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Yellow Jacket thread! #6618549
09/16/19 06:23 PM
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St. Cloud, MN
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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! [Re: trapperkeck] #6618563
09/16/19 06:43 PM
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Happy Valley
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Burn the house and start fresh.

Re: Yellow Jacket thread! [Re: trapperkeck] #6618568
09/16/19 06:52 PM
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A shop vac with a long hose. Tape it to a piece of re bar or a 2x2 and lean it up by the hole. Put some water in the wet dry vac with dawn in it . Turn on the vac and come back in an hour to check the process.


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Re: Yellow Jacket thread! [Re: trapperkeck] #6618600
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! [Re: trapperkeck] #6618602
09/16/19 07:56 PM
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3 1/2" ,no.5 buckshot outta a modified choke.









Re: Yellow Jacket thread! [Re: pcr2] #6618625
09/16/19 08:20 PM
09/16/19 08:20 PM
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St. Cloud, MN
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Originally Posted by pcr2
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! [Re: trapperkeck] #6618636
09/16/19 08:31 PM
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I had the same thing happen only in my wife's garden shed, I went after dark and filled the hole with foam insulation and let nature take it's course. Wall buzzed for a couple days then quiet ever since

Re: Yellow Jacket thread! [Re: Drifter] #6618661
09/16/19 08:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Drifter
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.

Re: Yellow Jacket thread! [Re: trapperkeck] #6618665
09/16/19 08:54 PM
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I got kissed by a common wasp today. They know fall is in the air..


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Re: Yellow Jacket thread! [Re: trapperkeck] #6618669
09/16/19 08:57 PM
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yellow jackets for sure get "owly" this time of year.

Re: Yellow Jacket thread! [Re: trapperkeck] #6618693
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! [Re: trapperkeck] #6618717
09/16/19 09:43 PM
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I had been stung the past two times I cut the grass in nearly the same place in the yard. Couldn't find the nest. Then today while mowing I saw it just as I got to it and mowed within an inch of the opening as I steered hard right. Fortunately I avoided getting stung this time. I ran to the hardware store and they were out of the regular wasp and hornet killer I usually use but they had a can of Ground Nesting Yellow Jacket killer. Sprayed them this evening while wearing my bee suit, which turned out to be great entertainment for all those driving by. Just went out and emptied the rest of the can into the hole they have in the ground for good measure, didn't see any movement so hopefully I am good to finish cutting the grass tomorrow.

Re: Yellow Jacket thread! [Re: trapperkeck] #6618765
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

Re: Yellow Jacket thread! [Re: trapperkeck] #6618767
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! [Re: trapperkeck] #6618769
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!!


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Re: Yellow Jacket thread! [Re: trapperkeck] #6618781
09/16/19 10:57 PM
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Get a pressurized can of PT 565 Plus from an online pest control store. Put the flexible tube inside their hole at night when they are inactive and spray half the can inside. You will hear an awful rumble while doing such like a train coming down the tracks and then dying yellow jackets will start falling out if sprayed into a raised nest. It is absolutely the most effective thing I have ever seen on a yellow jacket. I spray ones and twos in the garage real quick with it and they instantly start to die. I took care of a very active nest built in to the soffit of my house last fall with one treatment. Prior to that I had used I don't even know how many bottles from Menards with no results.

I am also trying to bait them this year with Fipronil to try and kill any nests that neighbors might have, but the success of that method is still pending.

Re: Yellow Jacket thread! [Re: trapperkeck] #6618960
09/17/19 09:35 AM
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Re: Yellow Jacket thread! [Re: trapperkeck] #6619022
09/17/19 11:12 AM
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Re: Yellow Jacket thread! [Re: trapperkeck] #6619106
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I like the traps. It's fun to watch them die, especially after you've just been stung.


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Re: Yellow Jacket thread! [Re: trapperkeck] #6620726
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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