For those who want to know more about these wasps: blogs.oregonstate.edu/treetopics/2014/07/10/yellowjackets/ HERE IS WHAT I USE NOW INSTEAD OF Delta Dust: ruclips.net/video/GQoprr9-TLM/видео.html TAKE THEM OUT WITH A SQUIRT GUN: ruclips.net/video/-WwufwcBCWw/видео.html
Frederick Dunn I see that you tagged Oregon state education in your video. I am also a licensed pest control operator in the state of Oregon not trying to tell you how to do your job just want to let you know you can use a fraction of the Delta Dust of what you used and will still do the same job.
@@taggardhecker6380 You are exactly right, a tiny bit of this goes a very long way. I didn't want to make the trip back to this location as it's a 45 minute drive for me. She was about to let a guy pour diesel fuel on her back yard and burn everything. This was a trade-off and yes, you can use a very small amount. Thanks for sharing your expertise.
@@ShawnD390 NO, the active ingredient works on the nervous system of insects and not mammals or birds. This is why it's used as a flea and mite powder on pets.
Attention passengers, if you look to your left flight 173 is challenging us to a race! So I put the fasten lights back on because shit is about to get real!!!
"gooood evening ladies and gentlemen, we will be pouring cocaine into the yellowjacket nest in about five minutes, please return to your seats and fasten your seatbelts."
Anybody who thinks killing wasps and yellow jackets is "cruel" has not been stung by them. The experience will change your mind about them REAL FAST!!!
Plus they kill me as I'm extremely allergic. I actually almost died last year and i watch these videos to try to overcome my ptsd from my near death experience.
I was stung in a vein of my foot and I think I screamed and saw my life flash before my eyes that day. I now am really terrified of them. They love to follow me when I wear perfume and that's the ultimate fear. They don't leave you alone.
@@suzannebrummel6216 2 year olds should be in the direct care of an adult. Any "stepping" is the absolute fault of the supervising adult. Lets put responsibility where it belongs.
This is the comment that got a full on laugh out of me. Thanks, I'm sick and using my voice makes me cough! XD Deserves to be one of those 1.? K likes comments.
Mu sisters boyfriend tried to remove yellow jackets once. He said all smartass like "You can remove them with a fire extinguisher easy." He went out there with a powder fire extuinguisher and tried his best. He got out their ended up spraying it everywhere. There was smoke everywhere, hornets mixed in. It looked like a cinematic scene from a WW2 movie. They kept flying around pissed off for 2 extra days. My sisters boyfriend got stung alot.
No one is going to talk about how calming his voice is?Like he’s the wise man and very intelligent,bruh it’s like actual ASMR instead of the weird sht the other people do
The sheer volume of yellow jackets and their eggs in the nest make casting a VERY dangerous stunt. The wasps and their larva are full of water. When you pour the molten aluminum on them it will explode back onto you. PLEASE don't try this. Ant nests don't have anywhere near the amount of "flesh" inside them making it a bit more stable. Besides, Yellow jackets don't make tunnels like ants. It's very much an underground hornets nest (beehive). If you cast one it would look like a weird basket or something.
There are some people that might think this cruel, but I have had personal experience with Yellow Jackets having grown up in Illinois and they attack you at picnics, dive bomb you while in pools and they will CHASE, even if your just shooing one away from your face. They are pests, and not friendly or even helpful type of insects.
It's sad that humans are so keen to ascribe human morality/immorality to other creatures, and make moral judgements. Wasps are part of the ecosystem, they have complex behaviours, build themselves a beautiful, sophisticated home and would die to nurture and protect their young. There's actually a lot to admire there. But sometimes they come into conflict with people because they build a nest too close to us, and are a high risk of stinging. Then we have to take action and euthanise them, that is the sensible thing to do. But in my view it should be done responsibly and humanely, as Frederick does. I've been watching various 'yellowjacket nest removals' on RUclips, some professional and some decidedly unprofessional. I see macho men (usually poorly protected in inadequate clothing), pitting themselves in some dumb battle with these creatures and killing them in all kinds of dramatic and foolhardy ways that upset the wasps and make them more prone to attacking passing people and animals. I see these men calling the wasps 'assholes', 'monsters' and gleefully tearing apart the beautiful nest structures they worked so hard to build. I'm not being sentimental here - of course the wasps and their nest have to be destroyed when they are a danger to mammals. But why disrespect them like that, and treat them as though the are somehow evil or sadistic? They are minding their own business, living their lives, doing what they were put on Earth to do, and only attack in self defence. Which is pretty reasonable when you think about it! Anyway, I'll get off my soapbox. I just hate to see humans projecting immorality onto other species of life, when in fact it is only humans who possess the dark, cruel qualities we accuse them of! This guy Frederick Dunn gets it - he sees the bigger picture and respects wildlife. While he is a realist and will euthanise if a hive becomes a risk to public safety, he does not make it personal!
glamdolly20 dude if you ever got stung by a wasp it hurts like hell and can easily swell. And if they’re chilling in someone backyard and you kill one, the whole nest is going to murder you. If they gotta go, the gotta go.
@@glamdolly30 I've seen footage of other apex predators (lions, orcas, dolphins, wolves to name a few) playing with their food before killing and eating it. Does that count as cruelty? I guess not, because apparently only humans have any negative qualities... Oh, and I almost forgot: wasps are mean.
I wouldn't recommend using that without a bee suit. I remember hearing about when my grandfather mowed over a ground nest and they went up his pants legs. He was as angry as the wasps after that, and gave them a good dose of gas, followed by a match. Probably not the safest thing to do, but I don't think he was feeling too rational at that time.
I understand that response, but the remnants of gas or diesel remain in the soil for years and contaminate water resources, particularly for those who use wells for their property. Aside from that, many people underestimate how volatile gas is and have burned themselves in the process. But I do get it, people who have been assaulted by wasps want fast revenge and they aren't generally thinking down the road about environmental issues.
Frederick Dunn This happened before my time, probably around the 1950's. I don't think there was a lot of environmental awareness back then. The old timers had some unique methods of dealing with wasps. Another time there was a wasps nest the size of a grapefruit under the porch. My grandfather called his friend, who lit up a rancid cigar and puffed the smoke in the nest entrance. It knocked them out and he was able to remove the nest.
I like the cigar story! My great grandfather always smoked his pipe and that was what he used in the bee yard also. I've never known cigar or pipe tobacco smoke to knock a wasp out? That must have been some strong blend indeed! Who knew?!
I had ants coming into the house from multiple points. I mixed up some Borax with some sugar water and made a thick clear bait for them. For the first 24 hours, their numbers tripled as they brought this stuff back to the nest. A day later, gone. That was three weeks ago now and none have been back. Not a harm to the kitchen, doesn’t stink and fairly benign. It does not kill on contact but when it works it works completely.
For ants, I just use diatomaceous with nothing else in it and that works swimmingly. They just track the dust down into their brood area and that's all it takes. Food Grade DE is my go to for dusting chickens, nest boxes and interrupting ant trails if they are going where I don't want them to be.
@@BoRickersonMcFoosters I had an invasion of the sugar ants called odorous ants and looked this up on youtube. To be honest I wasn't expecting much but on days 1 and 2 I had even more ants and they were eating the borax/ powdered sugar bait I made. In 3 days I had 0 ants. It works great.
After stepping on a couple of nests that I didn't know were there and getting stung, I learned to really watch for the stream flying in and out of the ground in our brushy back yard, especially later in the summer. I learned if you put out the hanging yellow jacket traps in the spring, you will catch the queens coming out of hibernation looking for a nesting spot and I haven't had a nest in my yard since I started doing that about 6 years ago. Now if only my neighbors would do that, but at least I won't be stepping on a nest in my yard.
You can place a jar over the entrance. Make sure it covers the entrance completely and is clear so they will come to the sunlight to exit. Do it at night after they have settled in for the evening. They won't try to dig their way out and will die in place. I didn't think it would work although I had read it online. I did it to a nest in my yard and it worked.
@@MissMovieStar I don' know. It would be a good experiment if you had the time. They can dig since some of them have to dig the original nest. Whether or not they would is an open question. I think the clear glass fools them into trying to fly out and not digging. I doubt they are equipped to 'think' about alternatives if they can fly out of the hole.
I remember a few years back, my mom was mowing our yard with a push mower. She went right over a yellow jacket nest that had at least 5000 of them in the nest. Luckily, most of them went after the lawnmower and she ran to the pool. She ended up going to the ER later for a shot. After a couple days, I went out with a gas can and a rock to plug up the hole and dumped a gallon down the hole.
Way back in the '90s I lived in this house that had a tree stump in front of it and there was a huge yellow jacket nest underneath that stump and at 1:00 in the morning when it was cooler and the bees were "asleep" I remember pouring gasoline down that hole where they were flying in and out and the next day hundreds of them we're dead as a door nail! I think there were only two of them flying around like they were drunk. And then I heard a buzzing sound when I was down in the basement and I know the queen was killed in the other nest because I saw her but there ended up being a nest in the wall of the concrete of the house I remember spring something right in the hole and then plugging it up with clay and they all died! The neighborhood didn't realize what a favor I had done by getting rid of these two nests. Also I made my own trap with a two liter soda bottle leaving a little bit of sticky crap in the bottom of it and they would go in but they couldn't go out and they would die in there. If people think that this is cruel when they obviously have never been attacked by this little bass-turds. I am still suffering from the stings I got because I stepped on a nest Sunday and it was a huge nest and you couldn't even tell there was anything there it was just the lawn at a national park. I finally notified the national Park to let them know what happened I almost lost consciousness it was that bad I went into shock. Dam* things! I pulled stump out of the ground so it would never happen again.
Thanks Frederick for the reply. Boiling hot water is the least environmentally harmful. I think each situation needs to be evaluated as needed. And yes, I have used wasp sprays, and smoke bombs. I use to be in the building trades and ran into wasps, snakes, spiders and other weird creepy crawlers, when we would tear out external walls. replace a roof, etc. I think your approach is thorough and effective. Good work.
Please do more of the ground nest/dust videos. Seeing those b*stards covered in poison and bombing out was like watching Michaelangelo paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel .
Many years ago, while stationed at NAS Barbers PT, Hawaii, I came across something quite frightening. Some of you might remember the old (and wonderful..!!) movie "Tora-Tora-Tora", about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. At the beginning of the movie, you'll remember seeing those old, concrete "half-dome" fighter plane hangars, used primarily, at the time, for P-40 Warhawk aircraft. Anyway, these hangars were still there during the 1970's. I have never been back, so I have no idea if they're still there. They're located in what was, at the time, an unused section of the base. I, and some friends, went back into that section under the cover of darkness. Armed with flashlights, we explored the abandoned section of the base. I came across one of these hangars that appeared to have the whole underside covered with a "yellow & black" speckled "carpet". I thought "Why in the hell would anyone want to cover the inside of one of these things with carpet??" That made no sense to me. I walked inside this "half-dome" structure, and walked up to within a few inches of this "carpet", and suddenly I had a massive panic attack. The reason for the "shimmering" effect of this "carpet", was that this was NOT a carpet - it was, in fact, a giant yellow jacket nest, and had probably been there for years..!! I quickly backed out of there, and left with my buddies. I discovered that yellow jackets sleep with their noses stuck inside those little "hexagonal" nest holes, with their butts sticking out into the air. Thousands of yellow jacket "butts" made the whole nest appear like a yellow & black speckled "carpet" - from a distance..!! A few days later, we went back with several 5-gallon cans of gasoline - we douched the nest quickly & set it on fire, burning most of them out. We never went back...!! - JY
@@johnyoungs7453 Yeah, their populations get huge where it's warm year-round. Multiple jerry cans of gasoline and an ignition source is absolutely proper form for killing a nest that big. It's ironic, I started this thread talking about a Michaelangelo beauty piece, yet the scene you described is a perfect Bosch nightmare.
Delta Dust is our go-to for anything that doesn't need an instant kill, primarily because it's bird-safe as well. It's often used to treat mites and lice on poultry because the birds would have to eat nearly half their own weight of it to reach a toxic dose. It is extremely toxic to fish, however, so be careful using it around ponds.
@@eu3by Yes! It is toxic to bees! You don't want to use it on ants wherever bees are also around. If you know right where the ant nest is you could use some directly there, but not around where the bees are active.
I love delta dust. I use the generic of deltamethrin call D-fense in a bellows style duster with an extended application tip so I can get some distance from the nest. I also try to treat very early in the day or late in the evening. Anytime 10pm-5am is best. This prevent a swarm and insures I get them all while they’re still in the nest.
I do what I can when I can and if the elderly, kids, or animals are threatened. She lives 15 miles from me and is in top form for an 87 year old. I also realized it's a great opportunity to stop people from pouring gas or diesel on ground wasp nests by offering a more environmentally friendly alternative. People who have wells, should definitely NOT be pouring fuel on their land.
Very nice video. I had a wasp problem a few years ago, but I used a different way to get rid of them. To start with I got some heavy duty expanded metal, some 2x6 scrap lumber, some heavy pieces of steel a 70 pound of railroad track, a 1 pound can of 2f black powder and a 2 foot long piece of cannon fuse. Then gently pour the black powder in the hole using a small stick to tamp it down, when the hole will take no more insert the fuse, then lay the expanded metal, lay the 2x6 wood on top, place the pieces of steel, and then the piece of railroad track. Light the fuse stand way back and when it blows no more wasps. Have some top soil ready to fill in the hole.
well done sir im an amature entomologist. ... and I can see you have done your research. The Vespula maculifrons or the Eastern Yellowjacket is a wasp and a mean motor scooter. I have intimate knowledge of this little powerhouse as I grew up working with land surveyors. I have been stung by them more times than to can count. great job on getting your facts correct.keep up the amazing work
Temp 1% dust is also good, as well as any natural pyrethrin dust. As a professional exterminator I can tell you that this is THE most effective way to treat an in-ground nest.
Nice video :) There are pros and cons with any method i suppose including my own. As a pest control operator i would tackle this slightly differently to use the least amount of chemical as possible. I would approach the nest undisturbed and quickly block the hole with a rag or similar. Using a battery blower I would blow the dust into the hole for 10-20 seconds or so while keeping it sealed with the rag, then just leave the hole covered for a few minutes or until no wasps fly out when you peek. The blower will get the dust to every part of the nest and kill every wasp inside and any uncapped larva. Leaving the nest entrance open will allow any returning wasps to enter and be killed by the dust. This way you wont have as many wasps flying around and the ones that are will be just around the nest entrance. It also uses very little insecticide with no pile around the entrance.
Thanks for your comment. I wanted to leave the white as a visual que so the elderly property owner could spot it easily and give me a report on them the following day. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
redtheboss r As another user commented, pouring molten aluminum can be extremely dangerous because of the water levels in the nest. Don’t do that or you’ll likely get sprayed by it and burned.
I have a coworker that suggested covering the entrance with a flipped fish bowl/aquarium. That way, wasps inside dont trip the drive to dig out (as they would with other covers) as they still see sunlight. I've been curious to try it just for the heck of it, but havent come across any ground nests in years.
I had a yellow jacket nest by the house in a railroad tie retaining wall a few times. Different places, and different years, so not the same bugs. Besides, unless they came back from the landfill... I knew I couldn't get them out any conventional way, and the kids were always playing around there, so I had to get creative. Got the shop vac out, set up a stool and some bricks to keep the shnoz close to the entrance, and flipped it on. The bugs coming out went right into the vac, and the ones coming back tried to land and were intercepted as well. Emboldened, I beat the ties, and they came boiling out. Safe to say, they did not have the numbers to overwhelm the vacuum. I beat on the ties even more, and finally got down that only a few would come out. Left it on all day, and beat on the ties once in a while. I finally got it down so far that there were not enough workers to sustain the hive, and so they died off. The ones in the shop vac would up in the trash as they were all dead and dried out. I did that in the early 90s, and didn't know I was sitting on a gold mine, using a vacuum for that kind of pest control!
I once had a nest near a stream. Didnt want to use gas, kerosene, or chemicals. I came out at night while they were in the ground and poured boiling water down the hole. The first pour severely reduced their numbers. The second pour completed the job. No suit, no chemicals, no stings. Just be careful with boiling hot water.
Good idea! A guy who posts videos on getting rid of mice/rats and other pests had a post where he used dry ice on a yellowjacket ground nest: ruclips.net/user/shortsQKgMSLchBtE Your boiling water is cheaper,though!
If you get stung you can put Afterbite on the sting, that can be found any where bug spray is sold. If you don't have any Afterbite on hand you can us ammonia. Keep soaking the sting until it stops hurting.
My dad had this problem in the nineties, they were stinging our dogs face attacking any chance they got, we couldn't use the garden for planting vegetables all summer we waited for autumn, when the wasps were hibernating and poured creosote into the nest and covered the hole they never came back .
There was an older gentleman in my state that happened to run over one of those wasp nests with his rider mower. He was stung over 80 times and ended up dying before he could get help. Unfortunately he didn't see the nest. Be careful out there and like he says wear protective gear because they will just keep stinging you.
That's a terrible story... and their holes are very well hidden unless you're really paying attention. They fly off with tiny chunks of dirt in their mandibles and drop them far away as they expand underground. The only good news is that they are relatively small. I am so sorry about the older gentleman you describe. Very sad indeed.
LMFAO The delivery of this line had be absolutely rolling. "the scouts that have been out, are constantly returning. They don't seem effected by the dust at all. They bomb right into the hole, and then uhh, ultimately they're going to die "
@HEAV¥HAND I lived all my life in close proimity to them. Unless you are alergic, they are mostly harmless... The sting hurts a bit, but if you don't want to be stung, don't provoke them!
I’ve used this stuff and it’s great, but I don’t have a bee suit. I took off the cap, dumped the bottle, and flipped a bucket over the hole for a day. I would recommend saving some of the dust to put on/around the bucket for when workers return from foraging.
The important tool to have is a puffer that creates a very fine dust cloud... A few tablespoons in a puffer (duster) would be plenty to wipe out that entire population. Fortunately, the dust does not anger them like traditional wasp sprays do. I have never worn protective gear when using dust (Drione or Delta Dust). It just doesn't seem to piss them off when they're covered in it, and I've never been stung when dusting yellow jackets.
I got attacked by a nest like this when my curious dog though it'd be a good idea to dig it up. These guys are the absolute worst. No idea how many bites I got but ended up in the hospital. Tool less than a few seconds to get most of the stings, you aren't kidding about the group attacks.
These are vicious bastards. You get stung so many times, so quickly, that there is a substantially higher risk of anaphylaxis even if you never got stung by one before. It's a big dose/short time thing. Very dangerous critters.
I am a full on proponent of Delta Dust and have successfully used it many times.. It really works well. Make sure you're suited up as suggested here though. My only bad experience was when I FORGOT to tape my pant legs. I spotted the hole during the day and went back at night with the dust but could't find it. Turns out I went too far up the hill and was standing on top of the nest. Unfortunately my first indication of this was when I started being stung when they flew up my pant legs. I ran probably 20 yards to my porch and they were still all over me and swarming around the porch light. After a few minutes of frantic swatting and smashing I escaped into my kitchen and got my pants down to inspect the damage and a couple were still in there and came flying out still wanting to fight. Good times...😵
I remember my dad taking a Shop Vac out to the hole and duct taping the nozzle to a brick to hold it right over the entrance. Then he left it run all day. Well, what he didn’t take into account was that a Shop Vac works on vacuum alone, there’s no bladed fan that chops up the wasp as their pulled in. So basically he just trapped thousands of angry, pissed off stinging insects in a 15 gallon tank. When he lifted the Vac up the top came off and released all of them at once. I stood inside with my mother watching him through the window. It was comedy gold. Did anyone else have a dad like that? The best intentions, not the best execution.
I also use a shop vac to "collect" wasps but spray bee spray in after they are all sucked up and put a latex glove over tha vacuum hose and wait. Works well for me
This stuff works. I fought a nest in a hard to reach spot behind a concrete porch for weeks with conventional methods. I caught hundreds, I sprayed hundreds but the nest was too big. One night after dark I puffed in some Delta Dust and by the next day they were done for.
This reminds me of last summer"s stings by 4-5 bees. I happened to be raking piled leaves that were as old as 15+yrs. They were not yellow jackets, but a king bee, a fat bee. The first incident I got stung five times, one on each side of head and three on my legs. The swelling grew into a significantly large bubble right under one eye up to my ear. I took some benadryl, anti-inflammatory.
You can do this yourself without protective gear, just do it at night after they have been in the nest a few hours. Do it quickly and then cover the hole. I had to deal with these hell spaws for 6 years living on the mountain
Great video and final end result. Excellent commentary. I use an electric wasp zapper which I fit over the nest entrance and watch the wasps explode. I will try as an experiment, powder from a fire extinguisher and see how that works. Keep up the great video's. Thanks.
I don't recommend fire extinguishing agents... I only use CO2 for knocking insects out to buy time, but no fire extinguisher is going to be a great bug killer and costs more than this Delta Dust. So, no AFFF, no Twin-Agent-Units necessary and that includes Halon... nope, not designed for bugs. AFFF, aka Light-Water was used when an 18 wheeler transporting honeybee hives tipped over on the highway... it definitely killed hundreds of thousands of bees, but was being used to prevent potential fuel fires.
This guy's video is not nearly as entertaining as yours...high-voltage, chlorine, subjecting the little pricks to releases of exploding electrolytic capacitors is what we want!...please keep up the creative, entertaining eradication videos you make...I'm looking forward to the next one...maybe I'll get lucky and they'll come around to my yard this year...then I'll have a chance to do some creative eradication myself! Cheers
The elec zapper is a great idea. May I expand on that some?? Perhaps get a live video cam link hooked to a remote camera on it, and build a half dome "elec zapper grid" over a hole. Plug it in and turn of the live webcam, and put on a smoker show. Sorta like entertainment channel. Completely organic, no gasoline fumes, no chemicals and 100% reusable.
I used to work in Pest Control, and I've used many different things... and by far, the BEST thing to use is Delta Dust. It takes a little longer to work, but it's the most effective thing to use. Sprays needs to make direct contact, but the Delta Dust you just need to pour a little at the entrance, or puff it in the hole and the wasps do all the work themselves. What happens is the wasps get it on them and they bring it back to the rest of the nest. Wasps regularly clean themselves, when they do, it poisons and kills them. I've taken out very large wasp nests with this stuff.
@@henryperez606 Then they dont carry the dust in as quick. Either way, when you spray the powder into the nest, they go utterly bat shit crazy. 30 minutes later they calm down. 4 hours later they are 80% dead. 24 hours later they are 100% dead.
Got me one o those plastic traps, with the hole in the middle and a lid on it and filled it with beer, and honey, and sugar and a bit of cola too. put it "right on their doorway" and with a few hours, emptied and refilled, they all were gone. After there were not more in there then suddenly the queen wasp in it! Happy ending for our garden.
Was doing some earth work with my tractor at home today, and hit a large nest of these. Thank you so much for posting this video... so satisfying to watch them drag the dust into the burrow after being stung 10+ times today! 🤕☠😈
The easiest way I have found is that I placed a plastic jar (you could use glass too) over the hole. After 2-3 days there were a lot of dead jackets lying around the outside of the bottle, and several dead ones lying inside the mouth of the bottle. After about 1 week, I removed the bottle, and have never seen another jacket there. You could leave the bottle longer if you prefer. That way, none can get in or out. Problem solved unless they somehow have multiple holes (but I've never seen that, but I guess it is possible). I would recommend that method to using any type of pesticides, especially if someone has pets or small children.
You can also use diatomaceous earth or powdered eggshells. It's basically tiny little shards and as they crawl it shreds their carapace and kills them in it also clings to them and continues to work as long as there is dust on them. Takes about 3 days.
We had a wasps nest just like this when I was a kid. My dad got rid of it by attaching a hose to a canister of butane, shoving it down the hole and turning on the gas for a few minutes. No idea how safe or environmentally friendly that is but it certainly got rid of the wasps!
For ground nests I made a puffer out of a plastic peanut butter jar with a tire valve stem and a few feet of 1/4" ice maker hose (rigid, bendable thin plastic hose) pushed through tight fitting holes in the lid. Took about 5 minutes to make it out of stuff I had. Put a cup of Sevin dust in (I've also used diatomaceous earth) attached a bicycle pump, went to the nest at night, rammed the pipe down while puffing the stuff all the way. Did in the nest, they were dead in the morning. I just keep the thing around, it's been lent out to a few people who all have had it work well for them. The bicycle pump pushes a lot of air fast and it penetrates way down in the nest.
Don't feel guilty about killing these guys, at least you do your best to keep honeybees going. Those guys are much more beneficial for our food and much less aggressive. As a land surveyor, I have had SEVERAL encounters with these little nightmares! If one doesn't get out of these nests quick enough, they can quickly get you covered up FAST and continually STING STING STING...
I've literally been covered by them. I stepped on a nest out in the woods once and didn't realize it until they swarmed me. The reason yellow jackets are so bad is because if you get stung by one, and you kill it, it releases a pheromone that the others can smell. It's like a wasp GPS. I have had them chase me a long way because of this. Fortunately, i'm not allergic to them to the point of danger. I just swell up a little, then i'm ok.
@@fivestring65ify It helps as a surveyor to wipe some survey ribbon over oneself once stung and fling it as close to the nest as possible. That pheromone then helps to draw alot of them to that ribbon and hopefully not at you.
We have one guinea hen and she eats wasps. My wife saw a wasp land on the concrete floor of our garage and our guinea hen RAN, snatched the wasp up and ate it. Last year we had paper wasps all over the place: under railings on the deck, above doors, below eaves and under wheel wells on trailers. This year, they're all gone except for one nest by the peak of our roof.
Guinea hens are definitely good bug eaters, video of them eating wasps would be valuable as a learning tool. What's your theory on why you're experiencing a paper wasp decline?
Oh, it's because of the guinea hen. She will chase them if she spots one and as soon as it lands, like a bullet, she's on it. For 8 years we've had to deal with the paper wasps, from large hanging nests to numerous smaller nests above doors, under railings, etc. Until this year and the guinea maturing and making her rounds on the property. The only safe place for these wasps now is just below the high eaves on the house.
Best prevention is to get out and look around early in the year before the colony gets big. You can easily spot the queens buzzing around starting their nests in May. Just zap them right there and then with dollar store wasp spray. A little moth ball solution dabbed under the eaves will deter them. They hate moth balls and will go somewhere else.
@@JoeKaye-hn5dt That's a good idea. The thing about yellow jackets is that you usually don't notice them until the nest is huge. Paper wasps are so much easier to deal with.
We get these a lot in southwestern Pennsylvania. I ran over a nest once with a mower when I was in 8th grade. That was one of the worst experiences I ever had.
The wasps don't even need to be caked in it like this video, they just need to get some on them. When they clean themselves, then they'll die in a day or two. Just powder the hole(s) on a night when there's no rain predicted for the next couple of days, to ensure they're exposed on a path that they go through. Also if you have cats, I still wouldn't consider this entirely safe. That chemical compound is still in the pyrethrin family. (But a cat may be smart enough to avoid a known wasp/hornet nest area.) And you may not want to use this stuff near a fish pond either.
Very true! A little goes a long way. Get the WSP version and spray the area of the entrance without even getting close to it. May take a few days but they'll all die off. Works the same way with widows, cockroaches, ants. Kiss your pest control gouger goodbye.
I have used this for bees a number of times that wanted to build a hive in the walls, or facia of my house. It knocked them out every time, and they have not been back for years since the last time. I have also used for palmetto bugs that like to get into the walls and enter, and exit electric panels, and outlets. No more roaches, and the creepy crawly noises they like to make. These stuff really works. It just needs a little time to do its thing.
I remember being stung by yellow jackets a lot when I was a kid. Thinking back it wasn't that painful, but time makes stuff better. We only had smaller nests around the house. I remember my father going out with a makeshift flamethrower whenever we had no wasp spray screaming at the wasps and calling them names, next thing I see is small fireballs falling to the ground. I got stung in my right ear once, on my neck, and many other areas, but the ear and neck are the ones I remember most. I never knew wasps can build nexts into the ground. They mostly build them on the facade here, or below the roof. Never heard of nests in the ground.
For those who want to know more about these wasps: blogs.oregonstate.edu/treetopics/2014/07/10/yellowjackets/ HERE IS WHAT I USE NOW INSTEAD OF Delta Dust: ruclips.net/video/GQoprr9-TLM/видео.html TAKE THEM OUT WITH A SQUIRT GUN: ruclips.net/video/-WwufwcBCWw/видео.html
Frederick Dunn I see that you tagged Oregon state education in your video. I am also a licensed pest control operator in the state of Oregon not trying to tell you how to do your job just want to let you know you can use a fraction of the Delta Dust of what you used and will still do the same job.
@@taggardhecker6380 You are exactly right, a tiny bit of this goes a very long way. I didn't want to make the trip back to this location as it's a 45 minute drive for me. She was about to let a guy pour diesel fuel on her back yard and burn everything. This was a trade-off and yes, you can use a very small amount. Thanks for sharing your expertise.
Is there any risk to any birds or mammals that eat any of those dead wasps?
@@ShawnD390 NO, the active ingredient works on the nervous system of insects and not mammals or birds. This is why it's used as a flea and mite powder on pets.
Try gasoline.
I love it when RUclips decides to recommend wasp videos at 11pm
3am rn
Phat facts
TABBY same
Literally me now
11pm rn for me lmao
"come out bois, someone's pouring pure *COCAINE* "
*girls* in their case - but that message is true!! 😂😂
Lmaoooo
It's so *P U R E* that they die
Best part was when it turned some of the yellow jackets white and left their black lines intact.
AliveC4T I’m dead asf 😂
Lol no offense u sound like a pilot getting ready to take off
"And if you look to your left, ladies and gentlemen, you can see the population of a wasp nest dying horrific deaths."
@@mylifeisacomplexpastiche7901 thank you for flying with trans American
Attention passengers, if you look to your left flight 173 is challenging us to a race! So I put the fasten lights back on because shit is about to get real!!!
I take that as a compliment
"gooood evening ladies and gentlemen, we will be pouring cocaine into the yellowjacket nest in about five minutes, please return to your seats and fasten your seatbelts."
Anybody who thinks killing wasps and yellow jackets is "cruel" has not been stung by them. The experience will change your mind about them REAL FAST!!!
Plus they kill bumble and honey bees. And we need those bees to live. Hornets and yellow jackets are evil
Plus they kill me as I'm extremely allergic. I actually almost died last year and i watch these videos to try to overcome my ptsd from my near death experience.
I was stung in a vein of my foot and I think I screamed and saw my life flash before my eyes that day. I now am really terrified of them. They love to follow me when I wear perfume and that's the ultimate fear. They don't leave you alone.
yea I got stung under my armpit...😬😬
I have never been stung and my opinion is *PURGE THEM WITH HOLY FIRE!*
Swear to god this is the one time I hate my Surround sound Headphones like I nearly pissed my pants.
Same....
Same
Same
I thought one was in my ear
Same hahah
How to convert a yellow jacket to a "white jacket".
shake n bake powdered donuts
America, 1955
😂😂😂
WOLOLO
Oh my lord I can feel the buzzing in my earbuds
Then my work here is done... you're welcome :)
Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Me too
ahahah i took off my headphones and put on speaker I couldn't sit still hearing that
Same 😂😂😂
I've poured epoxy resin in the hole before and went back the next day and dug up the nest. They make incredible hive systems.
@$H0-TyMe "Cruel" is a human emotion and not an insect's emotion - so apply it to human interactions only.
@@joesinakandid528 yeah everything is brutally cruel in the wild, like that wasp that paralyzes tarantulas and lays an egg on it
So is leaving them there and a two year old stepping on them.
@@suzannebrummel6216 2 year olds should be in the direct care of an adult. Any "stepping" is the absolute fault of the supervising adult. Lets put responsibility where it belongs.
@@joesinakandid528 come on..... helicopter parent much?
I did not expect to listen to calm yellow jacket handling. It's like if Bob Ross dealt W wasps
This is the comment that got a full on laugh out of me. Thanks, I'm sick and using my voice makes me cough! XD Deserves to be one of those 1.? K likes comments.
Lmao very calm indeed
Yellowjackets in stereo sound- Terrifying.
Sounds like the name of a metal band.
Yes.. Wearing headphones too.. Read this comment beforehand and still jumped lol
@@munenex nice one
Holy fuck it zoomed right past my ear I never moved so fast in my life 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Mu sisters boyfriend tried to remove yellow jackets once. He said all smartass like "You can remove them with a fire extinguisher easy." He went out there with a powder fire extuinguisher and tried his best. He got out their ended up spraying it everywhere. There was smoke everywhere, hornets mixed in. It looked like a cinematic scene from a WW2 movie. They kept flying around pissed off for 2 extra days. My sisters boyfriend got stung alot.
I wonder how bad it hurts 🤔
@Nospam Spamisham that's why good old fashioned CO2 is reliable for this.
What a dumbass
@@TheMikisew Same thing, it hurts.
Should used a flamethrower
All yellow jackets were harmed in the making of this video 🤣
Damn straight.
Good!!
😂😂 as they should
😂 word
Let's hope! 😂
No one is going to talk about how calming his voice is?Like he’s the wise man and very intelligent,bruh it’s like actual ASMR instead of the weird sht the other people do
ASMR was so much better before people knew it was a thing that existed.
Somebody upthread: "your voice is so relaxing lol, you’re like the bob ross of insect genocide"
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Molten aluminum, then dig up the nest for the casting like they do with ants. I wonder what it would look like.
I'm sure someone will eventually do that Jeff. I wasn't feeling "creative" at the moment.
The sheer volume of yellow jackets and their eggs in the nest make casting a VERY dangerous stunt. The wasps and their larva are full of water. When you pour the molten aluminum on them it will explode back onto you. PLEASE don't try this. Ant nests don't have anywhere near the amount of "flesh" inside them making it a bit more stable. Besides, Yellow jackets don't make tunnels like ants. It's very much an underground hornets nest (beehive). If you cast one it would look like a weird basket or something.
Dirt Rusty Thanks for your information, sounds very well reasoned.
@@dirtrusty7228 Makes a lot of sense, thanks for informing (and saving) all of us. Nobody wants to get a molten aluminum shower.
@@dirtrusty7228 imma do it anyways
Who else got a heart attack by the buzzing and thought it was right next to them?
Musik and Memz hit or miss
Uh I hate it😂😭😭😭
@@stshx6353 lol
wow I didnt even notice that he hearted it!
I did lol
There are some people that might think this cruel, but I have had personal experience with Yellow Jackets having grown up in Illinois and they attack you at picnics, dive bomb you while in pools and they will CHASE, even if your just shooing one away from your face. They are pests, and not friendly or even helpful type of insects.
It's sad that humans are so keen to ascribe human morality/immorality to other creatures, and make moral judgements. Wasps are part of the ecosystem, they have complex behaviours, build themselves a beautiful, sophisticated home and would die to nurture and protect their young. There's actually a lot to admire there.
But sometimes they come into conflict with people because they build a nest too close to us, and are a high risk of stinging. Then we have to take action and euthanise them, that is the sensible thing to do. But in my view it should be done responsibly and humanely, as Frederick does.
I've been watching various 'yellowjacket nest removals' on RUclips, some professional and some decidedly unprofessional. I see macho men (usually poorly protected in inadequate clothing), pitting themselves in some dumb battle with these creatures and killing them in all kinds of dramatic and foolhardy ways that upset the wasps and make them more prone to attacking passing people and animals.
I see these men calling the wasps 'assholes', 'monsters' and gleefully tearing apart the beautiful nest structures they worked so hard to build. I'm not being sentimental here - of course the wasps and their nest have to be destroyed when they are a danger to mammals. But why disrespect them like that, and treat them as though the are somehow evil or sadistic? They are minding their own business, living their lives, doing what they were put on Earth to do, and only attack in self defence. Which is pretty reasonable when you think about it!
Anyway, I'll get off my soapbox. I just hate to see humans projecting immorality onto other species of life, when in fact it is only humans who possess the dark, cruel qualities we accuse them of! This guy Frederick Dunn gets it - he sees the bigger picture and respects wildlife. While he is a realist and will euthanise if a hive becomes a risk to public safety, he does not make it personal!
@@glamdolly30 gee. thanks for educating us.
glamdolly20 dude if you ever got stung by a wasp it hurts like hell and can easily swell. And if they’re chilling in someone backyard and you kill one, the whole nest is going to murder you. If they gotta go, the gotta go.
@@glamdolly30 I've seen footage of other apex predators (lions, orcas, dolphins, wolves to name a few) playing with their food before killing and eating it. Does that count as cruelty? I guess not, because apparently only humans have any negative qualities...
Oh, and I almost forgot: wasps are mean.
@@glamdolly30 cool, if I come across any nests on my property I will relocate them to yours. Thanks!
I wouldn't recommend using that without a bee suit. I remember hearing about when my grandfather mowed over a ground nest and they went up his pants legs. He was as angry as the wasps after that, and gave them a good dose of gas, followed by a match. Probably not the safest thing to do, but I don't think he was feeling too rational at that time.
I understand that response, but the remnants of gas or diesel remain in the soil for years and contaminate water resources, particularly for those who use wells for their property. Aside from that, many people underestimate how volatile gas is and have burned themselves in the process. But I do get it, people who have been assaulted by wasps want fast revenge and they aren't generally thinking down the road about environmental issues.
Frederick Dunn
This happened before my time, probably around the 1950's. I don't think there was a lot of environmental awareness back then.
The old timers had some unique methods of dealing with wasps. Another time there was a wasps nest the size of a grapefruit under the porch. My grandfather called his friend, who lit up a rancid cigar and puffed the smoke in the nest entrance. It knocked them out and he was able to remove the nest.
I like the cigar story! My great grandfather always smoked his pipe and that was what he used in the bee yard also. I've never known cigar or pipe tobacco smoke to knock a wasp out? That must have been some strong blend indeed! Who knew?!
@@TheScmtnrider no
He should have left the mower on their entrance! I dont think they can survive the blade.
Put a running lawnmower over the hole and just wait.
Except sometimes wasps have multiple exits in their lair.
@@thatonescarecrow4692 thats when you whip out more lawnmowers
@@Hatera... Oh, that may work
@Lamune Baba Fragmentation hand grenades work very well too!
@Lamune Baba diesel fire?... 🤔
"Hey, this could be a chill, educational video"
1:27 *skin starts to crawl*
I like your name
@@ata6206 Pizza time
If it makes you feel better, all of those wasps are dead :)
My speakers were behind me, and I felt the fear of god for a second.
They sound MASSIVE at 2:16
Can we just applaud an 87yr old mowing and weed whacking their own yard. Heck yes!!! Glad you were able to help her!!!
Thank you very much, she has since passed away.
@@FrederickDunnthe yellow jackets got her??
I had ants coming into the house from multiple points. I mixed up some Borax with some sugar water and made a thick clear bait for them. For the first 24 hours, their numbers tripled as they brought this stuff back to the nest. A day later, gone. That was three weeks ago now and none have been back. Not a harm to the kitchen, doesn’t stink and fairly benign. It does not kill on contact but when it works it works completely.
For ants, I just use diatomaceous with nothing else in it and that works swimmingly. They just track the dust down into their brood area and that's all it takes. Food Grade DE is my go to for dusting chickens, nest boxes and interrupting ant trails if they are going where I don't want them to be.
I wish i knew this in the summer LOL
If you injure a dozen or so then the rest of the nest usually get the message
@@FrederickDunn What? don't want your chickens to get addicted to anting?
@@BoRickersonMcFoosters I had an invasion of the sugar ants called odorous ants and looked this up on youtube. To be honest I wasn't expecting much but on days 1 and 2 I had even more ants and they were eating the borax/ powdered sugar bait I made. In 3 days I had 0 ants. It works great.
After stepping on a couple of nests that I didn't know were there and getting stung, I learned to really watch for the stream flying in and out of the ground in our brushy back yard, especially later in the summer. I learned if you put out the hanging yellow jacket traps in the spring, you will catch the queens coming out of hibernation looking for a nesting spot and I haven't had a nest in my yard since I started doing that about 6 years ago. Now if only my neighbors would do that, but at least I won't be stepping on a nest in my yard.
Good idea!!
I'm going to try that. I hadn't thought about them catching the queens.
@@valethewolf49 l
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Thanks! Dealing now with a ground nest. Next spring, I’ll use the trap. Excellent advise.
You can place a jar over the entrance. Make sure it covers the entrance completely and is clear so they will come to the sunlight to exit. Do it at night after they have settled in for the evening. They won't try to dig their way out and will die in place. I didn't think it would work although I had read it online. I did it to a nest in my yard and it worked.
@@MissMovieStar I don' know. It would be a good experiment if you had the time. They can dig since some of them have to dig the original nest. Whether or not they would is an open question. I think the clear glass fools them into trying to fly out and not digging. I doubt they are equipped to 'think' about alternatives if they can fly out of the hole.
@@MissMovieStar Yes, they can dig out. It can take several days
Yellow jackets usually have more than one entrance/exit' I've seen as many as 4. I've been eat up by them 3 different times.
I wouldn't even consider trying anything during the day, wait until the evening when they are not active.
I remember a few years back, my mom was mowing our yard with a push mower. She went right over a yellow jacket nest that had at least 5000 of them in the nest. Luckily, most of them went after the lawnmower and she ran to the pool. She ended up going to the ER later for a shot. After a couple days, I went out with a gas can and a rock to plug up the hole and dumped a gallon down the hole.
But did you light a match?
I’d say it’s worth the damage,
I thought they wait outside the water??
Way back in the '90s I lived in this house that had a tree stump in front of it and there was a huge yellow jacket nest underneath that stump and at 1:00 in the morning when it was cooler and the bees were "asleep" I remember pouring gasoline down that hole where they were flying in and out and the next day hundreds of them we're dead as a door nail! I think there were only two of them flying around like they were drunk. And then I heard a buzzing sound when I was down in the basement and I know the queen was killed in the other nest because I saw her but there ended up being a nest in the wall of the concrete of the house I remember spring something right in the hole and then plugging it up with clay and they all died! The neighborhood didn't realize what a favor I had done by getting rid of these two nests. Also I made my own trap with a two liter soda bottle leaving a little bit of sticky crap in the bottom of it and they would go in but they couldn't go out and they would die in there. If people think that this is cruel when they obviously have never been attacked by this little bass-turds. I am still suffering from the stings I got because I stepped on a nest Sunday and it was a huge nest and you couldn't even tell there was anything there it was just the lawn at a national park. I finally notified the national Park to let them know what happened I almost lost consciousness it was that bad I went into shock. Dam* things! I pulled stump out of the ground so it would never happen again.
I hope you torched it afterwards.
Nest entrance: Peaceful
*taps the entrance a few times*
Nest Entrance: *army appears*
boss music starts playing, boss health bar appears, mad off voice shouting
_so you've chosen death..._
1:26 I got soooooo scared I thought it was on my ear
Yeah, same here. Startled the sh*t outta me.
i shit myself a little bit
Lol😂😂😂
*_F R E E Z E!_*
Yeah same lol
Gasoline is more fun.
Yes, and the smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole back yard. Smelled like… victory
Or pour some liquid mercury in it...
M80s with gasoline
Iron oxide+aluminium is 20x more fun to watch
@@harrym1862 basically thermite
Thanks Frederick for the reply. Boiling hot water is the least environmentally harmful. I think each situation needs to be evaluated as needed. And yes, I have used wasp sprays, and smoke bombs. I use to be in the building trades and ran into wasps, snakes, spiders and other weird creepy crawlers, when we would tear out external walls. replace a roof, etc. I think your approach is thorough and effective. Good work.
Why didn’t you just ask them to leave?
He isn't from Canada
If you do that in Australia the wasp might have shoot you tho lol
lol
He tried that but they refused to leave and the police would not evict them! :)
Because they wouldn't have listened and they will sting you if you get close to them you idiot
Please do more of the ground nest/dust videos. Seeing those b*stards covered in poison and bombing out was like watching Michaelangelo paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel .
Beautifully put, Sean. Beautifully put.
Many years ago, while stationed at NAS Barbers PT, Hawaii, I came across something quite frightening. Some of you might remember the old (and wonderful..!!) movie "Tora-Tora-Tora", about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. At the beginning of the movie, you'll remember seeing those old, concrete "half-dome" fighter plane hangars, used primarily, at the time, for P-40 Warhawk aircraft. Anyway, these hangars were still there during the 1970's. I have never been back, so I have no idea if they're still there. They're located in what was, at the time, an unused section of the base. I, and some friends, went back into that section under the cover of darkness. Armed with flashlights, we explored the abandoned section of the base. I came across one of these hangars that appeared to have the whole underside covered with a "yellow & black" speckled "carpet". I thought "Why in the hell would anyone want to cover the inside of one of these things with carpet??" That made no sense to me. I walked inside this "half-dome" structure, and walked up to within a few inches of this "carpet", and suddenly I had a massive panic attack. The reason for the "shimmering" effect of this "carpet", was that this was NOT a carpet - it was, in fact, a giant yellow jacket nest, and had probably been there for years..!! I quickly backed out of there, and left with my buddies. I discovered that yellow jackets sleep with their noses stuck inside those little "hexagonal" nest holes, with their butts sticking out into the air. Thousands of yellow jacket "butts" made the whole nest appear like a yellow & black speckled "carpet" - from a distance..!! A few days later, we went back with several 5-gallon cans of gasoline - we douched the nest quickly & set it on fire, burning most of them out. We never went back...!! - JY
@@johnyoungs7453 Yeah, their populations get huge where it's warm year-round. Multiple jerry cans of gasoline and an ignition source is absolutely proper form for killing a nest that big. It's ironic, I started this thread talking about a Michaelangelo beauty piece, yet the scene you described is a perfect Bosch nightmare.
Delta Dust is our go-to for anything that doesn't need an instant kill, primarily because it's bird-safe as well. It's often used to treat mites and lice on poultry because the birds would have to eat nearly half their own weight of it to reach a toxic dose. It is extremely toxic to fish, however, so be careful using it around ponds.
Is it toxic for hony bees if we use it for ants control?
@@eu3by Yes! It is toxic to bees! You don't want to use it on ants wherever bees are also around. If you know right where the ant nest is you could use some directly there, but not around where the bees are active.
I love delta dust. I use the generic of deltamethrin call D-fense in a bellows style duster with an extended application tip so I can get some distance from the nest. I also try to treat very early in the day or late in the evening. Anytime 10pm-5am is best. This prevent a swarm and insures I get them all while they’re still in the nest.
You're so nice to your community. I'm glad that you are their for your neighbors.
I do what I can when I can and if the elderly, kids, or animals are threatened. She lives 15 miles from me and is in top form for an 87 year old. I also realized it's a great opportunity to stop people from pouring gas or diesel on ground wasp nests by offering a more environmentally friendly alternative. People who have wells, should definitely NOT be pouring fuel on their land.
Pour a soup can full of gas into the hole after dark
Cover the hole with a wet rag. All will die from the fumes
Very nice video. I had a wasp problem a few years ago, but I used a different way to get rid of them. To start with I got some heavy duty expanded metal, some 2x6 scrap lumber, some heavy pieces of steel a 70 pound of railroad track, a 1 pound can of 2f black powder and a 2 foot long piece of cannon fuse. Then gently pour the black powder in the hole using a small stick to tamp it down, when the hole will take no more insert the fuse, then lay the expanded metal, lay the 2x6 wood on top, place the pieces of steel, and then the piece of railroad track. Light the fuse stand way back and when it blows no more wasps. Have some top soil ready to fill in the hole.
Hahaha excellent, I think even the wasps can respect that
Jesus christ! You a crazy mfker 🤣🤣
well done sir
im an amature entomologist. ... and I can see you have done your research.
The Vespula maculifrons or the Eastern Yellowjacket is a wasp and a mean motor scooter.
I have intimate knowledge of this little powerhouse as I grew up working with land surveyors. I have been stung by them more times than to can count. great job on getting your facts correct.keep up the amazing work
Temp 1% dust is also good, as well as any natural pyrethrin dust. As a professional exterminator I can tell you that this is THE most effective way to treat an in-ground nest.
Nice video :) There are pros and cons with any method i suppose including my own.
As a pest control operator i would tackle this slightly differently to use the least amount of chemical as possible. I would approach the nest undisturbed and quickly block the hole with a rag or similar. Using a battery blower I would blow the dust into the hole for 10-20 seconds or so while keeping it sealed with the rag, then just leave the hole covered for a few minutes or until no wasps fly out when you peek. The blower will get the dust to every part of the nest and kill every wasp inside and any uncapped larva. Leaving the nest entrance open will allow any returning wasps to enter and be killed by the dust. This way you wont have as many wasps flying around and the ones that are will be just around the nest entrance. It also uses very little insecticide with no pile around the entrance.
Thanks for your comment. I wanted to leave the white as a visual que so the elderly property owner could spot it easily and give me a report on them the following day. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
There's no cons of pouring Molten aluminum in the nest
Use a little as possible. There are also other chemicals available, permethrin for instance.
redtheboss r As another user commented, pouring molten aluminum can be extremely dangerous because of the water levels in the nest. Don’t do that or you’ll likely get sprayed by it and burned.
@@user-cz9ss4yq4x ok I was joking but that sounds painful
To everyone who'll watch this comment before the vidéos...dont use headphone
Too late, i already threw my hands over my head trying to get them away 😂🤣
To late as well
I have a coworker that suggested covering the entrance with a flipped fish bowl/aquarium. That way, wasps inside dont trip the drive to dig out (as they would with other covers) as they still see sunlight. I've been curious to try it just for the heck of it, but havent come across any ground nests in years.
I had a yellow jacket nest by the house in a railroad tie retaining wall a few times.
Different places, and different years, so not the same bugs. Besides, unless they came back from the landfill...
I knew I couldn't get them out any conventional way, and the kids were always playing around there, so I had to get creative.
Got the shop vac out, set up a stool and some bricks to keep the shnoz close to the entrance, and flipped it on.
The bugs coming out went right into the vac, and the ones coming back tried to land and were intercepted as well.
Emboldened, I beat the ties, and they came boiling out.
Safe to say, they did not have the numbers to overwhelm the vacuum.
I beat on the ties even more, and finally got down that only a few would come out.
Left it on all day, and beat on the ties once in a while.
I finally got it down so far that there were not enough workers to sustain the hive, and so they died off.
The ones in the shop vac would up in the trash as they were all dead and dried out.
I did that in the early 90s, and didn't know I was sitting on a gold mine, using a vacuum for that kind of pest control!
You should read us all a story for bedtime with that voice
Gentlemen act of kindness. Bravo.
3:29 Wow. Look at that. This stuff is so powerful, they just vaporized.
Stuff is fuckin' crazy man... like a localized Thanos snap.
@@mr.techaky7655 i was about to say that
Mr.Techaky bruh I was gonna comment something along those lines
o m i k r o n 621 lmao
Ms The wasp I don't feel so good
I once had a nest near a stream. Didnt want to use gas, kerosene, or chemicals. I came out at night while they were in the ground and poured boiling water down the hole. The first pour severely reduced their numbers. The second pour completed the job. No suit, no chemicals, no stings. Just be careful with boiling hot water.
Good idea! A guy who posts videos on getting rid of mice/rats and other pests had a post where he used dry ice on a yellowjacket ground nest: ruclips.net/user/shortsQKgMSLchBtE Your boiling water is cheaper,though!
3:50 I think that's the queen in the upper right hand side
jakenbaked87 :)
Damn, good catch.
Why? Because it has a looong butt?
@@haidene3106 yea! It's not easy keeping your figure after 30,000 kids lol.
If you get stung you can put Afterbite on the sting, that can be found any where bug spray is sold. If you don't have any Afterbite on hand you can us ammonia. Keep soaking the sting until it stops hurting.
1:31 I legit jumped off my couch when I heard it. Then I realized that I'm wearing headphones.
IK
My dad had this problem in the nineties, they were stinging our dogs face attacking any chance they got, we couldn't use the garden for planting
vegetables all summer we waited for autumn, when the wasps were hibernating and poured creosote into the nest and covered the hole they never came back .
There was an older gentleman in my state that happened to run over one of those wasp nests with his rider mower. He was stung over 80 times and ended up dying before he could get help. Unfortunately he didn't see the nest. Be careful out there and like he says wear protective gear because they will just keep stinging you.
That's a terrible story... and their holes are very well hidden unless you're really paying attention. They fly off with tiny chunks of dirt in their mandibles and drop them far away as they expand underground. The only good news is that they are relatively small. I am so sorry about the older gentleman you describe. Very sad indeed.
I could see that happening. I've been stung by so many I would be dead if I was allergic to them. That's a sad story. Sorry to hear that.
With your voice, you should be on public radio man
Thank you Jessica, you just made my day! :)
LMFAO The delivery of this line had be absolutely rolling. "the scouts that have been out, are constantly returning. They don't seem effected by the dust at all. They bomb right into the hole, and then uhh, ultimately they're going to die "
This guy should narrate an audiobook, either that or do a duet with Bobby Caldwell, what a pleasant voice
Women
I swatted my headphones off my head on instinct, just hearing the "buzzing" go past my ears. good video, yellow-jackets are bad news.
I usually pour some gas in the hole and light it. Kinda neat watching them fly around on fire lol
Seems like a legit way to start a wildfire 😂
Mike Ryman ohhh kaaay
A little psycho but ok 👌
wow! Psycho alert!
Mike Ryman the start of a serial killer 👀
@HEAV¥HAND I lived all my life in close proimity to them. Unless you are alergic, they are mostly harmless... The sting hurts a bit, but if you don't want to be stung, don't provoke them!
I’ve used this stuff and it’s great, but I don’t have a bee suit. I took off the cap, dumped the bottle, and flipped a bucket over the hole for a day. I would recommend saving some of the dust to put on/around the bucket for when workers return from foraging.
The important tool to have is a puffer that creates a very fine dust cloud... A few tablespoons in a puffer (duster) would be plenty to wipe out that entire population. Fortunately, the dust does not anger them like traditional wasp sprays do. I have never worn protective gear when using dust (Drione or Delta Dust). It just doesn't seem to piss them off when they're covered in it, and I've never been stung when dusting yellow jackets.
Excellent explanation, very thorough yet to the point. Thanks much, Fred!
I got attacked by a nest like this when my curious dog though it'd be a good idea to dig it up. These guys are the absolute worst. No idea how many bites I got but ended up in the hospital. Tool less than a few seconds to get most of the stings, you aren't kidding about the group attacks.
Wow, that's terrible!
These are vicious bastards. You get stung so many times, so quickly, that there is a substantially higher risk of anaphylaxis even if you never got stung by one before. It's a big dose/short time thing. Very dangerous critters.
MrFunkhauser wow read your yellow jacket ordeal!! That dog brought hell on earth!?!?!
I hate jackets too!!
I gas the hole or foam spray them!!!
I am a full on proponent of Delta Dust and have successfully used it many times.. It really works well. Make sure you're suited up as suggested here though. My only bad experience was when I FORGOT to tape my pant legs. I spotted the hole during the day and went back at night with the dust but could't find it. Turns out I went too far up the hill and was standing on top of the nest. Unfortunately my first indication of
this was when I started being stung when they flew up my pant legs. I ran probably 20 yards to my porch and they were still all over me and swarming around the porch light. After a few minutes of frantic swatting and smashing I escaped into my kitchen and got my pants down to inspect the damage and a couple were still in there and came flying out still wanting to fight. Good times...😵
all great lessons.
I remember my dad taking a Shop Vac out to the hole and duct taping the nozzle to a brick to hold it right over the entrance. Then he left it run all day. Well, what he didn’t take into account was that a Shop Vac works on vacuum alone, there’s no bladed fan that chops up the wasp as their pulled in. So basically he just trapped thousands of angry, pissed off stinging insects in a 15 gallon tank. When he lifted the Vac up the top came off and released all of them at once. I stood inside with my mother watching him through the window. It was comedy gold. Did anyone else have a dad like that? The best intentions, not the best execution.
His method would have worked if he filled the tank of the shop vac up with a gallon of water and dish detergent first. They would have died in there.
See I am a dad so I can relate!!! We don’t read all the directions!! Lmao! Hope he was okay 👍 made me laugh
I also use a shop vac to "collect" wasps but spray bee spray in after they are all sucked up and put a latex glove over tha vacuum hose and wait. Works well for me
Just the calm collected tone you said "and uh- then, ultimately, they are going to die" with had me busting out laughing.
One day I roused a nest of those in the ground. My fat ass never ran so fast over piles of dirt and whatever was in my way
I can see that now.
@@justtim9767 You quit lookin' at Willa's fat ass.
This stuff works. I fought a nest in a hard to reach spot behind a concrete porch for weeks with conventional methods. I caught hundreds, I sprayed hundreds but the nest was too big. One night after dark I puffed in some Delta Dust and by the next day they were done for.
It is remarkebly effective for instances just as you've described.
Ah, a most satisfying video to watch.
there was a huge hole like this behind a cabin i rented.
i hired a guy with a flamethrower and it fixed the problem.
where do hire a guy with a flamethrower
@@hadto8482 Lol, if you look hard enough... you will always be able to find that one 'special' person with all the neat toys in their garage. ;)
This reminds me of last summer"s stings by 4-5 bees. I happened to be raking piled leaves that were as old as 15+yrs. They were not yellow jackets, but a king bee, a fat bee. The first incident I got stung five times, one on each side of head and three on my legs. The swelling grew into a significantly large bubble right under one eye up to my ear. I took some benadryl, anti-inflammatory.
You can do this yourself without protective gear, just do it at night after they have been in the nest a few hours. Do it quickly and then cover the hole. I had to deal with these hell spaws for 6 years living on the mountain
woah they like drop in the hole like skydivers when they return.
Yep and they kept on coming way after dark. Nothing about the powder caused them to even pause.
this guy seriously just went up to a hole of bees and puffed them with exteme cocaine and then said thanks for watching 0-0
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Great video and final end result. Excellent commentary. I use an electric wasp zapper which I fit over the nest entrance and watch the wasps explode. I will try as an experiment, powder from a fire extinguisher and see how that works. Keep up the great video's. Thanks.
Thank you and I'm glad you enjoyed it.
If you're talking about wanting to use fire extinguisher powder... Then I believe it's monoammonium phosphate. :)
I don't recommend fire extinguishing agents... I only use CO2 for knocking insects out to buy time, but no fire extinguisher is going to be a great bug killer and costs more than this Delta Dust. So, no AFFF, no Twin-Agent-Units necessary and that includes Halon... nope, not designed for bugs. AFFF, aka Light-Water was used when an 18 wheeler transporting honeybee hives tipped over on the highway... it definitely killed hundreds of thousands of bees, but was being used to prevent potential fuel fires.
This guy's video is not nearly as entertaining as yours...high-voltage, chlorine, subjecting the little pricks to releases of exploding electrolytic capacitors is what we want!...please keep up the creative, entertaining eradication videos you make...I'm looking forward to the next one...maybe I'll get lucky and they'll come around to my yard this year...then I'll have a chance to do some creative eradication myself! Cheers
The elec zapper is a great idea.
May I expand on that some??
Perhaps get a live video cam link hooked to a remote camera on it,
and build a half dome "elec zapper grid" over a hole.
Plug it in and turn of the live webcam, and put on a smoker show.
Sorta like entertainment channel.
Completely organic, no gasoline fumes, no chemicals and 100% reusable.
EXCELLENT INFORMATIVE LANDSCAPE VIDEO AND NO ANNOYING BACKGROUND MUSIC IN THE BACKGROUND.
I used to work in Pest Control, and I've used many different things... and by far, the BEST thing to use is Delta Dust. It takes a little longer to work, but it's the most effective thing to use. Sprays needs to make direct contact, but the Delta Dust you just need to pour a little at the entrance, or puff it in the hole and the wasps do all the work themselves. What happens is the wasps get it on them and they bring it back to the rest of the nest. Wasps regularly clean themselves, when they do, it poisons and kills them. I've taken out very large wasp nests with this stuff.
Drione Dust is where it's at. But ULD-BP300 as a fogging agent is perfect for instant knockdown. PPE definitely considered
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What if you dust the nest after it gets dark so they’re not so active
@@henryperez606 Then they dont carry the dust in as quick. Either way, when you spray the powder into the nest, they go utterly bat shit crazy. 30 minutes later they calm down. 4 hours later they are 80% dead. 24 hours later they are 100% dead.
@@damonempson224 A squirt of FICAM-D. Cost 50pence. Wait a few hours and the job is all but done. Most economical method for pro pest controllers.
Any appropriate dust would’ve been fine like delta or drione but I think we can agree that half the container is overkill
Got me one o those plastic traps, with the hole in the middle and a lid on it and filled it with beer, and honey, and sugar and a bit of cola too. put it "right on their doorway" and with a few hours, emptied and refilled, they all were gone. After there were not more in there then suddenly the queen wasp in it! Happy ending for our garden.
Hilarious how he talks about how much population and how dangerous they are while he kills the wasps, mocking them, this dude is a legend
Was doing some earth work with my tractor at home today, and hit a large nest of these. Thank you so much for posting this video... so satisfying to watch them drag the dust into the burrow after being stung 10+ times today! 🤕☠😈
WASP ASMR WAS A BAD IDEA!
Yes very baddd
Man I flinched so hard when one of them buzzed near my right headphone lol
scared the shit out of me lmao
I almost died to them as a kid, I was 4 and was stung hundreds of times. glad to know I just slept for a week and didnt get taken to a hospital.
The easiest way I have found is that I placed a plastic jar (you could use glass too) over the hole. After 2-3 days there were a lot of dead jackets lying around the outside of the bottle, and several dead ones lying inside the mouth of the bottle. After about 1 week, I removed the bottle, and have never seen another jacket there. You could leave the bottle longer if you prefer. That way, none can get in or out. Problem solved unless they somehow have multiple holes (but I've never seen that, but I guess it is possible). I would recommend that method to using any type of pesticides, especially if someone has pets or small children.
You can also use diatomaceous earth or powdered eggshells. It's basically tiny little shards and as they crawl it shreds their carapace and kills them in it also clings to them and continues to work as long as there is dust on them. Takes about 3 days.
The bulk of this powder is Diatomaceous Earth, so that's what moves the actual active ingerdients into the nest area.
OK, I have headphones on and just swatted my head when a bee went by. :-)
@1:26
SAME!!!! Freaked me out!
*wasp
We had a wasps nest just like this when I was a kid. My dad got rid of it by attaching a hose to a canister of butane, shoving it down the hole and turning on the gas for a few minutes. No idea how safe or environmentally friendly that is but it certainly got rid of the wasps!
As a aplicator for a pest control company we use delta for ground nest all the time
Do you do Mediation tapes? I'm sorry but am about to go und................
Ok that was funny :)
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1:26 OMG, watching this with the stereo speakers and I almost freaked hearing that loud buzzing! 😱😆😅
For ground nests I made a puffer out of a plastic peanut butter jar with a tire valve stem and a few feet of 1/4" ice maker hose (rigid, bendable thin plastic hose) pushed through tight fitting holes in the lid. Took about 5 minutes to make it out of stuff I had. Put a cup of Sevin dust in (I've also used diatomaceous earth) attached a bicycle pump, went to the nest at night, rammed the pipe down while puffing the stuff all the way. Did in the nest, they were dead in the morning. I just keep the thing around, it's been lent out to a few people who all have had it work well for them. The bicycle pump pushes a lot of air fast and it penetrates way down in the nest.
Don’t watch this video with headphones, especially if they’re good quality. it’s disturbing.
I enjoyed your very methodical narration
excellent choice for this situation...works great for carpenter bee infestations too :0)
This is the best RUclips video I've ever seen.
I stuck my head in a yellow jacket nest while climbing through woods to go fishing as a teen and that buzzing sound gives me awful flashbacks
n m why would you do that?lol
Lol why the hell did you do that??
Don't feel guilty about killing these guys, at least you do your best to keep honeybees going. Those guys are much more beneficial for our food and much less aggressive. As a land surveyor, I have had SEVERAL encounters with these little nightmares! If one doesn't get out of these nests quick enough, they can quickly get you covered up FAST and continually STING STING STING...
I've literally been covered by them. I stepped on a nest out in the woods once and didn't realize it until they swarmed me. The reason yellow jackets are so bad is because if you get stung by one, and you kill it, it releases a pheromone that the others can smell. It's like a wasp GPS. I have had them chase me a long way because of this. Fortunately, i'm not allergic to them to the point of danger. I just swell up a little, then i'm ok.
@@fivestring65ify It helps as a surveyor to wipe some survey ribbon over oneself once stung and fling it as close to the nest as possible. That pheromone then helps to draw alot of them to that ribbon and hopefully not at you.
We have one guinea hen and she eats wasps. My wife saw a wasp land on the concrete floor of our garage and our guinea hen RAN, snatched the wasp up and ate it. Last year we had paper wasps all over the place: under railings on the deck, above doors, below eaves and under wheel wells on trailers. This year, they're all gone except for one nest by the peak of our roof.
Guinea hens are definitely good bug eaters, video of them eating wasps would be valuable as a learning tool. What's your theory on why you're experiencing a paper wasp decline?
Oh, it's because of the guinea hen. She will chase them if she spots one and as soon as it lands, like a bullet, she's on it. For 8 years we've had to deal with the paper wasps, from large hanging nests to numerous smaller nests above doors, under railings, etc. Until this year and the guinea maturing and making her rounds on the property. The only safe place for these wasps now is just below the high eaves on the house.
Hi again Steven, I would definitely breed that guinea hen just based on her foraging behavior alone. She's a winner!
Best prevention is to get out and look around early in the year before the colony gets big. You can easily spot the queens buzzing around starting their nests in May. Just zap them right there and then with dollar store wasp spray. A little moth ball solution dabbed under the eaves will deter them. They hate moth balls and will go somewhere else.
@@JoeKaye-hn5dt That's a good idea. The thing about yellow jackets is that you usually don't notice them until the nest is huge. Paper wasps are so much easier to deal with.
Thanks for the tip on Deltamethrin. Labelled to kill wasps and we had some!!
We get these a lot in southwestern Pennsylvania. I ran over a nest once with a mower when I was in 8th grade. That was one of the worst experiences I ever had.
A common first experience story... not fun.
The wasps don't even need to be caked in it like this video, they just need to get some on them. When they clean themselves, then they'll die in a day or two. Just powder the hole(s) on a night when there's no rain predicted for the next couple of days, to ensure they're exposed on a path that they go through.
Also if you have cats, I still wouldn't consider this entirely safe. That chemical compound is still in the pyrethrin family. (But a cat may be smart enough to avoid a known wasp/hornet nest area.) And you may not want to use this stuff near a fish pond either.
Thanks for all of your input Paul, you're right, much less would have still been effective.
Very true! A little goes a long way. Get the WSP version and spray the area of the entrance without even getting close to it. May take a few days but they'll all die off. Works the same way with widows, cockroaches, ants. Kiss your pest control gouger goodbye.
Imagine being barefoot walking outside and stepping in/on that
That's a very common introduction to in-ground yellow jackets particularly near the end of summer.
I have used this for bees a number of times that wanted to build a hive in the walls, or facia of my house. It knocked them out every time, and they have not been back for years since the last time. I have also used for palmetto bugs that like to get into the walls and enter, and exit electric panels, and outlets. No more roaches, and the creepy crawly noises they like to make. These stuff really works. It just needs a little time to do its thing.
I remember being stung by yellow jackets a lot when I was a kid. Thinking back it wasn't that painful, but time makes stuff better. We only had smaller nests around the house. I remember my father going out with a makeshift flamethrower whenever we had no wasp spray screaming at the wasps and calling them names, next thing I see is small fireballs falling to the ground.
I got stung in my right ear once, on my neck, and many other areas, but the ear and neck are the ones I remember most.
I never knew wasps can build nexts into the ground. They mostly build them on the facade here, or below the roof. Never heard of nests in the ground.
You most likely were observing paper wasps if they were small hanging nests. Yellowjackets love ground nests and wall void nests