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They are vindictive. They follow you home. I use starter fluid for instant death.
This makes it ender fluid.
It's nest burning time, is it?
Raccoons and possums actually like to eat the larva in yellowjacket nests. If you put some dry pet food by the nest it'll attract them and they'll dig up the nest. Sounds crazy, but it's worked for me before.
My worry is that the yellow jackets would just eat the dry food
I was putting in trim behind a like wall of mint and there were a million bees but somehow ended up with just a couple bug bites
To be fair, they're the annoyed ones. Yellow jackets usually don't care about you as long as you don't get near them or their nest.
Maintain social distance and you'll be fine.
Unless you're a honey bee, in which case it's go time.
While true, I got stung a few weeks ago mowing. Not because I got too close, but because one decided to land on my leg, walk down my leg, into my shoe and then when my ankle changed directions it smushed him in the shoe. He got mad and stung me. Like, come on.
They leave you alone where you live?
Here they come to your picnic and try to eat all of your food and then sting you if you don't notice them in your soda can or sandwich.
No, they visit here as well. But they're chill about not being welcome. If you wave them off just right, then they go and ruin someone else's day.
I got stung for the first time a couple years ago... Fucker got me while I was fixing my hair in my car. Threw me off for a second, I felt this sharp pain followed by an immense burning.
Ouch! There were a lot of those under my deck when I moved here, every once in a while they try to come back.
Wasp dust/powder, basically you coat the entrance of the nest with this and the wasps end up tracking it into the nest and killing everything inside.
https://todayshomeowner.com/pest-control/reviews/best-wasp-powders/
Be careful! I had a nest inside my basement last year. I too also had a nest in my yard that I hit. Got stung A LOT. Hope you feel better!
NoLawn - No Hornet stings
NoLawn, No hornets nesting in your lawn
You can still get stung lol
Some years I'll get stung on half a dozen occasions, other years not at all. Depends on how dry it gets and how agressive they are. Yesterday I was unloading a grain bin while I had about a dozen wasps going in and out of a nest built under the edge of the bin. They only got pissy when I started banging on the bin to get the last of the loose stuff to fall. I noped the fuck out of there before they got me.
I have a spray jug loaded up with that cattle oiler stuff with permethrin. That ends them RFN.
Same . I won't get stung for 8 years then get stung on 3 separate occasions in the same summer.
I was sitting in traffic with my window down and watched a yellow jacket fly from out in the distance right into the open window and sting me right under my left eye. What the fuck you stupid fucker 😡
I discovered a nest in my yard under a bush when I was retrieving some spare potting soil. They were VERY aggressive and I got stung. It hurt WAY more than the last honey bee sting I can remember.
That night (when they are dormant) I went out with a bottle of regular dish soap and squirted about 1/4 of the bottle in the hole in the ground near the bush I saw them coming out of earlier. That took care of the whole nest and I haven't seen another one since that day. That was about three weeks ago.