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I think I got rid of the yellow jackets or wasps- whatever. I had a small pointy nose applicator bottle. Cut the opening to pretty much fill up the hole in the mortar. Loaded the bottle with 5% Sevin powder to the top to make sure it would poof when squeezed. Then waited for dark. I went out with a small stool, flashlight and my special weapon. Jammed the nose into the hole and squeezed the bottle & puffed Seven in there quite awhile. Then stuck a moth ball in the opening and got out of dodge.

It's been two days and no sign of them dead or alive. They(?) got the opening cleared - maybe they all took off. I keep checking to see if any are flying around the garage. I am still very suspicious - there were so many coming and going, I can't believe a little powder did them in. I figure it probably just fell to the garage floor.

Maybe they are all hiding in there raising the next generation to bug the daylights out of me. Maybe they found a better hole around the building, that suits them better.

I will stay vigilant until winter. Meanwhile I can battle the fungus gnats on my houseplants.
 
drumstick diva said:
I think I got rid of the yellow jackets or wasps- whatever. I had a small pointy nose applicator bottle. Cut the opening to pretty much fill up the hole in the mortar. Loaded the bottle with 5% Sevin powder to the top to make sure it would poof when squeezed. Then waited for dark. I went out with a small stool, flashlight and my special weapon. Jammed the nose into the hole and squeezed the bottle & puffed Seven in there quite awhile. Then stuck a moth ball in the opening and got out of dodge.

It's been two days and no sign of them dead or alive. They(?) got the opening cleared - maybe they all took off. I keep checking to see if any are flying around the garage. I am still very suspicious - there were so many coming and going, I can't believe a little powder did them in. I figure it probably just fell to the garage floor.

Maybe they are all hiding in there raising the next generation to bug the daylights out of me. Maybe they found a better hole around the building, that suits them better.

I will stay vigilant until winter. Meanwhile I can battle the fungus gnats on my houseplants.
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Way to go! I'm proud of you! :clap

We once had these wasps that lived in the ground and I found them one time while I was mowing. I mowed right over their hole, big mistake!. It wasn't pretty, I was stung on any available skin. :oops: But that night, I got even. I went out there with a five gallon aquarium with thick matt board cut and taped to the top, with a small circle cut out in one corner. I lined that hole up with the hole of their hive in the and shined the brightest flashlight through the glass bottom of the aquarium. I then stomped the ground and beat on the glass. They came flying out of that hole so fast, I was amazed by the sheer number of them. There had to be a couple hundred, at least. So once they stopped coming out of the hole in the ground, I blocked the hole in the matt board, shut off the flashlight and waited for them to settle with no light. I then gassed them with Raid though the hole and closeds it back up again.
 
Nicky, what can I say but, sheer genius and courage.

My neighbor told me he had gotten stung twice when he was mowing - he didn't know wasps were in the ground. After he told me I found a small mound of dirt where it didn't belong. I thought the rain washed it down. So with my foot I pushed it back where it belonged and then stomped on it to flatten it out. Got out of way just in time because wasps were arriving and when they couldn't find the opening they were furious. When it got dark I dumped some Sevin powder on top. Next day no one was flying over there.
 
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drumstick diva said:
Nicky, what can I say but, sheer genius and courage.

My neighbor told me he had gotten stung twice when he was mowing - he didn't know wasps were in the ground. After he told me I found a small mound of dirt where it didn't belong. I thought the rain washed it down. So with my foot I pushed it back where it belonged and then stomped on it to flatten it out. Got out of way just in time because wasps were arriving and when they couldn't find the opening they were furious. When it got dark I dumped some Sevin powder on top. Next day no one was flying over there.
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I'll have to get some Sevin Dust , sounds like it does the trick on a variety of critters / bugs
 

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