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#21 ·
Where can I rent a Honey Badger?
When it's done with the wasps I think I'll turn it loose on the squirrels that are raiding the birdfeeder. After that I have a neighbor I want to introduce my new pet to.
 
#22 ·
I had a yellow jacket nest in my back yard two years ago along the banks of a dry creek bed. A groundhog dug into the nest, grabbed a hunk of honey comb and I suppose took it to his hole to eat. The remaining yellow jackets started circling around the disturbed nest so I took them out with a can of Raid Wasp and Hornet spray. It kills them almost immediately. I then sprayed the nest and they all either died or flew off.

At deer camp several years ago in mid November, we had a few warm days and hundreds of yellow jackets came out of hibernation. They were were attracted to the hunter orange on our clothing and became a real problem, even up in our deer stands. Several hunters got stung including my brother in law who got stung on the lips while he was drinking a soft drink. We took a garbage can lid and filled it with a sweet red juice of some sort and emptied a can of Raid into it. In a few hours, well over a hundred of the little buggers came in for a drink and died on the ground around the garbage can lid. It turned cold the next day and they disappeared.

Ed Ward
 
#23 ·
When you spray the hole at night with the Wasp and Hornet spray, be sure to take a cloth and plug the hole afterward. That keeps the fumes in the hole, and the results will be 'Hornets Dead".

I worked in an apiary...

Dave in SC
 
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Thanks for all the input folks. I was tired of getting stung, so I went with abput a cup of gasoline in the hole & then plugged with a wadded up plastic bag. If this does not work I will try something else. I will know tomorrow.

Yall have a good day

L.Mims
 
#27 ·
If the gas doesn't do it, look in the paper or phone book for a yellow-jacket remover in your area. They will come out and take the Yellow-jackets for no cost and they send them in to a venom center and they make vaccines out of them. The Yellow-jacket remover is paid for this, that way normally there no charge. We have a guy on our board that does this and it's pretty lucrative.

Ajax
 
#28 ·
Tron, quote: <i>"If you leave them alone, a lot of times they will leave you alone."</i>

We're not talking about Joe's raccoons here. Our yellowjackets are nasty, violent little bastards that will gladly go out of their way to attack you, while giving off their chemical alert that calls out the rest of their wasp militia. Neville Chamberlain pacifism does not work with them at the picnic table. If you try to ignore them, the next thing ya know is your plate is crawling with them.

Here's a gray digger that I shot a little over five minutes before the pic was taken. They were not happy with me getting the camera that close. I have to hoof it out of there.


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#29 ·
...<I>"I had a yellow jacket nest in my back yard two years ago along the banks of a dry creek bed. A groundhog dug into the nest, grabbed a hunk of honey comb and I suppose took it to his hole to eat.</I>"

Then you didn't have a yellow jacket nest, teacher.

Yellow jackets don't make honey.

The eat other insects, animal protein (see above, it's common) and rotted fruits.

The only bees that nest in the ground are non-aggressive pollinators that are active only in spring.

There are ground dwellers that look like giant yellow jackets. These are gentle wasps that eat cicadas and don't bother people.

Dumping gasoline into a nest is an irresponsible way to kill wasps as it pollutes the soil and ground water. A landscaper friend of mine dumps a couple 5 gallon buckets of crushed ice into and onto the nest at night and covers it with a canvas tarp weighed down with bricks. It suffocates the colony.

Mike K
 
#30 ·
First, get an ipod and set it up about 2ft from the nest. Then, go to itunes and purchase the latest Kanye West single and set it on replay in front of the nest. After that, go get some tarragon, allspice, cloves, and a peacock feather. Mix the spices well in extra virgin olive oil and 92 octane gasoline and add a drop of red wine vinegar. Place them into a spray bottle and set aside. Next, wrap a piece of rope around your waist and attach the peacock feather to it at the small of your back. At this point you need to begin walking counter-clockwise around the nest while rapping along with the Kanye tunes you placed there earlier. You can now spray your mixture into the air around the nest.

If this doesn't work after a few days, try a wasp and hornet killer spray designed specifically for this purpose.
 
#32 ·
Mike K,

I bought most of your info until you said this:

"The only bees that nest in the ground are non-aggressive pollinators that are active only in spring"



You have obviously never had a stream of ground burrowing hornets light into your ass. Speaking from experience, there was plenty of agressiveness being shared that day. They esentially turned me into a large welt. I'm not thinking they were looking to pollinate me. :p



Just Say'n................
 
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I've successfully used the shop vac method, but cleaning out the vac a few days later wasn't fun "moldy bees."

Another method I've used is a spray bottle with bleach to "melt' paper wasp hives. It works better than any bug killer that I've ever used including DDT (back in the old days).

I would dump a jug of industrial bleach down the hold and leave the bottle there overnight.

Good Luck,
TNCoach
 
#36 ·
Mix some Fly Bait you get at TSC or a Co-op farm store with some coke and put it near the tree in a can or pan. As long as nothing else like animals can get near it they will drink the poisoned coke and won't get 5 feet away and they are dead.

Terry.
 
#37 ·
Gotta laugh at some of the responses! I have killed many yellow jacket nests. They are mean sob's and not to be taken lightly.Don't bother them in the daytime. Run over a nest with a lawn mower and they will swarm the nearest moving thing. If you are lucky it's the dog. One sting puts me out of business for a week. I mix up a gallon of seven and pour it down the hole at night and stomp the hole shut. The end.
 
#38 ·
on any other shooting forum it would have been discussed already that no yellow jacket nest hole is any deeper than a trap gun barrel is long. in fact, on that ar15 site, all of those yellow jackets would have been shot dead by now. anyway, there's a little company that's been dabbling in the concocting of bug killers with some pretty good success for some time now: ortho home defense max. and it's a water based organic compound if you're interested in not wanting to damage the environment between rounds of spraying lead everywhere. good luck with it
 
#39 ·
.....<I>"You have obviously never had a stream of ground burrowing hornets light into your ass."</I>

grntitan

I am correct about the number of ground-dwelling bees. YOU are referring to hornets

Not intending to complicate the matter, bees, hornets and wasps are all insects belonging to the biological order <I>hymenoptera</I>, but they all belong to different biological families and are NOT the same creatures. What's true of one of their living habits is NOT necessarily true of the others.

.....<I>"I'm not thinking they were looking to pollinate me."</I>

I would think not since neither wasps or hornets are pollinators. Whatever pollinating they might do is purely accidental since neither uses the flowering parts of plants as a food source.

Mike K
 
#40 ·
MKillian:

There definitely was a small honey comb in about a foot deep hole. The insects that were flying around the disturbed nest were small, yellow and black. I did not try and pet one to see how gentle it was.

In Kentucky, we have a large hornet like insect that has a 1" to 1 1/2" thick black and yellow body. You most often see them around exposed sap where a tree limb has been pruned in June. I am told that these things are called "Cricket Killers" and I guess that they would go after a cicada also.

A work friend told me years ago that he liked to died laughing one day when his poor old dad ran over a yellow jacket nest while mowing with a bush hog. He said that was the loudest he ever heard his dad yell since the time he got his arm caught in the corn picker.

Ed Ward
 
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