I pretty much did everything he did at first with the chemicals, bait, etc. I’m now sitting down with a cup of coffee watching roughly 100 yelllowjackets per minute get sucked into my shop vac. I heart you.
I have own a pest control company for 25 years, this was of the best ideas that a home owner has ever thought to used for the most dangerous hornet. Great job, thumbs up! By the way if this would have been a service call for our pest control experts, you would have been charged $475.00 to start.
OK, I was a bit skeptical but thought, what the heck, no harm in trying. I've NEVER seen anything work as well as this crazy idea. I set up my vac last night, turned it on this morning and watched as literally hundreds of yellow jackets either flew into the nozzle or tumbled out of the hole and right down the chute. After a few hours, I can now just see an occasional yellow jacket try to return but they now seem hesitant to re enter the hole. I was not stung or even dive-bombed during the process. Amazing technique!!
I think he is just counting the cost of dish detergent and electricity. He likely already had the shop vac before ever thinking about putting it to work this way. I do think running the shop vac for 3 hours will cost a lot more than 2 cents but he did come up with a good solution to the problem.
+Coleman Adamson I sleep fine, thanks. Saving all kinds of money and hurting literally no one in the process. How's that high horse of yours these days?
+Coleman Adamson Additionally I'd like to add there is absolutely nothing wrong with utilizing policies created by the stores themselves. Not breaking anything, not telling a single lie. They ask if anything is wrong with it, I say no. The end.
This is great! I used this method to get rid of many hundred yellow jackets that made a nest under a deck which I could not directly access. It only took 1.25 hours to eliminate to completely wipe them out. I did this in the beginning of August so I will watch for a re-appearance and may have to repeat if they come back. This worked better and easier and cheaper than I thought. Very good. Thanks for the idea!
gabe elliott i learned while working at a marina, that break cleaner is amazing. As sonn as a spec hits them, they fall out of the sky. I would pay for a can of break cleaner and put a label on it "Wasp Killer". Our boss wasnt happy lol
I did something similar last year. I used a hose vacuum and extended the hose about 10 feet to the hole the yellow jackets were using. 3 hours later they were all in the vacuum bag. Very gratifying.
There was a tiny hole in the cinder block of my basement from a previous mount that was hidden behind some ivy. Pygmy Yellow jackets entered and used the cavities in the block like condos. Came out on the inside, stung my little dog ( not Toto :) ). Sat up bottle traps, then sprayed just enough to get them moving out, and hit each one individually w/ poison. Took all weekend. Then sprayed a bug fogger in the hole for the larvae, sprayed foam in the hole to seal. Your idea is better, thanks for posting.
This idea worked like a charm. We had a few nests that I could see I didn't know how many I couldn't see. Being above a drop ceiling I knew from activity I saw outside there were a whole lot more than I could see. I avoided using wasp spray because Fed. Regulations prohibited it. Not only that but the idea of them getting into the living quarters was a major deterent.then I looked for a better way and found your video. Thank you for sharing. Blessings to you and your family.
Zac Jones- Might as well call them spiders then... because they're not called bees. They're wasps. They have an entirely different genus. They not even in the same family. That's why you don't call them bees, or spiders or cows. .
Man posts amazing way to eliminate dangerous bugs for hundreds less than an pest control company and RUclips rips him a new one for underestimating costs...
This is a great solution to a wasp problem! Sucking them up with a shop vac and then having them land in detergent water to drown them is great. It probably cost more than two cents, however. The detergent and water cost practically nothing, but running a shop vac for three hours probably cost less than a dollar.Electricity isn't free, you know. Most people already have a shop vac, but if you don't, buy one, and you'll have this handy machine to use for other purposes and possible wasp executions in the future! Thumbs up!
I did the same thing under my pear tree for 2 days, and over a week time frame later. The wasps must have hatched inside the nest and were back to normal hive strength. So vac time #2, both times I noticed they were attacking the shop vac approx. 15' away. lol (darn ferramones?spelling) I then used ant & roach killer down the hole which stopped them for over a week. Then they were back again ! I dropped a few smoke bombs in the hole and switched the vac to reverse or "blow out" and I found several holes some 20+ feet away which were chipmunk /ground squirrel holes. I plugged every hole with a flea bomb and then repeated again 24 hours later and once again 2 days later. That finally stopped them. I dug them up to find 5 nests all the size of a volley ball down the main opening. Some 3 feet down. Not as bad as the nests I've seen down south in Oklahoma. But more than bad for Wisconsin. Not fun to come across this while mowing or kids & playmates grabbing a pear from the tree to eat for a snack while playing in the sand box 30 ' away. Very stubborn to evict indeed.... Love your video, love the wire idea. Think I'll try it and expand if you don't mind lol
Empire Tower, thank you for a very interesting “”post”. Those wasp/yellow jackets in nests the size of volley balls would have been a “” sight “”. I wasn’t aware that they nest so very deep. Great, and interesting story.
OMG IT WORKED!!! We've had a problem with aggressive hornets same time every year! Set up and turned on shop vac, went into living room and blasted Metallica for an hour. Same result, hive was in attic just above living room. Didn't see a single one after looking around up there, removed hive and sealed crack 👍👍. Thank you!
Thanks Gabe, My shop vac is finishing up the last of 3 underground yellow jacket nest as I type this. Your video was spot on and a great idea. I tried the traps also with no luck……GH
I had a similar problem. What I did was to get a package of 6 sticky fly traps, the kind that comes in small tubes with a thumb tack on the end. At night, I set them up by the entrance two inches apart. The following day, the yellow jackets would invariably hit one of the strips and stick to it. By the end of the day, the strips were covered with hundreds of them. At the end of the following day, there was no more activity. I removed and discarded the strips and sealed up the entrance hole. Problem solved.
NCF8710 That shit is far more cruel than drowning them. Because they just sit on the sticky trap until they starve to death which takes much longer then drowning.
@@vaughnmiller7298 Most species of wasps literally paralyze their prey with their sting, lay eggs on/in them, and leave them to be eaten slowly alive by their babies. Wasps are literally hellspawn. Why pity something that has no empathy?
Awesome ! First when you opened the vacuum, I thought you are keen, they will fly out, but you had water in there with a brilliant result. I just installed an electric wasp zapper in my rear garden.
But zappers don't typically work on wasp. Wish they did. Wasp are active during the day and no zapper will out do the sun to attract then to it I read.
This is great, I have to tell you my story from 25 years ago. When I was a kid, our house as a simple concrete front porch with a few steps. There was a crack in the concrete where it joined to the house near the door, and one year a hive of yellow jackets made it a home. I must've been about 10 and I played with them for months, swatting them around, catching them, running away, etc. Never got stung, HA! I was very fast. One of my favorite methods of killing them was when I learned that year if you mix dish soap with water in a spray bottle, it paralyzes and suffocates insects by seeping through their exoskeleton when you spray them. I'd swat them down to the ground, or find them crawling, and then spray them a few times. The moisture would make their wings wet and disable their flying ability just long enough for the chemicals to seep in and do their magic. Oh I went wild, not just with yellow jackets, but all kinds of insects I could find. However, I started getting concerned. Despite my efforts, the hive was growing and becoming more active. I was really becoming worried for my dog and cat who both meant a lot to me. So I hatched a plan... I took our vacuum with its drapes attachment which was the perfect size/shape to cover the hole to the yellow jacket lair. I sucked up the entire hive, just like you did. Left it there for hours, most of the day, and brought it inside with me when the sun went down. I put the vacuum in my room and watched TV or whatever until bed time. When I went to my room to sleep, there were yellow jackets EVERYWHERE. I immediately realized I made a critical error, while the vacuum cleaner would capture the yellow jackets, it would not *kill* them. And once it was turned off, its suction was no longer active to keep the yellow jackets from flying out. I slept in the basement that night. After a few days, the yellow jackets in my room started dying. The hive was inactive, and I was victorious. But at what cost? I was finding dead yellow jackets in corners of my room for years after, lol. If only I had combined my two methods as you did. Absolutely brilliant work, my friend.
Very interesting story, thank you for sharing. That was an “” unpleasant “” surprise when they started coming out of the vacuum sweeper!!! Life is truly a learning process!
Nice video. I did the same for two nests in my yard. Just a note for anyone wanting to try this, once they are no longer flying around doesn't mean you got them all. I found at least 15 hiding in the nest with the cone tiers. Not sure if they were trying to protect the hive or just hiding. Either way, a good spray in the entrance with wasp killer should seal the deal.
I waited til dark and sucked them up with the shop vac. They were in my light fixture outside and I couldn't replace the light fixture because of the wasps. Thanks so much for this clever idea!
Don't say bees! Say wasp! Save the bees! Fight the wasp! Now. Go back in time and poor that water out on camera. Would have loved to have seen how many were actually all in there.
Yellow jackets are carnivorous, eating insects, carrion and picnic fare. They are not hairy, and have no brushes or pollen baskets for carrying pollen. They do eat some pest insects.
I'd caution anyone against using this approach...while the kill method worked well in this particular case, the nest would still be intact and would contain potentially hundreds or more larvae that could hatch into adults (the homeowner got lucky that there weren't more that hatched and reproduced). The nest itself however will attract more wasps/yellow jackets since it's still inside the house. The nest should be completely removed at some point. A wasp powder runs about $5-$10 at the local hardware store and would eradicate the wasps quickly, allowing for nest cleanup within a few days or so. The powder gets pumped in and as the wasps come in contact with it they spread it through the nest and kill off the colony. Because the wasps were contained to a small hole/relatively confined space, the shop vac method worked well in this particular case.
It's certainly an original way to get rid of yellow jackets. Effective for a while, but not effective if there is still a live queen and the possibility of hatch-outs. I've had them in walls like that before - simply the right spray after dark at the mouth of the entrance is usually sufficient.
i used my shopvac when i had issues with wasps in my beehives... bees don't fly in rain or until it's light outside but wasps do, so you can take advantage of their greediness - i just got up early with my rainjacket on and sat outside the hive with the shopvac right by the door - it's a very satisfying thing hearing that TWOCK as they get sucked in... i must have suck up a couple hundred of them.
+Kevin Neville learn from me - Story Time! never seal the hole until you know their all gone - I had the living in the walls, so I thought I'll lock them in with some calk in the entry hole and they would just die. Next day we came home to find them worked their way into the house and now I had hundreds of them flying around in my basement. Had to spend the next two weeks working on getting them out of the basement. Do you now how hard it is to sleep knowing that your basement door is all that separates you from about 500 angry bees flying around. Plugging the hole will just drive them deeper. Getting them out from the outside is best.
If you have Wasps, like I do that I am having trouble finding a solution, wether it costs 2 cents is not the point at all! I am glad you posted that because that got me to look at the video and I am glad I did, I am not sure i would have looked at it if it didn't say how to get rid for 2 cents. I, for one, appreciate your efforts and taking your time to make the video. You aren't selling anything, you get nothing out of this, but the good feeling of knowing you may have helped someone. I grew up in a time before internet and youtube and you didn't get any information like this for free. I deeply appreciate people like you that take time to show others what you had success with. I really have a hard time understanding people disliking a post like yours. I know what you were thinking..A lot of households have a shop vac (like I do) and some other misc things to rig it up. The electricity would be under a dollar...more like 48 cents... (from website that shows cost of household appliances). There down in the frame of my storm door and coming in the top. I am doing my own rigging of equipment now. May hang down from my son's window upstairs that is right above the door.. Thank you again!!! I hope I have the same success!
+Roy Meltzer I belive its a 4.8 amp shop vac, thats around 500w (for easy math) 4 hours is 2KW/h most places pay around 12c per KW so it cost him around a quarter for power. (this also shows normal people have no idea how much it cost to run things)
+Jeff Schefke I am always figuring out what stuff cost. You are right, most people are clueless about most things like that. Just wondering how you figured 4 hours is 2KW/h???? I wasn't privy to that so I learned something. Can you elaborate more about it? Thanks
Its 500w for 4 hours, witch is the same as 1000w for 2 hours, or 2KW. KW/h is a measurement of a amount, if I draw 100w for 10 hours it's 1kw/h or 1000w for 1 hour is 1kw/h It's true most people have no idea the cost of power, they just pay the bill and assume it's some magic math. If you want to know more let me know, and il try to explain it
nice to see another person using this trick too ,, i don't get many yellow jackets at my farm ,, but i get loads of paper wasps under my eaves and i use a shopvac to get them ,i have a 15ft hose and a 10ft wand i made from 1.5 inch pipe it's very effective because unlike with spray the wasps will try and defend the nest and get sucked up ,, I've got a few nests of yellow jackets this year and i have been combatting them all summer ,trying different methods on them I also invented a trap that catches them quite well it involves a funnel that's screwed to a board with the funnel pointing up there is a jug that sets down over the funnel and when the funnel goes into it a trap door opens allowing them to enter and removing it automatically closes the door allowing safe disposal of the bugs there is no metal in the 1 gallon contaner so i usually put it in the microwave for about 15 seconds ,,guaranteed lots of dead wasps another really mean way to rid a yard of them is pouring something HOT down their hole at night ,boiling water works well ,, but for really stubborn nests i like using some 1000F molten aluminum poured down a funnel into the hole ,any that aren't killed by direct contact with it will be roasted by the residual heat which can last for 2 hours
Went to move a angel trumpet pot the other day and yellow jackets flew out and attacked me. Thankfully I ran fast and only received 4 stings. I see another hole next to water feature and have trap beside it but will be heading out today for a shop vac! Great video!
Dude, this worked. I have a underground hive on the edge of my grass next to where the kids wait for the bus. Had a trap with "attractant" around it all day yesterday, no takers. Tried again this morning, nothing. Watched your video, and I have a shopvac tank full of dead yellowjackets.
Thanks for posting this great idea! I had a yellow jacket nest in the corner of my unfinished basement about the size of 2 footballs. I didn't want to spray, since I didn't want poison in our house. Besides, the hole took a right turn 2 inches in, so I couldn't get a good spray into the nest. The entrance hole was under the siding. I put 2-3 inches of soapy water in the vac and ran it for 3-4 hours. There were still wasps coming and going, but fewer. The wasps had a couple of entrances in that corner, so the next day I moved the vac to a couple of different spots. I had to put more water in, since running the vac evaporates the water, and the wasps on top of the pile were still alive. I used a pair of binoculars to see which position was best for getting them into the vac. Today is the third day, and I don't see any wasps coming or going. I dumped the vac and easily had a thousand wasps, probably more. This evening I'm going to cut the nest out of my basement and seal the entrances in that corner with Great Stuff spray foam so they don't get in again next year! This really worked well!!
that is a shop vac. they are for cleaning the shit in a garage or outdoors that you wouldn't want to use your indoor vacuum cleaner for. they are also cheap, and every guy that spends at least 3 hours a year in their garage will have one. works great for spiders too.
Except you should probably leave spiders alone. They're carnivorous so they kill a lot of other bugs that you don't want to have about the house, such as roaches, moths, flies, etc. Of course if you're someone who freaks out when you see eight legs then hoover away!
Very good. Outside a home, garage etc.. I have always used an old coffee cup filled half with gasoline. It may take a couple tries to get your aim right , but drops them immediately which is faster than any commercial spray I have found.
Excellent idea. Keeps you away from them, uses no harmful chemical and easy disposal. The dish soap and water was unexpected but it did its' job. Wasps have very little if any positive uses in mother nature but to be assholes to humans and other insects.
My husbank actually is doing the same thing we did find different holes they were coming in so we had to move the hose to different spots and it seems to work. Putting them in soapy water is great idea! Shop Vac works
He likely already had purchased the shop vac for other needs so he didn't count that as a direct cost. The soap and especially the electricity had to cost more than $0.02.
gotta, You assume the vac was used just once. The true measurement of that machine would have to estimate the life of the vac, count the various things you do with the vac, how often you do each task, and how long each use takes. Then determine how much of the life of the vac is used per hour. Now, take the life of the vac in hours and divide the $50 dollars by the use/hours of life. take that cost per hour of use and multiply by 3 hours used here...............................................................................................Then you can start to work on the cost of 3 hours of electricity.
Thank you for sharing. Just hoovered my own whasps from under the roof. My hoover was on for about 3-4 hours, and i also got hundreds of whasps. Thank you for sharing! I first got the whasps, they were still very active in the hoover. So then unfortunatelly they had to be put down by soapy water.
I don't have the same hoover as yours, just one with see through container. Once it was pretty much in it, i switched off the electrocity and opened the tank a little bit to pour in the soapy water. They passed away within two minutes, then i flushed them in the loo. This i repeated about 3 times.
One afternoon, while attempting to play a game designed for calmer temperaments than I possess, my golf ball landed “in” the opening of a nest, in the fairway of the 3rd hole. Not realizing this valuable tidbit, I walked right up to the offending ball and the unamused occupants, lying in wait. It was then, that I suffered the vindictive rage of a colony of yellow jackets, who’s numbers rivaled the population of China (my estimation). I’ll spare you the details, but for over five and a half satisfying minutes, I relaxed and cheered on the shop vac in this video, with gusto. I would have preferred a tiny guillotine demonstration, or individual live dissections, but time constraints didn’t allow. That said, I thank you from the bottom of my heart, for this quality entertainment ! This was more therapeutic than the year of anger management counseling I was ordered to attend, after seeking several illegal forms of retaliation, at the course. I got away with the gasoline, the first and second night. But, on the third night, the explosives apparently alerted neighbors. Country Clubs don’t like that. 😁
A cheap solution is, if you have a working lamp , those between 400-1000w- you can put that outside at night. The wasps will go towards the heath and light- but when they come in contact with the glass of the lamp- its so hot that it will burn their wings off(prob the wasp to) so they die. I found out about this when i had it on in the basement , and forgot it- the next day 1000s of wasp were dead on the ground.
+mick the eagle yeah that;s something I've never understood myself ... in fact, he used the terms interchangeably in the video....SERIOUSLY PEOPLE THEY ARE NOT THE SAME!!!!.... just because Wasps and Hornets (yes these are also different things.) are yellow and black insects that can sting and have wings does not make them bees, on that same logic you could call a red Hyundai Sonata a Ferrari 458 as they are both painted red, both have 4 wheels and are both have engines and use gasoline..... yeah... i don't think so.
Great idea Gabe! I connect two 10 foot pvc pipes to knock down nests in eves. It stirs them up and is a little dangerous. I will use your setup along with the long pipes and an old wet vac to keep from getting stung. Thank you!
John Boy electricity is pretty cheap. The rate of electricity here would cost 0.12 cents per minute to run a 3 HP shop-vac. I'd say the cost of electricity in the use of the shop-vac in this video is less than negligible.
Thank you! Completed yesterday on a trim board on my house. I vacuumed for about an hour and then filled with foaming bee spray. I later caulked the opening and no more bees.
Vin Deagle actually, beekeepers have low-suction bee vacuums that they gather bees in when they catch a swarm. The bees go into a screened container, then can be placed into a new hive with their queen. If they don’t capture the queen with the swarm, they’ll usually buy a new queen if they haven’t raised some spare queens at home. Interesting what you can learn on RUclips.
The strangest way I have ever seen anyone kill insects was when I had some wasps on my patio. I had nothing like as many wasps as this guy had bees but I had enough that we couldn't really enjoy ourselves when we were outside. My brother was visiting me and he grabbed a pair of SCISSORS and snipped at them as they flew by, intending to cut them in two. Incredibly, he was able to kill every wasp in sight!
you forgot the 3 hours of the vacuum running = about $5-$10 in electricity... still in the end cheap, safe, and easy to fix a bee\hornet problem.. great solution, Thanks. Thank you for your video, and time. I may have to do the same for a wasp issue... it should work the same.. thumbs up!!!!
+Richard Downer redo that math, an average KWH (KiloWatt Hour) is around 8-14cents per kilo watt hour(depends on what your rate is). running a 120V,12A shop vac is around 1440watts in 1 hour. in 1 hour, it'll cost from 11-15 cents per hour to run a shopvac (pending on rates). times that by 3 and its costing him 33-45 cents during the 3 hours it was running.
Technicality: Watts and kilowatts are units of power. They're a rate of energy transfer. You don't "use n watts in an hour" and there are no "kilowatts per hour." The standard unit of energy is a Joule. 1 Watt for 1 second is 1 Joule. 1 Wall for 10 seconds is 10 Joules. 10 Watts for 1 second is 10 Joules. We charge by the kilowatt-hour, which is 3.6 kilojoules. Also: "you are" shortens to "you're" with the apostrophe replacing the space and the "a" not to "your," which is the equivalent of "my," "his," "her" and "their."
+Lauren Fox, I certainly know the difference between bees and wasps. Calling wasps bees is an elementary mistake. Problem is you can't tell from the video what they are. Bees also built hives in walls and attics and can be collected with a shop vac as well.
bumblebees are cute, they are endangered in my country we cannot suck them out. Honeybees are also not allowed to be touched but are more widespread. Can i ask you something though? is a yellow jacket just another name for a wasp, as in our country they are called wasps, after all this i bet you turn out to be british too.
+Lauren Fox, yellow jackets are just another type of wasp. However they nest in much greater quantities and are particularly drawn to human activity. They love to show up for bbq's and picnics. They love to buzz around your face trying to get some of what ever you are eating or drinking. Though their stings don't seem to be as venomous as, say the red wasp, they are persistent in their attempts to partake of your food and will sting if interrupted often on the lips, face or neck. Other wasps aren't aggressive unless they feel that their nest is threatened. Honey bees are threatened here in the States and if I use a vacuum it is just to corral them alive for relocation. Bumble bees are usually ground dwelling social bees. Probably agriculture in Britan has has a toll on their habitat as they they prefer unkept grasslands. If you ever stepped on one of their nests you wouldn't probably use the adjective "cute" to describe them. They are ferocious defenders of their hives.
Great job Gave. OK guys, maybe not $0.02, big deal, it may be a couple of bucks... But you'll get the point, when I contacted a local pest control guy he gave an estimate of $300.00 Most handy guys have a shop vac. if you don't have one ask your neighbor.
+KronicNitron most bee keepers will remove them for you. sometimes free of charge. You wont understand their importance till you try to garden and raise vegetables where there is a lack of honey bees. even wasps help pollinate self pollinating things like southern peas, beans, tomatoes, pepper and eggplants.
UK cops or motorway maintenance workers will probably take them off you for nothing, They wear yellow jackets when they need to remain visible in dangerous traffic. I hope that this helps.
You're welcome. I meant it as a compliment. Any well executed "roast" type of joke can earn the acclaim of savage. 10 points for creativity. The "hope that helps" was icing on the cake.
This seems to be working here...Thanks, vacuum has been going couple hours..the spray didn't work....we are sucking these critters up!!!!! How smart an idea! Hopefully these are wasps not bees! Thank you Gabe!
that was a great itdea. i was waiting for you to open it to a swarm of pissed of haters ready to sting your butt, after seeing the impact that they have on the splash guard, i dont think any water and soap was necessary but a good idea nonetheless. I will try this next time.
I read about this solution 2 nights ago; the document was written by/for professionals. Good on you for trying it. 2 things dissuaded me & both were apparently unnecessary. 1) locate the nest with a stethoscope or heat seeking device & 2) leaving the shop vac with the wasps/bees (who cares I want em gone) & the soapy water in hot sun, or putting them in a trash bag in the freezer (all to be sure they're dead - yours looked dead enough to me). Regarding burning up a shop vac. Get a new one for 10 bucks at a garage sale people; $7 at an auction. Is this not a bargain price for saving sanity, structural damage & health? The doc I read advised running the shop vac for an hour at a time, stopping awhile (can't recall how long) and running the shop vac for an hour again. Lather rinse & repeat type of deal. Not sure why the stop & start. Maybe to ensure destruction of foragers returning, or maybe to preserve the shop vac. I have a shop vac similar in size to yours but it's older. I guess it's ill advised to use a vacuum with less power. I'm going for it. I can't see the nest, but I haven't got nearly the activity you did and I don't want to. Can you explain a bit about your rig? Looks like electrical or duct tape & a big broom. Did you fasten it at the entrance in the wall or prop in on up there & let 'er rip? Any way big ups to ya, and to your critics, Oh please.
my husband is going out to try this right now. we keep trying the spray to kill them and spray foam but the yellow jackets found a tiny opening next to the foam, so they are back full force. Have a jacket nest under siding. the location is under our deck directly below entry door. our toddler and 4 basenjis cant even go out on the deck or down the stairs without fear of being chased or stung. will let you know how well it works.
Mr. Smith, you are correct in your estimation of chemical cost and labor for a basic Yellow Jacket service, but you also have business expenses such as salaries, commission, payroll taxes, health insurance, workers compensation insurance, vehicle insurances, commercial licenses, state operational fees, monthly fuel cost, vehicle and pest control repairs cost, employee uniforms etc. Yes, if it were not for all the state and federal regulations that bind the business owners it would cost at your estimation. But when you are employed and not a employer you simply don't have any idea what it takes to produce a living for others in our communities.
Then they can go live far away from any houses. Personally, anything that isn't me, my dog, or any other non-predatorial creature like lizards or frogs, I'm going to kill.
I have friends of the family in another state who has honeybee hives at the back of their property. They are always around you outside and fly into your face and whatnot, so I never go outside there. They think everything is fine, but most people think of anything that can fly AND sting as a living horror.
I'm sure others have made the point, but wasps are not bees. In the first few minutes of the vid you use the terms wasps and bees inter-changeably. They are very different insects. Bees are our friends - pls don't kill them. Wasps - go for it. :0
www.commondreams.org/news/2008/06/02/last-flight-honeybee Don't go encouraging people to hate bees and be glad to see them die. We need them. How's that? Light enough shade of green?
wasp lives matter to. bah!!!! ha!!!!! I can hear the nature channel interview now... "Dem boys ain't be hurt'n nobody! They just be out dare' try'n to make a life for dem selves. And you folk go out and kill'm for nut'n! it ain't Right! Wasp lives matter to!" 😭
Yes I tried what you did with a full size water vac, but even after the vac was used for 5 hours 4 one day and 1-2 hours early morning and I caught a lot of bees. I added a 1/2 hour break each hour to prevent overheating the motor, on a timer. perhaps we both forgot the yellow Jackets continue to hatch out of the nest. The best one can do is get a reduction. You still need to use a pesticide. It was a reasonable try.
+WiseOldOwl3 time of year helps a lot. Mid- late fall is when you want to hit them, because they ball up in order to keep their young warm during the winter, get them when they ar setting up to winter. he did get lucky and got them when they were setting up to winter early. must live in the north. it does work, only if you are willing to deal with the yellow jackets aggression during the fall (they eat meat and sometimes bite/sting large living things). Not an expert, just somebody who loves swarming insects =]. Good luck with any wasp problems in the future. But sometimes it's just better to use oil based pesticide made to kill the insect culprits and seal the entrance after the problem simmers down.
After you vacumn all the wasps, spray sevin dust into the opening with an air compressor to smoke out the remaining wasps and they won't return. I did the same thing on my house.
I used Sevin dust to get rid of a wasp nest behind my eaves trough. I took a long pole,taped some 1/4 plastic tubing to it,and dipped the business end in the powder. I attached a can of compressed air to the other end of the tube,and used this setup to puff powder into the crack the little buggers were using as an entrance. It took about a week,but eventually there was no more activity in the nest.
I pretty much did everything he did at first with the chemicals, bait, etc. I’m now sitting down with a cup of coffee watching roughly 100 yelllowjackets per minute get sucked into my shop vac. I heart you.
I have own a pest control company for 25 years, this was of the best ideas that a home owner has ever thought to used for the most dangerous hornet. Great job, thumbs up! By the way if this would have been a service call for our pest control experts, you would have been charged $475.00 to start.
Thanks Gregg. I actually did call someone and they quoted over $300 which is what lead me to coming up with a cheaper solution.
Hah, that was definitely a huge savings. Couple cents worth of electricity and dish soap vs a few hundred bucks!
That's crazy. I had a guy come out and put a "dust trap" in the hole and the dust killed them for $100.
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lol $475 for a simple yellow Jacket call. use a puff of Temp dust and see you later yellow jackets. $125 max....$475 you are robbing them.
OK, I was a bit skeptical but thought, what the heck, no harm in trying. I've NEVER seen anything work as well as this crazy idea. I set up my vac last night, turned it on this morning and watched as literally hundreds of yellow jackets either flew into the nozzle or tumbled out of the hole and right down the chute. After a few hours, I can now just see an occasional yellow jacket try to return but they now seem hesitant to re enter the hole. I was not stung or even dive-bombed during the process. Amazing technique!!
Shop vac generally costs more than 2 cents.
I think he is just counting the cost of dish detergent and electricity. He likely already had the shop vac before ever thinking about putting it to work this way. I do think running the shop vac for 3 hours will cost a lot more than 2 cents but he did come up with a good solution to the problem.
Big box rental. Wash it out, repack it properly and it's free. Just cost you the gas to and from the store.
Always a dishonest person in the audience. Ever try living with integrity? You sleep much better.
+Coleman Adamson I sleep fine, thanks. Saving all kinds of money and hurting literally no one in the process. How's that high horse of yours these days?
+Coleman Adamson Additionally I'd like to add there is absolutely nothing wrong with utilizing policies created by the stores themselves. Not breaking anything, not telling a single lie. They ask if anything is wrong with it, I say no. The end.
This is great! I used this method to get rid of many hundred yellow jackets that made a nest under a deck which I could not directly access. It only took 1.25 hours to eliminate to completely wipe them out. I did this in the beginning of August so I will watch for a re-appearance and may have to repeat if they come back. This worked better and easier and cheaper than I thought. Very good. Thanks for the idea!
Worked great. It's been a year now and still no wasps.
+gabe elliott Thanks for sharing this!
+R Thomas Done. maybe should have mentioned that in the video as well.
gabe elliott i learned while working at a marina, that break cleaner is amazing. As sonn as a spec hits them, they fall out of the sky. I would pay for a can of break cleaner and put a label on it "Wasp Killer". Our boss wasnt happy lol
+gabe elliott i was just gonna ask this. thanks for the update.
That's the most coolest idea I've ever seen
I did that about 25 years ago; worked well. I repeatedly bounced a tennis ball off the wall to irritate the little varmints and speed up the process.
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Smart idea, I'm a borrowy dogs ball...as for some reason they won't come out lol
I did something similar last year. I used a hose vacuum and extended the hose about 10 feet to the hole the yellow jackets were using. 3 hours later they were all in the vacuum bag. Very gratifying.
There was a tiny hole in the cinder block of my basement from a previous mount that was hidden behind some ivy. Pygmy Yellow jackets entered and used the cavities in the block like condos. Came out on the inside, stung my little dog ( not Toto :) ). Sat up bottle traps, then sprayed just enough to get them moving out, and hit each one individually w/ poison. Took all weekend. Then sprayed a bug fogger in the hole for the larvae, sprayed foam in the hole to seal. Your idea is better, thanks for posting.
That does not sound like a fun weekend.
+sandspar Mind your own bussnisse and stay off youtube
+Andi Payne go fuck your self
+Andi Payne youre the cancer off youtube.
+Andi Payne are you fucking braindead?
This idea worked like a charm. We had a few nests that I could see I didn't know how many I couldn't see. Being above a drop ceiling I knew from activity I saw outside there were a whole lot more than I could see. I avoided using wasp spray because Fed. Regulations prohibited it. Not only that but the idea of them getting into the living quarters was a major deterent.then I looked for a better way and found your video. Thank you for sharing. Blessings to you and your family.
Stop calling them bees. It gives bees a bad name.
Zac Jones- Might as well call them spiders then... because they're not called bees. They're wasps. They have an entirely different genus. They not even in the same family. That's why you don't call them bees, or spiders or cows. .
+Big D Slap ha ha ha ha
Ed Smith that's racist
Bee's lives matter :)
Ed Smith I love your profile pic. I agree 100%
Man posts amazing way to eliminate dangerous bugs for hundreds less than an pest control company and RUclips rips him a new one for underestimating costs...
Underestimate: This will cost $100. *Actually costs $125.
This title: Two cents. *Actually costs $125.
Hopefully this clears things up for you.
just imagine what you could do with a whole dollar!
+CNL _ lolssss
lol
I go to Dollar Store :D
This is a great solution to a wasp problem! Sucking them up with a shop vac and then having them land in detergent water to drown them is great. It probably cost more than two cents, however. The detergent and water cost practically nothing, but running a shop vac for three hours probably cost less than a dollar.Electricity isn't free, you know. Most people already have a shop vac, but if you don't, buy one, and you'll have this handy machine to use for other purposes and possible wasp executions in the future! Thumbs up!
I did the same thing under my pear tree for 2 days, and over a week time frame later. The wasps must have hatched inside the nest and were back to normal hive strength. So vac time #2, both times I noticed they were attacking the shop vac approx. 15' away. lol (darn ferramones?spelling) I then used ant & roach killer down the hole which stopped them for over a week. Then they were back again ! I dropped a few smoke bombs in the hole and switched the vac to reverse or "blow out" and I found several holes some 20+ feet away which were chipmunk /ground squirrel holes. I plugged every hole with a flea bomb and then repeated again 24 hours later and once again 2 days later. That finally stopped them. I dug them up to find 5 nests all the size of a volley ball down the main opening. Some 3 feet down. Not as bad as the nests I've seen down south in Oklahoma. But more than bad for Wisconsin. Not fun to come across this while mowing or kids & playmates grabbing a pear from the tree to eat for a snack while playing in the sand box 30 ' away. Very stubborn to evict indeed.... Love your video, love the wire idea. Think I'll try it and expand if you don't mind lol
EmpireTower good idea blowing the smoke bomb into the hole you found to locate the others.
EmpireTower.
Empire Tower, thank you for a very interesting “”post”. Those wasp/yellow jackets in nests the size of volley balls would have been a “” sight “”. I wasn’t aware that they nest so very deep. Great, and interesting story.
Sounds like you were telling one of your tales of war lol
Thank you for your service.
OMG IT WORKED!!! We've had a problem with aggressive hornets same time every year! Set up and turned on shop vac, went into living room and blasted Metallica for an hour. Same result, hive was in attic just above living room. Didn't see a single one after looking around up there, removed hive and sealed crack 👍👍. Thank you!
KS DS anything by W.A.S.P. but Jack Action
off The Last Command 1985 would seem apropos
\m/ 😎 \m/
KEA or RTL would be good for this. Or Slayer!
Thanks Gabe, My shop vac is finishing up the last of 3 underground yellow jacket nest as I type this. Your video was spot on and a great idea. I tried the traps also with no luck……GH
+Gary Hicks Very nice
You sir are a genius. Just did this. It really worked and emptied the shop vac and there was literally 400-600 of them.
I couldn't afford a shop-vac, so I just used a drinking straw and snorted the ones in my place.
😂😂😂
why?? it's only two cents right?
Snort you say? What did you cut em with?
then YOU SUCK.
R.I.P.
Worked great! We ran our shop vac for 2 consecutive days. At the end of the 2nd day, we were seeing no activity!
I had a similar problem. What I did was to get a package of 6 sticky fly traps, the kind that comes in small tubes with a thumb tack on the end. At night, I set them up by the entrance two inches apart. The following day, the yellow jackets would invariably hit one of the strips and stick to it. By the end of the day, the strips were covered with hundreds of them. At the end of the following day, there was no more activity. I removed and discarded the strips and sealed up the entrance hole. Problem solved.
very nice
NCF8710 That shit is far more cruel than drowning them. Because they just sit on the sticky trap until they starve to death which takes much longer then drowning.
@@vaughnmiller7298 your right, its better than drowning!
@@vaughnmiller7298 Most species of wasps literally paralyze their prey with their sting, lay eggs on/in them, and leave them to be eaten slowly alive by their babies. Wasps are literally hellspawn. Why pity something that has no empathy?
Awesome ! First when you opened the vacuum, I thought you are keen, they will fly out, but you had water in there with a brilliant result.
I just installed an electric wasp zapper in my rear garden.
+RODALCO2007 The problem with the bug zappers is that it zaps the good bugs along with the bad.
But zappers don't typically work on wasp. Wish they did. Wasp are active during the day and no zapper will out do the sun to attract then to it I read.
This is great, I have to tell you my story from 25 years ago. When I was a kid, our house as a simple concrete front porch with a few steps. There was a crack in the concrete where it joined to the house near the door, and one year a hive of yellow jackets made it a home. I must've been about 10 and I played with them for months, swatting them around, catching them, running away, etc. Never got stung, HA! I was very fast.
One of my favorite methods of killing them was when I learned that year if you mix dish soap with water in a spray bottle, it paralyzes and suffocates insects by seeping through their exoskeleton when you spray them. I'd swat them down to the ground, or find them crawling, and then spray them a few times. The moisture would make their wings wet and disable their flying ability just long enough for the chemicals to seep in and do their magic.
Oh I went wild, not just with yellow jackets, but all kinds of insects I could find. However, I started getting concerned. Despite my efforts, the hive was growing and becoming more active. I was really becoming worried for my dog and cat who both meant a lot to me. So I hatched a plan...
I took our vacuum with its drapes attachment which was the perfect size/shape to cover the hole to the yellow jacket lair. I sucked up the entire hive, just like you did. Left it there for hours, most of the day, and brought it inside with me when the sun went down. I put the vacuum in my room and watched TV or whatever until bed time. When I went to my room to sleep, there were yellow jackets EVERYWHERE. I immediately realized I made a critical error, while the vacuum cleaner would capture the yellow jackets, it would not *kill* them. And once it was turned off, its suction was no longer active to keep the yellow jackets from flying out.
I slept in the basement that night. After a few days, the yellow jackets in my room started dying. The hive was inactive, and I was victorious. But at what cost? I was finding dead yellow jackets in corners of my room for years after, lol. If only I had combined my two methods as you did. Absolutely brilliant work, my friend.
Rofl this is great
I hate it when that happens.
Very interesting story, thank you for sharing. That was an “” unpleasant “” surprise when they started coming out of the vacuum sweeper!!! Life is truly a learning process!
Great idea! Thanks for sharing. I had tons of bees going into my soffit. I did the same thing today and now I dont have anymore bees. Thank You!
not gonna lie that worked alot better then I thought it would
Nice video. I did the same for two nests in my yard. Just a note for anyone wanting to try this, once they are no longer flying around doesn't mean you got them all. I found at least 15 hiding in the nest with the cone tiers. Not sure if they were trying to protect the hive or just hiding. Either way, a good spray in the entrance with wasp killer should seal the deal.
who else thought that he was gonna throw 2 pennies at the nest
i would have died laughing
Me
The world needs more people like you xD
+GeometryDash KilRoY86 Those don't exist in Canada anymore, at least their not common :(
That would have been "How to get rid of 1000 yellow jackets _with_ two cents"
I waited til dark and sucked them up with the shop vac. They were in my light fixture outside and I couldn't replace the light fixture because of the wasps. Thanks so much for this clever idea!
Don't say bees! Say wasp! Save the bees! Fight the wasp!
Now. Go back in time and poor that water out on camera. Would have loved to have seen how many were actually all in there.
+Rebecca “Java” J Pour*
wasps are pollinators also, stupid fuck
TexasGTO I don't watch videos like this completely sober. ;)
+Paul Steed Wasps are dicks and dicks need to be beaten
:)
Yellow jackets are carnivorous, eating insects, carrion and picnic fare. They are not hairy, and have no brushes or pollen baskets for carrying pollen. They do eat some pest insects.
I'd caution anyone against using this approach...while the kill method worked well in this particular case, the nest would still be intact and would contain potentially hundreds or more larvae that could hatch into adults (the homeowner got lucky that there weren't more that hatched and reproduced). The nest itself however will attract more wasps/yellow jackets since it's still inside the house. The nest should be completely removed at some point. A wasp powder runs about $5-$10 at the local hardware store and would eradicate the wasps quickly, allowing for nest cleanup within a few days or so. The powder gets pumped in and as the wasps come in contact with it they spread it through the nest and kill off the colony. Because the wasps were contained to a small hole/relatively confined space, the shop vac method worked well in this particular case.
well this solution sucks
hmmmm..did you actually watch? looked like a pretty good solution to me.
or does it suck to you because you dont own a shop vac?
+Josh River it was a vacuum joke and you wrecked it
modex20 LOL...I did, didn't I!!
I feel bad now cause that *was* a good joke!
I don't even know how I missed it.
My bad!
Blue thumb up +1
it's because the internet puts everyone on the defensive
modex20 I told your joke to my family and what I said by not catching it...it got a good laugh!
Sometimes I just have to make a fool of myself. ;p
5:12 1000 wasps and one cheerio. I didn't even know cheerios could fly!
didnt you know cherrios are a wasps natural predator :p
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!
+Beans In the name of Pythagoras I curse thee!
+nightshadow prey*
+nightshadow wait nvm
You got that sick ass shop vac for 2 cents?
Holy fuck
ikr?!
He probably already owned it and uses it for other things Ya Jack Hole!!
Dan Kohl
Idiot.
These idiots do not recognize sarcasm.
It's certainly an original way to get rid of yellow jackets. Effective for a while, but not effective if there is still a live queen and the possibility of hatch-outs. I've had them in walls like that before - simply the right spray after dark at the mouth of the entrance is usually sufficient.
That was a very ingenious solution, however, I think you need to recalculate your cost. The electricity for the vacuum is not free.
+Chuck Coy At least it's cheap? You're right though.
+Chuck Coy agree!!! 3 hours on a 12 amp shop vac = about $5-$10 on the the electric bill...
You need to revisit your math. Your figure is way, way high.
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that sounds pretty close...
We probably have different prices, but if we call it 16p/kWh and that a 1kW appliance, 3 hours is 48p or about 70 cents.
i used my shopvac when i had issues with wasps in my beehives... bees don't fly in rain or until it's light outside but wasps do, so you can take advantage of their greediness - i just got up early with my rainjacket on and sat outside the hive with the shopvac right by the door - it's a very satisfying thing hearing that TWOCK as they get sucked in... i must have suck up a couple hundred of them.
please tell me you atleast sealed that hole after?
Yes I did.
It was also a great video, i was thinking about trying it out myself
Just seal the, in if they can't get out to get there needs they will die
+Kevin Neville them*
+Kevin Neville learn from me - Story Time! never seal the hole until you know their all gone - I had the living in the walls, so I thought I'll lock them in with some calk in the entry hole and they would just die. Next day we came home to find them worked their way into the house and now I had hundreds of them flying around in my basement. Had to spend the next two weeks working on getting them out of the basement. Do you now how hard it is to sleep knowing that your basement door is all that separates you from about 500 angry bees flying around. Plugging the hole will just drive them deeper. Getting them out from the outside is best.
If you have Wasps, like I do that I am having trouble finding a solution, wether it costs 2 cents is not the point at all! I am glad you posted that because that got me to look at the video and I am glad I did, I am not sure i would have looked at it if it didn't say how to get rid for 2 cents. I, for one, appreciate your efforts and taking your time to make the video. You aren't selling anything, you get nothing out of this, but the good feeling of knowing you may have helped someone. I grew up in a time before internet and youtube and you didn't get any information like this for free. I deeply appreciate people like you that take time to show others what you had success with. I really have a hard time understanding people disliking a post like yours. I know what you were thinking..A lot of households have a shop vac (like I do) and some other misc things to rig it up. The electricity would be under a dollar...more like 48 cents... (from website that shows cost of household appliances). There down in the frame of my storm door and coming in the top. I am doing my own rigging of equipment now. May hang down from my son's window upstairs that is right above the door.. Thank you again!!! I hope I have the same success!
Cost me 3 cents... 0/10 wouldn't recomend
+Matt Merrill lol
+Matt Merrill It cost me 4 pesos, what a rip off.
+ArcadeGames ?
+ArcadeGames
The electricity bill was .08 cents arrrrrgh they lied !!!
+MrTheHillfolk That's how they get ya.
Thanks! $125 for an exterminator without any results. Your method worked in a couple of hours.
Proably more in cost for electricty
+Roy Meltzer I belive its a 4.8 amp shop vac, thats around 500w (for easy math) 4 hours is 2KW/h most places pay around 12c per KW so it cost him around a quarter for power.
(this also shows normal people have no idea how much it cost to run things)
+Jeff Schefke I am always figuring out what stuff cost. You are right, most people are clueless about most things like that. Just wondering how you figured 4 hours is 2KW/h???? I wasn't privy to that so I learned something. Can you elaborate more about it? Thanks
Its 500w for 4 hours, witch is the same as 1000w for 2 hours, or 2KW.
KW/h is a measurement of a amount, if I draw 100w for 10 hours it's 1kw/h or 1000w for 1 hour is 1kw/h
It's true most people have no idea the cost of power, they just pay the bill and assume it's some magic math.
If you want to know more let me know, and il try to explain it
+Jeff Schefke I should also point out that these are NOT meant to run for hours on end, your distorting the brushes on it...
+Jeff Schefke Yeah electricity isnt that expensive as you have shown. One can point out though that the shop vac isnt free though.
Excellent solution, Gabe. I just started the same with my vac for a hole the yellow jackets found in the wall where an old doorbell button used to be.
Thank you so much my mom and I did this and we have caught hundreds
+Ryan Keleghan Happy I was able to help
nice to see another person using this trick too ,, i don't get many yellow jackets at my farm ,, but i get loads of paper wasps under my eaves and i use a shopvac to get them ,i have a 15ft hose and a 10ft wand i made from 1.5 inch pipe it's very effective because unlike with spray the wasps will try and defend the nest and get sucked up ,,
I've got a few nests of yellow jackets this year and i have been combatting them all summer ,trying different methods on them
I also invented a trap that catches them quite well
it involves a funnel that's screwed to a board with the funnel pointing up
there is a jug that sets down over the funnel and when the funnel goes into it a trap door opens allowing them to enter and removing it automatically closes the door allowing safe disposal of the bugs
there is no metal in the 1 gallon contaner so i usually put it in the microwave for about 15 seconds ,,guaranteed lots of dead wasps
another really mean way to rid a yard of them is pouring something HOT down their hole at night ,boiling water works well ,, but for really stubborn nests i like using some 1000F molten aluminum poured down a funnel into the hole ,any that aren't killed by direct contact with it will be roasted by the residual heat which can last for 2 hours
Went to move a angel trumpet pot the other day and yellow jackets flew out and attacked me. Thankfully I ran fast and only received 4 stings. I see another hole next to water feature and have trap beside it but will be heading out today for a shop vac! Great video!
I wanted to see them flyout when he popped the lid aha
I thought they would fly out to :P
A gallon of water and a tbsp of pesticide nothing is going to fly nowhere.
I NEED to see that
Ian Thompson I
Dude, this worked. I have a underground hive on the edge of my grass next to where the kids wait for the bus. Had a trap with "attractant" around it all day yesterday, no takers. Tried again this morning, nothing. Watched your video, and I have a shopvac tank full of dead yellowjackets.
I use a normal vacuum to suck mosquitoes when they get into my house. It's ridiculously effective. :-D
Thanks for posting this great idea! I had a yellow jacket nest in the corner of my unfinished basement about the size of 2 footballs. I didn't want to spray, since I didn't want poison in our house. Besides, the hole took a right turn 2 inches in, so I couldn't get a good spray into the nest. The entrance hole was under the siding. I put 2-3 inches of soapy water in the vac and ran it for 3-4 hours. There were still wasps coming and going, but fewer. The wasps had a couple of entrances in that corner, so the next day I moved the vac to a couple of different spots. I had to put more water in, since running the vac evaporates the water, and the wasps on top of the pile were still alive. I used a pair of binoculars to see which position was best for getting them into the vac. Today is the third day, and I don't see any wasps coming or going. I dumped the vac and easily had a thousand wasps, probably more. This evening I'm going to cut the nest out of my basement and seal the entrances in that corner with Great Stuff spray foam so they don't get in again next year! This really worked well!!
So you get free electricity. Nice
lol
yeah and free professional vacuum cleaner nice
that is a shop vac. they are for cleaning the shit in a garage or outdoors that you wouldn't want to use your indoor vacuum cleaner for. they are also cheap, and every guy that spends at least 3 hours a year in their garage will have one. works great for spiders too.
Yeah, that home chain store takes anything back, even if it's used!
Except you should probably leave spiders alone. They're carnivorous so they kill a lot of other bugs that you don't want to have about the house, such as roaches, moths, flies, etc. Of course if you're someone who freaks out when you see eight legs then hoover away!
Very good. Outside a home, garage etc.. I have always used an old coffee cup filled half with gasoline. It may take a couple tries to get your aim right , but drops them immediately which is faster than any commercial spray I have found.
This is what happens when you and the kids watch 200 reruns of Maya The Bee
Excellent idea. Keeps you away from them, uses no harmful chemical and easy disposal. The dish soap and water was unexpected but it did its' job. Wasps have very little if any positive uses in mother nature but to be assholes to humans and other insects.
I was so scared when he went to open up the vacuum cleaner. Was thinking "what the fuck dude!"
My husbank actually is doing the same thing we did find different holes they were coming in so we had to move the hose to different spots and it seems to work. Putting them in soapy water is great idea! Shop Vac works
2cent dish soap and water $50 Vacuum total $50.02
+gottaluv48 plus electricity
He likely already had purchased the shop vac for other needs so he didn't count that as a direct cost. The soap and especially the electricity had to cost more than $0.02.
Not if u already own the vac lol
gotta, You assume the vac was used just once. The true measurement of that machine would have to estimate the life of the vac, count the various things you do with the vac, how often you do each task, and how long each use takes. Then determine how much of the life of the vac is used per hour. Now, take the life of the vac in hours and divide the $50 dollars by the use/hours of life. take that cost per hour of use and multiply by 3 hours used here...............................................................................................Then you can start to work on the cost of 3 hours of electricity.
gottaluv48 that's a rigid, 100 at least but best vac in the big box stores
Thank you for sharing. Just hoovered my own whasps from under the roof. My hoover was on for about 3-4 hours, and i also got hundreds of whasps. Thank you for sharing! I first got the whasps, they were still very active in the hoover. So then unfortunatelly they had to be put down by soapy water.
I don't have the same hoover as yours, just one with see through container. Once it was pretty much in it, i switched off the electrocity and opened the tank a little bit to pour in the soapy water. They passed away within two minutes, then i flushed them in the loo. This i repeated about 3 times.
damn I need to go out and buy that same vacuum... on for 3 hours straight? Surprised it didn't catch on fire or something lol...
the Rigid vacuums even have a lifetime warranty through home depot
One afternoon, while attempting to play a game designed for calmer temperaments than I possess, my golf ball landed “in” the opening of a nest, in the fairway of the 3rd hole. Not realizing this valuable tidbit, I walked right up to the offending ball and the unamused occupants, lying in wait. It was then, that I suffered the vindictive rage of a colony of yellow jackets, who’s numbers rivaled the population of China (my estimation). I’ll spare you the details, but for over five and a half satisfying minutes, I relaxed and cheered on the shop vac in this video, with gusto. I would have preferred a tiny guillotine demonstration, or individual live dissections, but time constraints didn’t allow. That said, I thank you from the bottom of my heart, for this quality entertainment ! This was more therapeutic than the year of anger management counseling I was ordered to attend, after seeking several illegal forms of retaliation, at the course. I got away with the gasoline, the first and second night. But, on the third night, the explosives apparently alerted neighbors. Country Clubs don’t like that. 😁
LOL I seriously thought after the first 2 didn't work you were gonna say you started throwing pennies at the nest xD
lmao..+1
u'll prob need some serious force and aim to kill a thousand bees with two pennies lol
A cheap solution is, if you have a working lamp , those between 400-1000w- you can put that outside at night.
The wasps will go towards the heath and light- but when they come in contact with the glass of the lamp- its so hot that it will burn their wings off(prob the wasp to) so they die.
I found out about this when i had it on in the basement , and forgot it- the next day 1000s of wasp were dead on the ground.
Why do you lot insist on calling wasps and hornets bees?
They are NOT bees!
+mick the eagle yeah that;s something I've never understood myself ... in fact, he used the terms interchangeably in the video....SERIOUSLY PEOPLE THEY ARE NOT THE SAME!!!!.... just because Wasps and Hornets (yes these are also different things.) are yellow and black insects that can sting and have wings does not make them bees, on that same logic you could call a red Hyundai Sonata a Ferrari 458 as they are both painted red, both have 4 wheels and are both have engines and use gasoline..... yeah... i don't think so.
IKR
oh, behave!
Or bee hive.
they are in no way shape or any sense of usefulness "BEE'S". Hopefully by now we all know your observations was a bit off???
Outstanding! I've worked for Terminix and using a shop vac solves lots of problems.
I learn this to from Ghostbusters put them in the containment unit
Great idea Gabe! I connect two 10 foot pvc pipes to knock down nests in eves. It stirs them up and is a little dangerous. I will use your setup along with the long pipes and an old wet vac to keep from getting stung. Thank you!
Never knew that electricity was so cheap in USA
John Boy electricity is pretty cheap. The rate of electricity here would cost 0.12 cents per minute to run a 3 HP shop-vac. I'd say the cost of electricity in the use of the shop-vac in this video is less than negligible.
+William McCartney @.12/minute, to run it for 3 hours like this guy did, it would cost like $21.60. Probably cheaper than hiring an exterminator.
not 12 cents a minute, .12 cents per minute. .0012 dollars, to be clear as possible.
.12 cent x 60 minutes x 3 hours = ~22 cents
that electric bill stung like a wasp
Thank you! Completed yesterday on a trim board on my house. I vacuumed for about an hour and then filled with foaming bee spray. I later caulked the opening and no more bees.
There's still eggs and others protecting the eggs, they'll hatch and there will be more. Or should I say "bee" more.
He said after one year there were still no more bees. Very interesting solution.
Bee eggs can't hatch without workers' aid.
Very Nice Job !! Finish it off now by spraying some wasp & Hornet spray at the entrance, so they stay away, then plug that hole.
You VACUMED THEM?
Nice!
Vin Deagle actually, beekeepers have low-suction bee vacuums that they gather bees in when they catch a swarm. The bees go into a screened container, then can be placed into a new hive with their queen. If they don’t capture the queen with the swarm, they’ll usually buy a new queen if they haven’t raised some spare queens at home. Interesting what you can learn on RUclips.
Judy Hart I have watched J. P., the “”bee man”” use a vacuum for honey bee collecting in difficult areas. He has great videos!
Very ingenious! What I have done four times is used a contact powder that they bring into the hive, bit hard to use upside down though!
What about the electricity cost??
I am doing this right now, the vac is running! it is a great idea and is working very well!
The strangest way I have ever seen anyone kill insects was when I had some wasps on my patio. I had nothing like as many wasps as this guy had bees but I had enough that we couldn't really enjoy ourselves when we were outside. My brother was visiting me and he grabbed a pair of SCISSORS and snipped at them as they flew by, intending to cut them in two. Incredibly, he was able to kill every wasp in sight!
you forgot the 3 hours of the vacuum running = about $5-$10 in electricity... still in the end cheap, safe, and easy to fix a bee\hornet problem.. great solution, Thanks. Thank you for your video, and time. I may have to do the same for a wasp issue... it should work the same.. thumbs up!!!!
+Richard Downer redo that math, an average KWH (KiloWatt Hour) is around 8-14cents per kilo watt hour(depends on what your rate is). running a 120V,12A shop vac is around 1440watts in 1 hour. in 1 hour, it'll cost from 11-15 cents per hour to run a shopvac (pending on rates). times that by 3 and its costing him 33-45 cents during the 3 hours it was running.
Nick Silcox
OK, it was just a point. yes your right on the kwph. I was just making a point. thank you..
Technicality: Watts and kilowatts are units of power. They're a rate of energy transfer. You don't "use n watts in an hour" and there are no "kilowatts per hour." The standard unit of energy is a Joule. 1 Watt for 1 second is 1 Joule. 1 Wall for 10 seconds is 10 Joules. 10 Watts for 1 second is 10 Joules. We charge by the kilowatt-hour, which is 3.6 kilojoules.
Also: "you are" shortens to "you're" with the apostrophe replacing the space and the "a" not to "your," which is the equivalent of "my," "his," "her" and "their."
meme
wow a bit harsh!!!
meme Why did ya watch, if you did not care????
Holy shit, I didnt realize there was this huge bee community where people defend the bees honor on youtube. #TimeILearned
Amazing how creative men get when dealing with pests. Especially, pests that bite and sting.
I'm confused. One moment you are saying and writing "wasps" and then you are saying "bees". Which is it? Bees or wasps?
Wasps
+skunkhome i noticed that, he is doing it by accident and we know he means wasps but it can be confusing!
+Lauren Fox, I certainly know the difference between bees and wasps. Calling wasps bees is an elementary mistake. Problem is you can't tell from the video what they are. Bees also built hives in walls and attics and can be collected with a shop vac as well.
bumblebees are cute, they are endangered in my country we cannot suck them out. Honeybees are also not allowed to be touched but are more widespread. Can i ask you something though? is a yellow jacket just another name for a wasp, as in our country they are called wasps, after all this i bet you turn out to be british too.
+Lauren Fox, yellow jackets are just another type of wasp. However they nest in much greater quantities and are particularly drawn to human activity. They love to show up for bbq's and picnics. They love to buzz around your face trying to get some of what ever you are eating or drinking. Though their stings don't seem to be as venomous as, say the red wasp, they are persistent in their attempts to partake of your food and will sting if interrupted often on the lips, face or neck. Other wasps aren't aggressive unless they feel that their nest is threatened. Honey bees are threatened here in the States and if I use a vacuum it is just to corral them alive for relocation. Bumble bees are usually ground dwelling social bees. Probably agriculture in Britan has has a toll on their habitat as they they prefer unkept grasslands. If you ever stepped on one of their nests you wouldn't probably use the adjective "cute" to describe them. They are ferocious defenders of their hives.
Great job Gave. OK guys, maybe not $0.02, big deal, it may be a couple of bucks... But you'll get the point, when I contacted a local pest control guy he gave an estimate of $300.00
Most handy guys have a shop vac. if you don't have one ask your neighbor.
Don't ever harm bees in this manner, we love and need bees. These beasts were Wasps or Yellow Jackets which we don't care for
No shit...
umm but there dangerous if they live with you exspeically if theres kids
+KronicNitron most bee keepers will remove them for you. sometimes free of charge. You wont understand their importance till you try to garden and raise vegetables where there is a lack of honey bees. even wasps help pollinate self pollinating things like southern peas, beans, tomatoes, pepper and eggplants.
I agree. Bee killers should be hanged.
+Ethan Rhoades well that escalated quickly...
Ingenious ! I tried everything and have my vacuum running right now !
UK cops or motorway maintenance workers will probably take them off you for nothing, They wear yellow jackets when they need to remain visible in dangerous traffic. I hope that this helps.
+Jack Sainthill HAAAAA
Savage!
JHuff276
Thanks (I think) - but I didn't mean to be, not really. I was just kidding a bit.
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You're welcome. I meant it as a compliment. Any well executed "roast" type of joke can earn the acclaim of savage. 10 points for creativity. The "hope that helps" was icing on the cake.
JHuff276
Too kind. ;)
Best wishes.
This seems to be working here...Thanks, vacuum has been going couple hours..the spray didn't work....we are sucking these critters up!!!!! How smart an idea! Hopefully these are wasps not bees! Thank you Gabe!
that was a great itdea. i was waiting for you to open it to a swarm of pissed of haters ready to sting your butt, after seeing the impact that they have on the splash guard, i dont think any water and soap was necessary but a good idea nonetheless. I will try this next time.
+Robert Frost Really? You must not be a strong reader if you had problems with that sentence. It wasn't even that bad.
I read about this solution 2 nights ago; the document was written by/for professionals. Good on you for trying it. 2 things dissuaded me & both were apparently unnecessary. 1) locate the nest with a stethoscope or heat seeking device & 2) leaving the shop vac with the wasps/bees (who cares I want em gone) & the soapy water in hot sun, or putting them in a trash bag in the freezer (all to be sure they're dead - yours looked dead enough to me).
Regarding burning up a shop vac. Get a new one for 10 bucks at a garage sale people; $7 at an auction. Is this not a bargain price for saving sanity, structural damage & health?
The doc I read advised running the shop vac for an hour at a time, stopping awhile (can't recall how long) and running the shop vac for an hour again. Lather rinse & repeat type of deal. Not sure why the stop & start. Maybe to ensure destruction of foragers returning, or maybe to preserve the shop vac. I have a shop vac similar in size to yours but it's older. I guess it's ill advised to use a vacuum with less power. I'm going for it. I can't see the nest, but I haven't got nearly the activity you did and I don't want to. Can you explain a bit about your rig? Looks like electrical or duct tape & a big broom. Did you fasten it at the entrance in the wall or prop in on up there & let 'er rip? Any way big ups to ya, and to your critics, Oh please.
How did it work out in the long term? Electricity is not free.
but stupidity is,and its strong in you unfortunately?
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my husband is going out to try this right now. we keep trying the spray to kill them and spray foam but the yellow jackets found a tiny opening next to the foam, so they are back full force. Have a jacket nest under siding. the location is under our deck directly below entry door. our toddler and 4 basenjis cant even go out on the deck or down the stairs without fear of being chased or stung. will let you know how well it works.
If u dont own a vacuum just burn ur house down its free!
Lighter costs money and so does my time
Germans like you like to burn stuff, especially bodies. Don't ya?
Just did this with a hive. Worked great and they didn’t attack me. Gets them coming in and out!!!
Are they Yellow Jackets, Wasps, or Bees? Those are three different animals.
...and hornets make four different animals !
Jumbled Mass yellow jackets are wasps. thats only two different animals.
Ro Efa hornets are also wasps. still just two animals.
Mr. Smith, you are correct in your estimation of chemical cost and labor for a basic Yellow Jacket service, but you also have business expenses such as salaries, commission, payroll taxes, health insurance, workers compensation insurance, vehicle insurances, commercial licenses, state operational fees, monthly fuel cost, vehicle and pest control repairs cost, employee uniforms etc. Yes, if it were not for all the state and federal regulations that bind the business owners it would cost at your estimation. But when you are employed and not a employer you simply don't have any idea what it takes to produce a living for others in our communities.
If the Bee Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth, Man Would Only Have Four Years Left To Live.
Then they can go live far away from any houses. Personally, anything that isn't me, my dog, or any other non-predatorial creature like lizards or frogs, I'm going to kill.
I have friends of the family in another state who has honeybee hives at the back of their property. They are always around you outside and fly into your face and whatnot, so I never go outside there. They think everything is fine, but most people think of anything that can fly AND sting as a living horror.
+Endymion777777 There's a difference between bees and wasps.
+Endymion777777 Bees. Not wasps.
MacDonald Bongington If bees disappear, not wasps. I know wasps arent bees, you misunderstood my comment :)
I’ve been doing this for years, it works great!
I'm sure others have made the point, but wasps are not bees. In the first few minutes of the vid you use the terms wasps and bees inter-changeably. They are very different insects. Bees are our friends - pls don't kill them. Wasps - go for it. :0
Bees are not my friend in my house...
People have became crazy in their greenness!
www.commondreams.org/news/2008/06/02/last-flight-honeybee
Don't go encouraging people to hate bees and be glad to see them die. We need them.
How's that? Light enough shade of green?
+Sableagle I didn't say get rid of honey beds I said in my house , as I said greenies have became crazy.
Wasps are part of the bee family.
wasp lives matter to. bah!!!! ha!!!!! I can hear the nature channel interview now... "Dem boys ain't be hurt'n nobody! They just be out dare' try'n to make a life for dem selves. And you folk go out and kill'm for nut'n! it ain't Right! Wasp lives matter to!" 😭
Yes I tried what you did with a full size water vac, but even after the vac was used for 5 hours 4 one day and 1-2 hours early morning and I caught a lot of bees. I added a 1/2 hour break each hour to prevent overheating the motor, on a timer. perhaps we both forgot the yellow Jackets continue to hatch out of the nest. The best one can do is get a reduction. You still need to use a pesticide. It was a reasonable try.
I must have been lucky then to get them all. I did seal the entry afterward and have not seen any wasps after a year.
+WiseOldOwl3 time of year helps a lot. Mid- late fall is when you want to hit them, because they ball up in order to keep their young warm during the winter, get them when they ar setting up to winter. he did get lucky and got them when they were setting up to winter early. must live in the north.
it does work, only if you are willing to deal with the yellow jackets aggression during the fall (they eat meat and sometimes bite/sting large living things).
Not an expert, just somebody who loves swarming insects =]. Good luck with any wasp problems in the future. But sometimes it's just better to use oil based pesticide made to kill the insect culprits and seal the entrance after the problem simmers down.
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After you vacumn all the wasps, spray sevin dust into the opening with an air compressor to smoke out the remaining wasps and they won't return. I did the same thing on my house.
3 hours of electricity
Just add 22 cents to the cost.
I used Sevin dust to get rid of a wasp nest behind my eaves trough. I took a long pole,taped some 1/4 plastic tubing to it,and dipped the business end in the powder. I attached a can of compressed air to the other end of the tube,and used this setup to puff powder into the crack the little buggers were using as an entrance. It took about a week,but eventually there was no more activity in the nest.
maybe $0.50 or $1 in electricity? still very cheap.
That was the way to go! You have just helped some weary folks get rid of these pests from hell...