Yellow Jacket thread!
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09/16/19 06:23 PM
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Freakin' yellow jackets are invading our house. What's the recipe to get rid of them?
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Re: Yellow Jacket thread!
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09/16/19 07:51 PM
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Find the entrance then AFTER dark fill a dish soap bottle about half way with Sevin. Squirt it into the hole. That way it gets tracked all the way back to the queen. If you need tight to see place it where it can shine and not too close to you. The yellow jackets will go to the light.
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Re: Yellow Jacket thread!
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09/16/19 08:20 PM
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3 1/2" ,no.5 buckshot outta a modified choke. Well crap, my Browning BPS only handles up to 3". I guess I'll need a new shotgun to solve my problem! Not sure where they are coming from, so this might be a pass shooting situation. Sound advice, it seems, pcr...
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Re: Yellow Jacket thread!
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09/16/19 08:50 PM
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Find the entrance then AFTER dark fill a dish soap bottle about half way with Sevin. Squirt it into the hole. That way it gets tracked all the way back to the queen. If you need tight to see place it where it can shine and not too close to you. The yellow jackets will go to the light. .If you kill the nest inside your walls, you are going to have a terrible stench for a few days maybe even a week. Inside the house. Ask me how I know this. Ask me if I looked like a D. A.
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Re: Yellow Jacket thread!
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09/16/19 09:28 PM
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I had them bad last summer in a 2 story cedar sided lake house. They were in the wall on the second story. I did battle with them every weekend for a month. I would spray the foaming wasp and hornet spray in a hole at night and then put a bunch of spray foam in to expand and plug the hole and they would chew a new way in. I gave up and called an exterminator. He came out in the middle of a hot day and they were active as heck, he had an old pump up fire extinguisher and it had the white powder like you can get at the hardware store for ground nesting yellow jackets. I had some but I could not climb up a ladder and squeeze the bottle and get enough up in the hole to do any good. He had on a thick flannel shirt, long pants, leather welding gloves and a bee keepers helmet and the hose on the extinguisher was fitted with a trigger style air spray nozzle like you would use in your shop to blow dust off parts or something. He went up the ladder and stuck that thing in the hole and gave it a good shot of powder. Tons of very mad yellow jackets came out with white dust all over them and that was it, no more since. I thought if I ever found one of those old copper pump up extinguishers I would rig one up and not have to pay someone else.
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Re: Yellow Jacket thread!
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09/16/19 10:39 PM
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Make a trap out of a juice jug, or milk jug . Put a couple of inches of water, a can of root beer, or fruit juice. Add a few drops of dish soap. I also will add a slice of lunch meat.. Make several , small triangle shaped holes in sides , just big enough for them to enter. They will be attracted by smell and enter, they will tire and drown. I use them by my bee hives. Honey bees are not interested. You will catch a lot of wasps, a few flies. Go to utube, there are all kinds of video's, several ways to make traps. old243
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Re: Yellow Jacket thread!
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09/16/19 10:40 PM
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Used to "love it" when my grandpa would bail hay and a bale would cover a bee hole when it came off the bailer. Next day hauling bales: nephew asks his dad, "why is uncle tony running around like an idiot waving his arms and yelling?"
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Re: Yellow Jacket thread!
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09/16/19 10:42 PM
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Year in/ year out,. August 10 the is when they start showing up. This year is different.seen very few till 2 weeks ago. They are now crazy insane!!
swampgas chili and schmidt beer makes for a deadly combo
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Re: Yellow Jacket thread!
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09/17/19 03:08 PM
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I like the traps. It's fun to watch them die, especially after you've just been stung.
I don't care how nice the hand soap smells, you should never walk out of the restroom sniffing your fingers.
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Re: Yellow Jacket thread!
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09/19/19 08:04 PM
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I made up a couple 1 liter bottle traps. All I had was some Schweppers Sour mix, so I used that and a small chunk of salami. Gonna go check them now and see what happened
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