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Saturday 06 Sep 2014

Going to mow the lawn.

19 comments Og | Uncategorized

19 Responses to “Going to mow the lawn.”

1. on 06 Sep 2014 at 9:56 am   mkl
   
   

   If you can see the nest with the yellow jackets on it, a half cup of gasoline tossed on them will do the trick. Keeps them from flying also which is nice; they just drop off, buzz around on the ground, and die.

2. on 06 Sep 2014 at 12:11 pm   B
   
   

   Fire may be the “Devil’s only friend” but it can be yours too.

   Toss some kerosene or diesel down the nest.

   Wait 2-four minutes.

   Apply fire.

   No more issues.

3. on 06 Sep 2014 at 12:24 pm   BGMiller
   
   

   Take off and nuke ’em from orbit.

   It’s the only way to be sure.

   BGM

4. on 06 Sep 2014 at 1:16 pm   Og
   
   

   I would already have gone the fire route but for the dirtbags in town.

5. on 06 Sep 2014 at 1:28 pm   pascal
   
   

   roast hotdogs with the fire and nobody will notice.

6. on 06 Sep 2014 at 1:42 pm   mkl
   
   

   Don’t light the gasoline, just toss it on the nest to wet all of the wasps. My granddad taught me that trick; he said it instantly dissolves the wax coating on their bodies and wings which both keeps them from flying and also kills them a few minutes later.

   I have tried it several times and it does work quite well.

   The wasps we have here in Texas build nests mostly above ground so most are fairly easy to soak with gasoline. If yours are underground, I have no clue if gasoline would work or not.

7. on 06 Sep 2014 at 1:51 pm   pascal
   
   

   Back in the early 70s when I lived in Texas, I wound up using gasoline to kill swarming bees. They were hovering about our electric meter. We tried to get a beekeeper to come harvest them, but that was not happening soon and was expensive. They told us we could just throw kerosene or gasoline. It worked. The swarm melted like the peeling of an onion. Took 3 or 4 tosses of gasoline. They appeared to be neutralized on contact. The difference between your problem and a bee swarm is that swarming bees are non-aggressive. I don’t know any yellowjackets ever are. It better work on them like it did on bees.

8. on 06 Sep 2014 at 2:06 pm   pascal
   
   

   BTW, that was a swarm searching for a new home. Not a swarm protecting an existing hive. That’s a dangerous swarm.

9. on 06 Sep 2014 at 3:01 pm   mkl
   
   

   Okay, let’s round up some options for Og:

   1) Wet all wasps with gasoline while on their nest. [Works great and if you get them all wet, they cannot fly no matter how pissed off they are.]

   2) A 12-gauge shotgun with #8 shot at a distance of about five feet. [I saw this done on a dove hunt when one of the guys got stung. Use the Joe Biden defense when the cops come.]

   3) Use your .500 double at a distance of about two feet. [Tell cops a wild rino escaped from the Indy zoo and was charging you. Gun discharge scared it off and it must still be around somewhere.]

   4) Nuke from orbit. [ Effective and cops not a problem, but home repair may be an issue.]

   Hope this helps… ;-)

10. on 06 Sep 2014 at 3:20 pm   Rick T
    
    

    or spray them with soapy water with a garden sprayer. The soap helps wet the bug’s bodies and knocks them down immediatly, then they suffocate as the water gets into their breathing system.

    The best benefit is any alarm pheromones the sprayees release don’t get into the air so the rest of the swarm isn’t alerted.

    As I recall it was one cup of dish soap to a gallon of water…

11. on 06 Sep 2014 at 3:44 pm   Og
    
    

    My issue with the gasoline is the proximity of my shed and other flammables.

12. on 06 Sep 2014 at 4:10 pm   Spotter
    
    

    Hmmm. Bees looking for a home are to established bees as immigrating muslims are to fundamentalist muslims?

13. on 06 Sep 2014 at 4:30 pm   Paul B
    
    

    Good luck killing bees.

14. on 06 Sep 2014 at 4:38 pm   Og
    
    

    Yellow jackets, actually. Bees are fine in my book. Yellow jackets are just assholes.

15. on 06 Sep 2014 at 5:28 pm   Robert
    
    

    If you smoke or chew tobacco, soak some in a bottle of water for a day or two until the water turns tea-colored, then use it in a sprayer on the bugs. The nicotine is a natural poison. This is an old gardener’s trick, found in the Nero Wolfe books, among other places.

    The Gasoline/kerosene solution works wonders, you don’t even have to light it.

16. on 06 Sep 2014 at 7:51 pm   Jim
    
    

    There’s a guy in North Texas who is pouring molten aluminum into fire-ant colonies, then digging the hardened mass up, washing off all the dirt, and selling the result as fine art.

    Pieces run about $7k, average, and he sells every one of them. They’re impressive works, too.

    Now then, I’m curious as to what an aluminized yellowjacket burrow would turn out to look like.

    Who knows, maybe you’ll learn to love the little molten, profitable SOBs?

    Jim
    Sunk New Dawn
    Galveston, TX

17. on 07 Sep 2014 at 7:08 am   Brigid
    
    

    I’m a bee fan and yellow jackets go in and kill bees to steal their honey (and probably their little TV’s as well)

    If the nest is where you can get at it (not in the walls of a building) try this. It worked on a nest out in the flowerbed. They don’t like mint oil at all and if it’s diluted, it shouldn’t kill the plants or flowers around it.

    50/50 solution (about 2 cups each) of Dr. Bronner’s organic peppermint castile soap and water poured into the nest via a hose or watering can with a long nozzle at night when they’re dormant (I’d suggest protective clothing or a drone :-)

    Follow that up with 1 tea-kettle full (about 4 cups) of boiling water.

18. on 07 Sep 2014 at 9:56 am   Stephana
    
    

    Just get a yellow jacket trap, bait with some pheronome and regular coke, sit back and watch the little puss head die while you throw back a cold one.

19. on 08 Sep 2014 at 4:45 am   Tim D
    
    

    You could just throw a couple of handfulls of sevendust down the hole.

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