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  • scottgib

    June 11, 2011 4:04 p.m. scottgib New Reader

    Some costly and a couple of dangerous solutions above. Cheap and 100% effective is to:

    Wait until dark and dump three heaping tablespoons of Sevin powder down the hole. All gone in a couple of days. Dead all gone.

    A quicker but a little more dangerous way is to:

    Wait until dark and point a lit propane torch at the mouth of the hole and start thumping the ground around the hole. They will come streaming out and be singed in the process. This will take a few minutes and don't drop the torch or move away from the hole.

    The lawnmower method does not get them all.

  • 1988RedT2

    June 11, 2011 8:57 p.m. 1988RedT2 Dork

    I'd have to say that about half to two-thirds of a can of Wasp and Hornet killer works pretty well. Key is to do it at night and hose 'em down good. As I said previously, I had the nozzle of the can just inches away from the opening. During the dissection today, I noticed that there were a handfull of pretty healthy jackets left inside the nest, but they were dispatched with a follow-up spray. Also, many of the larvae were still very much squirming.

    Okay, pics for you patient folks, as it is now indeed later, as in: The kids are in bed.

    The first pic is of the nest as I unearthed it. I dug up the clump of grass with a bunch of dirt and found nothing under it. The nest lay closer to the foundation wall where it stays drier, perhaps 8 to 10 inches from the actual opening.

  • 1988RedT2

    June 11, 2011 9:01 p.m. 1988RedT2 Dork

    Second pic shows the structure of the inside of the nest. It consisted of at least three "pancakes" stacked one on top of the other.

    Yes, it's an old rusty shovel.

  • 1988RedT2

    June 11, 2011 9:04 p.m. 1988RedT2 Dork

    This is a good shot of one of the pancakes. Amazing how many jackets were in this one small nest. Given the number of larvae in the nest, that number would have doubled very quickly. I'm very glad I found this nest when I did this early in the summer. It was in an area where the kids might very well have found it first.

  • jimbob_racing

    June 11, 2011 11:07 p.m. jimbob_racing HalfDork

    I like pancakes!

  • mad_machine

    June 12, 2011 10:00 a.m. mad_machine SuperDork

    wow.. that's pretty impressive really.

  • wbjones

    June 12, 2011 10:34 a.m. wbjones SuperDork

    well done.... I HATE those things... managed to get one more yard cutting done without finding any...

    yes I realize that I have just jinxed myself and the yard will be full of them for the rest of the yr

  • wbjones

    July 9, 2011 1:23 p.m. wbjones SuperDork

    wbjones wrote:

    well done.... I HATE those things... managed to get one more yard cutting done without finding any...

    yes I realize that I have just jinxed myself and the yard will be full of them for the rest of the yr

    I really did jinx myself..... a few days later one got me when I was doing the side yard... never could find the hole... waited several days, searching for the nest every day, never could find it..... finished the yard with no more problems... then today got nailed again ... same yard, same area....

    found the berkeleyers this time... tonight they WILL DIE

  • mad_machine

    July 9, 2011 1:25 p.m. mad_machine SuperDork

    more pics then?

  • 1988RedT2

    July 9, 2011 3:33 p.m. 1988RedT2 Dork

    In reply to wbjones:

    So, which methodology are you going to use?

  • Hasbro

    July 9, 2011 3:39 p.m. Hasbro Dork

    All yellow jackets must die. Doing landscaping near Atlanta I was stung so often that the stings wouldn't even swell.

    Living in the desert has some advantages. One is low humidity and another is no friggin' yellow jackets. The other side, however, is scorpions. No roaches - scorpions. Opened the screen door just an hour ago and a bark scorpion fell from above. They can put you in the hospital. I don't like to kill them but...

  • July 9, 2011 3:43 p.m. fasted58 HalfDork

    flames at night would be cool

  • wbjones

    July 9, 2011 4:55 p.m. wbjones SuperDork

    gas and fire... if I knew how to post pics I would

  • mad_machine

    July 9, 2011 8:34 p.m. mad_machine SuperDork

    I have only been stung once... well, three times at one time. One of my fiats had been sitting for a while and I needed to move it. When I tried pushing it, the one back brake had it's pads rusted to the rotor.. so I got out the hammer and gave it a few whacks.. and immedatly got hit three times on the hammer weildind hand.. there was a nest on the backside of the caliper.

    They died a WD40 induced firey death

  • stroker

    July 10, 2011 1:09 p.m. stroker HalfDork

    something about this thread makes me wonder about Aliens asking how to get rid of pesky humans...

  • Curmudgeon

    July 10, 2011 2:34 p.m. Curmudgeon SuperDork

    fasted58 wrote:

    one funny bee

    'BENNY'S BUZZING OFF! BENNY'S BUZZING OFF!'

    'I am not!'

    'Oh, yeah? Then why is there honey all over the sheets?'

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