Part of this operation, should thing not go exactly as planned, 'may' involve the necessity to RUN LIKE HELL from the area! In your situation, I'd recommend calling a Professional...Just Sayin'

We had an in ground nest at our old house wife wasnt keen to let me incinerate so her research found that a big pot boiling water with dawn soap added then poured down the hole worked out well.

I’d like to try the molten aluminium truck and make some art as well.

Be thankful that you found them . If all you got was two stings you are lucky . I weedeated over the opening of a nest and got two stings before I knew they were there . Dropped the weedeater and ran like hell . The WILL chase you a pretty good distance . I got two more stings before I got far enough away . And they hurt like hell . I was even sore the next day . I've burned them out , and I've used soapy water as well . The key is to do it at night .

We used to thin them out a bit by parking a running lawnmower over the hole. Then we’d burn them out at night. Not lighting the gas is like going to an amusement park and not riding the rides.

The best above ground nest kill I ever had was a large nest in a hedge. I used a Rem 1100 12ga with birdshot. It made a paper-bee goo.

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. Not lighting the gas is like going to an amusement park and not riding the rides.

Truer words have never been spoken !

We had a nest behind the siding on our front porch this year. I tried spray, and that didn't work. My BIL and I killed about 100 of them with canoe paddles (still not sure how we didn't get stung, but we didn't), but that didn't really reduce thier activity in any significant way. What ultimately did it was the dust-type yellow jacket killer. The stuff we used had Permethrine in it, and I applied it liberally along the wall where they were getting in. Within a day they were gone.

We just had an issue with a huge nest of them in an eave on our house, and called in a pro. They were getting inside our house and I was worried about my little kids getting stung by those bastards. He put on a suit and blasted them with some sort of poison that killed then off over the next few days, I soon found HUNDREDS of dead yellowjackets in my basement of all places.

Seems like what he did worked but it cost us $225.

^^^^^^^^^^
Cheaper than the ER not to mention pain and suffering.

If you dont have wasp spray, Brakleen works very well.
Outdoors only of course.

Out here the County has a Vector Control unit that will come out and sprinkle whatever powder they use to kill the nest.

I am told that vibrations felt / sensed by the nest occupants bring them out to defend. Having been zapped by a hundred YJ a few years ago from a nest under a wooden stairway I was demolishing, I can believe this.

I wish these critters were never invented. Why they are here makes little sense to me. Pain, suffering, and chaos follow them.

Good fortune to you, sir, as you rehab.

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Originally posted by 4MUL8R:


Why they are here makes little sense to me.

They are Polinators. That's no excuse, I know.

Termite spray will wipe them out , every last one of them.

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Originally posted by Johnny 3eagles:
They are Polinators. That's no excuse, I know.

They don't have fuzzy bodies like bees and provide little to no benefit for pollination.
I haven't been able to find any real beneficial aspect to having them around so it's death to any nests I find.

Yellowjackets are the assholes of the bee world and I have no problem nuking every last one of those bastards from orbit.

When I was a kid, I was out fishing behind my grandmothers house, and accidentally stepped right into a nest of them, and got stung dozens and dozens of times. I guess it’s a good thing I wasn’t allergic because I probably wouldn’t have made it.

I believe the yellowjacket sting is the most painful sting of any sort of insect like that.

Bastards from the pits of hades! I have run multiple times after hitting a nest with a weed eater or mower. Kerosene, gasoline, diesel, bee spray, brake cleaner, etc., whatever is selected. Just get every last d@mn one of them.

In your situation, ask for the help of a neighbor, friend, or professional. Best wishes for your recovery.

since you are unable, at least now, just avoid that area and walk elsewhere,


if you have skunks, or possums, maybe they will find the nest and eat the little bastards for dinner one night,


you don't need to mess with them, I lost an older neighbor a few years ago due to the bastards,
he got swarmed cleaning up some brush, and died before the EMT's could get here,
and he was not allergic, or was not in the past,

Interesting. Too many here don't like fun.

I belong to a jeep club. We put on a big race once a year, and its a lot of work. So about 30 years ago I was cleaning out brush near the starting line of the sand drag strip. Weed eater going like mad, suddenly one of my friends grabbed me and hauled me off the hillside. Then I felt the pain. They took me up to the patio of our building, gave me a beer, and assigned a watcher to keep an eye on me. Lucky for me, old Grady liked beer, too. It really does kill the pain, or makes you not feel it.

We had and used a junk ole pole truck, Bell reject as too old and broke down. I got a hose and jammed it in the bad fuel tank. You "one gallon" guys need to up your game. So I filled a 5 gallon jug of gas and water. I didn't want the water but it came anyway. About dark, the guy who pulled me off the hill was watching and asked what I was going to do. As others here have suggested, I was going to burn the bastards. Just for the record, 5 gallons is better that one, or the cupful others have suggested. This was in a played out gravel pit, and no homes anywhere near.

I just poured and poured. Then got the hell out of there till fully dark. Went back and lit it up. Only time I've ever set off 5 gallons, and its amusing. It burned for a good long while. The best part is the bugs came out "aflame". I don't think they were flying under their own power, it was the burning fuel propelling them.

The next day I walked over to the area, and there were literally thousands of the burned critters dead on the ground.

And I'd do it again. In a new yerk minute.

A guys gotta have fun once in a while.

To everyone who kindly replied - THANK YOU - Several made me laugh out loud while others made me realize that with just one wrong move (a second entrance that I am standing to close too) could cause me to damage that which just 5 weeks ago cost my insurance company and me over $90k to fix in my spine - so this one will be left to a professional.

To HRK - Thanks Sir for the venom sucker recommendation. I did not know such an item was available. - Wife ordered a two pack as soon as I read your post.

UPDATE as of Monday Morning (10/17) - I sit here with an ice pack on my lower leg trying to relieve the itch but DAM guys I forgot how much stings from yellow jackets hurt. I spent the better part of Saturday and most of Sunday putting ice on this sting area and keeping it elevated because just two stings generated some serious pain.

Now to the good news - Our area is about to experience a wonderful break in outside temps. - dropping down into the 40’s at night and on Wednesday of this week a high in the 60’s. This morning, as this work week starts, I will be calling a 40 year friend who owns the most respected pest elimination company in our area and my ask will be to arrange for one of his field staff to come to the house and eliminate this hive. Plain and simple - small fee for a professional to manage this is better than the unknown - primarily because I cannot twist, bend, squat, or lean for another 4-6 weeks to give my spine time to heal and being 63 years old, I do not want to have to go back through this post surgical process again.

I sill update this SIGForum family as soon as he completes his work with hopes of providing some post pest elimination photos of what he finds.

Thanks again for the comments, recommendations, and personal experiences. This has been a great learning experience for me…More to come in the next few days…sigarmsp226

Use a professional or friend/neighbor. All methods include the step “run like hell”.

If you don’t want the pyrotechnics or just want to be a little more environmentally friendly, a gallon of chlorox down the hole will do it. At night, while dormant, but still, run like hell.

I haven’t tried soapy water on a whole nest, but can confirm that it does indeed kill wasps. Certainly going to be the cheapest route, so I’d be tempted to try that first. Doesn’t need to be hot. Just heavy dish soap in a gallon of water.

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Originally posted by rburg:
Interesting. Too many here don't like fun.

I belong to a jeep club. We put on a big race once a year, and its a lot of work. So about 30 years ago I was cleaning out brush near the starting line of the sand drag strip.

Was that Gravelrama in Cleves? I used to go there 35 years ago. Amazing the Jeeps that could climb that hill.