How is the best way to kill yellow jackets?
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SteveBott said:
Easy to kill web worms by punching a hole in the protective nest. The wasps do the rest. The wasps use the hole to enter. I use a extension pole saw.
Brings back memories where dad would tell me and my brother to get the long cane pole and "break open the web worms". He never bothered spraying them from a distance when he had us.
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Army62 said:
Paper wasps and yellow jackets look very similar.
Paper wasps are the ones with the open honey comb looking nests and are more docile and super easy to kill with the wasp spray, especially in the AM.
Yellow jackets have a covered nest and one hole to go in or out. They can can build their nests in the ground or in a wall. They are far more aggressive and much harder to kill with the spray. Tying to kill them with spray can really piss them off and they will come looking for you.
I truly wish I did not know the difference.
Same using a long reach trackhoe. I was directing the operator on where the nest was and once he hit it those *******s chased after me and never even tried to get at the cab with him in it. Fortunately, I was able to jump in the truck before they got to me but they did not give up at all.
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When I was a kid we would take a small board (a wooden roof shingle worked best) and stir up the wasps and swat them like a fly. Worked best with 2-3 people so you didn't have all of them coming at one person. Relatively high risk but fun until you got stung.
Well this thread can predict the future.
Found a nice size nest.
Found a nice size nest.
Last year while mowing the backyard I suddenly was stung several times and started running across yard only to get stung several more times. I fell down but quickly got up and made it to front driveway and still had one on the shoe. Very aggressive yellow jackets. Had to get exterminator to use pressure hose to gradually get close enough to stand over hole and fill it up. I looked a few days later and I could have dropped a baseball down that hole. I have lived in the same house for 43 years and never had them before. Much worse than wasp stings through the years.
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Last year while mowing the backyard I suddenly was stung several times and started running across yard only to get stung several more times. I fell down but quickly got up and made it to front driveway and still had one on the shoe. Very aggressive yellow jackets. Had to get exterminator to use pressure hose to gradually get close enough to stand over hole and fill it up. I looked a few days later and I could have dropped a baseball down that hole. I have lived in the same house for 43 years and never had them before. Much worse than wasp stings through the years.
This is the reason why you never shred fields or roads without a cab tractor. When you go over a hive of yellow jackets on the ground those things will come out madder than hell and try to get you. If you're not in a cab tractor be prepared to get roasted by them. We don't use non cab tractors anymore because of this. Been there done that and it isn't any fun.
Just got my once about every 6 months tag by one of those ****ers. Moving the trampoline mowing the yard.
Rookie move not looking underneath first.
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Rookie move not looking underneath first.
I don't even think they were on the trampoline - there were just a handful of them zipping along above the grass and one just did what they do. Right on my left peck.
PT Wasp Freeze. It is the 50bmg of wasp spray.
Everything you can buy off of the shelf at home depot is 6.5creed.
Its what professionals use. Available on Amazon.
https://a.co/d/0aCwXWf8
Everything you can buy off of the shelf at home depot is 6.5creed.
Its what professionals use. Available on Amazon.
https://a.co/d/0aCwXWf8
20 bucks a can!!!
I'll continue taking my chances with spectracide. We have Apache wasps. They hurt but not enough for me to want to pay more for spray.
That's pretty neat stuff though. The stuff I use knocks them right off.
I'll continue taking my chances with spectracide. We have Apache wasps. They hurt but not enough for me to want to pay more for spray.
That's pretty neat stuff though. The stuff I use knocks them right off.
this guy started showing up in my youtube feed. the intro is cheesy. jump to about 4:30 in the vid to get to the killer bees getting killed part
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AgArch 78 said:
Last year while mowing the backyard I suddenly was stung several times and started running across yard only to get stung several more times. I fell down but quickly got up and made it to front driveway and still had one on the shoe. Very aggressive yellow jackets. Had to get exterminator to use pressure hose to gradually get close enough to stand over hole and fill it up. I looked a few days later and I could have dropped a baseball down that hole. I have lived in the same house for 43 years and never had them before. Much worse than wasp stings through the years.
Happened to me when I lived in East TX and was push mowing the yard. I found the hole in the ground after things calmed down and put at least a gallon of gas down it. Yellow Jackets are the most aggressive insect on earth, or at least that I have come across.
When I was a kid my dad would take a long stick, tie an old rag on one end, soak it in kerosene and then light it up and shove it into the nest. Myself, I rely on Spectracide wasp spray. It's pretty effective. My wife said her father would do the same.
On an unrelated note, during my fish year in Crocker there was an upperclassman from Cy-Fair that had a giant hornet's nest on a stick up in the corner of his room. It had about a dozen wasps glued onto it, and he and his roommate got great joy out of watching the reaction of people that walked into their room the first time. I probably jumped back a foot. He said he used diesel in a pump-up sprayer to kill them and cut the limb off to salvage the nest. It worked on everyone.
On an unrelated note, during my fish year in Crocker there was an upperclassman from Cy-Fair that had a giant hornet's nest on a stick up in the corner of his room. It had about a dozen wasps glued onto it, and he and his roommate got great joy out of watching the reaction of people that walked into their room the first time. I probably jumped back a foot. He said he used diesel in a pump-up sprayer to kill them and cut the limb off to salvage the nest. It worked on everyone.
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lurker76 said:
On an unrelated note, during my fish year in Crocker there was an upperclassman from Cy-Fair that had a giant hornet's nest on a stick up in the corner of his room. It had about a dozen wasps glued onto it, and he and his roommate got great joy out of watching the reaction of people that walked into their room the first time. I probably jumped back a foot. He said he used diesel in a pump-up sprayer to kill them and cut the limb off to salvage the nest. It worked on everyone.
Hilarious but damn that's cruel.
One of my neighbors has a house in Concan. They were greeted by this when they got there for the weekend. Being in TexAgs jail changes a man……..no, not really
Saw this on the outside of the building I work in! At least it's two floors up and I'm in the basement.
Arlington Heights HS has a huge problem with them. Thanks Bill Paxton and John Deutschendorf Jr. May the B-58 Hustler fly forevermore.
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