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Originally posted by wcb6092:

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Originally posted by dlc444:
Interesting video here. I have seen this guy referenced here for rodents, this one is for yellow jackets/wasps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FhifTGKtUQ

As long as Ive been here, I still cant figure embedding

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This REALLY works well.

I've always had a metric shit-ton of paper wasps around my place. It freaked me out and I thought that I was in some cheesy '70s horror film for a time when I first moved out here. Thankfully, they are very docile and despite having thousands of them flying around doing their thing, I've had no issues with them at all.

The yellowjackets are a different story. This year it has been kind of spooky and they are everywhere. Particularly, I found 6 or 7 hives around my woodpile the other day as I was splitting and stacking my firewood for the year. I went out in the evening and sprayed them down with the foam stuff. Killed the nests and hundreds of YJs, but there were still a few thousand buzzing around making me quite nervous.

I put one of these homemade traps out today and with hours I had to empty out the container three times as it kept getting too full of dead YJs to take any more.

As a city dwelling, transplanted farm boy, I've found it is best to resist my urges to use fire, explosives and guns to deal with pests of any nature.....my life is sad. I'll be trying those! Thank you!

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Originally posted by Jimbo54:
I've killed thousands of the bastards this year. I use Spectracide Wasp & Hornet Killer with great effect. Locate the nests and spray at night and they're gone by morning. All of them!

This has been the worst year for yellow Jackets that I have ever seen.

Jim

This. The foam sticks to the little bastards and kills them DRT and will get any stragglers that return late. I buy a couple cases of the stuff every spring and we go to war, if we didn't we would be overrun with them.

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Originally posted by 220-9er:
Wait until dark +30 minutes. Then 6-12 oz. of gasoline down the hole.

This method has always worked for me with yellow jacket nests in the ground.If you dig up the nest the next day you will be very surprised at the size of the nest and number of dead bees in there!!As mentioned you need to wait until after dark to be sure all of the workers are back home.