Thanks for posting this video. Judging from the three queens, it appears all three colonies were of Vespula squamosa, the southern yellowjacket. In the case of the one you were pulling out of the ground at 12:33, it's apparent the queen of this colony had usurped a colony of Vespula maculifrons, the eastern yellowjacket--because the oldest part of the nest was made of tan paper rather than gray. The queens of the southern yellowjacket are of an orange-tan color while those of the eastern yellowjacket are goldish-yellow on a black background. Workers and males of both species have bright yellow marking on a black background, and the species are easily distinguished by the two longitudinal stripes on the 'back" (mesoscutum of the thorax) on the southern yellowjacket, which are either very rudimentary or totally lacking on the eastern yellowjacket. Males of both species, of course, cannot sting. By the way, when the original queen or foundress initiates a colony, she looks for a hole that is already present to allow her to build her golf ball-sized nest, but the workers enlarge the cavity to accommodate the growing nest (unless the cavity initially chosen happens to be large already, which is unusual). However, the queen chooses a hole that has a small root hanging, and starts building her nest on that root. The nest can be located anywhere from right under the surface to a foot deep and at least as far to the side. If the nest is built in a slope, the entrance may be essentially horizontal from the outside to the nest itself. Although I haven't removed any nests for a few years, I usually used ether (which doesn't stay in the ground long) to subdue them, and I collected them at night. I rarely got stung. If I was dealing with one of the species of the Vespula rufa group (not found in Florida) whose nests are typically much smaller, with only a few hundred inhabitants, I might collect it during the daytime. By the way, I have found that if a young colony is anesthetized with ether, the inhabitants will recover, and the nest can be transplanted and allowed to develop normally throughout the rest of the season. (Interestingly enough, I found found that if a colony containing workers of both the southern and eastern yellowjacket species, the latter will recover from the ether sooner than the former--I don't know whether it's due to a physiological difference or simply because workers of the southern yellowjacket tend to be larger than those of the eastern yellowjacket, thus requiring more time for the ether to dissipate.) Large colonies do not transplant well, and the adults often start abandoning it. Many years ago I used chloroform, but the insects didn't recover fully from it so I quit using it.
Years ago I ran into a nest of them with a push mower, and I just pushed it right over their entrance and left it sitting there running wide open until it ran out of gas. It killed most of them, but a 12oz cup of gas down the hole took care of the rest. I don't like poring things like that on the ground either, but gas burns off or evaporates, so a cup of it doesn't get far into the ground.
Cool video! I've got family in Jacksonville. When I was down there I observed Polistes and spotted some bumblebees too, but no yellow jackets. Those southern yellow jackets are the worst kind I have dealt with. Easterns can be nasty too.
When we encountered a ground Yellowjacket’s nest, we threw a handful of Seven Dust at the entrance. As the bees enter the nest and walk in the dust, they clean their feet and die immediately. Try it sometime.
I just did this to a pretty large nest a couple days ago. Put a bunch of Sevin powder at the entrance and dusted the hole itself. If you put in too much and block the hole, they will just dig another hole. After two days, no insects flying in or out. I dug up the nest yesterday afternoon. There were twenty or thirty left alive but they were pretty impaired and could not fly. I don't know how many insects there were in that nest but it was only a little smaller in size than this first one here. It had three layers.
Red can brake clean works great. Just killed off a large nest under a rock in my yard. Sprayed them with break clean then flooded the nest. Next day I was able to dig it up with no trouble.
Just put the nozzle in the vacuum cleaner wand next to the hole and leave it alone you don't have to keep moving in every few seconds and don't dig anything up until after dark how smart you have to be
Eastern Yellowjackets put envelope around the entrance. German ones don't generally build in the ground, but they'll put envelope around the entrance too
Would the water suction attachment for the shop back work better than just putting it next to the hole since you could cover the hole? Or pouring the nest full of soapy water after dark when they wont be active?
Ild just have to mix some buckets of dawn soap water. Flood the holes. Than use some expanding foam. An shoot in a quarter roll size plug in their entrances an exits an they can have their tomb. An if needed to be seen. Just make a return trip after some time an dig it up. No battling with em at all.
OMG! WOW! CRAZY! Why do they build there nest in the ground? In Missouri they build there nest in trees or old barns & houses. I've just never seen any kind of wasp, except for black hornets, build there nest in the ground & I live in the great big fields out of town. I've got about 10acs, but only mow 2 1/2acs of it. Rest is a mix of pasture & woods. We only hunt w/a crossbow bc I don't want to accidentally shot someone & spin the rest of my life behind bars. That was neat to see, but I would do it the old fashion way & pour gas down it & light it up or black power it & watch it explode..... lol.... Gots to have fun in my old age.... hehehe... Well you be safe & God bless. Daddy's got to feed those big boys @ home. Just think when they get older they can go to work w/daddy & daddy can make the boys do the heavy lifting & just supervise them. Oh what a wonderful life that's going to be for you... lol..... Anyways........ Be safe, God bless, & have fun in the woods, safely, & have a wonderful Thanksgiving this 2021. You've got a wonderful family waiting @ home for you, Chris from Missouri
When we were kids we would " rob yellow jacket hive " and fish with the Larva and sell to other people to fish with --- we would put them to sleep with eail road flares --- and keep them in the fridge to keep them slow so you don't get stung
Terrifying! I was walking with my four year old grandson in the empty field next to his house when I spied the penning to a yellow jacket nest. We immediately left the area, but now I fear for the safety of my grandchildren because the nest is only 25 yards away from their back door.
With an infestation like that, it's easy to see how someone could be killed, blundering into one those nests. Yellow Jackets: "You mess with me, you mess with my entire FAMILY!!!"
This what I always do when I run into a yellow jacket nest meat bees what ever I pour a little gas down the hole and it will mess them up and you can go on do what you want .cut timber for many years and been stung 100s of time nothing worse than bucking a log and when you stop cutting and the chips are still flying you no your screwed .. trust me a little gas and you can even dig the nest up good luck
I live in the middle of a Pacific Northwest city and the other day I was weedeating along my fence in my neighborhood and there was a yellow jacket nest that somehow was inside of the bottom plank along the bottom of my fence and I didn’t know it was there and I only got stung once but at least like 200 came pouring out and then I hit it with two cans of raid one can of spectracide and then some soapy water and a garden hose and somehow there’s still a few buzzing around
As a rather dumb little southern kid with dumb little friends, we were going to go pond fishing. Yellow jacket larvae is a great bait for Crappie and Bream. So we decided to attack a nest in the ground we found. Hot humid day. Three shirtless 12 yo. A shovel, a can of hornet spray (highly poisonous to humans, after all it’s the 60’s), a big rock to plug the hole, and into the hole we created with a stick, and thereby stirred them to madness, went the spray. There were of course other entrances and the rock did no good and the spray did no good. And that is how three shirtless southern boys learned most of our lessons in life. There is no rational explanation why we lived to adulthood.
I was wondering if you could quit saying hundreds? Real nice video. You're the professional. However, please start saying thousands if not tens of thousands. One day at the cabin I saw a ground hornet fly by. I traced it with my eyes and saw it go to a hole in the lawn. a few bees went out I thought maybe they'll be hundreds. I wait until nightfall when all the bees are in the nest. I poured kerosene down the hole. Plugged it. Came back in and dug out the nest the hive.... I wanted to see how many bees so I counted them and the nest was very very very small the size of a mason jar perhaps a little wider. There were 2200 bees 😳 you have tens of thousands of bees in one hive
Why don’t you treat a nest that size the day before with dust and come back with the vacuum and shovel to eliminate the swarm also use great stuff filler to seal the other entrance so your dealing with one hole
The suit that you are wearing is not adequate for the job you're doing. I think you know that. By wearing the suit that you are wearing you deserve everything Sting you get. Please spend the money and wear proper attire. You are also setting a bad example to the public. The average citizen is going to think that a bee suit is good enough when it is not. You're giving the public a false sense of security if they do the same thing you're doing with that to suit on.
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Thanks for posting this video. Judging from the three queens, it appears all three colonies were of Vespula squamosa, the southern yellowjacket. In the case of the one you were pulling out of the ground at 12:33, it's apparent the queen of this colony had usurped a colony of Vespula maculifrons, the eastern yellowjacket--because the oldest part of the nest was made of tan paper rather than gray. The queens of the southern yellowjacket are of an orange-tan color while those of the eastern yellowjacket are goldish-yellow on a black background. Workers and males of both species have bright yellow marking on a black background, and the species are easily distinguished by the two longitudinal stripes on the 'back" (mesoscutum of the thorax) on the southern yellowjacket, which are either very rudimentary or totally lacking on the eastern yellowjacket. Males of both species, of course, cannot sting.
By the way, when the original queen or foundress initiates a colony, she looks for a hole that is already present to allow her to build her golf ball-sized nest, but the workers enlarge the cavity to accommodate the growing nest (unless the cavity initially chosen happens to be large already, which is unusual). However, the queen chooses a hole that has a small root hanging, and starts building her nest on that root. The nest can be located anywhere from right under the surface to a foot deep and at least as far to the side. If the nest is built in a slope, the entrance may be essentially horizontal from the outside to the nest itself.
Although I haven't removed any nests for a few years, I usually used ether (which doesn't stay in the ground long) to subdue them, and I collected them at night. I rarely got stung. If I was dealing with one of the species of the Vespula rufa group (not found in Florida) whose nests are typically much smaller, with only a few hundred inhabitants, I might collect it during the daytime. By the way, I have found that if a young colony is anesthetized with ether, the inhabitants will recover, and the nest can be transplanted and allowed to develop normally throughout the rest of the season. (Interestingly enough, I found found that if a colony containing workers of both the southern and eastern yellowjacket species, the latter will recover from the ether sooner than the former--I don't know whether it's due to a physiological difference or simply because workers of the southern yellowjacket tend to be larger than those of the eastern yellowjacket, thus requiring more time for the ether to dissipate.) Large colonies do not transplant well, and the adults often start abandoning it. Many years ago I used chloroform, but the insects didn't recover fully from it so I quit using it.
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@@irenedavo3768 So?
Years ago I ran into a nest of them with a push mower, and I just pushed it right over their entrance and left it sitting there running wide open until it ran out of gas. It killed most of them, but a 12oz cup of gas down the hole took care of the rest. I don't like poring things like that on the ground either, but gas burns off or evaporates, so a cup of it doesn't get far into the ground.
Cool video! I've got family in Jacksonville. When I was down there I observed Polistes and spotted some bumblebees too, but no yellow jackets. Those southern yellow jackets are the worst kind I have dealt with. Easterns can be nasty too.
YESSSSS!!!!! More yellow jacket videos please!!!!!
Question: If there was sting proof gloves available, would you buy it and what would you suggest is a reasonable price
When we encountered a ground Yellowjacket’s nest, we threw a handful of Seven Dust at the entrance. As the bees enter the nest and walk in the dust, they clean their feet and die immediately. Try it sometime.
I just did this to a pretty large nest a couple days ago. Put a bunch of Sevin powder at the entrance and dusted the hole itself. If you put in too much and block the hole, they will just dig another hole. After two days, no insects flying in or out. I dug up the nest yesterday afternoon. There were twenty or thirty left alive but they were pretty impaired and could not fly. I don't know how many insects there were in that nest but it was only a little smaller in size than this first one here. It had three layers.
Good job. Keep it coming
Red can brake clean works great. Just killed off a large nest under a rock in my yard. Sprayed them with break clean then flooded the nest. Next day I was able to dig it up with no trouble.
I think you can buy a foam filter instead of paper, works better when there is water in the vac, also lets more suction. Great vid!
Just put the nozzle in the vacuum cleaner wand next to the hole and leave it alone you don't have to keep moving in every few seconds and don't dig anything up until after dark how smart you have to be
OMG! Incredible video.
very cool to see this. thanks for the lesson, I get them thing on my Property. Now I know.....Love the channel
Siempre se aprende algo nuevo! Buen video 👍
Eastern Yellowjackets put envelope around the entrance. German ones don't generally build in the ground, but they'll put envelope around the entrance too
Hard to believe a black bear will dig that up to eat the larva.
Skunks will get them too in the deep south.
You are a brave man! Those things hurt!!!
Would the water suction attachment for the shop back work better than just putting it next to the hole since you could cover the hole?
Or pouring the nest full of soapy water after dark when they wont be active?
Thanks for the anxiety attack. Everytime the microphone picks up one that hits near it I jump. Great video
Ild just have to mix some buckets of dawn soap water. Flood the holes. Than use some expanding foam. An shoot in a quarter roll size plug in their entrances an exits an they can have their tomb.
An if needed to be seen. Just make a return trip after some time an dig it up. No battling with em at all.
All 3 were actually southern yellow jackets. I could tell by the double striping on the top of the thorax
I use a bucket .drill a hole in side .put vacuum hose in hole turn on.
OMG! WOW! CRAZY! Why do they build there nest in the ground? In Missouri they build there nest in trees or old barns & houses.
I've just never seen any kind of wasp, except for black hornets, build there nest in the ground & I live in the great big fields out of town. I've got about 10acs, but only mow 2 1/2acs of it. Rest is a mix of pasture & woods. We only hunt w/a crossbow bc I don't want to accidentally shot someone & spin the rest of my life behind bars.
That was neat to see, but I would do it the old fashion way & pour gas down it & light it up or black power it & watch it explode..... lol.... Gots to have fun in my old age.... hehehe...
Well you be safe & God bless. Daddy's got to feed those big boys @ home. Just think when they get older they can go to work w/daddy & daddy can make the boys do the heavy lifting & just supervise them. Oh what a wonderful life that's going to be for you... lol..... Anyways........
Be safe, God bless, & have fun in the woods, safely, & have a wonderful Thanksgiving this 2021. You've got a wonderful family waiting @ home for you,
Chris from Missouri
Pretty wild. Glad I haven’t ran into one of these yet. What part of Florida is this in?
West side of Jacksonville
That was a really nice video. It's nice that you don't us pesticides on your job. Be safe
How come u didn't dust the 1st one?
Massive nest what state are you in. Definitely dust before you start. Crazy amount of yellow jackets
@@edpitcock3344 we are in Florida
When we were kids we would " rob yellow jacket hive " and fish with the
Larva and sell to other people to fish with --- we would put them to sleep with eail road flares --- and keep them in the fridge to keep them slow so you don't get stung
Very true your bee suit looks very light gloves have to be useless
Terrifying! I was walking with my four year old grandson in the empty field next to his house when I spied the penning to a yellow jacket nest. We immediately left the area, but now I fear for the safety of my grandchildren because the nest is only 25 yards away from their back door.
A big Firecracker will also take care of them.
Skunks aka "pole cats" as we call them in Mississippi will wipe out a nest of Yellow Jackets if they stay there very long!
Heard southern yellowjackets are now in parts of Michigan,they are nasty
With an infestation like that, it's easy to see how someone could be killed, blundering into one those nests. Yellow Jackets: "You mess with me, you mess with my entire FAMILY!!!"
It's cool that you don't just pour chemicals on them.
This what I always do when I run into a yellow jacket nest meat bees what ever I pour a little gas down the hole and it will mess them up and you can go on do what you want .cut timber for many years and been stung 100s of time nothing worse than bucking a log and when you stop cutting and the chips are still flying you no your screwed .. trust me a little gas and you can even dig the nest up good luck
I live in the middle of a Pacific Northwest city and the other day I was weedeating along my fence in my neighborhood and there was a yellow jacket nest that somehow was inside of the bottom plank along the bottom of my fence and I didn’t know it was there and I only got stung once but at least like 200 came pouring out and then I hit it with two cans of raid one can of spectracide and then some soapy water and a garden hose and somehow there’s still a few buzzing around
In a channel "Shawn woods" He used liquid nitrogen and it worked in destroying the nest
Isnt it better/faster to pour diesel and light em up?
Actually,i was thinking about gasoline.
As a rather dumb little southern kid with dumb little friends, we were going to go pond fishing. Yellow jacket larvae is a great bait for Crappie and Bream. So we decided to attack a nest in the ground we found. Hot humid day. Three shirtless 12 yo. A shovel, a can of hornet spray (highly poisonous to humans, after all it’s the 60’s), a big rock to plug the hole, and into the hole we created with a stick, and thereby stirred them to madness, went the spray. There were of course other entrances and the rock did no good and the spray did no good. And that is how three shirtless southern boys learned most of our lessons in life. There is no rational explanation why we lived to adulthood.
@@poco1174 lol that is quite the story! Haha
Can you wear double gloves?
You should have taken the filter off the vac
why cant we make a bee suit thats 100 percent effective?
I was wondering if you could quit saying hundreds? Real nice video. You're the professional. However, please start saying thousands if not tens of thousands. One day at the cabin I saw a ground hornet fly by. I traced it with my eyes and saw it go to a hole in the lawn. a few bees went out I thought maybe they'll be hundreds. I wait until nightfall when all the bees are in the nest. I poured kerosene down the hole. Plugged it. Came back in and dug out the nest the hive.... I wanted to see how many bees so I counted them and the nest was very very very small the size of a mason jar perhaps a little wider. There were 2200 bees 😳 you have tens of thousands of bees in one hive
The vacuum is a waste of time. Pour two five gallon buckets of soap water down the hole. You'll be done with each ground nest in five minute
And do it in the dark. You left at dark which is the best time to work wjth them
Why don’t you treat a nest that size the day before with dust and come back with the vacuum and shovel to eliminate the swarm also use great stuff filler to seal the other entrance so your dealing with one hole
Need better gloves
The suit that you are wearing is not adequate for the job you're doing. I think you know that. By wearing the suit that you are wearing you deserve everything Sting you get. Please spend the money and wear proper attire. You are also setting a bad example to the public. The average citizen is going to think that a bee suit is good enough when it is not. You're giving the public a false sense of security if they do the same thing you're doing with that to suit on.
why cant we make a bee suit thats 100 percent effective?