Yellow Jacket Season

[Longhair]

With this dry weather it's been perfect for bush hogging my property the down side is it's also perfect conditions to find what I call the meanest insect on earth.

So far I've found two nest, just motoring along minding my own business then all hell breaks loose, I'm glad my tractor has shuttle shift so I can get out of Dodge quickly. I haven't been stung yet but I'm sure it's just a matter of time before my luck runs out.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I hate those evil bastards! They're relentless.

 

[Leadeye]

Like land mines when you are walking in the woods this time of year. You have to keep your eyes ahead of you watching for the stream of them coming and going.

We have had success controlling them near the house by eliminating the queens early in the season.

 

[Pepi]

Boric acid is your friend

 

[Grogmister]

Tempo dust on Amazon works amazing on those little bastards. I shoot the power with a bellow type duster.

 

[armalitesheepdog]

I got nailed 5 times while fixing a soffit vent not knowing there was a nest present. Let me tell you that was not pleasant. 3 stings on my right arm that hurt like hell. Itched for 3 days one on the side one on the leg

 

[firecadet613]

I've had many battles with them, but am winning the war.

If you know where the nest is, hit it with this first.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07HN8X7DD?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

After that, follow up with this.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B015BSNXKE?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

If it wasn't for all the crawdads I have at my lake (making countless holes in my yard), I'd be yellow jacket free by now...

 

[Tradesylver]

I've been using a mixture of .5 cup apple cider vinegar .5 cup water .5 cup sugar with a dash of Dawn dish soap. Can't remember where I found it but works great on yellow jackets and white faced hornets. Just set it out in a plastic butter container.

 

[dudley0]

I used Sevin Dust on two places this year. Just a small handful dumped at the entrance. They walk thru it when they enter and it killed the nest by the next day.

One was in the ground the other was in a soffit. I did poof some Tempo in the soffit just to get it in a little more.

 

[phylodog]

I used Sevin Dust on two places this year. Just a small handful dumped at the entrance. They walk thru it when they enter and it killed the nest by the next day.

One was in the ground the other was in a soffit. I did poof some Tempo in the soffit just to get it in a little more.

Thank you for this, I unearthed a nest about a month ago. They'd set up shop at the base of a telephone pole by the rod where a crew had recently removed one and "filled" the hole with gravel. Got into it well enough with the mower that they abandoned it and I thought they were gone.

A few days ago I was walking by the chicken coop and noticed that they'd found a new home. My wife has had this old beeskeep hanging on the coop for several years now without issue, who'd a thunk yellow jackets might find it attractive?

Been trying to come up with a plan which would avoid burning the coop to the ground. I'm going to give Sevin Dust a shot.

 

[firecadet613]

Thank you for this, I unearthed a nest about a month ago. They'd set up shop at the base of a telephone pole by the rod where a crew had recently removed one and "filled" the hole with gravel. Got into it well enough with the mower that they abandoned it and I thought they were gone.

A few days ago I was walking by the chicken coop and noticed that they'd found a new home. My wife has had this old beeskeep hanging on the coop for several years now without issue, who'd a thunk yellow jackets might find it attractive?

Been trying to come up with a plan which would avoid burning the coop to the ground. I'm going to give Sevin Dust a shot.

If Sevin Dust doesn't work, Tempo Dust will. I've had less than 100% kill rate with Sevin, Tempo I'm batting 100. They're applied the same (squirt some dust in / around the hole).

 

[foszoe]

Thank you for this, I unearthed a nest about a month ago. They'd set up shop at the base of a telephone pole by the rod where a crew had recently removed one and "filled" the hole with gravel. Got into it well enough with the mower that they abandoned it and I thought they were gone.

A few days ago I was walking by the chicken coop and noticed that they'd found a new home. My wife has had this old beeskeep hanging on the coop for several years now without issue, who'd a thunk yellow jackets might find it attractive?

Been trying to come up with a plan which would avoid burning the coop to the ground. I'm going to give Sevin Dust a shot.

please advise us on how it goes. This sounds like a good trick.

 

[snapping turtle]

Remember they love soft drinks this time of year also.

 

[firecadet613]

Remember they love soft drinks this time of year also.

With a little boric acid mixed in...

 

[Flingarrows]

I've been using a mixture of .5 cup apple cider vinegar .5 cup water .5 cup sugar with a dash of Dawn dish soap. Can't remember where I found it but works great on yellow jackets and white faced hornets. Just set it out in a plastic butter container.

I use a similar mix of 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar, 1/2 cup apple juice, 4 tbsp sugar in traps like to this. I change it every 3-4 days as the liquid is full of bald faced hornets/yellow jackets.

I get about 20-30 in each trap for the last couple of months. No bees just hornets

 

[Flingarrows]

I changed it today at 530, and had about a dozen by 7pm in one of the traps

 

[LtScott14]

If I see the nest, I wait till dark, spray nuke juice(Black Flag Wasp Spray), and run like hell inside house. Next day, have a long blade machete, and pry the nest down, doing the Stomp Dance with heavy boots to finish the stragglers...
No animals harmed in this activity... me!

 

[JTKelly]

Thank you for this, I unearthed a nest about a month ago. They'd set up shop at the base of a telephone pole by the rod where a crew had recently removed one and "filled" the hole with gravel. Got into it well enough with the mower that they abandoned it and I thought they were gone.

A few days ago I was walking by the chicken coop and noticed that they'd found a new home. My wife has had this old beeskeep hanging on the coop for several years now without issue, who'd a thunk yellow jackets might find it attractive?

Been trying to come up with a plan which would avoid burning the coop to the ground. I'm going to give Sevin Dust a shot.

sevin dust the holes they fly in and out and they will spread it through the whole nest. Be dead the next day and NOT come back.

 

[VostocK]

I'll be the 3rd person in this thread to vouch for Tempo. I tried Delta dust first and some other kind of powder with little effect on a big nest inside a garage wall. Tempo killed the entire colony in 24 hours while the other products were a waste of money.

 

[jaymark6655]

I use Seven dust as well. Last year I had to stop mowing, every week I was finding a new nest and getting stung. My hand swelled so bad I couldn't move my fingers. This spring I carried a can of wasp spray and killed three queens as they were getting the dead bugs of the front of my car. Haven't been stung yet or found any nest this year, *knock on wood.

These, ticks and mosquitos are why hiking and camping should be winter activities.