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[Trustable]

I haven’t personally experienced up close it but have seen them and heard about them. Insect use dust is probably the best. This guy has a bunch of other videos besides the one in posting on how to deal with them.


he uses a shop vac in that one but he has a few using dish soap and I believe he even used exhaust at one point. I’m prettysure he used an ozone generator as well. They all worked. Depends on patience and bravery I suppose.

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[Dgc333]

Great story Dave. Could have ended much worse.

I know, the flaming bee hive could have burnt the house down.

 

[MountainGoat]

I just got stung a couple weeks ago, just a bee though. There is a nest under a garden bed and while they usually leave me alone one got stuck in my shoe, stayed there until I went inside and stung me. Damn I turn into Quasimodo when I get stung. Couldn't fit into my shoe for two days!

 

[Tom_C]

Unrelated, but my dad was an old, poor boy with more brawn than brains I guess (not really). He would just get a propane torch and take it to wasps nest (the above ground types, not ground wasps). I think it was an old circus trick.

 

[Trustable]

It’s oddly satisfying watching those yellow jackets get sucked up by that vacuum. ?

I thought the same thing!

 

[Charley]

Not wasps or yellow jackets, but some kind of ground nest hornets settled into my brother in laws yard. He tried different pesticides, failed, called a several pest companies and all said they did not and would not take the job. Finally youtube to the rescue. Turns out this particular pest has an oily protective coating. Dawn dish soap poured into the hole, then a bunch of water to create the suds. As the pests flew out through the suds, they would get coated, lose the oil and fly a bit more then crash and die.

 

[Nellieg]

Seems the bees are bad this year. I've removed 2 large nests in the facia....a can of spray at night then do it again then pull facia apart. Also had a very large hornets nest... Luckily I don't react to stings much.

 

[MountainGoat]

Yikes - being allergic to their venom can be a scary thing.

It's not really anything life-threatening. I've been stung many times sometimes multiple bees, lots of wasps around my cabin and one stung me in the head a few years back.

 

[Motorpsychology]

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

No, that's rainwater.

 

[NotBudule]

Dad used to take the old school road side flares and spark one up and stick in the hole upside down , no explosions, but effective ...

 

[Murphie]

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.

Years ago, I was mowing around a pond and disturbed some ground hornets. Nasty, nasty buggers. Luckily I was not stung.

 

[Texasota]

A ground nest is easy to get rid of. They don't dig there own holes, instead they nest in an existing hold created by a ground squirrel or other creature. Go out at night (they are much more docile at night) with a shovel and place a couple scoops of dirt into the hole and tamp it down. They can't get out and will soon die.

 

[Markubis]

I wait until dark when they are all back at the nest and drowsy....then I load up the hole with one of those jet spray hornet and wasp sprays.

 

[KNI]

I just use 0.1-0.6mm dried sand (blasting sand). Just dump the sand on all openings and keep pouring until the piles don't sink anymore. Top again daily for few days.

Most likely will not kill them (and you should not kill pollinators), but they'll just move away.

 

[Chris M]

The rodents are likely after grubs in your yard. Kill the grubs and the rodents move on to greener pastures. I don't recommend the "kill with fire " method for the grubs, just to be clear.
There are fertilizers with the proper chemicals for that kind of thing, as I seem to recall.

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