Wasp/yellow jacket nest near compost pile

[fordmommy]

Here's another idea. But it's not a quick fix.

Bee Bait: 1 oz water, 3 oz dish soap or so, 1 tsp canned tuna

The bees smell the tuna protien, crawl inside, fall into the soap-water, get it on their wings and can't fly. Eventually, drounding in it.

 

[Sitka]

Re: above post -- We have had good luck with those traps, too. You can also put soda in them. Ours were partial to Sprite...

 

[wildorchid053]

we get them now and again.... use a hose like you would for a mole and drown them.. do it at night.. when you dig up the nest you will be surprised how big it actually is .. gl

 

[eggchel]

We have had good luck with traps, also.

 

[cgmccary]

I would leave them alone as I have noticed my chickens eat them (yellow jackets, wasps).

 

[GaNewChick]

Gasoline will work fine. We had to kill a nest last weekend. We took a beer bottle, filled it with gas and waited until about a half hour after dark. If the hole is big enough, just turn the bottle upside down into the hole and leave it plugged for a day or two. You may find a few strays for a couple of days trying to get back in.

My husband got stung twice....you'd of thought he was gonna die.

 

[SC_Hugh]

Gasoline + flame? Come on...

My last yellowjacket nest (three years ago): I waited until after dark, then I poured a large pot of boiling water (you can use two pots full) into the nest hole and poked the nest with a stick to get water to penetrate, waited a few minutes, then covered it with soil and tamped it down. I haven't seen a single wasp in years.

If you want to use chemicals: http://www.pestproducts.com/yellowjacket.htm

--Hugh

 

[tinyscrafts]

my dad just told me to do the gas thing to kill my gopher... I'm almost considering it...

for the wasps I just bought a fake wasp nest. I don't know if it works yet.. http://www.gardeners.com/Natural-Wasp-Deterrent/YardPests_Insects,36-561,default,cp.html

it had some good reviews...

 

[Uppity Peon]

Gasoline is a nasty pollutant. I think I would use boiling water.

 

[adoptedbyachicken]

Last one I had in the ground we had nothing here to use on it as we were planning building the house but were just camping here. I needed it dealt with overnight so the contractors coming to see things were not being stung like the previous day. In the dark of night I went there and put a large plastic tote over the hole, made sure it sealed the edges by piling dirt around it and put my spare tire on top so it could not move. I also did the same with a small bucket and a rock on what we suspected was a second entrance, they often have one.

We left 3 days later having had no issues with being stung. I needed the tote to pack up the camping stuff and so I carefully took back my spare tire then lifted the tote. Huge number of dead wasps there, none under the bucket. It was very hot then so I think that helped. We did not stick around though to see if any grubs had survived, next time we came up here the nest was inactive, but that was months later.

Necessity, the mother of invention.