Wasp nest???

[Cubby guy]

If Jeff's fire idea doesn't work, the Nuclear Option is next....


I was using leaf blower on the deck a couple of years ago, touched the bench, and I got nailed several times right on my bony "chicken legs". Under the bench was a softball-sized nest.


Got 4 cans of the most aggressive wasp/hornet spray the local hardware store had and soaked the nest....several times that day, and twice overnight.

The bee/wasp difference chart was good, too.

[yeeter]

I was chuckling at this section of the reference you sent:

-----------------------------
Control

Effective control involves treating the nest.

------------------------------

Oh, I will 'treat' the nest all right. Fire treatment. Gasoline treatment (dont soak your house with gas is my advice). Other volatile spray treatments.

My grandfather would knock these things down off the house, then pour gas on them and burn them. To me, this always seemed nuts but he never got stung.

[green 4 acres]

I'll trade yea ,I have a yellow jackets nest 7-8' from my shed door .
It was in 12" grass untill I mowed over it last week -that was fun
I have hit it with the foaming spray with most of the can but it seems to be business as usual so far also put up an trap with no results I have fruit laying on the ground . I might try flooding them with the hose next.
the hole was small now the size of a basketball.
I am working on a pic ...new laptop ...new to me any way

maybe they will get the cobras huh


see the crater in front of the 10" wheel

[chris hall]

yellow jackets wasps and hornets all bade news. hope you get them gone without getting stung.

[J-Mech]

You can spray yellow jackets with diesel fuel. When they get wet with diesel they can't fly. Then they die shortly after. BTDT. Also..... you can lite the nest on fire when your done. Just be ready with a shovel if it's dry where you are. Probably a bad idea to light it if it's dry. It's been constantly wet here most of the year. For the first summer in a long stretch there hasn't been any burn bans issued.

[kostendorf]

Green 4 Acres. The only way to kill them out is wait till night and pour fuel directly into the hole. At night they are all there and only one sentry is guarding.

[Sam Mac]

Around this area we have carpenter bees. They love to eat your house. I found that Valvoline brake clean kills them instantly if you hit them on the back side. Tried other brands and it doesn't do it. The Valvoline also works good on yellow jackets.

[green 4 acres]

Thanks for the tips
I discovered today something is tearing into the ground at nite to get at the hive as it was all over the walk next to the door today .

A ground hog or skunk? maybe a opposum. I saw a claw mark ,3 claws pretty big by the looks of it .
The spray may have malithion it works slow but wipes out the hive .

[chris hall]

we had yellow jackets in the backyard three years ago and i mowed over them. in a fit a poured gas into the hole after the sun went down. it worked but, i had a time trying to keep my neighbor from lighting the hole on fire. no dull moments around here.

[Jeff in Pa]

My neighbor Vic had a ground nest of yellow jackets. He was trimming with the push mower and all of a sudden he was jumping like a mad man. He also was quite prolific with the "universal adjective".

I made sure he was alright and we decided to get even. We topped the push mower with gas and parked it directly over the hole they came out of.

45 minutes later it ran out of gas and only a few bees were left. A good gas soaking took care of them later than night.