Pretentious Snobby Bastard Fly Fishing!

Fly Fishing BS => The Gravel Bar => Topic started by: Beetle on June 26, 2021, 10:37:21 AM

Poll
Question: How do you kill yellow jackets?
Option 1: Napalm votes: 2
Option 2: Raid Wasp Spray votes: 1
Option 3: Other Brand Insecticide votes: 2
Option 4: gasoline votes: 5
Option 5: place a glass jar over the nest at night and let them bake in the sun votes: 0
Option 6: soap and water down the hole votes: 0
Option 7: other votes: 2
Option 8: one time at band camp I had an encounter with yellow jackets votes: 1
Title: Yellowjackets
Post by: Beetle on June 26, 2021, 10:37:21 AM
I just found nest number 8.    In the past, I usually find 1-2 a year.      This seems weird to me.  Anyone else seeing them? 
Title: Re: Yellowjackets
Post by: Dougfish on June 26, 2021, 11:26:40 AM
Ground bees?
They are the worst.
Title: Re: Yellowjackets
Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 26, 2021, 11:28:04 AM
No, but I no longer mow the lawn  d:b

H8T those bastards!

Saw a bunch of honey bees on the river yesterday

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Title: Re: Yellowjackets
Post by: Yallerhammer on June 26, 2021, 11:45:42 AM
Got into a big nest last week. I hate those little bastards.
Title: Re: Yellowjackets
Post by: Stone-Man on June 26, 2021, 14:14:36 PM
Damn interesting -- I have not seen more than 2-3 this year in E. Tenn
Title: Re: Yellowjackets
Post by: troutrus on June 26, 2021, 16:59:13 PM
Have not had any nests since hearing of this method, but am told that powder is more effective than liquids/aerosols at reaching the ground nest.

https://www.amazon.com/Insecticide-Carpenter-Silverfish-Scorpions-Millipedes/dp/B004SFV7E6/ref=sr_1_11?dchild=1&keywords=yellowjackets+dust&qid=1624743615&s=books&sr=1-11
Title: Re: Yellowjackets
Post by: Dougfish on June 26, 2021, 17:09:44 PM
Sevin or Eight Dust has been my go to for 40 years. A small dixie cup full dumped on the entrance at dusk. Dead colony in the am.
Title: Re: Yellowjackets
Post by: itieuglyflies on June 26, 2021, 19:40:21 PM
Country boy way..... Wait til dark. Pour half cup of gasoline down hole, wait 30 seconds.....light.
Title: Re: Yellowjackets
Post by: Dougfish on June 26, 2021, 20:41:37 PM
Sodom and Gomorrah circle in the lawn.
Title: Re: Yellowjackets
Post by: streamereater_101691 on June 26, 2021, 21:02:44 PM
Sevin dust works good. They've had multiple nests right in front of my out building over the years. Let's just say I watch my step out there now.
Now when it comes to whasp, the plastic shutters house those bastards perfectly. Pro tip:shoot shutters with water before removing. I fell off a ladder last year getting pummeled by a swarm.
Title: Re: Yellowjackets
Post by: Trout Maharishi on June 26, 2021, 22:12:38 PM
Homemade napalm, just crumble a few pieces of styrofoam into a bucket with some diesel fuel. Then about dark send Ben (I know at this point he's a lot faster than you) out there to pour some in and around the hole. Then wait a minute and set it on fire. Homemade traps made out of 2L soda botles work to help reduce the numbers. I hate those darn things. I must have been stung 25-30 times last year.
Title: Re: Yellowjackets
Post by: Trout Maharishi on June 26, 2021, 22:18:06 PM
https://youtu.be/B2VOjRwJUMI
Title: Re: Yellowjackets
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on June 27, 2021, 08:26:43 AM
Not a trendy response I know, but it takes a very specific location for me to destroy a yellowjacket nest, or any other stinging critter.   If mowing, I get stung and mow around it the next time.  Believe it or not, these nasty sons-a-bitches do have a role to play and jobs to do.


https://www.pestcontrolplus.biz/yellow-jackets/yellow-jackets-beneficial-insects/#:~:text=Are%20Yellow%20Jackets%20Beneficial%20Insects%3F%201%20Few%20facts,feed%20on%20the%20soft-bodied%20insects.%20More%20items...%20

Obviously if you, or family, are allergic then having a nest close means do your thing.  I've never had a reaction to any sting.  And I made sure my son when he was 3 or 4 would not.  I deliberately made sure he got stung on our back deck when we lived in town, close to medical relief.  The wife almost called social services on me.  It is damned important to know if a child will react to stings before taking them into the wild far from help.  I have yet to persuade my daughter in law to let my grandson endure a few test stings.   

Speaking of igniting petroleum products in the nest holes, this is how the locals used to get rid of ground hogs.   
Title: Re: Yellowjackets
Post by: Yallerhammer on June 27, 2021, 08:32:34 AM
Quote from: itieuglyflies on June 26, 2021, 19:40:21 PMCountry boy way..... Wait til dark. Pour half cup of gasoline down hole, wait 30 seconds.....light.
That actually doesn't work very well. If you just pour the gas in there and don't light it, it will kill them stone dead. If you light it, it's more entertaining, but it usually doesn't kill them. The fumes are what gets them.
Title: Re: Yellowjackets
Post by: Yallerhammer on June 27, 2021, 08:33:27 AM
Quote from: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on June 27, 2021, 08:26:43 AMNot a trendy response I know, but it takes a very specific location for me to destroy a yellowjacket nest, or any other stinging critter.   If mowing, I get stung and mow around it the next time.  Believe it or not, these nasty sons-a-bitches do have a role to play and jobs to do.


https://www.pestcontrolplus.biz/yellow-jackets/yellow-jackets-beneficial-insects/#:~:text=Are%20Yellow%20Jackets%20Beneficial%20Insects%3F%201%20Few%20facts,feed%20on%20the%20soft-bodied%20insects.%20More%20items...%20

Obviously if you, or family, are allergic then having a nest close means do your thing.  I've never had a reaction to any sting.  And I made sure my son when he was 3 or 4 would not.  I deliberately made sure he got stung on our back deck when we lived in town, close to medical relief.  The wife almost called social services on me.  It is damned important to know if a child will react to stings before taking them into the wild far from help.  I have yet to persuade my daughter in law to let my grandson endure a few test stings.   

Speaking of igniting petroleum products in the nest holes, this is how the locals used to get rid of ground hogs.   

I have that attitude with most living things. Except yallerjackets. I hate them with a passion, and kill every one I see stone dead.
Title: Re: Yellowjackets
Post by: Sedition and Pockets on June 28, 2021, 07:18:36 AM
I ain't even seent one this year
Title: Re: Yellowjackets
Post by: Beetle on June 28, 2021, 07:25:38 AM
I've got a healthy pollinator population so I am mindful of what I put out there (usually Sevin).    Just odd that I have so many nests this year.

Doug- my Chaste tree is in full bloom.   Mountain mint coming soon
Title: Re: Yellowjackets
Post by: rbphoto on June 28, 2021, 07:50:14 AM
Used to get them in the blueberry patch, on the pond bank, under the landscape timbers - everywhere you could possibly think over 5 acres.

Once I tried fire ant killer on a nest, I've never looked back.

I don't even have fire ants at the current house, but I keep this stuff on hand just for those evil bastards:

https://amzn.to/2UcfaI4

Raymond
Title: Re: Yellowjackets
Post by: itieuglyflies on June 28, 2021, 08:44:18 AM
Just remembered father-in-laws (one time solution) to a nest. He set up his shop Vac near the hole where yellowjackets were going in and out. He had great pleasure watching them being sucked up and disappearing down the hose. As I recall he even called me to report the brilliance of his idea. He let the vac run nearly all day. That part worked.

Where he failed badly was thinking (or not thinking) that the trip into the vacuum  and the two inches of water he had put in the
machine would have surely killed all of the little stinging bastards....... just to be sure he waited a whole day before removing the top to do a body count.

The swelling on his arms and face went down after a couple of days.
Title: Re: Yellowjackets
Post by: Phil on June 28, 2021, 11:12:27 AM
^^ Now that is funny right there, Fred.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Yellowjackets
Post by: streamereater_101691 on June 28, 2021, 18:52:18 PM
Funny that this thread showed up. I spotted a nest in my yard today.
Title: Re: Yellowjackets
Post by: Beetle on June 29, 2021, 07:48:39 AM
Found another this morning..... :wave
Title: Re: Yellowjackets
Post by: Grannyknot on July 01, 2021, 08:37:27 AM
I just pour gasoline in right at dark and they are ded.

I had to start treating our back yard for grubs.  Grubs attract moles and voles, and yellow jackets use their holes & tunnels to build nests.
Title: Re: Yellowjackets
Post by: Native Fisher on July 01, 2021, 11:50:51 AM
Grubs attract skunks too.  I had my last house's backyard dug up by skunk's eating grubs.
Title: Re: Yellowjackets
Post by: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on July 01, 2021, 15:59:17 PM
Quote from: Native Fisher on July 01, 2021, 11:50:51 AMGrubs attract skunks too.  I had my last house's backyard dug up by skunk's eating grubs.

Skunks are cool and I have soft spot for the smelly critter.  I really enjoy the smell, if faint, on a frosty October morning.

Skunks = no grubs and no ground nesting yellowjackets


https://www.birdsoutsidemywindow.org/2018/07/27/a-way-to-get-rid-of-yellow-jackets/

https://emammal.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/striped-skunk-foraging/#:~:text=Skunks%20also%20dig%20up%20yellow%20jacket%20and%20ground,down%20adults%20as%20they%20emerge%20and%20eat%20them%21

Title: Re: Yellowjackets
Post by: Yallerhammer on July 04, 2021, 11:21:41 AM
Quote from: Native Fisher on July 01, 2021, 11:50:51 AMGrubs attract skunks too.  I had my last house's backyard dug up by skunk's eating grubs.
Bears, too.
Title: Re: Yellowjackets
Post by: Trout Maharishi on July 08, 2021, 14:22:37 PM
Careful with that gas
Title: Re: Yellowjackets
Post by: Beetle on July 09, 2021, 07:28:11 AM
Found another.    The Sevin works fine but the stragglers / survivors are rebuilding nearby.