You forgot about the queen. The queen stays in the hive, she doesn't come out, she stays in there and does nothing buy lay eggs. Those eggs hatch into grubs, and eventually grow into adult wasps. As long as the queen is in there laying eggs, that wasp nest is always going to be a problem. You have to kill her as well. Once that is done, the hive can't exist any more. Bees, wasps and hornets don't come out at night because they can't see in the dark. You can use that to your advantage. Get a soap dispenser meant for garden hoses. Put ordinary dish soap in it. At night when the wasps are in the hive, place the nozzle of the hose as far down in the hive entrance as you can get it. Turn on the hose, not full blast, but fairly strong stream. The water will pick up the soap and flood the hive with soapy water. The wasps will drown and the soapy water will also kill the eggs and larvae. The queen will drown too. You need the soap because the soap breaks down the waxy coating the wasps have on their body that keeps water out of their exoskeleton and spiracles. Insects don't breathe through their face like mammals and reptiles do. They have a series of holes in their abdomen called spiracles. The waxy coating on their bodies makes any water they encounter bead up and roll off like car wax does for cars. But, if you break down that coating, water will get sucked into their spiracles and they drown. The water is also cold and wasps don't like to be cold, they get stiff and can't move. So that, with all the water and soap will help wipe out the hive. Soap dispenser for a garden hose. mobileimages.lowes.com/product/converted/811001/811001014183.jpg
If you can't get a garden hose from the house all the way to the wasp nest, you can use a shorter hose and a 5 gallon bucket of very soapy water and a funnel. Tape the funnel to one end of the hose and shove the other end in the entrance hole of the nest. You will more than likely need 2 people for this. One to hold the funnel end of the hose up and the other to lift the bucket and pour the soap water down the hose. Again, do this at night. Find a large funnel with a bottom that will fit fairly deep in the hose, tape it on there real good with duct tape. You might need 2 five gallon buckets. You want to soak the living hell out of the nest. Dish soap wont bother the ground.
It was during a hot summer month, circa 1980. I lived in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC. I don't remember how I discovered it, but there was a yellow jacket nest at the rear of my house, about 15 feet off to the right side. Until this nest was found, I thought all bee-like creatures built nests which hung from, well, something off of the ground. Bottom line? I just didn't begin to have a clue about what to do to eliminate this threat. My intuition was to get a gallon of gasoline and pour it down the hole, but not only was that a potential fire hazard, even if I pulled it off without a glitch, that portion of ground would become a bio-hazard. I didn't think any bug killer spray would work either, plus it was a bio-hazard, too. I waited a few days to do research before taking any action. Then it came to me, a solution which was incredibly simple, super cheap and had zero environmental impact. I call it... MY 3-STEP PLAN: Based on my observation that all bees, hornets and yellow jackets are totally inactive in the darkness and coolness of night. 1. Before doing anything, wait at least an hour after dark to be certain the yellow jackets are in their nest. This can be verified by flashlight inspection. (I checked, and there was zero activity) 2. Gather your 4 largest pots, fill them with water and heat them on the stove until the water is at a rolling boil. 2-A. This really is not a step, but I wore jeans and a long sleeve shirt as an emotional insurance policy and for peace of mind. (turns out, I could have been butt-naked;-) 3. With an assistant shining a flashlight on the ground entrance to the yellow jacket nest, I dumped the largest pot of boiling water down it as fast as I could, continuing with the other pots, repeating the process one more round. RESULTS: There was not a sign of yellow jacket life at any time during my extermination procedure, not the next morning, not a week or even a month later. I now live in Olympia, Washington. About 4 years ago I found a yellow jacket nest at the edge of my front porch, which is almost at ground level. I followed the same plan I used in 1980 with the same results. Hope this helps!
Tom- THANK YOU!! Have tried 3 cans of commercial wasp/hornet/ yellow jacket spray. Didn’t work. Tonight I will get the large pot I cook crabs in as well as a couple of others heat them outside and try your suggestion.
@@chipbower361 Also, plenty of videos to wait until night, use Dawn dish soap (or any degreasing dish soap).. 1) At night, cover holes with screening, weigh down with a few bricks 2) squirt dawn (about 1/3 to half bottle thru screening,down hole 3) run water from garden hose down hole for few to several minutes 4)repeat at both holes 5) leave screening over night In morning usually No more ground yellow jacket wasps *For above ground wasps* too close to house, put about 1/4 c dawn soap & water in a pump spray garden bottle, at night spray on Hive & any wasps that fall ( soapy water will almost instantly drown them. Make sure to remove hanging Hive & the little nub it hung from so others wont rebuild. Can also spray afterwards peppermint essential oil & water (they hate the smell,) to deter, respray peppermint water as needed.
This is the same strategy I've used for nearly every ground yellow jacket nest I've dealt with over the years. Only difference is I just use hot water from the tap and liquid dish soap mixed together. Usually at least a couple gallons worth, and then I pour it directly down the hole at night after dark. Never been stung once doing it that way. No fuss, no swarming, dead wasps in the morning. The only other technique I've used, which I picked up from a professional, was insecticide dust called Drione. This is really good for ground nests as well as nests that are built into part of a structure. Things like Soffit, Brick wall, etc. The dust can penetrate deep enough to get into the heart of the nest and it eliminates them without any fuss whatsoever. If they get any dust on them at all, they're toast. And they track it everywhere if they walk through it. Do it at night and check back after 24 hours and usually by then, the entire nest is shut down and dead.
If bitten/stung by any insect wash the bite and the surrounding area with warm soapy water. Wasps use pheromones that they spray into the air and around where they bite to communicate with other wasps and sound the alarm that they are in trouble. The pheromone will stay in the environment for some time, including around the sites of any bites on your skin. Soapy water breaks down the pheromone. I learnt this from the hospital, after being bit by ( what we in Australia call) a European Wasp(also known as a German wasp or German yellow jacket). It made my foot go black and swollen for about a week and felt like someone had burnt me with a match or cigarette lighter.
I admire this guys non chemical approach and ingenuity. In the past, after being chased into my house by a swarm and getting stung about 8+ times I wasn't so compassionate. One sting was between the eyes! I have used gas to kill them in the past with mixed results. Now I use about a cup of Malathion (straight up not diluted) down the hole at night while wearing vinyl gloves. I have a 100% success rate with this method. I know this a chemical method but when you see how aggressive Yellow jackets are in real life you want them gone yesterday. I have never experienced anything like that in my life. If I would have been trapped by that nest I probably would have died. No joke...
the outfit I work for trains horses for AJ Foyt - AJ told me the scariest thing he's ever encountered was killer bees nest - he was clearing out by his lake and was attacked - twice - and twice he was hospitalized
During day, mark your wasp nest with a small flag. At night use a bucket and screen. Place screen over hole, drop dry ice over top of screen and place bucket upside down trapping the CO². In morning, flip bucket. End of bees.
I'm not sure I've ever seen dry ice for sale anywhere I've been lately,but then again I haven't exactly sought it out either. It sounds like a great idea that I'd like to try sometime if I can get access to some...I have seen the bug zapper paddles used in this video,at a Walgreens located just @ the end of the rd.my condo is on. Since I have a nest to deal w/asap I'll get whatever is available to me right away,lol!
@@MarcusRefusius I live in Nashville,TN..I wonder if Hardware stores like Ace, Lowe's,or Home Depot would have it. Heck,maybe even liquor stores. I guess I just need to ask around & it's prob.not as hard to find as I originally thought..
Hope this helps (posting in several vids because you all have been helpful to me) - I wanted a non toxic (as possible) solution to wasps/ yellow jackets. My children have been stung terribly by these things, so it was my turn to deal with it. I found their location through keen observation - just watching insects come and go and found a large concentration of them going into the ground, which was home for them. I was inclined to use gas, but then learned 1litre is enough to poison 1Million litres of ground water. No bueno. So I used regular tap water and four kinds of soaps: dish, a liberal sprinkling of "Comet", 3 dishwashing machine dissolvable pouches and 2 scoops of borax/soap flakes. Suffice to say there was enough bubbles for Africa. I carried a very large bucket of water (half a metal full size trash can worth) to the location, far away from my home. It was heavy going as I am fat. Tip: use a stout stick to help with the digging in of the handle by carrying the stick under the handle. I went at 9pm on late summer night. It was dark out. Using my head flashlight, I located the hole. There were dozens of them still buzzing around the hole. I was dead afraid having been stung by these before. I decided to forgo the funnel, steel wool as some advised. The hole was just far too big. I poured the water and the foam overwhelmed them. I poured about half quickly, then calmed down and poured till it soaked into the hole. Observed for a second, then got chicken and poured more in spurts, until it was all gone. I was shocked at the size of the things guarding the entrance at night. These were easily half as long as my tip of thumb to thumb joint. Not as thick obviously, but seriously large. Yellow jackets on kind of steroids. I saw them all on the surface completely motionless (I read the soap dissolves their wax, filling their spiracles, which drowns them instantly). After all was poured, I waited ten seconds at the hole and saw nothing come out. I was still scared in case there may be workers still coming back to the nest. I got out of there and will go look at it tomorrow/next day and report back if there is interest.
I like the electric fly swatter idea, and I may use a modified version of that to protect my peach trees this year. Now something I've been using for the last 25 years is liquid wisk or tide laundry detergent. You use it in any hand sprayer bottle that shoots a solid stream of liquid. I thin it with water," I don't know the ratio", I just make it thin enough that it will just function in my particular spray bottle. This is absolutely deadly to any type of insect I've used it on. It will knock wasps right out of the air. I believe it litterally degreases them to death. It destroys their nests too, makes them inhabitable. And one of the best parts of it, it is dirt cheap compared to most anything else I've tried!
Gasoline fumes are heavier than air, so when you pour in the entrance to the nest, the fumes go down. This is very important. Stick funnel in hole, pour gasoline from small container into funnel. Toss container aside and kick funnel away. Place shoe sole over hole for 30 seconds or so. Move foot aside, light 'er up. Burns out entire nest. Has never failed to work 100%.
How the heck do you get close enough to pour gasoline down the hole before they come out and zap ya??lol wouldnt they come out as soon as you put the funnel in their bee hole?😂
@@thebeardedman-drenaline5546 Some are more aggressive than others. But until that "for the queen" phermone gets released, they are usually pretty ok with stuff nearby. You still need to cover up, and do it at dusk when they are less active and not make much disturbance. One the phermone is in the air, they will kamakazi bomb you.
@@robertlaw4073 oh yes...I know all to well lol last week I got hit by many 3 days in a row doing trail maintenance....those suckers will hunt you down once your stung also...I didnt know night time is the time to take care of them though...looks like I'll be taking a night hike tonight with some high octane gas🔥
I just noticed a hole in my yard just a little bigger than the one you were dealing with but never saw any activity while mowing, until yesterday. Once I saw the little zappers going in and out I got the water hose and started filling the hole up with water while keeping my foot over the hole so none of them could get out. I forgot about the one's who wanted to get in so as I sprayed them with water while keeping mt foot over the hole. I could finish them off while they were on the ground but more and more showed up and once I removed my foot from the hole all hell broke lose. I got to the garage and in the house but one of them got under my shirt and stung me 3 times before I could take him out. I just happened to have some Sting Kill, I saw it used on a Coyote Peterson video once, and it really helped the stinging and burning pain. I also have one of those electric fly zappers so I went back out and covered the hole while trying to hold the button and got stung 3 more times, got out the Sting Kill again. I'm gonna take a piece of window screen and cover the hole when it's dark, put bricks around the edges to keep the screen in place, pour in some Dawn dish soap and add water. That should take care of the Taliban Yellow Jackets. Loved the video, didn't realize killing yellow jackets could be so funny.
Watching this while nursing a direct shot to my forehead after I mowed right into the damn hive. Got wasp killer spray and went back out only to come running in with one stinging the shit out of my inner thighs. Now I’m sitting here getting a headache from the gasoline fumes. I need a beer!
Mark the hole in the daytime, go back with a funnel and a can of diesel fuel. Pour the gas in the hole and keep pouring even if the ground starts vibrating and scares you, keep pouring until you have poured at least 3 gallons in there and if its like a bumble bee nest pour the whole thing in the hole. Have a wick of twisted paper towels presoaked in diesel and cram that in the whole opening and light it and run. Get in your truck or the house in case any mad bugs got through. Cooks the whole nest quite nicely or the gas fumes kill the bees. Either way 100% victory.
I am a hobby bee keeper there is a big difference between Bees & Wasps / Hornets ! My 3 year old grandaughter says fuzzy bees are good and shiny bees are bad . I got started in Beekeeping after getting stung by some Honey Bees and NOT haveing a reaction to them ! You see I am severely allergic to Wasps & Hornets , my next might be my last . In summer I carry a Epy Pen with me at all times . After not haveing a reaction to the honey bees I , and my Dr. did some research and found out that they have different Venom . And yes I kill every Yellow Jacket I can !!!
i went into anaphylactic shock from a wasp sting heart stopped a few times etc 1 week in hospital. next sting i get i have 3 minutus to get the epy pen going be very carefull around wasps george
The pro that came out to kill a yellowjacket's nest in our juniper shrubs is also allergic. He said he switched from the EpiPen to Claritin RediTabs, the kind that you put under your tongue. He didn't like the after effects of the pen.
Justin Case, you are right, however, Epi Pens don't just make you jittery. You have to go to the ER if you ever have to use an epi pen. It's basically adrenaline and can give you a heart attack! Not saying not to use it, because some people need them, but people need to know that if you use an epi pen an don't seek immediate medical attention afterwards, you are not doing yourself any favors, you could be killing yourself while thinking you are saving life.
Best way I found to get rid of yellow jackets. If you know where the nest is. Get a wet/dry shopvac , put a couple inches of water in it with dish detergent. Set the nozzle of the vacuum hose right next to the entrance. Leave it for a few hours and you will have a shopvac full of hornet soup
I did the same & it worked great. The shop vac began to stink to high heaven in a view days. So change vac often. Maybe a good shot of diatomaceous earth as a parting gesture for good measure.
I had a similar problem where they built a nest through a hole in one of the cinder blocks in my garage. I took a shop-vac and taped an 8-foot long piece of 1" PVC to the end of the vac hose and propped it next to the hole. Got the yellow jackets coming and going. Took a few hours but it was very effective.
Here in the Southern Sierra we call them Meat Bees. And they are incredibly aggressive. I remember as a kid in Ohio, we called them Yellow Jackets and they seemed more interested in Fruit. I watched Meat Bees here strip a Bat down to a Skeleton in a very short time. Some friends operate a Pack Station in Kings Canyon and they lost a Horse to them years ago. Stepped on a Nest and got so many stings it died. It seems like some years they are a lot worse than others. My friends have a very good Restaurant and sometimes the Meat Bees make it practically impossible to eat out on their deck. Fun Video. Cheers.
Couple years ago, I removed some dying bushes that surrounded a tree in my front yard. After removing them, I should’ve filled in the holes more thoroughly because a month later, some yellow jackets made there home there. Rushes to Home Depot and bought several cans of their long distance foam and blasted them from the comfort of my front door. After a few hours I saw the after math of hundreds of dead yellow jackets there. I sprayed again at night to ensure I got the whole nest. Good thing too. My 2 year old daughter likes to stand near the base of the tree and look up to see the various birds in their nest.
1X4 1/4 ply cardboard, cut to the shape of fly swatter if you can't find the ground hive put a can of cat food under that. they eat meat. use a rubber band on the switch. The only problem is fly swatter are not designed to leave on. they last about a week before the electronics burn out. that is not to bad if you buy them from store that has 30-day warranty. if you can not find the nest cat food, grind up an apple and mix tea spoon of boric acid. that is better than trapping the yellow jacket because the yellow jackets will take it back to the hive and show the others where the poison cat food is it is slower but you will get the queens. It may take a week or two.
Thanks Josh, I went out and bought the AA type after seeing you video. I just put it down without the towel. I caught over 200 in a few hours on both sides of the zapper. I discovered that a thick rubber band can be used to hold the button. So, a clamp is not necessary. Thanks again.
For rock wall yellowjacket nests (vertical entrances) I've taken out two by stuffing their entry holes with regular water ice. At night, of course. This required me to revisit and refresh with ice more than once, as the yellowjackets will melt the ice by increasing activity (and thus their body heat), but individual yellowjackets will run out of energy before long, and eventually the nests ran out of yellowjackets.
Over 20 years ago I used a compact vacuum cleaner that had a long hose. I positioned the end of the hose about 1/2 to 3/4 inch away from the nest and turn it on at dawn and dusk when I was done at the end of the eay I put the body of the compact machine in a chest type freezer in the garage. I caught almost 3/4 gallon of bees. I kept doing that till I saw no more bees.
I also use electronics to kill yellow jackets. The idea came to me decades ago. Just recently I started using the electric fly swatters. But I never have used electronics the way you did in this video. This is a pretty good idea. After 40+ years of studying them, I've discovered how smart they are. Thanks
Just a FYI. As far as I know, all of the wasp / hornets / yellow jackets (whatever) go back to the nest at night. So I attack them at night when all of them are at the nest. In this way, I do not leave any survivors left to start another nest of colony somewhere else. So using this method, I would put the racket over the entrance before sunup to be sure and get them all.
we all know we can pour gas or fuel into the hole my friend...this is just showing ya another way...you decimate the population of the hive and they cannot survive....and grandmas prize rose bush lives to flower another day this way my brotha
The yellow jackets that inhabit the nest in my yard, must have a few scouts that stay out of the nest overnight because at night I totally cover their nest with loose dirt topped by diatomaceous earth. The next morning I go out before they start moving and you can see them coming in from surrounding areas trying to get in the hole that no longer exists. Somehow or another during the day, though they managed to uncover that hole and they come and go like nothing happened.
Now I know it was a pair of yellow jackets that stung me several years ago while mowing grass. First one ankle. Then the other. Only time I was ever stung. Came back in evening with gasoline. Fire in the hole! This video was great. Thanks.
Fun video. I saw this video last year and tried this method the opposite way. I put the electric fly swatter over a pan of fish guts. Yellow Jackets love fish guts. The result was I only got a few. I discovered how smart they are. They refused to land on the fly swatter even for the food they love best.
They are not "bees" they are WASPS. Like you said insignificant pollinators they are attracted to rotted wood to make paper nest and they eat fresh carrion (dead animals) and/or live insects; usually one or the other. They will sometimes set up a nest near heavily aphid infested plants.
yep...we all know they are not "bees" as you'd say a honey bee....however...step on a nest and yell at your buddy....run!! Wasps! lol...nope....it's run BEES!!!! AHHHHH!!!!
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Hate to nit pick, but as a beekeeper, I object to people calling hornets and other nasties bees because it makes people want to kill ALL bees (the real ones). That is a shame! That said, I did enjoy your vid and I just may try it on a yellow jacket ground nest I discovered today!
Same thing happened to me ,mowing the lawn they got me, everyone was laughing. Then about 2 weeks later the wasps found our back porch and stung everyone that laughed at me even the dogs. Then they were like "This is serious we better do something." I was like "So who's laughing now". anyways... I found the ground nest today after looking , time to get a zapper or I'll do the nighttime soap/water thing.
This is an interesting solution, as it the glass bowl idea. We can't use gasoline as the nest is only about 40' from the shallow well that supplies our water (spring fed). We have no idea about the hydrology of that part of the property, so we don't want to take a chance. 1 qt of gas can pollute 10,000 gal of water.
The best way to find the nests is how the Pit River Natives in northern CA found them. Take tiny pieces of meat and down from a bird. mix tiny pieces together. The bees will fly with the tiny pieces but the down really fouls up the aerodynamics and they fly super slow. You can follow them any time of day back to the nest.
Another way of getting rid of them (I have found this especially helpful when I could not find the nest) is to buy some ordinary glue traps (for mice or other small vermin - in this case, though not necessary, I found, the larger the pads, the better), put a few morsels of meat on them and wait for the bugs to meet their demise! Also this method is great, because you do not have to come into direct contact with them, yet still being able to proactively fight them and you don’t have to worry about you or your family getting stung as much this way, I got an entire nest in a few days and have not had problems since. Will certainly keep on using this method for wasps, hornets, yellow jackets, and the like. P.S. No method is perfect or without problems and in my case, I did have to be mindful of other surrounding creatures (like dogs, cats, birds, and more), the best advice I can give on this, is to constantly be aware of the state of your traps (check them every so often - whatever makes you feel the most comfortable).
Please don't use glue traps...they kill anything/ everything indiscriminately. Lots of wildlife brought to wildlife rehabbers to try to remove with oil...nasty job.... Just spray Dawn dish soap & water from a distance...or look up videos how to make wasp trap with bottle cut into a funnel, liquids might be sugar water ( to attract,) with dish soap ( to drown)
I uncovered a wasp nest in my compost pile this week. I built it and they moved in uninvited. First time I got eight bad stings on various parts of my body. One even went down my shirt and stung my chest. Next few days I went out every evening at dusk and used foam wasp killer on nest. Now compost is no good for veggie plot I reckon ,only be good for flower beds. First night of shock n' awe seemed to decimate nest. Hundreds of dead wasps at entrances but still some in/out activity. Second blasting used all of can. Thought I'd finished the job off so went to move compost. As soon as I stuck pitch fork in out they came! This time five nasty stings on my left ankle that swelled up the size of golf balls Fearing an allergic reaction we ended up at A&E. Put on antibiotics that seemed to have worked. WASPS ARE NOT NICE! Foam sprays don't do the job! Try an alternative such as in this video!!!!!
I found this to be extremely satisfying to watch especially since I'm extremely allergic to Yellow Jackets. I never let it stop me from enjoying the great outdoors though.
I've been dealing with these for decades, literally. You wait till night when they're all on the nest and you can use either the foaming type of wasp & hornet spray or simply dump a half gallon of gasoline into the hole, *DO NOT LIGHT IT ON FIRE* , and I guarantee you you'll never see anything live ever come out of that hole again. Good luck.
I was fishing on the Raritan and Delaware canal in New Jersey when I stood on a nest I didn't see. I got STANG many times. One had gotten into my ear and began stinging me multiple times. I thought it would never stop. I am more cautious nowadays. 🎣
Bout 3 pounds of molten aluminum and some sand around the whole. Works 100% of the time. Trick is to pour at night. Plus the aluminum casting makes awesome lawn art after you dig it up.
@@johnm24358 dead serious. I make ingots out of soda cans all the time. And you can buy or build a propane forge pretty cheaply. Crucibles for holding the metal while molten are on the cheap side to. To get an idea what I'm talking about search anthill art or any of the dozens of channels on metal casting
I get a plug-in Dirt Devil hand held vacuum cleaner with the hose attachment. The kind where the dirt goes through the fan and has a bag on the back. I remove the bag so there is maximum air flow. Place the hose nozzle about an inch from the hole where the bees are coming and going, and turn it on. They come to the hole, get sucked into the hose, and come out the back as a puff of dust when smashed by the blades of the fan. In just a few minutes, you have every one of them gone.
Yep...that works....but kills all the vegetation around the nest...so here's another solution for ya buddy...in case the nest is under that plant your wife want to keep
As a kid my grandpa used to make a napalm like mixture of petrol and styrofoam packing material which would instantly melt in it and make it quite viscous. At night he’d quickly dump a bag of sand around the hole, pour in the mixture and light a half soaked rag attached to a long stick and put it in the hole. It would instantly catch fire and immolate all the hive and burn for a good while after which he’d put the hose down there. Of course this was done on his 25 acres property and wouldn’t be ideal for small lots. Everything had to be set up perfectly because the second he started putting that sand down and walking around they knew something was up. Interesting video here. Neat idea
Or you can wait until after dark and fill the nest with a few gallons of boiling water. Works great with fire ants, too. Maybe not as much fun, but safe, non toxic and final.
Ah....didnt plan this one...was sitting on my neighbor's porch having coffee and spotted the nest! Plus it's so hot here...90 degrees and 90% humidity its like living in a wet sock!
Take a quart bottle of seltzer water or club soda (do not use sweet soda) and turn it upside down and stick it in the hole. The water flows into special constructed drainage chambers the wasps make, but the carbon dioxide rises forcing the regular air out of the nest. If you still see activity the next day repeat in the evening but use two quarts.
I just thought of using vinegar and baking soda to create CO2, which should fill up the hole, but not sure how much I'll need. I'll try it at night in my raised bed where they made a nest. I emptied a 50 gallon rain barrel into it and they were still buzzing around the next day.
We had 2 nests and they found me before I found them. I've been stung by the red wasps and it hurts for a few minutes, but these little bast**** hurt like a mother!! I covered the holes with a bucket and sealed the edges with dirt and left them for a month or so. No more stinging bast****!!
I just wait a couple of days for the neighborhood skunks to take care of the nest. They make a hole where they dig up the nest itself but, they are very effective.
I just had that happen recently. I was getting ready to deal with a nest when I saw that it had been dug up and was gone. I had thought it was a raccoon but I suppose it could have been a skunk. Anyway, I was glad he did the job for me.
Josh, When we are being pestered by yellow jackets while eating outdoors, I thought that I would try use a small pool skimmer screen and handle like a butterfly catch net. Once I have one scooped up i will take it straight down to the table top, so it is trapped in the net, then just mist it with some soap and water to finish it off.I will let you know how it works.
I own 3 acers i keep a little over 1 acer in grass i have found 11 nests in the yard this year one nest in my home. To say i hate yellow Jackets is a understatment. I have been stung multiple times. used many methods to kill them unfortanitly gasoline is the best.. i was thinking of buying a bee suit to cut grass in lol
i had them pretty bad on our property,used a garden hose attachment,3 water hoses,put some wettable acephate powder mixed with liquid permethrin,did a treatment,killed them off but the results was very satisfying,over layed every yellow jacket hole with some bengal dust,
When we used to find them on the farm, we would pour bleach and ammonia into the hole. Cap the top off with a piece of board or plywood and let the chlorine gas do its work. Nothing can live in chloramine gas.
If these critters are far enough away from the house I leave them “bee”. If they’re close to the house I run a vacuum cleaner for two hours near sunset until dark. I place the vacuum head ( usually the crevice tool) right in the entrance with just enough room for them to get by. They don’t. There is a neat little sound as they disappear into the crevices opening and become stupefied inside the vacuum. One nest netted from 500 to a thousand yellow jackets over three days. (Yes…you may need to run it for two or three evenings.) It was right in my garden 3 feet from the steps to my front door. I tried soapy water, flooding with a garden hose, poison spray, … nothing worked. The vacuum idea I got from watching a professional. That’s what he used. A shop vac and a generator for power. A full body bee suit and he attacked it straight on taking no prisoners. Man we’re those guys angry at him! I used an old filterQueen vacuum. Nice and quiet and ran easily for two hours at a time. It was very fulfilling to sit there on my swinging bench and watch them disappear into that crevice tool….especially when those little buggers got me at least 12 times in my other attempts using the other methods. They’re gone now…two years later…never returned.
Great idea! Thanks for the video. One thing; Yellow Jackets are not just stingers and annoying but useful to prey on pests in the garden. One year when we killed 6 nests around the house, the garden pests were flourishing. As long as they don't bother us, we leave the nest alone. Question: can the zaps set the dry grass on fire?
I've been dethatching my lawn and ran over a couple of these little holes and they got me 5x! Now I'm good and mad at them. Will definitely check this out. Thanks!
Hi Stoney- Easier way is to fill up a gallon jug with 3 to 1 warm water and sugar. Wait until night and pour it all down the hole. Splash some around the top of hole. Next few days the ants will over run the nest and like magic yellow jackets will be gone.
I found a nest a few weeks ago when mowing. I got stung once then I got even. When the activity was low, I got a piece of 2x4, two big firecrackers, and a propane torch. I carefully dropped the firecrackers in the hole, lit them with the torch, quickly put the 2x4 over the hole and stood on it. No more yellow jackets! The torch provides self defense while placing the firecrackers.
Social wasps/yellowjackets play a vital ecological role, as predators controlling the numbers of potential pests like greenfly and many caterpillars and protecting our crops and our gardens. But wasps are also now increasingly understood to be valuable pollinators, transferring pollen as they visit flowers to drink nectar.
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer We had a nest under the the porch just by our front door. I just let them get on with it, no stings and no problems. I’m not familiar with the types of wasp/ yellowjackets you have in the US, they may be more aggressive than the our British wasps, over here they are only aggressive when provoked. I just wanted to point out their good side instead of always being seen as the bad guys. All the best.
I mostly disagree with your statement that bees do/don't like certain colors. While using a riding lawnmower, anytime I found yellow jacket nests I came back after dark to pour gasoline into the hole. That gets all but a half dozen, and they will leave within a day. Back to the color discussion. Before using gasoline to kill them, I found that by wearing boots, heavy blue jeans with the bottom taped to the boots (there's NOTHING more exciting than having yellow jackets trapped inside your jeans - unlike honey bees, their stinger has no barb - they keep on stinging), and a white T-shirt. When running over the nest, they would cover the jeans up but didn't get on the T-shirt at all. I have heard others say they attacked darker colors as well.
SpiritBear12 4 years ago You forgot about the queen. The queen stays in the hive, she doesn't come out, she stays in there and does nothing buy lay eggs. Those eggs hatch into grubs, and eventually grow into adult wasps. As long as the queen is in there laying eggs, that wasp nest is always going to be a problem. You have to kill her as well. Once that is done, the hive can't exist any more. Bees, wasps and hornets don't come out at night because they can't see in the dark. You can use that to your advantage. Get a soap dispenser meant for garden hoses. Put ordinary dish soap in it. At night when the wasps are in the hive, place the nozzle of the hose as far down in the hive entrance as you can get it. Turn on the hose, not full blast, but fairly strong stream. The water will pick up the soap and flood the hive with soapy water. The wasps will drown and the soapy water will also kill the eggs and larvae. The queen will drown too. You need the soap because the soap breaks down the waxy coating the wasps have on their body that keeps water out of their exoskeleton and spiracles. Insects don't breathe through their face like mammals and reptiles do. They have a series of holes in their abdomen called spiracles. The waxy coating on their bodies makes any water they encounter bead up and roll off like car wax does for cars. But, if you break down that coating, water will get sucked into their spiracles and they drown. The water is also cold and wasps don't like to be cold, they get stiff and can't move. So that, with all the water and soap will help wipe out the hive. Soap dispenser for a garden hose. mobileimages.lowes.com/product/converted/811001/811001014183.jpg
I used the hanging plug-in zapper I already owned to deal with mine. I put it right next to their nest for awhile and killed 100's of them, then put it right on top of their nest. They could still fly in and out around it, but barely, and it annoyed them to they kept attacking it and dying. It's been just over a week now and the hive is significantly less busy than it used to be, I think they're just about out of bodies to throw at it.
I heard wearing a TapOut shirt and a UFC hat scares the yellow jackets and you won't get stung. Affliction shirts work too, but are not quite as effective
Busby StandUp, hahahaha, dudes put on those shirts, go to the bar and think they know how to fight just because they are wearing the gear. You also have to yell a lot and draw attention to yourself
I don't like to use chemicals myself but always seem to fight the wasps in the spring I have a 1gal pump up spray container that I fill with water and add a big squirt of dish soap to it..any bug that Flys will die when sprayed with this by suffocating ..been using this for years and it works great ..thanks for your posts..
I always wait until sundown when most come home to roost. I pump cornstarch and seal them in with caulk, glue, & sometimes dirt. The powder keeps them (& ants) from breathing properly. You'll always have a few stragglers, but this looks interesting. I don't mind pollinators, bug I have allergies and wasps are pests, plain and simple. They also have a nastier sting and venom (my experience). I haven't had the pleasure of africanized bees & hope I never do.
Lol...yes it was....and it was fairly effective...normally takes a couple days to effectively kill the whole hive...but it works...changing batteries in between zappings
Somewhere here on YT I watched a video of someone placing a clear jar over a yellow jacket nest. I tried it on a nest at my home a few years ago and it worked. It will not work if the nest has more than 1 entrance. I placed it over the entrance at night after all were home. The jar must be clear. The YJs won't try to dig out around the edge. They will continue to try and fly up towards the clear blue sky, but can't.
We had a yellow jacket nest by our house, the way I got rid of them is waiting till nightfall when they are all in the nest then pour boiling hot water right in the hole. I poured maybe 3 or 4 pitchers of very hot water and that killed the nest….
I'd recommend something other than carrying boiling hot water around...that's extremely dangerous and could wind you up in a burn unit for a couple weeks
you are forgetting ...that the high voltage generator gets overloaded easily. When there is just air between the wires that carry opposite charge then the HV generator is ok high voltage is max, one insect gets in there ..snap discharge and thats a short circuit. Dead mosquito falls away and high voltage is back instantly. But what you are doing is creating many short circuits simulataneously, putting a bigger and bigger load into the high V circuit. Pretty soon it stops snapping, still killing the critters but eventually the high voltage will give out and they wont even get stunned any more. What I am telling you is this if you are farting around like a junior high school kid you might as well turn this into a science project that REALLY works.
hey man that is a good idea. however a piece of plastic sheeting that is 4mil will do the same thing. 6'×6' is about the rite size. cover the nest entrance with the sheeting, center the sheeting over entrance. seal down all edges. do this when the nest is at rest. usually at nite when it is cooler. let no fresh air get inside the cover in 2 or 3 days the nest will be dead.
This is awesome! I tried it and it worked fabulously! Killed 100 yellow jackets in probably an hour. I am going to finish off the nest at night now that it has been knocked back. Thank you!
@@joemarchand8313 exactly... regular gasoline is fine: just pour a cup or three down the hole at night and shove a rag or something in the hole and they will be dead by morning
Good idea! I have been plagued with these buggers all summer. Every time I go outside I get surrounded. I have to feed cats outside and the wasps act like I'm there for them as well! They go all around me, land on me, etc. I don't like it, lol! They do the same thing when I put out water for cats or water my plants. I've been stung once and believe me, once is enough!! The pain is unbelievable! I've been trying to get my husband to do something and so far, nothing he has done worked ( they were all pretty stupid, like cucumbers 🙄. They made a salad) So, I'm going to have to do it myself..I like this idea!
Ill be doing this tomorrow, I just found a nest by my old shed we didn’t take down yet. I’m all about chemicals and totally blowing them out of the water but this looks fun. One got me so now I’ll give them some pain!
A smart fella would tie a length of paracord to the handle to pull the zapper away from the nest so he wouldn't need to go back into the combat zone to retrieve the swatter... I'm just say'n.
Use dish soap and water and you spray it down there hole and the dish soap and water clogs up their pore so they can't breathe they breathe through their skin their pores they don't breathe like we do so when you put dish soap on them they died cuz it's Smothers them
Good Idea! I have done something similar, where I fill a gallon jar with mostly dirt, some soap and water. Once it becomes thoroughly mixed into soapy mud, it gets dumped onto the entrance of the ground hive.
Why not use the expanding foam from the can. Most of the secondary entrances will be near the main one. Find the main one and a couple of the others and fill the holes with the foam. Some will be stuck in the foam but it should expand into the nest and trap the queen.
I'm actually heading outside in about 15 min. Was going to pour a pint of gas in the yellow jacket hole but have some of the expanding foam, so may use the gas tonight and foam it over in the morning. I'm a little scared I'm going to get stung.
Dawn dish detergent in a stream from a sprayer at night works too. Had them in our grill and obviously didn’t want to poison that up. Place a portable light at a 90 angle from you - they will head to the light - so stay in the shadows.
Just got stings on my feet and legs while mowing the lawn, they chased me to the house and found 2 dead inside my house. They stinged me 12 times simo i m here to find a solution. Lucky that it waa only me and not my youg kids
1) Wasps/hornets/yellow jackets are pollinators. They don't collect pollen but they're attracted to nectar producing plants, and inadvertently transfer it from flower to flower. 2) They feed birds and bats. I hate them too. I've got a nest I have to take out this fall. They may be beneficial to other animals but they don't get to share my yard with me. lol
3m electric tape also works to wrap around the handle to depress the switch. I say 3m because it's better than that cheap stuff but most any tape will work.
I thought Yellowjackets were wasps, not bees. After reviewing the video, I would say they are most definitely ground nesting yellow jacket wasps, not Ground Bees. Ground Bees don't have the smooth glossy abdomen that the wasps have. The abdomen of Ground Bees is slightly furry. No, these are wasps. Nasty !
Thanks for the entomology lesson...yep so around these parts if you get stung...it was a bee....we dont really make the determination of wasp or whatever....when I'm on the tractor and I get into a nest of stinging insects.....we just call them bees or yellow jackets lol
Whether this works or not, this is an awesome idea and I’m subscribing immediately! Let the fun begin! Thank you! Excited to see other videos on your channel!
You forgot about the queen. The queen stays in the hive, she doesn't come out, she stays in there and does nothing buy lay eggs. Those eggs hatch into grubs, and eventually grow into adult wasps. As long as the queen is in there laying eggs, that wasp nest is always going to be a problem. You have to kill her as well. Once that is done, the hive can't exist any more.
Bees, wasps and hornets don't come out at night because they can't see in the dark. You can use that to your advantage. Get a soap dispenser meant for garden hoses. Put ordinary dish soap in it. At night when the wasps are in the hive, place the nozzle of the hose as far down in the hive entrance as you can get it. Turn on the hose, not full blast, but fairly strong stream. The water will pick up the soap and flood the hive with soapy water. The wasps will drown and the soapy water will also kill the eggs and larvae. The queen will drown too. You need the soap because the soap breaks down the waxy coating the wasps have on their body that keeps water out of their exoskeleton and spiracles.
Insects don't breathe through their face like mammals and reptiles do. They have a series of holes in their abdomen called spiracles. The waxy coating on their bodies makes any water they encounter bead up and roll off like car wax does for cars. But, if you break down that coating, water will get sucked into their spiracles and they drown.
The water is also cold and wasps don't like to be cold, they get stiff and can't move. So that, with all the water and soap will help wipe out the hive.
Soap dispenser for a garden hose.
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Thanks spirit bear...maybe next time I'll do a video using this apparatus!
If you can't get a garden hose from the house all the way to the wasp nest, you can use a shorter hose and a 5 gallon bucket of very soapy water and a funnel. Tape the funnel to one end of the hose and shove the other end in the entrance hole of the nest. You will more than likely need 2 people for this. One to hold the funnel end of the hose up and the other to lift the bucket and pour the soap water down the hose. Again, do this at night. Find a large funnel with a bottom that will fit fairly deep in the hose, tape it on there real good with duct tape.
You might need 2 five gallon buckets. You want to soak the living hell out of the nest. Dish soap wont bother the ground.
no shit ?! will have to give this a try
@@SpiritBear12 can I just wait til winter time? Will they be dead inside the hive by then? Mines hanging near my slider out back
You can wait for winter. Most of the wasps wont die, they sort of hibernate. Do it before it snows though.
It was during a hot summer month, circa 1980. I lived in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC. I don't remember how I discovered it, but there was a yellow jacket nest at the rear of my house, about 15 feet off to the right side. Until this nest was found, I thought all bee-like creatures built nests which hung from, well, something off of the ground. Bottom line? I just didn't begin to have a clue about what to do to eliminate this threat. My intuition was to get a gallon of gasoline and pour it down the hole, but not only was that a potential fire hazard, even if I pulled it off without a glitch, that portion of ground would become a bio-hazard. I didn't think any bug killer spray would work either, plus it was a bio-hazard, too. I waited a few days to do research before taking any action. Then it came to me, a solution which was incredibly simple, super cheap and had zero environmental impact. I call it...
MY 3-STEP PLAN: Based on my observation that all bees, hornets and yellow jackets are totally inactive in the darkness and coolness of night.
1. Before doing anything, wait at least an hour after dark to be certain the yellow jackets are in their nest. This can be verified by flashlight inspection. (I checked, and there was zero activity)
2. Gather your 4 largest pots, fill them with water and heat them on the stove until the water is at a rolling boil.
2-A. This really is not a step, but I wore jeans and a long sleeve shirt as an emotional insurance policy and for peace of mind. (turns out, I could have been butt-naked;-)
3. With an assistant shining a flashlight on the ground entrance to the yellow jacket nest, I dumped the largest pot of boiling water down it as fast as I could, continuing with the other pots, repeating the process one more round.
RESULTS:
There was not a sign of yellow jacket life at any time during my extermination procedure, not the next morning, not a week or even a month later.
I now live in Olympia, Washington. About 4 years ago I found a yellow jacket nest at the edge of my front porch, which is almost at ground level. I followed the same plan I used in 1980 with the same results.
Hope this helps!
Tom- THANK YOU!! Have tried 3 cans of commercial wasp/hornet/ yellow jacket spray. Didn’t work.
Tonight I will get the large pot I cook crabs in as well as a couple of others heat them outside and try your suggestion.
@@chipbower361 Also, plenty of videos to wait until night, use Dawn dish soap (or any degreasing dish soap)..
1) At night, cover holes with screening, weigh down with a few bricks
2) squirt dawn (about 1/3 to half bottle thru screening,down hole
3) run water from garden hose down hole for few to several minutes
4)repeat at both holes
5) leave screening over night
In morning usually No more ground yellow jacket wasps
*For above ground wasps* too close to house, put about 1/4 c dawn soap & water in a pump spray garden bottle, at night spray on Hive & any wasps that fall ( soapy water will almost instantly drown them.
Make sure to remove hanging Hive & the little nub it hung from so others wont rebuild.
Can also spray afterwards peppermint essential oil & water (they hate the smell,) to deter, respray peppermint water as needed.
Thanks! Saved me the call out fee!
I live in MD and found a nest in the ground today while out in the yard with the dog. Headed to operation Circa 1980 🙏🏾 Thank you.
This is the same strategy I've used for nearly every ground yellow jacket nest I've dealt with over the years. Only difference is I just use hot water from the tap and liquid dish soap mixed together. Usually at least a couple gallons worth, and then I pour it directly down the hole at night after dark. Never been stung once doing it that way. No fuss, no swarming, dead wasps in the morning.
The only other technique I've used, which I picked up from a professional, was insecticide dust called Drione. This is really good for ground nests as well as nests that are built into part of a structure. Things like Soffit, Brick wall, etc. The dust can penetrate deep enough to get into the heart of the nest and it eliminates them without any fuss whatsoever. If they get any dust on them at all, they're toast. And they track it everywhere if they walk through it. Do it at night and check back after 24 hours and usually by then, the entire nest is shut down and dead.
Zapping quickly STOPS when there are too many shorts in the mesh. This swatter is not designed for multiple bugs.
What I noticed too.
Maybe a commercial one is. And maybe a fan goimg off every so often go blow them away
If bitten/stung by any insect wash the bite and the surrounding area with warm soapy water. Wasps use pheromones that they spray into the air and around where they bite to communicate with other wasps and sound the alarm that they are in trouble. The pheromone will stay in the environment for some time, including around the sites of any bites on your skin. Soapy water breaks down the pheromone. I learnt this from the hospital, after being bit by ( what we in Australia call) a European Wasp(also known as a German wasp or German yellow jacket). It made my foot go black and swollen for about a week and felt like someone had burnt me with a match or cigarette lighter.
I admire this guys non chemical approach and ingenuity. In the past, after being chased into my house by a swarm and getting stung about 8+ times I wasn't so compassionate. One sting was between the eyes! I have used gas to kill them in the past with mixed results. Now I use about a cup of Malathion (straight up not diluted) down the hole at night while wearing vinyl gloves. I have a 100% success rate with this method. I know this a chemical method but when you see how aggressive Yellow jackets are in real life you want them gone yesterday. I have never experienced anything like that in my life. If I would have been trapped by that nest I probably would have died. No joke...
the outfit I work for trains horses for AJ Foyt - AJ told me the scariest thing he's ever encountered was killer bees nest - he was clearing out by his lake and was attacked - twice - and twice he was hospitalized
Just a heads up, some nests have more than one opening. So you need to be mindful of that.
This. Been there, done that, got the bites and stings. I hates them little yeller bastids...
During day, mark your wasp nest with a small flag. At night use a bucket and screen. Place screen over hole, drop dry ice over top of screen and place bucket upside down trapping the CO². In morning, flip bucket. End of bees.
I'm not sure I've ever seen dry ice for sale anywhere I've been lately,but then again I haven't exactly sought it out either. It sounds like a great idea that I'd like to try sometime if I can get access to some...I have seen the bug zapper paddles used in this video,at a Walgreens located just @ the end of the rd.my condo is on. Since I have a nest to deal w/asap I'll get whatever is available to me right away,lol!
@@leesmith5154 Don’t know where you live, but SaveMart has it here as does Winco Foods.
@@MarcusRefusius I live in Nashville,TN..I wonder if Hardware stores like Ace, Lowe's,or Home Depot would have it. Heck,maybe even liquor stores. I guess I just need to ask around & it's prob.not as hard to find as I originally thought..
@@leesmith5154 Do you folks have Kroger’s stores? I’ll bet they have it.
@@leesmith5154Publix in Florida had dry ice
Hope this helps (posting in several vids because you all have been helpful to me) - I wanted a non toxic (as possible) solution to wasps/ yellow jackets. My children have been stung terribly by these things, so it was my turn to deal with it. I found their location through keen observation - just watching insects come and go and found a large concentration of them going into the ground, which was home for them. I was inclined to use gas, but then learned 1litre is enough to poison 1Million litres of ground water. No bueno. So I used regular tap water and four kinds of soaps: dish, a liberal sprinkling of "Comet", 3 dishwashing machine dissolvable pouches and 2 scoops of borax/soap flakes. Suffice to say there was enough bubbles for Africa. I carried a very large bucket of water (half a metal full size trash can worth) to the location, far away from my home. It was heavy going as I am fat. Tip: use a stout stick to help with the digging in of the handle by carrying the stick under the handle. I went at 9pm on late summer night. It was dark out. Using my head flashlight, I located the hole. There were dozens of them still buzzing around the hole. I was dead afraid having been stung by these before. I decided to forgo the funnel, steel wool as some advised. The hole was just far too big. I poured the water and the foam overwhelmed them. I poured about half quickly, then calmed down and poured till it soaked into the hole. Observed for a second, then got chicken and poured more in spurts, until it was all gone. I was shocked at the size of the things guarding the entrance at night. These were easily half as long as my tip of thumb to thumb joint. Not as thick obviously, but seriously large. Yellow jackets on kind of steroids. I saw them all on the surface completely motionless (I read the soap dissolves their wax, filling their spiracles, which drowns them instantly). After all was poured, I waited ten seconds at the hole and saw nothing come out. I was still scared in case there may be workers still coming back to the nest. I got out of there and will go look at it tomorrow/next day and report back if there is interest.
I like the electric fly swatter idea, and I may use a modified version of that to protect my peach trees this year. Now something I've been using for the last 25 years is liquid wisk or tide laundry detergent. You use it in any hand sprayer bottle that shoots a solid stream of liquid. I thin it with water," I don't know the ratio", I just make it thin enough that it will just function in my particular spray bottle. This is absolutely deadly to any type of insect I've used it on. It will knock wasps right out of the air. I believe it litterally degreases them to death. It destroys their nests too, makes them inhabitable. And one of the best parts of it, it is dirt cheap compared to most anything else I've tried!
Dish soap is great in the edible gardens as it's food safe.
Gasoline fumes are heavier than air, so when you pour in the entrance to the nest, the fumes go down. This is very important. Stick funnel in hole, pour gasoline from small container into funnel. Toss container aside and kick funnel away. Place shoe sole over hole for 30 seconds or so. Move foot aside, light 'er up. Burns out entire nest. Has never failed to work 100%.
Yup, that's the old school way. Before social media, you asked your dad or grandpa what to do and this is what he'd tell you.
How the heck do you get close enough to pour gasoline down the hole before they come out and zap ya??lol wouldnt they come out as soon as you put the funnel in their bee hole?😂
@@thebeardedman-drenaline5546 Some are more aggressive than others. But until that "for the queen" phermone gets released, they are usually pretty ok with stuff nearby. You still need to cover up, and do it at dusk when they are less active and not make much disturbance. One the phermone is in the air, they will kamakazi bomb you.
@@robertlaw4073 oh yes...I know all to well lol last week I got hit by many 3 days in a row doing trail maintenance....those suckers will hunt you down once your stung also...I didnt know night time is the time to take care of them though...looks like I'll be taking a night hike tonight with some high octane gas🔥
@@thebeardedman-drenaline5546you do it at night
I just noticed a hole in my yard just a little bigger than the one you were dealing with but never saw any activity while mowing, until yesterday. Once I saw the little zappers going in and out I got the water hose and started filling the hole up with water while keeping my foot over the hole so none of them could get out. I forgot about the one's who wanted to get in so as I sprayed them with water while keeping mt foot over the hole. I could finish them off while they were on the ground but more and more showed up and once I removed my foot from the hole all hell broke lose. I got to the garage and in the house but one of them got under my shirt and stung me 3 times before I could take him out. I just happened to have some Sting Kill, I saw it used on a Coyote Peterson video once, and it really helped the stinging and burning pain. I also have one of those electric fly zappers so I went back out and covered the hole while trying to hold the button and got stung 3 more times, got out the Sting Kill again. I'm gonna take a piece of window screen and cover the hole when it's dark, put bricks around the edges to keep the screen in place, pour in some Dawn dish soap and add water. That should take care of the Taliban Yellow Jackets. Loved the video, didn't realize killing yellow jackets could be so funny.
Watching this while nursing a direct shot to my forehead after I mowed right into the damn hive. Got wasp killer spray and went back out only to come running in with one stinging the shit out of my inner thighs. Now I’m sitting here getting a headache from the gasoline fumes. I need a beer!
Mark the hole in the daytime, go back with a funnel and a can of diesel fuel. Pour the gas in the hole and keep pouring even if the ground starts vibrating and scares you, keep pouring until you have poured at least 3 gallons in there and if its like a bumble bee nest pour the whole thing in the hole. Have a wick of twisted paper towels presoaked in diesel and cram that in the whole opening and light it and run. Get in your truck or the house in case any mad bugs got through. Cooks the whole nest quite nicely or the gas fumes kill the bees. Either way 100% victory.
@@CrazyTuco1you are crazy tuco don't even worry about the explosion 💥💥💥 lol
oooh s*...
They're wasps, not bees, but anyway, what do I know so long as they DIE!!!!!
I learned by hanging a paper bag from a string, the wasps that were invading my eaves disappeared.
Napalm wasn't an option.
They never came back
I am a hobby bee keeper there is a big difference between Bees & Wasps / Hornets ! My 3 year old grandaughter says fuzzy bees are good and shiny bees are bad . I got started in Beekeeping after getting stung by some Honey Bees and NOT haveing a reaction to them ! You see I am severely allergic to Wasps & Hornets , my next might be my last . In summer I carry a Epy Pen with me at all times . After not haveing a reaction to the honey bees I , and my Dr. did some research and found out that they have different Venom . And yes I kill every Yellow Jacket I can !!!
i went into anaphylactic shock from a wasp sting heart stopped a few times etc 1 week in hospital. next sting i get i have 3 minutus to get the epy pen going be very carefull around wasps george
The pro that came out to kill a yellowjacket's nest in our juniper shrubs is also allergic. He said he switched from the EpiPen to Claritin RediTabs, the kind that you put under your tongue. He didn't like the after effects of the pen.
Great to know about the Claritin RediTabs......Thanks for sharing....sure wouldn't hurt to keep some handy "just in case"....Ouch
Justin Case, you are right, however, Epi Pens don't just make you jittery. You have to go to the ER if you ever have to use an epi pen. It's basically adrenaline and can give you a heart attack! Not saying not to use it, because some people need them, but people need to know that if you use an epi pen an don't seek immediate medical attention afterwards, you are not doing yourself any favors, you could be killing yourself while thinking you are saving life.
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Best way I found to get rid of yellow jackets.
If you know where the nest is. Get a wet/dry shopvac , put a couple inches of water in it with dish detergent. Set the nozzle of the vacuum hose right next to the entrance. Leave it for a few hours and you will have a shopvac full of hornet soup
I did the same & it worked great. The shop vac began to stink to high heaven in a view days. So change vac often. Maybe a good shot of diatomaceous earth as a parting gesture for good measure.
Do you turn the vac suction on?
I had a similar problem where they built a nest through a hole in one of the cinder blocks in my garage. I took a shop-vac and taped an 8-foot long piece of 1" PVC to the end of the vac hose and propped it next to the hole. Got the yellow jackets coming and going. Took a few hours but it was very effective.
Here in the Southern Sierra we call them Meat Bees. And they are incredibly aggressive. I remember as a kid in Ohio, we called them Yellow Jackets and they seemed more interested in Fruit. I watched Meat Bees here strip a Bat down to a Skeleton in a very short time. Some friends operate a Pack Station in Kings Canyon and they lost a Horse to them years ago. Stepped on a Nest and got so many stings it died. It seems like some years they are a lot worse than others. My friends have a very good Restaurant and sometimes the Meat Bees make it practically impossible to eat out on their deck. Fun Video. Cheers.
I like better #7..., wow I can't believe of what the horse was,pitty. Just got stung bet neck and collarbone.
Couple years ago, I removed some dying bushes that surrounded a tree in my front yard. After removing them, I should’ve filled in the holes more thoroughly because a month later, some yellow jackets made there home there. Rushes to Home Depot and bought several cans of their long distance foam and blasted them from the comfort of my front door. After a few hours I saw the after math of hundreds of dead yellow jackets there. I sprayed again at night to ensure I got the whole nest. Good thing too. My 2 year old daughter likes to stand near the base of the tree and look up to see the various birds in their nest.
1X4 1/4 ply cardboard, cut to the shape of fly swatter if you can't find the ground hive put a can of cat food under that. they eat meat. use a rubber band on the switch. The only problem is fly swatter are not designed to leave on. they last about a week before the electronics burn out. that is not to bad if you buy them from store that has 30-day warranty. if you can not find the nest cat food, grind up an apple and mix tea spoon of boric acid. that is better than trapping the yellow jacket because the yellow jackets will take it back to the hive and show the others where the poison cat food is it is slower but you will get the queens. It may take a week or two.
Thanks Josh,
I went out and bought the AA type after seeing you video.
I just put it down without the towel.
I caught over 200 in a few hours on both sides of the zapper.
I discovered that a thick rubber band can be used to hold the button. So, a clamp is not necessary.
Thanks again.
For rock wall yellowjacket nests (vertical entrances) I've taken out two by stuffing their entry holes with regular water ice. At night, of course. This required me to revisit and refresh with ice more than once, as the yellowjackets will melt the ice by increasing activity (and thus their body heat), but individual yellowjackets will run out of energy before long, and eventually the nests ran out of yellowjackets.
Over 20 years ago I used a compact vacuum cleaner that had a long hose. I positioned the end of the hose about 1/2 to 3/4 inch away from the nest and turn it on at dawn and dusk when I was done at the end of the eay I put the body of the compact machine in a chest type freezer in the garage. I caught almost 3/4 gallon of bees. I kept doing that till I saw no more bees.
I also use electronics to kill yellow jackets. The idea came to me decades ago. Just recently I started using the electric fly swatters. But I never have used electronics the way you did in this video. This is a pretty good idea. After 40+ years of studying them, I've discovered how smart they are. Thanks
Just a FYI. As far as I know, all of the wasp / hornets / yellow jackets (whatever) go back to the nest at night. So I attack them at night when all of them are at the nest. In this way, I do not leave any survivors left to start another nest of colony somewhere else. So using this method, I would put the racket over the entrance before sunup to be sure and get them all.
we all know we can pour gas or fuel into the hole my friend...this is just showing ya another way...you decimate the population of the hive and they cannot survive....and grandmas prize rose bush lives to flower another day this way my brotha
The yellow jackets that inhabit the nest in my yard, must have a few scouts that stay out of the nest overnight because at night I totally cover their nest with loose dirt topped by diatomaceous earth. The next morning I go out before they start moving and you can see them coming in from surrounding areas trying to get in the hole that no longer exists. Somehow or another during the day, though they managed to uncover that hole and they come and go like nothing happened.
Now I know it was a pair of yellow jackets that stung me several years ago while mowing grass. First one ankle. Then the other. Only time I was ever stung. Came back in evening with gasoline. Fire in the hole! This video was great. Thanks.
Fun video. I saw this video last year and tried this method the opposite way. I put the electric fly swatter over a pan of fish guts. Yellow Jackets love fish guts. The result was I only got a few. I discovered how smart they are. They refused to land on the fly swatter even for the food they love best.
They are not "bees" they are WASPS. Like you said insignificant pollinators they are attracted to rotted wood to make paper nest and they eat fresh carrion (dead animals) and/or live insects; usually one or the other. They will sometimes set up a nest near heavily aphid infested plants.
yep...we all know they are not "bees" as you'd say a honey bee....however...step on a nest and yell at your buddy....run!! Wasps! lol...nope....it's run BEES!!!! AHHHHH!!!!
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Hate to nit pick, but as a beekeeper, I object to people calling hornets and other nasties bees because it makes people want to kill ALL bees (the real ones). That is a shame! That said, I did enjoy your vid and I just may try it on a yellow jacket ground nest I discovered today!
Neighbor:
"What's that smell?"
Guy making video:
"The smell of...victory."
"I love the smell of burnt yellow jackets in the morning...smells like..victory."
Ran into a hive 2 weeks ago cutting trees, 18 stings! My wife thought me running and yelling was the funniest thing she has seen in a long time.
Not very funny when they start swelling on you
I agree, my face was on fire for 3 days. Now I don't want to bush hog.
Same thing happened to me ,mowing the lawn they got me, everyone was laughing.
Then about 2 weeks later the wasps found our back porch and stung everyone that laughed at me even the dogs.
Then they were like "This is serious we better do something." I was like "So who's laughing now".
anyways...
I found the ground nest today after looking , time to get a zapper or I'll do the nighttime soap/water thing.
Only thing in the world that has ever caused me to panic.
I was a victim but I got some off road diesel fuel,poured down the hole,it killed them quick.
Just get a glass and half fill with Mountain Dew. They drown themselves in hoards to drink it! Works every time!
That’s why I have always called them Mountain Dew bees.
This is an interesting solution, as it the glass bowl idea. We can't use gasoline as the nest is only about 40' from the shallow well that supplies our water (spring fed). We have no idea about the hydrology of that part of the property, so we don't want to take a chance. 1 qt of gas can pollute 10,000 gal of water.
The best way to find the nests is how the Pit River Natives in northern CA found them. Take tiny pieces of meat and down from a bird. mix tiny pieces together. The bees will fly with the tiny pieces but the down really fouls up the aerodynamics and they fly super slow. You can follow them any time of day back to the nest.
Take tiny pieces of meat and down from a bird?? What does that mean?
Another way of getting rid of them (I have found this especially helpful when I could not find the nest) is to buy some ordinary glue traps (for mice or other small vermin - in this case, though not necessary, I found, the larger the pads, the better), put a few morsels of meat on them and wait for the bugs to meet their demise! Also this method is great, because you do not have to come into direct contact with them, yet still being able to proactively fight them and you don’t have to worry about you or your family getting stung as much this way, I got an entire nest in a few days and have not had problems since. Will certainly keep on using this method for wasps, hornets, yellow jackets, and the like. P.S. No method is perfect or without problems and in my case, I did have to be mindful of other surrounding creatures (like dogs, cats, birds, and more), the best advice I can give on this, is to constantly be aware of the state of your traps (check them every so often - whatever makes you feel the most comfortable).
Please don't use glue traps...they kill anything/ everything indiscriminately.
Lots of wildlife brought to wildlife rehabbers to try to remove with oil...nasty job....
Just spray Dawn dish soap & water from a distance...or look up videos how to make wasp trap with bottle cut into a funnel, liquids might be sugar water ( to attract,) with dish soap ( to drown)
I uncovered a wasp nest in my compost pile this week. I built it and they moved in uninvited. First time I got eight bad stings on various parts of my body. One even went down my shirt and stung my chest. Next few days I went out every evening at dusk and used foam wasp killer on nest. Now compost is no good for veggie plot I reckon ,only be good for flower beds. First night of shock n' awe seemed to decimate nest. Hundreds of dead wasps at entrances but still some in/out activity. Second blasting used all of can. Thought I'd finished the job off so went to move compost. As soon as I stuck pitch fork in out they came! This time five nasty stings on my left ankle that swelled up the size of golf balls Fearing an allergic reaction we ended up at A&E. Put on antibiotics that seemed to have worked. WASPS ARE NOT NICE! Foam sprays don't do the job! Try an alternative such as in this video!!!!!
Placing it there just before sunrise might be a good idea too- get them on their way out and also prevent them from killing local bees etc.
I found this to be extremely satisfying to watch especially since I'm extremely allergic to Yellow Jackets. I never let it stop me from enjoying the great outdoors though.
I've been dealing with these for decades, literally. You wait till night when they're all on the nest and you can use either the foaming type of wasp & hornet spray or simply dump a half gallon of gasoline into the hole, *DO NOT LIGHT IT ON FIRE* , and I guarantee you you'll never see anything live ever come out of that hole again. Good luck.
- Light it anyway. Its a matter of satisfaction seeing the little bastards die.
Bengal dust works pretty good.
I was fishing on the Raritan and Delaware canal in New Jersey when I stood on a nest I didn't see. I got STANG many times. One had gotten into my ear and began stinging me multiple times. I thought it would never stop. I am more cautious nowadays. 🎣
Bout 3 pounds of molten aluminum and some sand around the whole. Works 100% of the time.
Trick is to pour at night. Plus the aluminum casting makes awesome lawn art after you dig it up.
Sounds like a good idea but where would someone get 3 pounds of molten aluminum? Or perhaps you were being sarcastic?
@@johnm24358 dead serious. I make ingots out of soda cans all the time. And you can buy or build a propane forge pretty cheaply. Crucibles for holding the metal while molten are on the cheap side to.
To get an idea what I'm talking about search anthill art or any of the dozens of channels on metal casting
@@hogfry Interesting... will check out the sites you suggested...
I get a plug-in Dirt Devil hand held vacuum cleaner with the hose attachment. The kind where the dirt goes through the fan and has a bag on the back. I remove the bag so there is maximum air flow. Place the hose nozzle about an inch from the hole where the bees are coming and going, and turn it on. They come to the hole, get sucked into the hose, and come out the back as a puff of dust when smashed by the blades of the fan. In just a few minutes, you have every one of them gone.
We used to either pour gasoline in the hole and light it, or a quarter stick of stumping powder. Worked good.
Yep...that works....but kills all the vegetation around the nest...so here's another solution for ya buddy...in case the nest is under that plant your wife want to keep
Sounds like overkill, but what the hell! Have fun while you are taking care of business.
As a kid my grandpa used to make a napalm like mixture of petrol and styrofoam packing material which would instantly melt in it and make it quite viscous. At night he’d quickly dump a bag of sand around the hole, pour in the mixture and light a half soaked rag attached to a long stick and put it in the hole. It would instantly catch fire and immolate all the hive and burn for a good while after which he’d put the hose down there. Of course this was done on his 25 acres property and wouldn’t be ideal for small lots. Everything had to be set up perfectly because the second he started putting that sand down and walking around they knew something was up. Interesting video here. Neat idea
Or you can wait until after dark and fill the nest with a few gallons of boiling water. Works great with fire ants, too. Maybe not as much fun, but safe, non toxic and final.
Nice trick. However, shorts and sandles might not be the best idea, but that's just me.
Ah....didnt plan this one...was sitting on my neighbor's porch having coffee and spotted the nest! Plus it's so hot here...90 degrees and 90% humidity its like living in a wet sock!
I sprayed wasps last year wearing shorts, was pretty paranoid but still didn't feel like changing in the summer heat, haha
best time to address them darn yellowjackets is just after sunset, when kost have returned to the hive.
Yup, that was what I was also going to suggest. If you don't happen to be making a vid deal with the bugger's after dark. It's much safer.
Most cannot see very well after the sun goes down.
Take a quart bottle of seltzer water or club soda (do not use sweet soda) and turn it upside down and stick it in the hole. The water flows into special constructed drainage chambers the wasps make, but the carbon dioxide rises forcing the regular air out of the nest.
If you still see activity the next day repeat in the evening but use two quarts.
We have just found a nest in our garden. Do you think seltzer water will mess up the ph of our soil any?
@@hpruitt1186 no, it’s just water. Neutral ph.
I just thought of using vinegar and baking soda to create CO2, which should fill up the hole, but not sure how much I'll need. I'll try it at night in my raised bed where they made a nest. I emptied a 50 gallon rain barrel into it and they were still buzzing around the next day.
You need soapy water . Kills them.@@Askalon9
We had 2 nests and they found me before I found them. I've been stung by the red wasps and it hurts for a few minutes, but these little bast**** hurt like a mother!! I covered the holes with a bucket and sealed the edges with dirt and left them for a month or so. No more stinging bast****!!
Can’t wait to try. They got me the other day, 1 outside and 3 chased me in the house and got me again.
I just wait a couple of days for the neighborhood skunks to take care of the nest. They make a hole where they dig up the nest itself but, they are very effective.
I just had that happen recently. I was getting ready to deal with a nest when I saw that it had been dug up and was gone. I had thought it was a raccoon but I suppose it could have been a skunk. Anyway, I was glad he did the job for me.
Josh, When we are being pestered by yellow jackets while eating outdoors, I thought that I would try use a small pool skimmer screen and handle like a butterfly catch net. Once I have one scooped up i will take it straight down to the table top, so it is trapped in the net, then just mist it with some soap and water to finish it off.I will let you know how it works.
I own 3 acers i keep a little over 1 acer in grass i have found 11 nests in the yard this year one nest in my home. To say i hate yellow Jackets is a understatment. I have been stung multiple times. used many methods to kill them unfortanitly gasoline is the best.. i was thinking of buying a bee suit to cut grass in lol
*acres *unfortunately
At. Night poor in the gas ine cup than cover the hole dont light it it kills them all
i had them pretty bad on our property,used a garden hose attachment,3 water hoses,put some wettable acephate powder mixed with liquid permethrin,did a treatment,killed them off but the results was very satisfying,over layed every yellow jacket hole with some bengal dust,
I learned by hanging a paper bag from a string, the wasps that were invading my eaves disappeared.
Napalm wasn't an option.
They never came back
When we used to find them on the farm, we would pour bleach and ammonia into the hole. Cap the top off with a piece of board or plywood and let the chlorine gas do its work. Nothing can live in chloramine gas.
Even moms prize rose bush...this is more about an alternative method..even soapy water works....but this is just another way
I learned by hanging a paper bag from a string, the wasps that were invading my eaves disappeared.
Napalm wasn't an option.
They never came back
If these critters are far enough away from the house I leave them “bee”. If they’re close to the house I run a vacuum cleaner for two hours near sunset until dark. I place the vacuum head ( usually the crevice tool) right in the entrance with just enough room for them to get by. They don’t. There is a neat little sound as they disappear into the crevices opening and become stupefied inside the vacuum. One nest netted from 500 to a thousand yellow jackets over three days. (Yes…you may need to run it for two or three evenings.) It was right in my garden 3 feet from the steps to my front door.
I tried soapy water, flooding with a garden hose, poison spray, … nothing worked. The vacuum idea I got from watching a professional. That’s what he used. A shop vac and a generator for power. A full body bee suit and he attacked it straight on taking no prisoners. Man we’re those guys angry at him!
I used an old filterQueen vacuum. Nice and quiet and ran easily for two hours at a time. It was very fulfilling to sit there on my swinging bench and watch them disappear into that crevice tool….especially when those little buggers got me at least 12 times in my other attempts using the other methods.
They’re gone now…two years later…never returned.
Great idea! Thanks for the video. One thing; Yellow Jackets are not just stingers and annoying but useful to prey on pests in the garden. One year when we killed 6 nests around the house, the garden pests were flourishing. As long as they don't bother us, we leave the nest alone. Question: can the zaps set the dry grass on fire?
That’s got to be an awesome sound while you’re having your morning cup of coffee great job!!! We can all use less ground bees.
I've been dethatching my lawn and ran over a couple of these little holes and they got me 5x! Now I'm good and mad at them. Will definitely check this out. Thanks!
"How to find Yellowjacket Nests Without Your Lawn Mower (or your foot)" sounds like a country music album waiting to happen.
The end of a weed torch layed at the entrance works well too. Also the best time to do it is after dark.
Put polosi on it and cover with I've cream..
Hi Stoney- Easier way is to fill up a gallon jug with 3 to 1 warm water and sugar. Wait until night and pour it all down the hole. Splash some around the top of hole. Next few days the ants will over run the nest and like magic yellow jackets will be gone.
Yeah, but now you have an ant problem
How cool. I love knowing that for each little "pop" the life of an evil wasp/hornet/bee just ended.
Man, that zapping sound has to be so satisfying!
I found a nest a few weeks ago when mowing. I got stung once then I got even. When the activity was low, I got a piece of 2x4, two big firecrackers, and a propane torch. I carefully dropped the firecrackers in the hole, lit them with the torch, quickly put the 2x4 over the hole and stood on it. No more yellow jackets! The torch provides self defense while placing the firecrackers.
I just got stung 7x yesterday while mowing. I'm carefully planning my revenge!
Social wasps/yellowjackets play a vital ecological role, as predators controlling the numbers of potential pests like greenfly and many caterpillars and protecting our crops and our gardens. But wasps are also now increasingly understood to be valuable pollinators, transferring pollen as they visit flowers to drink nectar.
cool....they can build a nest anywhere but where they'll attack me as I walk out my front door
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer We had a nest under the the porch just by our front door. I just let them get on with it, no stings and no problems. I’m not familiar with the types of wasp/ yellowjackets you have in the US, they may be more aggressive than the our British wasps, over here they are only aggressive when provoked. I just wanted to point out their good side instead of always being seen as the bad guys. All the best.
I mostly disagree with your statement that bees do/don't like certain colors.
While using a riding lawnmower, anytime I found yellow jacket nests I came back after dark to pour gasoline into the hole. That gets all but a half dozen, and they will leave within a day.
Back to the color discussion. Before using gasoline to kill them, I found that by wearing boots, heavy blue jeans with the bottom taped to the boots (there's NOTHING more exciting than having yellow jackets trapped inside your jeans - unlike honey bees, their stinger has no barb - they keep on stinging), and a white T-shirt. When running over the nest, they would cover the jeans up but didn't get on the T-shirt at all. I have heard others say they attacked darker colors as well.
Awesome video. Next time maybe wear long sleeves and long pants with boots and gloves when approaching the nest. That looked like a huge one!
Thanking you muchly . I'll share with my daughter. She's fighting with ground hornets in her yard!! Keep up the good work!!
Thanks!!!
SpiritBear12
4 years ago
You forgot about the queen. The queen stays in the hive, she doesn't come out, she stays in there and does nothing buy lay eggs. Those eggs hatch into grubs, and eventually grow into adult wasps. As long as the queen is in there laying eggs, that wasp nest is always going to be a problem. You have to kill her as well. Once that is done, the hive can't exist any more.
Bees, wasps and hornets don't come out at night because they can't see in the dark. You can use that to your advantage. Get a soap dispenser meant for garden hoses. Put ordinary dish soap in it. At night when the wasps are in the hive, place the nozzle of the hose as far down in the hive entrance as you can get it. Turn on the hose, not full blast, but fairly strong stream. The water will pick up the soap and flood the hive with soapy water. The wasps will drown and the soapy water will also kill the eggs and larvae. The queen will drown too. You need the soap because the soap breaks down the waxy coating the wasps have on their body that keeps water out of their exoskeleton and spiracles.
Insects don't breathe through their face like mammals and reptiles do. They have a series of holes in their abdomen called spiracles. The waxy coating on their bodies makes any water they encounter bead up and roll off like car wax does for cars. But, if you break down that coating, water will get sucked into their spiracles and they drown.
The water is also cold and wasps don't like to be cold, they get stiff and can't move. So that, with all the water and soap will help wipe out the hive.
Soap dispenser for a garden hose.
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Just tried your fly swatter method, and it worked great. I went cheap and bought one at Harbor Freight and it worked in a day. Great Video! Thanks!
Dawn dishwashing liquid and water..... works faster and cheaper.
I used the hanging plug-in zapper I already owned to deal with mine. I put it right next to their nest for awhile and killed 100's of them, then put it right on top of their nest. They could still fly in and out around it, but barely, and it annoyed them to they kept attacking it and dying. It's been just over a week now and the hive is significantly less busy than it used to be, I think they're just about out of bodies to throw at it.
I heard wearing a TapOut shirt and a UFC hat scares the yellow jackets and you won't get stung. Affliction shirts work too, but are not quite as effective
Busby StandUp, hahahaha, dudes put on those shirts, go to the bar and think they know how to fight just because they are wearing the gear. You also have to yell a lot and draw attention to yourself
😂😂
I don't like to use chemicals myself but always seem to fight the wasps in the spring I have a 1gal pump up spray container that I fill with water and add a big squirt of dish soap to it..any bug that Flys will die when sprayed with this by suffocating ..been using this for years and it works great ..thanks for your posts..
In addition a peace of black plastic over the hole for a couple of bright sunny days will cook them in their hive .
OOOOOHHHhh that is a super idea!
no they will eat through it. I've tried it.
I always wait until sundown when most come home to roost. I pump cornstarch and seal them in with caulk, glue, & sometimes dirt. The powder keeps them (& ants) from breathing properly. You'll always have a few stragglers, but this looks interesting.
I don't mind pollinators, bug I have allergies and wasps are pests, plain and simple. They also have a nastier sting and venom (my experience). I haven't had the pleasure of africanized bees & hope I never do.
Effective or not, it was amusing to watch them sizzle... LOL
Lol...yes it was....and it was fairly effective...normally takes a couple days to effectively kill the whole hive...but it works...changing batteries in between zappings
Sun's comin' up got Yellowjackets on the griddle ... 🤣
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Hey um, do you think I should peel the skin off a wasp and rip it’s arms and legs off or just boil it alive, which would be more painful
Somewhere here on YT I watched a video of someone placing a clear jar over a yellow jacket nest. I tried it on a nest at my home a few years ago and it worked. It will not work if the nest has more than 1 entrance. I placed it over the entrance at night after all were home. The jar must be clear. The YJs won't try to dig out around the edge. They will continue to try and fly up towards the clear blue sky, but can't.
Boiling hot water will also do the trick, Use a one or two gallon pot to boil the water. Then pour directly into the hole.
Good to know..thanks Glenn
We had a yellow jacket nest by our house, the way I got rid of them is waiting till nightfall when they are all in the nest then pour boiling hot water right in the hole. I poured maybe 3 or 4 pitchers of very hot water and that killed the nest….
I'd recommend something other than carrying boiling hot water around...that's extremely dangerous and could wind you up in a burn unit for a couple weeks
you are forgetting ...that the high voltage generator gets overloaded easily. When there is just air between the wires that carry opposite charge then the HV generator is ok high voltage is max, one insect gets in there ..snap discharge and thats a short circuit. Dead mosquito falls away and high voltage is back instantly. But what you are doing is creating many short circuits simulataneously, putting a bigger and bigger load into the high V circuit. Pretty soon it stops snapping, still killing the critters but eventually the high voltage will give out and they wont even get stunned any more. What I am telling you is this if you are farting around like a junior high school kid you might as well turn this into a science project that REALLY works.
YEP
hey man that is a good idea. however a piece of plastic sheeting that is 4mil will do the same thing. 6'×6' is about the rite size. cover the nest entrance with the sheeting, center the sheeting over entrance. seal down all edges. do this when the nest is at rest. usually at nite when it is cooler. let no fresh air get inside the cover in 2 or 3 days the nest will be dead.
Cant wait to try this in the spring. Those ground bees will regret stinging me last summer. ZZZZAP!
Try using a road flare or a gopher bomb it's awesome 👌 it smokes them Lil bastards great
This is awesome! I tried it and it worked fabulously! Killed 100 yellow jackets in probably an hour. I am going to finish off the nest at night now that it has been knocked back. Thank you!
Kerosene and a match. Your way is to much trouble. Wait till dusky dark, pour flammable liquid down hole and light. Easy.
bang on' thats how i do it
No need to light it....the fumes will do the trick.
@@joemarchand8313 exactly... regular gasoline is fine: just pour a cup or three down the hole at night and shove a rag or something in the hole and they will be dead by morning
@@joemarchand8313 - Light it anyway. Its a matter of satisfaction seeing the little bastards die.
@@jimb9369 lmao that's how I do it too 😂
Good idea! I have been plagued with these buggers all summer. Every time I go outside I get surrounded. I have to feed cats outside and the wasps act like I'm there for them as well! They go all around me, land on me, etc. I don't like it, lol! They do the same thing when I put out water for cats or water my plants. I've been stung once and believe me, once is enough!! The pain is unbelievable! I've been trying to get my husband to do something and so far, nothing he has done worked ( they were all pretty stupid, like cucumbers 🙄. They made a salad) So, I'm going to have to do it myself..I like this idea!
Convert one to use lipo batteries. That gotta increase how long it’ll shock
Ill be doing this tomorrow, I just found a nest by my old shed we didn’t take down yet. I’m all about chemicals and totally blowing them out of the water but this looks fun. One got me so now I’ll give them some pain!
I would watch that all day. Well Done
lol thanks I had fun watching them fry!
A smart fella would tie a length of paracord to the handle to pull the zapper away from the nest so he wouldn't need to go back into the combat zone to retrieve the swatter... I'm just say'n.
Use dish soap and water and you spray it down there hole and the dish soap and water clogs up their pore so they can't breathe they breathe through their skin their pores they don't breathe like we do so when you put dish soap on them they died cuz it's Smothers them
Good Idea! I have done something similar, where I fill a gallon jar with mostly dirt, some soap and water. Once it becomes thoroughly mixed into soapy mud, it gets dumped onto the entrance of the ground hive.
Why not use the expanding foam from the can. Most of the secondary entrances will be near the main one. Find the main one and a couple of the others and fill the holes with the foam. Some will be stuck in the foam but it should expand into the nest and trap the queen.
I'm actually heading outside in about 15 min. Was going to pour a pint of gas in the yellow jacket hole but have some of the expanding foam, so may use the gas tonight and foam it over in the morning. I'm a little scared I'm going to get stung.
This made my heart melt with joy 😂 so satisfying, I HATE these things!
Dawn dish detergent in a stream from a sprayer at night works too. Had them in our grill and obviously didn’t want to poison that up. Place a portable light at a 90 angle from you - they will head to the light - so stay in the shadows.
Just got stings on my feet and legs while mowing the lawn, they chased me to the house and found 2 dead inside my house. They stinged me 12 times simo i m here to find a solution. Lucky that it waa only me and not my youg kids
1) Wasps/hornets/yellow jackets are pollinators. They don't collect pollen but they're attracted to nectar producing plants, and inadvertently transfer it from flower to flower.
2) They feed birds and bats.
I hate them too. I've got a nest I have to take out this fall. They may be beneficial to other animals but they don't get to share my yard with me. lol
Yellow Jackets are not bees. Bees are vegan, hornets are carnivores; Yellow Jackets are hornets.
3m electric tape also works to wrap around the handle to depress the switch. I say 3m because it's better than that cheap stuff but most any tape will work.
I like your "safety clothes!"
My way is to wait till after dark and use a can of expanding form in the hole, works great
I thought Yellowjackets were wasps, not bees.
After reviewing the video, I would say they are most definitely ground nesting yellow jacket wasps, not Ground Bees. Ground Bees don't have the smooth glossy abdomen that the wasps have. The abdomen of Ground Bees is slightly furry. No, these are wasps. Nasty !
Thanks for the entomology lesson...yep so around these parts if you get stung...it was a bee....we dont really make the determination of wasp or whatever....when I'm on the tractor and I get into a nest of stinging insects.....we just call them bees or yellow jackets lol
Whether this works or not, this is an awesome idea and I’m subscribing immediately! Let the fun begin! Thank you! Excited to see other videos on your channel!