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[Roscoe_t]

Oh yeah. I find yellowjacket nests in the ground fairly often -- usually while I'm mowing the lawn. Running over the nest opening tends to annoy them.
A guy I know lost his schipperke when the dog disturbed a yellowjacket nest. The owner got stung a few times himself while trying to save the dog.

If you want to eradicate a next like this, an insecticide dust like Sevin is the way to go. The insects track the poison into the nest, far deeper than any aerosol bug bomb can go.

 

[Roscoe_t]

I'd say the skunk did you a favor.

 

[MarioCart]

I got 22 stings from a ground nest cutting the grass before.
My neighborhood skunks, raccoons, and bears don't dig them up.
Wish they would because you don't know where the buggers are coming from when you get swarmed and stung. running in circles didn't help.

 

[Tom_C]

Yeah, Yellow Jackets are one type, but there are other ground wasps. They are quick to anger I think they are from the hood.

 

[Chris M]

I hate a yellow jacket.
Kill them with fire.
Back in VA when we found them we'd wait til it got dark and they settled in and pour a few gallons of gas down the hole...wait a few seconds to let the gas settle a bit then throw a match on it.
Not safe at all, obviously, and certainly not the least eco friendly. But very damned satisfying watching those bastards burn.
Just saying.

 

[Tom_C]

My first encounter was when I was about 7, and was hanging out with my big brother while he was mowing a neighbors grass. I got bit, and then he sat the push mower over the nest for a while.

Then, when I was about 48 and mowing my own yard was going around an old stump (hint, they like old rotten stumps or other voids in the ground) and I got bit. Then, a week later, mowing the same area, I thought I would swing wide and avoid them, but got bit again. They saw me coming.

Added: I just found this out, but bears don't really like honey, they are going after the bee larvae. Same with the skunks I guess.

 

[Roscoe_t]

They tend to be at their worst this time of year -- the colonies have usually grown to maximim size and they're slowly starving out as food becomes less plentiful.

 

[NotBudule]

I hate a yellow jacket.
Kill them with fire.
Back in VA when we found them we'd wait til it got dark and they settled in and pour a few gallons of gas down the hole...wait a few seconds to let the gas settle a bit then throw a match on it.
Not safe at all, obviously, and certainly not the least eco friendly. But very damned satisfying watching those bastards burn.
Just saying.

 

[Joeiconic]

Yellowjacket’s in the ground are the devils handiwork. I fight them every summer and get stung at least a few times, A few years ago, i had a big nest in a brush pile where I was doing some trimming. I couldn’t figure out how to get at them, but finally two bears came along and dug them out for me!

 

[RedlandRanger]

This is the time of year they get more active and nasty. I hike a lot and usually encounter these ground nests this time of year. I try and stay vigilant and if I see one I give it a wide berth. They are usually really nasty and will chase you down to sting you.

 

[Dgc333]

I hate a yellow jacket.
Kill them with fire.
Back in VA when we found them we'd wait til it got dark and they settled in and pour a few gallons of gas down the hole...wait a few seconds to let the gas settle a bit then throw a match on it.
Not safe at all, obviously, and certainly not the least eco friendly. But very damned satisfying watching those bastards burn.
Just saying.

That made me chuckle and reminded me of a bee incidence I had.

Probably 25 years ago when my kids were still teenagers they were screaming about bees flying around the back door. I came out to see what the commotion was. Seems the bees had made a nest in the chimney on the side of the house and we're coming and going, the back door light was attracting them.

I got some long range bee spray and some foaming spray. I waited to they had settled down and went up onto the roof to arch the spray into the chimney. Anyway I emptied the long range can into the flue and completely covered the nest with the foaming spray.

Next thing I hear is my wife screaming from inside the house. I rushed in and it seems the bees tried to escape by going down and we're in the wood stove (glad the dampers were closed). I took another can of spray and squirted it in through one of the dampers until the buzzing stop.

Don't know what possessed me but I then filled the wood stove with crinkled news paper and set it on fire. Next thing I hear are the kids screaming outside. Thick black smoke was coming out of the chimney and was rolling down the side of the chimney to a foot or so off the ground before it dissipated. All of a sudden there was a deep whap sound from inside the chimney and the nest came flying out and landed smoldering in the middle of the front yard. The bees were gone but the whole incident could have gone sideways so many times. ?

 

[Radioman]

That made me chuckle and reminded me of a bee incidence I had.

Probably 25 years ago when my kids were still teenagers they were screaming about bees flying around the back door. I came out to see what the commotion was. Seems the bees had made a nest in the chimney on the side of the house and we're coming and going, the back door light was attracting them.

I got some long range bee spray and some foaming spray. I waited to they had settled down and went up onto the roof to arch the spray into the chimney. Anyway I emptied the long range can into the flue and completely covered the nest with the foaming spray.

Next thing I hear is my wife screaming from inside the house. I rushed in and it seems the bees tried to escape by going down and we're in the wood stove (glad the dampers were closed). I took another can of spray and squirted it in through one of the dampers until the buzzing stop.

Don't know what possessed me but I then filled the wood stove with crinkled news paper and set it on fire. Next thing I hear are the kids screaming outside. Thick black smoke was coming out of the chimney and was rolling down the side of the chimney to a foot or so off the ground before it dissipated. All of a sudden there was a deep whap sound from inside the chimney and the nest came flying out and landed smoldering in the middle of the front yard. The bees were gone but the whole incident could have gone sideways so many times. ?

Great story Dave. Could have ended much worse.

 

[NeilP]

15 years or so ago, a large oak branch broke off on my neighbors tree and fell onto my property. When it fell it landed on some sort of "trash" tree and bent it over & pinned it to the ground. Since it was just a junk tree, I figured I'd just cut it down. Because it was bent over 180° it was under some strain.

I walked down into the gully and started bumping the chainsaw chain against the trunk allowing the pressure to be relieved a little at a time. I took another swipe at it and I thought I hit a rock and that hot sparks were hitting my arm. I shook it off and started nipping at the base of the bent tree again. DANG it!!! Must have hit the rock again!

Nope! YELLOWJACKETS! and they were ticked off. I killed the saw, dropped it & took off running. 17 stings later, I finally got away from them.

I mixed up a couple gallons of pesticide poured down the hole eliminated the problem

 

[Langwilliams]

I have a yellowjacket nest I'm working on right now. It's behind the inside corner trim on my siding on the front porch. I used the powder a few nights in a row, then put a piece of tubing in it an sprayed most of a can of hornet killer in. Before I would see 10-12 bees at a time around the opening they were using, now I see 1 or 2 at a time. I killed 5 in one day on that inside wall. I'm going to do the tube trick another time or two. When I was delivering mail I got stung a few times a year. Nothing like flipping open a mailbox an finding a nest inside it an having them attack you.

There was a highly rated powder I saw on line an it was available at Ace Hardware. I stopped in an they couldn't sell it. As usual when a product works an it's affordable big brother yanks it off the shelf.

Edit: here's what I was going to try: https://www.acehardware.com/departm...BaOe4hAT_QIBHdYWMGRoCDxoQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

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