Yellow Jackets!!!

[MikeA57]

We were out last weekend cutting and discing our food plots at a new property and my buddy ran over a yellow jacket hive. He ended up getting stung about 8 times. My job was to come back behind him on my tractor and disc the area but it got too late that day so we're going back down there today and finish. I'm wondering if those bees will have gone back to the same spot and re-dug their hive in the ground or will them move somewhere else? Also, does anybody have any suggestions about getting away from them if they do attack again?

Thanks!

Mike

 

[murphy1244]

Drop a gas bomb on their butts then light it.

 

[Carl_NH]

If you cover their hole they will excavate the dirt and be back in a matter of hours. Locate the hole during the day and flag it and return at dusk with a pint to quart of gas in a 2 liter coke bottle and upend into the hole.

Wait a bit and toss a match if you want but the gas should do the trick.

 

[Biggreenavalanche]

They are still there, be careful

Rich

 

[MikeA57]

yep, they were still there. I avoided the hole and just disced and planted around it. I got within about 5 ft. of it and they bother me. I found another pit of them too. We're finished in that plot so we won't be back in there until the season opens anyway. They'll be sleeping by that time.

 

[creekbend]

Please don't forget. Yellow Jacket Nests have two holes. One is used more or less as an emergency exit. Just a thought.

 

[RobertBrown]

Those insects will be all over your deer if you hang it around there. Yellowjackets eat meat, and the sting hurts like ****.
Kill them now

 

[Poncho]

i always kill the nests as im deathly allergic (epi pens).. usually use metal coffee can and turn upside down on hole at night

 

[CalG]

i always kill the nests as im deathly allergic (epi pens).. usually use metal coffee can and turn upside down on hole at night

Not a help in the field, but I had several (4) nests of yellow jackets around the house, with one on the attic.

After getting stung twice while working around the blue berry bushes, I had enough. Swollen to the elbow with a sting on the hand.

I set the intake to the shop vac at the hole catching both incoming, and out going. After a coupe hours on a sunny day, there were no flyers left.
Must have been a thousand per nest in the vac can the next day.

Worked for me.

cheers

 

[Bigfoot62]

I set the intake to the shop vac at the hole catching both incoming, and out going. After a coupe hours on a sunny day, there were no flyers left.
Must have been a thousand per nest in the vac can the next day.

That's a novel idea. Never really thought of that.

I just use gasoline.

 

[Carl_NH]

That's a novel idea. Never really thought of that.

I just use gasoline.

Yes - a vac is good if you have power - most of ours dont make nests within 100' of a power outlet - gotta teach them bees to live closer..

 

[Bill 55]

Hateful little bastages. I kill every one I can. Not only do they sting (repeatedly) but they bite while they sting.

 

[johnrex62]

That's a novel idea. Never really thought of that.

I just use gasoline.

The shop vac sounds much safer for the attic nest....... but hey, that's just an opinion.

 

[CalG]

That's a novel idea. Never really thought of that.

I just use gasoline.

I would have, but my wife thought that burning gasoline in the attic would make a mess.
She was probably right, but I'm not saying so. ;-)

 

[MikeA57]

I would have, but my wife thought that burning gasoline in the attic would make a mess.
She was probably right, but I'm not saying so. ;-)

Reminds me of a guy that used to work at our company that used a .357 to dispatch mice in his house...

I was back out in that field again Tuesday and there were still a number of those little bastages flying around. I would've thought that 38 degree temps would have beat them into submission. I guess we need a frost.

I also found a number of other holes of theirs too as we scouted out this property. They dig a much larger cavity that I would've thought they would. Every one that I found that had yellow jackets flying around it was a hole approaching the size of a soccer ball. I wonder how long it takes them to hollow out a hole that size? Where they go into the ground may not be that big, I didn't get that close, but the hole that contains the entrance was pretty large. I don't like them but I find their habitat and social order interesting...

 

[joshuabardwell]

Mothballs are easier and safer than gas. Use a shovel or hoe to toss some in from a distance, or go at night.

Also, just for the record, yellowjackets are wasps, not bees.

 

[Bigfoot62]

The shop vac sounds much safer for the attic nest....... but hey, that's just an opinion.

It's not my attic. :confused3:

 

[Bigfoot62]

. . . I also found a number of other holes of theirs too as we scouted out this property. They dig a much larger cavity that I would've thought they would. Every one that I found that had yellow jackets flying around it was a hole approaching the size of a soccer ball. I wonder how long it takes them to hollow out a hole that size? Where they go into the ground may not be that big, I didn't get that close, but the hole that contains the entrance was pretty large. I don't like them but I find their habitat and social order interesting...

The largest yellow jacket nest I've ever seen was about 2'x2'. I found it while clearing fence row with a bulldozer. I was stung numerous times. Not much fun.
Went back about 4am with my gas can - - game over!!

 

[dex3361]

The largest yellow jacket nest I've ever seen was about 2'x2'. I found it while clearing fence row with a bulldozer. I was stung numerous times. Not much fun.
Went back about 4am with my gas can - - game over!!

After being stung several times it puts me in the Scorched Earth method frame of mind.

 

[J_J]

An electronic bug killer works great.

They try to sting it to death, but guess what.

They all die as crispy critters.