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Thank you! :) I'll look into getting those to have on hand if I get stung again, however I am going to be a lot more careful and try to avoid getting stung. I didn't have to go to the hospital and had benadryl on hand but boy did my ankle balloon up (it's still somewhat swollen and super itchy...

I found it in the garden center at the local hardware/feed store. The label is pretty worn cause I've had the bottle for a while but what I can make out I'm pretty sure it's this one: https://www.gardensafe.com/Products/Fungicide/Neem-Oil-Extract-Concentrate.aspx now this is a concentrate and...

Neem oil kills a variety of insects, it's a natural pesticide. I'd never used it on wasps before but it kills just about every other insect I've used it on and it's not harmful to chickens so I figured what the heck, why not try that since the nest was at the end of the run.

Yellow jackets are omnivores so they help cleaning up dead animals and they can also do some pollination and I'm usually into letting nature do it's thing whenever possible. I draw the line at two things and opt for the kill them before they get me or my flock option - raccoons or possums trying...

That sounds so satisfying! I would have loved to do that but I didn't want to burn my run down.

I just dealt with a yellow jacket nest under the corner of my run. Neem oil killed them and is ok to use around chickens. I waited till dark and dumped it on the nest. Waited a day and dug out the nest, they were all dead.

Yes please do be careful not to catch things on fire. My dad almost caught a whole tree on fire trying to smoke out a nest years ago. It's funny now and he was prepared with a hose so not much harm done but boy did he take a lot of teasing from the other guys at the local fire dept where he was...

I just noticed this on the side of my house. Bald faced hornets. They are always around somewhere so I think I'll just leave it till late in the winter when they abandon the nest then knock it down. They're not really bothering me since it's so high up. I am a little concerned though - old...