Posted: 5/10/2007 4:51:34 PM EDT
| Could folks please share their yellow jacket genocide success and failure stories? I am seeing a bunch of them already, and I have found these to work pretty good. |
Work good, but they smell like shit. Get the foaming spray from your local store. It shoots like 25 feet, then covers the next in a thick foam that they can't get out of. Kills them almost instantly. I like trying to knock them out of the air with it. 
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Definitely one of the spray cans of yellow jacket death!! You can stand a good distance away and just hose 'em down. Not quite as much fun as a flame thrower but very effective. Try and squirt it right into the opening of their colony. The fun is limited only by your imagination. 
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Low tech method is to make a tripod, hang a fileted fish carcass from the tripod over a bucket of soapy water. Lots of slow agonizing death, but fun for the kids! Teaches them about gluttony, as well. Slightly higher tech method involves a steel WD-40 non-aerosol spray can (old school) filled with gasoline. Find yellow jacket nest in the ground, light a fire near the entrance with gas, and spend the next two hours burning the wings off of a nest full of bees as they fly out to attack. Might not want to have the kids around for this one, but bring lots of gas, and keep it away from the carnage.
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When we were camping, we used to always have a can of peaches.. Eat the peachs and leave the syrup out on a stump a bit away from camp, you'd find it full of yellow jackets at the end of a weekend. And they wouldn't be hovering near your food 
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I had a friend who got stung a number of times in his house when he lived in St. Augustine, FL. He hunted them down after that and cut off their heads and put them on thumb tacks. His windows were lined with thumbtacked yellow jacket heads. I think he obsessed a little. 
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Last year i was watch a program on the Discovery Channel on this same subject. This guy took a standard hand vacum cleaner someone would use for handy work around the shop or cleaning small and tight spaces and devoloped a plastic container just foreward of the vacume box which contained dry ice and a large containment box for yellow jackets or hornets. This guy would place the suction hose down the entry point of the yellow jacket nest and vacume up the insects. As the bugs passed the dry ice box they were instantly frozen/ killed and then stored in a tuperware container. The operator then sold the insects to a Bio lab research business. In some nests, as much as three to five thousand jackets were cleaned out of underground nests. The program last for about one hour and is was damm cool to watch the jactets and hornets meet Mr. Freeze. |