Posted: 9/3/2006 6:29:30 PM EDT
| Was minding my own business mowing my lawn today,when out of mowhere I get swarmed by yellowjackets....hundreds of the little bastards. Drove me away from my mower,I went inside and nursed my wounds(with some help from the wife) got stung 7 times.....now I am pissed. After they settled down I finished mowing and did some recon.....found their lair,it is a hole in the front yard....got some potent insecticide from my exterminator neighbor and chemical strikes commence at sundown followed by some good old fashioned gasoline. Wish me luck gentlemen. |
Kerosene has a lower flash point. It's the fumes from the gasolines low flash point that kills the little beasts, IIRC, but I may be wrong. |
|
http://www.driko.org/smallpics/caddy108.jpg How about some plastique? |
Gasoline has a lower flashpoint, that's what makes it dangerous. Gasoline will produce combustible fumes at about 35 degrees F. Kerosene has a flashpoint of 110 degrees F, so it is much safer. Of course, if kerosene doesn't have the same desirable effect as gasoline, maybe he should just leave out the flammable liquids altogether? 
|
|
Make an acid bomb. Get a 20oz coke bottle, fill it 3/4 with hydrocloric pool acid, role up a bunch of aluminum foil. Get a trashcan lid, quickly drop all the aluminum foil balls in the botlle with the acid and cap it. Then throw it down the whole and put the trash can lid on top and run. Any acid over spray will eat them. I blew up a huge pumpin one year at halloween doing this 
|
|
Did I also mention that Grampa died in a fireball??............No ,I am only kidding,but he did first teach me (and was also locally famous for) to deal with varmints and critters with extreme prejudice and w as known to over do it a bit. Anyway I have conducted my attack,dawn will tell if it was succesful. And yes it was seven times they got me before I got away,I am still stinging a bit. |
|
make a trap!! get a small tub - like a "bus tub" used in your local restarurant, make a tripod of some sort (wood dowels will work) then attach a pice of fishing line with a piece of raw fish on the end of it; then fill the tub nearly to the level where the dead fish is - and add lots of dishwashing soap. the yellow jackets will swarm to the fish (I don't know why, it's some freakish bug thing) and in their haste to eat, they bump their wings into the soapy water. the soap clings to their wings, they cannot fly, they are hung down on the water, and drown. THE ONLY GOOD YELLOW JACKET - - IS A DEAD YELLOW JACKET!! |
Also works with liver. They get full and drop right into the soapy water and die. |
|
I HAD THE SAME EXACT THING HAPPEN TO ME AT WORK!!! mowing my company's lawn (family business, so someone has got to do it) and while mowing our back lots I feal 2 bugs land on me, so i brush them away, but they come back. at this point im like WTF! look behind me to see what kind of bug it was and i see a whole swarm of black things chargeing at me singing the "dunt dunna dunna naaaanaaa.... dunt dunna naaaanaaaa... dunt dunna nnaaaaaaaaaaa!" song. next thing i know there are 3 of the little buggers on my ear and cheak. of course all of them get a direct hit and i proceed to catapuly my self off the mower and into a full sprint away from these deamon spawn. I go inside and ice it all the while schemeing what to do to these vile creatures. well when i get the balls to go back out there and confront them, i can not find their nest!!!(which is most certainaly underground) as i did not hear annything get mulched from the mower before i got attacked. now the grass is getting long again in that lot, so i suppose i will have to go find the buggers sooner or later! the sad thing is they must remember me because when i went back to look, one of their scouts spotted me and started to chase me! damn i hate bees/wasps/hornets |
|
Three Words: FUEL AIR EXPLOSIVES http://img416.imageshack.us/img416/7681/faeanimfu6.gif Is a "kill 'em all" responce still OK with the COC, if it referes to stinging winged insects? |
|
Just nuked a hive of yellow jackets in my shed. Bastards decided that the shed was better suited for them. I think I will have the last laugh when we go shop vac out the dead hive in the morning. I already removed 2 in there today! This one was the motherload though. I hate all flying bastards that sting or bite! |
Win a FREE Membership!
Sign up for the ARFCOM weekly newsletter and be entered to win a free ARFCOM membership. One new winner* is announced every week!
You will receive an email every Friday morning featuring the latest chatter from the hottest topics, breaking news surrounding legislation, as well as exclusive deals only available to ARFCOM email subscribers.