The Hornets are winning. I have sprayed every known chemical on them, with no effect. I have sealed up every hole I can find, but they can find more. I have replacement railroad ties ready to swap in to solve the problem of available nest sites, but I can't get rid of the old ones because they are full of hornets! It's time to call in the experts, I am sick of getting stung.
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I have problems with them every year. I've found that if you spary into their nest at night, you kill all of them. If you don't, then a few live and rebuild. Beyond that I have no advice...except maybe explosives. Oh yeah, I hate wood outdoors. Over the years I've replaced the large amount of railroad ties on my property with rock.
Add a hungry badger or opossum. They eat them.
If the railroad ties are not attached to anything of value (say, your house), have you tried fire? Maybe some of that "stump burning" stuff?
I use hornet killer spray on them at night, works great!
Exterminator gave me done industrial stuff that seems to kill everything including the neighbors. I wore schemegh over my face just to breathe. I'll find out what it was. I still have some. You may not be able to get a hold of it.
It finally happened. I think I ran over a yellow jacket's nest with the lawn mower saturday night. WW Bee starts next weekend. OH THE BEEMANITY!
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:Add a hungry badger or opossum. They eat them.
Honey badger don't give a berkeley!
I had ground hornets. Ran the hole over with the lawn mower and got stung 3 times before I knew what hit me. I swore vengance..
Later that night, I poured a whole gallon of petrogasohol down that hole and killed them all.
"Take that winged devils!" I cried into the night.
Seriously though, they all go to the nest at night and are pretty docile. Thats when you kill them!
poopshovel wrote:It finally happened. I think I ran over a yellow jacket's nest with the lawn mower saturday night. WW Bee starts next weekend. OH THE BEEMANITY!
I quoted this because everyone should read it again!
Osterkraut wrote:Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:Add a hungry badger or opossum. They eat them.
Honey badger don't give a berkeley!
For ground nests I use a bottle of dry gas (because it's laying around) and a lighter on the end of a stick. Makes a nice thump in the ground when it touches off.
We have used regular hornet killer in copious amounts on a big ol' hornet nest in the evening when they are all inside. Worked like a charm last year and they did not rebuild this year in that spot.
There are still sunk-in brown spots in my yard where I ran over several yellowjacket nests on the tractor last year. I still cringe when I drive over them. Tried the foaming killer in a can on a couple of them, I think it worked OK, but they'd rebuild.
Then I asked the Cook's guy to "spray some DDT in there or something," as I wasn't having any luck getting them to stay gone. I think he may have done just that- I haven't seen one back since.
entomb with concrete?
Jake wrote:There are still sunk-in brown spots in my yard where I ran over several yellowjacket nests on the tractor last year. I still cringe when I drive over them. Tried the foaming killer in a can on a couple of them, I think it worked OK, but they'd rebuild.
After you've bombed the enemy into submission, you've still got to go door-to-door to root out any remaining enemy insurgents--i.e. dig up the nest. Please see the following "how-to":
http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/off-topic-discussion/fun-with-yellow-jackets/36292/page1/
Liquid Nitrogen.
Instant Frozen Death and completely non-toxic. Wear a full-face helmet and heavy gloves.
Twenty bucks (plus a big deposit for the tank) gets you a nice, big bottle at your local welding supply store.
davidjs wrote:isn't that called napalm?If the railroad ties are not attached to anything of value (say, your house), have you tried fire? Maybe some of that "stump burning" stuff?
chaparral wrote:Liquid Nitrogen.
Instant Frozen Death and completely non-toxic. Wear a full-face helmet and heavy gloves.
Twenty bucks (plus a big deposit for the tank) gets you a nice, big bottle at your local welding supply store.
Affordable, badass AND eco-friendly! Sounds like a winner!
