They sometimes like random mesquite branches out in the brush. Like most S Texas folks, I watch more for creepy crawlies in the brush that yellow jackets. While spraying some pear I looked up just in time to see the unmistakable sight of tiny wings in a distinctive, disturbing bunch of yellow and brown "V"s on a nest my face was about to get into. They always go for the eyes……always the eyes. Thank goodness I can still move, and only suffered 4 pops.

They make nests in the ground as well.

While out dove hunting, I almost walked into a large wasp nest that was built into a little bush that barely came up to my knees. Never seen one built that low to the ground. I backed off to about fifteen feet or so and let loose with a 12g w/birdshot. I've never seen something so completely vaporized in an instant. It was very satisfying.

Now I know what to do next time I see one up under the eaves. To hell with that aerosol crap.

They also like to make nests under the shelves on a grill. Right where you grab them to move them around. Ask me how I know.

DatTallArchitect said:

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They make nests in the ground as well.

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And if you just causally step on the hole barely bigger than a quarter, you will be covered and in hell in less than a second.

Me if that had been my face

I was doing a survey at Harris Reservoir back in the 90's.

Had to cut some line to be able to see a particular direction. Got ready to cut a pretty big limb on a pecan tree and noticed a huge Yellowjacket nest hanging on the limb further up. Probably had 50 of them on it.

That would not have gone well.

wife got stung 6 times during Beryl cleanup by a yellow jacket nest in the ground under a youpon shrub. Poured gas on them last night.

Did you light it on fire after?! Send them to hell!!!!

MaxPower said:

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Me if that had been my face

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i can relate - several years ago, I opened a bird feeder and a red wasp flies out of the top where it had built a nest. Throw the feeder , run the other direction. Wait about 20 min, go pick up feeder, and everything goes slo mo. I turn slightly and watch the red wasp that was waiting with a vengeance fly directly to the middle of my upper lip and tag me right in the center. My lip swells and I'm dead ringer for the Bucees mascot. My kids fall over laughing when I walk on the house. Swelling took a day to recede and my wife and kids try to stifle their laugh every time they look at me to talk

They also like the back of aluminum gates. Ask me how I know.

409Texag said:

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Did you light it on fire after?! Send them to hell!!!!

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Because this is what happens

https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsNearlyDying/comments/dlypdz/why_not_just_pour_gasoline_down_this_hole_and/#lightbox

My personal favorite is in the corner of a deer stand.

Under the lip on a poly water trough. And at the exact spot you grab it to drag it to another spot.

Comanche said:

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My personal favorite is in the corner of a deer stand.

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When you've been in there for 45 min before sunrise and realize they're starting to wake up?

wait until the fall on the first cool morning under 50 degrees and you can walk up to the nest and pet them

justnobody79 said:

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wait until the fall on the first cool morning under 50 degrees and you can walk up to the nest and pet them

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you can do that when the sun is down even in summer. why it's easy to pour gasoline in the hole at night.

they like to next in rose bushes... trimmed them once and hired a lawn guy ever since

Yellow Jackets never bother me. Those damn Red wasps can burn in hell though.

Hahahaha no I know! My degree is in fire health and safety! Was just joking around

I once had yellow jackets coming up out of the top of the deer stand leg up under the box. I sprayed half a can until the yellow jackets stopped coming out, at which point a freaking bat crawled out of the leg spitting and coughing and cussing at me before flying away.

Always, always, always cut the carpets in your wood blinds to the exact dimensions of your floor, and do not let them curl up on the side of a blind. Wasps know they will fall off a nest to their doom at night in a freeze. So, they will congregate, with wasps from other nests in/on something that will keep them off the ground if/when they fall.

Your deer blind.

If the can get in, they will, and will huddle wadded up, if possible. So, that triangular 4.5 ft "tube" under the carpet can fill wi many hundreds of them (on both sides) that awaken with warmth. No nests to be seen.

As me how I know.

We learned which blinds were going to house them, by going out right before the afternoon hunt. Some blinds would not have but one or two around, but the ones that had dozens trying to get in (again, no nests in sight or on blind), would turn to hundreds as the eve came on.

Makes sense, but creepy.

Monkeypoxfighter said:

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They sometimes like random mesquite branches out in the brush. Like most S Texas folks, I watch more for creepy crawlies in the brush that yellow jackets. While spraying some pear I looked up just in time to see the unmistakable sight of tiny wings in a distinctive, disturbing bunch of yellow and brown "V"s on a nest my face was about to get into. They always go for the eyes……always the eyes. Thank goodness I can still move, and only suffered 4 pops.

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I learned this the hard way, or should I say my son did. While walking through a gulley, there was a nest on a branch he didn't see or expect. 13 stings later...

DatTallArchitect said:

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They make nests in the ground as well.

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Damn right, I was moving some steel around on my racks in the tractor shed 2 weeks ago. All of a sudden there were about 10 thousand of the little bas*ards come out the ground attracting me from all sides. Got stung 16 times before I could get away. I poured about 1/2 gal. of gasoline around the hole and lit'em up.

the pit man said:

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I poured about 1/2 gal. of gasoline around the hole and lit'em up.

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