yellow jackets living in our wall

You need a psycho brother-in-law. Oh the beemanity!!!

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poopshovel wrote: You need a psycho brother-in-law. Oh the beemanity!!! http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2243176

I guess that guy didn't get the memo about honeybee colonies dying off. :|

has anyone tried leather, high heels, and pink underwear?

andrave wrote: has anyone tried leather, high heels, and pink underwear?

You might get stung with that method, I'm not sure by what though....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmJZCkJ6B7M

Shawn

ok.. when is darwin coming to visit the guys who light fire to a propane tank without even so much as a hose on it?

I'm kinda embarrassed, they're fellow Canadians...

At least they're on the other side of the damn country.

Shawn

So I have been battling these things for a few weeks. Last night just at dusk I emptied three cans of wasp,and hornet spray in,and around the entry hole outside. They seemed right pissed off,and I got a holler from my oldest son(7 years) that the house was full of bees. I raced inside,and found they were heading for zee hills,and found,any,and every way out of the certain death of the spray. I quickly grabbed the expanding foam,and filled the cracks between the mantel,and drywall that they were crawling out of. I made a hell of a mess,and killed maybe 50 yellow jackets over the next few hours as the landed on surfaces(they seemed messed up anyway). I then filled up the outside hole with expanding foam,and other suspicious looking entry ways that were near by.

I checked on them this morning,and there were some flying around ,and trying to get in the now filled in opening outside. I also noticed a typical nest in the crotch where the chimney,and shingles met,and hosed that one down heavily with my last remaining can of death. They dropped like fly's!!!!!!! I am not sure I have eradicated them totally,but I feel better,and we have only had maybe 5-10 in the house today,and they seemed messed up as well,with odd flying patterns,and not all of them died at the hands of the rolled up GRM(just kidding I use C+D).

I hope this colony dies down soon,and maybe some more cans of killer,and the impending winter will kill them.One can hope anyway.

Chris

with the spray used as liberally as you did the queen should have been killed... she won't get away as easily as the others so the hive should die anyway

We had a wasp nest in the attic just above our pre-K girls' room. Some wasps would manage to find a way into the living quarters; fortunately nobody was stung.

Nearly all aersol insecticide warns against using indoors, and IIRC this is because they contain a nonpersistent nerve agent. Nasty stuff. I did find one wasp spray that claims to be safe indoors - it's made from a concentrated mint extract. I bought a can, thinking that if it didn't work I'd call an exterminator.

Did it work? Yes - it's minty fresh death. A drop of it caused an immediate blister on my forehead - my aim was pretty crappy, what with pissed off wasps flying at my flashlight. All wasps and larvae were dead within minutes, and none have returned in the year since. The only downside is that the house had an intense mint smell for about a week.

I bought a can at ACE Hardware; I assume it's available elsewhere.

Peter

PeteWW wrote: it's minty fresh death

LOL I'll have to go find a can of this just so I can refer to it as my can of "minty fresh death"

LOL I have used the minty fresh can of death on wasps too.

Normally I would use the nasties nerve gas I can find but they had built their nest in the leg of my BBQ and were aggressive enough that I couldn't really get close without being attacked.

I was a bit worried that the mint stuff wouldn't work but it was fantastic. It knocked them right out of the air.

PeteWW wrote: Yes - it's minty fresh death.

That needs to be someones signature.

I got a couple of stories about the bastards that are yellow jackets. 1.) I was about eight years old and building a fort in my grandmas back yard. Looking for materials I came across a pile of old abandoned cinder blocks. Bad Idea.. I didnt even know what Yellow Jackets were but found out really fast when I removed that first block from the pile. My uncle and daddy hosed it down with diesel fuel and maed a fire that Satan himself would have been impressed by. 2.) Five years ago I was mowing the yard of a house I had just bought. My first home, it was a POS and the yard was in really bad shape tldr, I ran over a nest, looked down and saw them doing the hucklebuck all over my arms and chest. I was naked except for a pair of swim trunks and flip flops. I counted 38 stings but they were all on top of one another and know it was a lot more. 3.) what brought me to this forum today was the fact that I discovered another nest in my yard. It was in pampas grass (a notorious hide out for wasps) and close enough to the front of that driveway that I could run over it with the front wheel of my pickup. They were madder than hell and trying to sting my truck as I sat there safely with the windows rolled up. I took a pump sprayer with a strong mix of Malathion and hosed down the entire bush since I could not locate the hole after smushing the plant with my truck. This was about an hour ago and I plan on throwing a couple of handfulls of seven dust on it after they calm down. A man from Georgia Power told me that you can wrap a gas soaked rag around the end of a broom stick and shove it in the hole and it will kill them but I have yet to try that technique. Those boys have to deal with wasps and get stung all the time. He had a ton of stories.

wbjones wrote: found a giant yellow jackets nest today while cutting the crass.... an area that hadn't been cut in several weeks... the hole in the ground is ~ 6"-8" across... I spotted them before they found me...hehehe..... I'll go back tonight when they are all "home" and pour gas down the hole and follow it with a match...

Please use video for others to enjoy.

Holy back from the dead thread. I am so glad these bastards are gone.

Fwiw, I do extermination of wasps, as well bees and such. I am one of the local beekeepers who semi-specializes in wasp removals.

In your case, I'd likely drill some tiny holes in the drywall and spray though them directly into the nest. That's a quick kill.

Spectracide, pyrethrin and Savin are my favorites.

Spectracide is the off the shelf wasp spray you buy anywhere. It works as well as anything I've found, including those requiring a licence. It's got the best knockdown power of anything on the market today.

Pyrethrin is a nice water mixible long term spray that you can buy in bulk at ag supply stores and the like. No licence required. I load up 5 gallons in my backpack sprayer and I can drown out a nest if I can't simply kill it. The stuff doesn't excite the nest the way other pesticides will. Not that they are happy about being wetted down mind you. Usefull stuff for other pesticide jobs, like ants and roaches and such.

Saven is the powder, works similarly to the liquid pyrethrin. Great track in powder. Works well ground wasps for a person who just wants to dump some down and run. Usefull in the garden as well.

I am on a lifelong mission to annihilate yellowjackets and hornets ,now that I have developed an allergy to them. I have found the cheap traps that utilize plastic soda bottles work well. The shop vac near the opening is very effective, I put mothballs in the canister. Spectricide poisonous spray is my new favorite. I like to apply that after dark when they are all at home in bed. Carb clean drops them very well when you find them in your parts car or at the scrapyard. I also recommend getting an epinephrine self injector. For the first 38 years of my life I did not really mind getting stung. Then I had a sting in bed at a cabin and started swelling and itching all over. I was going to tough it out but my girl took me 60 miles to the hospital at 3 am and saved my life. Since then I have been stung 5-6 times and only needed to inject myself once.

dry gas works wonders on ground nests. Dump in the bottle, toss a match and feel a thump in the ground.

If you like the thump, get a rodenator. Easily home brewed if you've got a welding torch.

The PO of my home left a gallon of insect-killer in the shed from the 50's. I have no idea what is was made of, but I guarantee that it was no longer legal for sale in the US. It killed all bees in a three-county area. Wish I had some more.

pinchvalve wrote: The PO of my home left a gallon of insect-killer in the shed from the 50's. I have no idea what is was made of, but I guarantee that it was no longer legal for sale in the US. It killed all bees in a three-county area. Wish I had some more.

Probably full of Methyl Ethyl Bad E36 M3

pinchvalve wrote: The PO of my home left a gallon of insect-killer in the shed from the 50's. I have no idea what is was made of, but I guarantee that it was no longer legal for sale in the US. It killed all bees in a three-county area. Wish I had some more.

possibly chlordane. when my parents bought their house in 1956, it was infested with cockroaches. dad hosed the place down with chlordane, and i don't recall ever seeing another living insect inside the house until i was in high school, probably 1983-ish. whenever one of my siblings rented an apartment or bought a house, dad would soak it down with the stuff. he died of prostate cancer, possibly unrelated.

This happened at my parents house when I was a kid. A lot of bees in the living room over a couple days then all of a sudden there was a swarm. We shut the doors to the room and insect bombed it. Lots of dead bees on the floor after that.

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