3 Traps
Yellow Jacket control
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Got a link? Luckily I haven't had yellow jacket problems recently but I've been stung by those miserable little buggers enough to know they don't mess around.
I’m always stung while mowing grass when they are around. They are more resistant to the usual kill methods. Last month it was a quart of gas mixed with liquid Seven poured down their hole after dark. Me and the dog took off like lightning….well she did. I just moved as fast as I could.
When I lived in Lewis County, WA I used some powdered insecticide at the entrance of the yellow jacket hole. All dead the next day, every time. Of course, you have to find the hole first. I have been stung by yellow jackets in the winter. They hibernate in the wood pile and wake up when you bring the wood they are on into the house.
I used this stuff on a nest inside my garage wall. They were all dead in under 24 hours.
https://a.co/d/4Ir8wFB
I've not had any luck with the commercial traps. But the homemade traps made from a tray of soapy water, a wooden plank and a hot dog, do work if configured and maintained correctly.
Not a fan of pesticide but also not a fan of getting stung nor calling in expensive wildlife removal to dig the nest up.
I had a huge underground nest in my yard. Used bonide ground bee killer. It's a dust, spray it in the entrance hole to the nest as it's getting dark.
No more yellow jackets.
I had a huge underground nest in my yard. Used bonide ground bee killer. It's a dust, spray it in the entrance hole to the nest as it's getting dark.
No more yellow jackets.
There are no nests on my property but I have a couple neighbors who are largely ignorant.
Had underground nests. Poured a couple buckets of hot soapy water down the holes. Problem solved.
Biggest challenge was a nest in the cinder block of my barn. Sprayed foaming killer into cavity with no success. I finally enclosed them in the wall by caulking shut 4 different holes. That did the trick.
Biggest challenge was a nest in the cinder block of my barn. Sprayed foaming killer into cavity with no success. I finally enclosed them in the wall by caulking shut 4 different holes. That did the trick.
The REAL trick with these traps is to put them out early and catch the queens. That is how we keep the population down
Shawn Woods on Youtube has lots of videos on testing various yellow jacket traps. Seems like the soapy water bucket trap is his favorite:
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I had a huge nest right outside my window (ground level) 2 summers ago. I could hear them in the wall right beside the window, and the inside drywall was even noticeably warmer to the touch in that area.
By the time I clued in that they were there, they had been there for quite a while and the nest had grown massive. Not only was the nest massive, but so were most of the critters themselves. I'm used to the normal size wasp but a lot of them were almost twice the size, thick bodies, absolutely repulsive as wasps/bees are one of my unreasonable fears.
I bought one of those electric insect buzzers off of Amazon and strung it up right out side my window. They went crazy, flying all around it and bouncing off the silly thing, all it did was lightly fry them and make them dizzy after about 30 seconds. They'd end up spinning around on the ground under it so I squirted water + soap through the window and that took care of them. Until the next night and I'd repeat the process for about 3+ weeks. Never got the whole nest, they just didn't make it through the winter I guess as they didn't show up again.
Now just smelling the green "palmolive" dish soap makes me want to throw up. The scent of half fried insect and dish soap is hard to forget.
0 stars out of 5. Do not recommend having yellow jackets near garden window.
By the time I clued in that they were there, they had been there for quite a while and the nest had grown massive. Not only was the nest massive, but so were most of the critters themselves. I'm used to the normal size wasp but a lot of them were almost twice the size, thick bodies, absolutely repulsive as wasps/bees are one of my unreasonable fears.
I bought one of those electric insect buzzers off of Amazon and strung it up right out side my window. They went crazy, flying all around it and bouncing off the silly thing, all it did was lightly fry them and make them dizzy after about 30 seconds. They'd end up spinning around on the ground under it so I squirted water + soap through the window and that took care of them. Until the next night and I'd repeat the process for about 3+ weeks. Never got the whole nest, they just didn't make it through the winter I guess as they didn't show up again.
Now just smelling the green "palmolive" dish soap makes me want to throw up. The scent of half fried insect and dish soap is hard to forget.
0 stars out of 5. Do not recommend having yellow jackets near garden window.
3rd latest trap is near full and thank goodness the general population is way down around the cherry tree. I'll leave all three to hang for easier disposal.
The ground collapsed under my foot and I stepped into this large one not long ago. I totally lucked out and it was recently abandoned with only a couple of slow moving European wasps left.
Deltamethrin powder works wonders on eliminating yellow jacket/wasp/hornet nests in just a few days. Best applied with an inexpensive bellows style insecticide duster pump.
I give the nest a shot of brake clean and it seems to take care of it fast...
Came here to say the same. Also known as Tempo 1% dust. It’ll decimate a huge infestation in my masonry cracks in minutes. The bees lucky enough to be on the outside will fly back to the hole and fly away when they get a whiff.
Guy from Australia checks in. Nest the size of a Volkswagen.
