seems to have worked too.

None of these involved fire, I just poured the stuff down the hole and let it sit.

Soapy water might work, but fire is way more satisfying.

My neighbor asked me why smoke was continuing to rise from my backyard. Scorched earth for days. Nothing has grown there in the past 5 years.

I hear this works good for liberals too if you substitute veggie burger.

One pint gasoline dumped in the hole. Wait five minutes. Light her up. It burns like a low grade propane torch for five minutes. No yellowjackets will survive.

Fortunately, we don’t have too many YJ out here.

GA was lousy with the devils.
When I left, I was working on a design for a high voltage electrically charged chain flail mounted on a turret with a napalm gun. You know, for the small nests.

You are simply argumentative and insincere. I am not wasting any more time reasoning with you. You are not worth my time.

Robert Duvall should be proud I did the napalm at dusk on nest #1 I’ll find out results tomorrow buried the burrow on #2 running I’ll probe that tomorrow evening

You are simply a do nutin dumbass that knows little about anything. You time is worth nothing.

I typically trap them using the simple water trap and meat trick. To get the numbers down in the nest.

Then I spray ground hornet spray. it foams and spreads nicely.

Then I put the propane torch to them.

Then dump water in the hole with soapy water.

Then gas them.

Then put a hamburger meat and poison bate station out to get the stragglers


It’s a long week, but I kill them all and let god sort them!

You don't piss on their corpses? Slacker.

Heck no. Afraid to pull the pecker out anywhere near the little bastardz. What if one was faking dead and got you right on the tip.

One could get injured bad letting their guard down like that around yellow jackets.

They are almost as bad as Russians, which I haven’t trusted since I saw rocky 4.


Serious note. I have found soapy water to work nearly as good as anything else. I typically spray the hole real good with spray to stop a attack first though

Fireballs trick does work. I have used it before with great success

I also have used a water bath and meat trap with very good results

Gasoline, Gunpowder, and Propane.........Have fun and cause complete mayhem!

Some simply lack the fortitude and imagination to truly defile. 😀

Couple of days.

A big plus is you don’t need to know where the nest is. The YJs take the poison back to the nest. All of them die. It’s great.

This is the method I use.




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If there’s a nest in the vicinity they will get all over and inside of a skinned out deer carcass. They don’t appreciate being bothered either.

Go to deer camp a week early and set out the poisoned hamburger, that way when you hang your deer you have no trouble.

I wonder how Tannerite would work? 😮

I nuked them at 8:30 there was still blue flames coming out the hole at 11:30

I have had pretty good luck reducing the population with my shop vac, doesn’t rule them up but gives a pleasant thump when they hit the tub. Then the soapy water can go down the hole.

I remember my brothers and dad battling Yellowjacket nests in the feed bunks of the cattle yard. They diesel fueled that sucker and lit it. tunnels 10 ft away smoldered for a week in the old manure and hay.
They built new pipe bunks after that

THIS ^^^

Has no one experienced the joy of a flamethrower made with a can of (ether) starting fluid and a lighter? Am I eventually going to blow myself up?

That's what I use if I can't find the nest. Trick is to get something they like to eat. Mashed up buttered corn along with stinky cat food seems to be the ticket around our place. Don't need to use much Fipronil. Drop or two in a tablespoon of bait will do it.

I accidentally discovered a ground nest on a riverbank in some wild roses last summer while in the river. When I realized I was getting stung, I climbed out of the river and ran but just could not seem to shake those things. I covered at least 50 yards trying to run away from them, unsuccessfully I might add! I had them in my waistband, hatband, and hair in addition to the usual places. It was brutal to say the least and I was stung at least 30 times. The neighbor kids were in their front yard and I think they thought I was possessed!!! I turned away from them, not wanting to get them stung, and ran for the garage and into the house. I ended up killing a dozen or so later in the kitchen and bathroom (my wife was really pleased!).

Aside from being miserable for a few days and having to go on a medrol steroid dose pack, I made it my personal vendetta to kill every last one of those bastards. In contrast to the usual paper nests in trees, under eaves, etc., these accessed several holes on the riverbank which. was hard to access. I scoped things out at night in my hip boots armed with a flashlight. I tried a flaming rag on the end of a pole during the day but could not get all of them and had them chasing me again and got stung a couple of more times. I emptied 3 or 4 cans of the foaming spray from the river at night but still could not finish the deal because of the angles and extent of their access holes. Finally, I went and bought a couple of fogging "bombs" made for hornets, etc. and draped a cheap plastic painters drop cloth over the holes (to the best of my ability) at night and set the bombs off. That finally did them in. I later took a shovel to the bank to break the holes down and have thus far not seen any activity this year!

Hoping I never have that experience again. Good luck!

Summary: Fogging bombs for hornets, etc., painter's drop cloth to concentrate and hold the fog, flashlight and careful night work!

…or a pound of hamburger with a little bit of fipronil mixed in.

Your way is good, too.

Do you need to use a whole tube of fipronil on a pound of burger?

The recipe for the wasp spray is peppermint oil and water. Add one tablespoon of peppermint and four (4) cups of water to a spray bottle. Spray directly on the wasps or the nests. But be careful, and safe as not to get stung.

I like to do it at night with a flashlight.

The sunny Southern facia board on Western Washington houses will have several wasp nests. They are not hurting anything up there.

But if they are down on my level I kill them all with mint and they do not rebuild on that spot.

Peppermint oil is like the duct tape of essential oils.
Have you sourced a cheap peppermint oil for that purpose?
I hope you aren't paying like $40 to Doterra to kill wasps.

Half a Large Dog tube for a pound.

Separate into 4 balls to target different nests. Don’t let your dog or cat get on it.

Well, maybe the cat.

Taliban bunker #2 is out had a kamikazi sting on side of my head way after dark it’s scorched earth if it continues

lololololol

Didn't you read the earlier post by the professional exterminator?

This is a really stupid and dangerous idea.

Ya but, hold my beer and watch this.

Had a bunch build a bunker in the wood retaining wall behind my grill.
They went in cracks, and who knows how far in before the headquarters.
Tried the sprays. Killed brunches, but Charley Y. Jacket is a formidable and resourceful adversary. I kept bombing the ones on the trail, but couldn't
get into Laos..the logs and finish him.


Finally tied rags on my stove poker, soaked them in liquid napalm,
And propped it against the biggest hole with a chunk of firewood.

Just left it there until I needed to grill again.
Haven't had any in there since.

Hot shot pest strip placed in front of the hole will drive them out, but not kill all of them.

Thanks, ill give this a try

Some great ideas here I may have to use. I ran over a ground nest a couple years ago with my tractor and just barely escaped being stung- probably because my brush hog was parked over the hole by time I realized what was happening and that scattered them pretty good- well, at least the ones that survived...
Went back around dusk and found another nest and hit both of them with the yellow jacket spray and haven't seen one in the vicinity since then... had a couple paper nests and a nest in a wall of my storage shed and found that one by accident while being stung repeatedly... used the yellow jacket spray that sprays 25 feet (at least the can said so). I always hit it right at dusk so I can see them returning to the nest and when they start to calm down I hit them hard. The spray works great and even kills the ones in flight and ones that come back later and come in contact with the liquid... never had a nest come back after using the spray.

I was babysitting my 2 year old boy and I took him out dove hunting with a buddy. The plan was buddy would walk down this dry wash and kick the birds to me and my boy (in diapers) while blocking the riverbed flyway. Solid plan until I stepped on a yellow jacket nest on the bank and all hell broke loose. Pissed off hornets doesn't describe it. They poured out of that hole and swarmed me and my little boy, biting like crazy.

I had to run to get away from the swarm while cradling my young son. 100 yards away, across a plowed field sat my car and I started running. The only sanctuary from the yellowjackets hammering us with bites. I tossed my shot gun down so I could brush of the yellowjackets from son's tender arms and back, meanwhile I can feel them biting me everywhere as I ran.

Had a bad reaction. Still get the shivers from it. I had about 50 bites, baby had 10.

Edited to add son had [bleep] his diaper and it was running down my arm as I ran across that field.

That ^^ does not sound like the funnest day afield.

We seem to be fairly lucky in that we don't have many yellowjackets up here. Too dry perhaps? Loads of other wasps such as spider hunters and cicada killer types. A few of the paper wasp types too.

That fact makes me happy. I'm no fan of those things. Or the black ground dwelling ones over on the coast either.