Yellow Jackets are assholes.
 

A bunch of them stung the shit out of my face and head yesterday afternoon.

Fuckers paid this morning. I'm now looking for their pals.

This is THE BEST bee killer ever made.

Mix 50/50 with water, put in a pump sprayer and hose down the nest. The wasps drop like very small rocks. Unlike the really poison shit where they just zoom up in the air, this shit just drops them instantly and it is non toxic to plants and peoples. And it cleans really well too.

Yellow jackets ARE assholes.

This is papa glatt gearing up to battle some yellow jackets a week ago.
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And this is him in action.
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I'm so proud! He's funny, but he didn't get stung.

My favorite though is still Matthias Wandel.
The wasp sucking machine.

The return of the wasp sucking machine.

No salt gun?

do they die? or just fall out and come to later with revenge on their minds?

My boys took a video of themselves killing a next of yellow jackets at my Dad's place a few months back. It's very funny. There's lots of screaming and yelling. I'll try and figure out how to upload it later today if anyone's interested. It's the soundtrack that's funny. They did it at night when the nest was full, so you can't really see that much.

They were seriously killed.

Some kind of winged bastard bit me right above the elbow recently, as I employed the old 'knock it down with a stick" method. At first I scoffed at his weak stinging prowess and sprayed a little Benadryl on it. Over the next week, though, my arm got an itchy red lump in that area. Bastard.

Totally screwed up the proportions of my triceps.

My mother (and her resident unpaid boarder, my brother) has a giant nest of yellow jackets just above her front door. They both refuse to kill them on some sort of half-baked Buddhist principle. Fucking insane.

As a half -baked Buddhist myself, I sneer at the suggestion of allowing yellow jackets to live. I guess it depends on which half of your Buddha is baked.

Thanks for sharing your weapon Foot. I hate anything w/a stinger.

Did it appear to be a horrible, horrible death? 'Cuz that would be a plus.



ETA: Also, does this stuff work on individuals, like the one buzzing my head when I'm on the patio?

In other words, if I hit him w/a good spritz, will he fall dead, or do they need a good soaking?

I'll testify.

a reprise of a story posted here somewhere... anywhoo

I used the citrus cleaner area effect weapon with homicidal glee last summer. I didn't find that they dropped dead. They dropped, then I squished the fuck out of them. MAYBE they were already dead, MAYBE they would have died sooner or later, but the righteous crunchy pop they made was irresistible. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

word to the wise. they're not paying you to bring ammo home. do not start this fight without without a genocidal commitment to Kill. Them. All. You are outnumbered. You will not be rescued. Prepare accordingly.

They will fall from a squirt and are down for the count writhing on the ground trying to figure out WTF? They can barely walk let alone fly or sting. crush at your option.

be sure to get the larva.

Is it better than the veal?

No, but it slips down easier than the magma.

:lol:


Hey, no recommending food unless you've made a wisecrack!

They made me use the Spank Ray.
 

After the most recent Yellow Jacket pogrom, I discovered a bunch of YJs flying next to my foundation and crawling into the pebbles and disappearing. They were coming and going at an alarming rate. Groups of three every few seconds.

They had made a nest inside either the foundation wall (dry laid stone) or in the foam insulation that is covering the wall.

Thanks to Glatt [mad props] I modified the bee vacuum idea and got one of my old shop vacs, put a fresh bag in it and I've been running it for a few hours. The first five minutes, I caught over a hundred YJs. After an hour my wife complained about the noise (heh heh wait till she sees the electric bill) so I shut down operations.

Today, a week later, she is out all day and I have it going full steam. The plan is to vacuum for a day or until I don't see anymore, then wait a few days to see if the queen hatches any more guys or if she starves since no one is feeding her.

House nesting bees are very hard to eradicate as the sprays don't reach them. They require fogging or dust or some shit that I don't have handy and don't feel like buying.

I'll post a picture of the contents when it is all said and done.

have to repeat your mad props yo to glatt for turning me on to that (woodworking)porn site. ... woodgears.ca or somesuch. I am **so** gonna follow his footsteps for some projects. I'm not as neat as he is, but I'm twice the scavenger, so... it will probably even out.

The guy is sharp.

But he's cut back on updating his web page as he's aged.

I'm not sure if you have been to his home page. It has better links to a lot of his stuff.
http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/index.html

Just pour a little gas down the hole and light it. :runaway:

That would solve a number of problems.

My dad did this when I was a kid to eradicate a nest of ground wasps in the front yard. The ensuing fireworks were fantastic. From inside the house. Where the angry wasp fireballs couldn't get me.

The lesson learned from that spectacle: make sure you plug up ALL of the outlying exit holes, lest you stand beside one and be subjected to roaring, buzzing, stinging flames.

LO

*oshit* RUN FORREST RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

L

A friend of mine was attacked by Yellow Jackets coming out of the ground while mowing. He poured a little gas down the hole, but could still hear them buzzing down there. So he poured a little more down, still buzzing. Rinse repeat... several times. Finally decided if he couldn't drown 'em, he'd burn 'em.

I didn't see him do it but I saw the hole... 2 feet in diameter at the surface, at least 3 feet deep, and he couldn't hear for a week.

Did it fix the YJs, though?

Well, that nest.