If you use the shopvac method, buy some moth balls and just dump a bunch in the tank at the bottom. The vac sucks them up and deposits them. the mothballs do the killing.

If we didn't declare war on them around here every year the sonsabitches would take over the farm. I go our in the night several times a year with a flashlight and a can of foaming wasp killer and hose down their little homes. It sticks to them and their nest like napalm and they can't escape it. Die you bastards, die!

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Yellow jackets in rockery

Sounds like an exotic dish at a Persian restaurant.

Sevin Dust works wonders.. Dump some at the entrance and they carry it into the nest... they all die

I don't actually know what a rockery is, but for ground dwelling yellowjackets I have used Chlorox instead of gasoline. Wait until night when they are quiet, start pouring and make sure you hit the sentries sitting by the entrance, then pour the entire gallon down the hole and run like hell.

Next day they were gone; I've done this twice successfully.

Starting fluid works too...just squirt the whole can into their hole and put a rock on top so they can’t get out

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Starting fluid works too...just squirt the whole can into their hole and put a rock on top so they can’t get out

That's my vote. We've wiped out tons of Yellow Jacket nests under out deck using starting fluid or break cleaning fluid.

What has always worked for me was waiting until night and then place the end of a garden hose about 2 inches in the hole or just enough to where it won’t fall over. Turn the water on about a quarter of the way (not full blast) and let it run for about an hour then shut it off and leave the hose in overnight.

The buggers were always dead the next day.

Had a yellow jacket nest under one of the concrete pads for my AC condensers. Easily identified the entrance, poured about a cup of Seven dust on it one evening after dark, have not seen one since. The dust seems to have kept any others from re-colonizing the hole for the past 4 years.