Killing Yellowjackets?

[deytookerjaabs]

If you have a few afternoons of free time....


I had'em bad last year and sat in the lawn on a chair with the high pressure hose nozzle attachment adjusted to a fine stream. I'd just spray one, mid flight and it would instantly be stunned then fall to the ground. Then I'd run and stomp it down. At first they were dropping left and right until only a few were left. After a few days of mixing leisure with pleasure there weren't enough around to be a problem.

There's also this:

https://www.bugasalt.com/pages/testimonials


Looks like a blast.

 

[glenlivet]

If you have a few afternoons of free time....


I had'em bad last year and sat in the lawn on a chair with the high pressure hose nozzle attachment adjusted to a fine stream. I'd just spray one, mid flight and it would instantly be stunned then fall to the ground. Then I'd run and stomp it down. At first they were dropping left and right until only a few were left. After a few days of mixing leisure with pleasure there weren't enough around to be a problem.

There's also this:

https://www.bugasalt.com/pages/testimonials


Looks like a blast.

OK...the redneck part of me wants one of those BAD!.....putting it on my Amazon wish list...and reminding my wife that we have an anniversary coming up.

 

[wabashslim]

-- by the way....nice avatar! Tele with a bigsby is a beautiful thing. Home built ?

Yes, but the Bigsby isn't being used now. The guitar sounds & plays better when strung-through as the Lord intended.

 

[24 track]

I made my own traps loosly based on this design

https://dengarden.com/gardening/Turn-a-2-liter-pop-bottle-into-a-killer-wasp-and-hornet-trap

for mine I drilled a hole in the bottom of a 2 ltr pop bottle and glued in a piece of aquarium tube about 2 inches long I filed the bottom of the bottle iwth a mixtre of mineral oil and coated the inside of the bottle with it , sugar water and a few bones from KFC placed the cap back on the bottle and hung it up in a tree , within hours I had about 200 hornets commit suicide, very effective,
the hornets climbed into the bottle through the aquarium tube got coated in oil and could not get out , and in 35+ degree weather they would not survive or would drown in the liiquid super effective

 

[tubegeek]

This thread is super timely. My yellowjacket nest is inside a broken gas grill about 20 feet from my house. I'm going to have to get close to flip open the lid.

So:

-dusk
-sneak soapy water attack
- while wearing, what exactly?

Or - any better ideas?

 

[MarkieMark]

Ive been stung by the evil little yeller buggars twice in as many weeks!

I ask myself, whats a pirate to do?
1st choice:

 

[charlie chitlin]

Carburator cleaner.
When one flies in my shop and heads for the light, that drops them like a stone.
Great aim with the red tube.

 

[stratoman1]

Having hummingbird feeders on my balcony was attracting them. Changed feeder types helped there but its nest building time now. Knocked those down with a broom then sprayed with peppermint oil, water mix.Heavy on the peppermint.

Wasps will want to return to the old site but one or two applications of spray seemed to work. I have a lot of plants that I don't mind them pollinating,, I just won't let them live here

 

[Milspec]

To revist the topic and tell an old childhood story of mine regarding wasps.

We lived on a farm and used to get huge nests of wasps at the top of the barn near the loft doors. My 2 brothers and I (we were young, 6-7-8) at the time used a water fire extinguisher that we found abandoned in the ditch, a garden hose, and a hatchet to kill the wasps. We used the fire extinguisher to hit the nest since when aired up, it would shoot a very strong stream about 50 feet. Then the hose man was to spray the air with a fine mist to soak the wasps as they tried to attack us. As they fell out of the sky, the final brother would chop them up with the hatchet. It was actually pretty exciting...and effective.

In your case, if you can find an air powered water fire extinguisher or else a good pressure washer, you can blast that nest off the house. It will not kill the existing wasps, but hopefully their next nest will be in a location that you can just spray with wasp killer.

 

[suave eddie]

 

[dan1952]

I use any of the foaming wasp killer with a 20 foot spray. I spray every opening where they go in/out. Soon there will be 50 or more trying to figure things out, at which point I go inside and lock the doors.
Can't be too careful!

 

[DennisM]

 

[ping-ping-clicka]

I have a couple of wasp / yellowjacket nests that need to go.
I just tried every "off the shelf" poison the Depot carries.
These things brushed it off like "you and your horse buddy....get that weak s*** outta' here".

Years ago (8-9?) the Depot used to carry a spray that they kept in the roofing supplies section.....loved that stuff...if you hit a wasp with it...down they went....can't find it now at my local D.

So ... what poison / spray do I need to get ?
Any of you roofing / construction guys have a "go to" spray that works?
(Amazon links would be awesome)
I just want these things DEAD....especially the one that nailed me.....sting still itches three days later.

Yellow Jackets are all apart of creation and like those who poison the environment will in the vast movement of time will bring on their own destruction unfortunately this practice will have its effects on the evolution or DEVO, of all things in ways none can predict.
Imagine a world that has 400 pound hunter/warrior yellow jackets that feed on those that violate their territory.

 

[Stubee]

Sevin dust for areas where you cannot get to them with a spray but can clearly see where they have to enter and leave. It takes a few days or longer but works.

For visible nests any good can of wasp and hornet “jet spray” will do it. You absolutely hammer the nest after dusk. Don’t be shy. Best to spray right into the entry hole if you can.

For nests under siding and where they have multiple entry points so Sevin dust won’t work you need to plug all but one entry then use a fogger on the last entry hole and fog very heavily. Not for the shy bug killers.

 

[Dreadnut]

Please don't use gasoline!

 

[uriah1]

Was lucky. Had an entomologist come out at night and dig them up for free. Gets the venom out of them. He won’t come if you Ever used pesticide

 

[boris bubbanov]

For below ground yellow jackets, my local livestock feed store sold a white dust. That stuff worked great for dusting the entryways and exits after the sun had gone down.

You're talking about those Bald Faced Hornets. Those are the only ones I really get roughed up by. The rest of them are wimps.

Somebody in the business decided a much milder product was still good business. Ten years ago, that usual Spectracide Wasp and Hornet worked well. Spray that on house wasps now, and they just give you the middle finger and go back to their business.

Oh, I never had problems finding those nests in the ground. Sometimes I would go in in cold weather and break open the ground, and this let the skunks and etc. get into the nests and clean them out. In warm weather, red ant treatment or termite treatment seems to work.

 

[wrathfuldeity]

Was lucky. Had an entomologist come out at night and dig them up for free. Gets the venom out of them. He won’t come if you Ever used pesticide

umm...ahh ya, I milk wasps...its udder hell.

 

[charlie chitlin]

If the nest is under the eaves of your roof, don't go up on an extension ladder with a weed whacker.
I found that out the hard way.

 

[boris bubbanov]

This stuff works, at least on the spot. I wouldn't say it keeps them from re-nesting later on.