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Post subject: Re: Yellow Jackets (The hornets, not the tube adapters)
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 12:23 am
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tbazzone wrote:
Don,t mess with gas. Very bad things can happen


+1

Mix it with powdered laundry detergent and make napalm instead.

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Post subject: Re: Yellow Jackets (The hornets, not the tube adapters)
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 12:52 am
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tbazzone wrote:
Don,t mess with gas. Very bad things can happen

I find denatured alcohol or lacquer thinner works well with these monster stinging insects...HIGHLY FLAMMABLE so be careful.I know for a fact...don't ask how :lol:

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Post subject: Re: Yellow Jackets (The hornets, not the tube adapters)
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 3:14 am
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you may have a "super-cell" with multiple entrances/exits under your backyard.
there may be as many as 10,000 bees in it, and there's only 1 SURE way of killing them ALL. (i've dealt w/many supercells).

find ALL the entrance holes and position someone next to each w/an appropriately sized(neck)bottle filled w/gasoline.
on signal, each of you simultaneously plug their hole with the bottle, and stomp it into the hole as deeply as possible.
do not remove/disturb the bottles for at least a week.

ALSO: if you have either an old tree-stump, or big hole from a tree-stump in your yard, that's the source of the problem, and it must be gassed with the rest of it.
the bees love the pathways left by rotting tree roots and will invade old stumps with a passion.

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Post subject: Re: Yellow Jackets (The hornets, not the tube adapters)
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 5:15 am
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tbazzone wrote:
Don,t mess with gas. Very bad things can happen


+1

Mix it with powdered laundry detergent and make napalm instead.

:mrgreen:

Arjay

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or get a pet "polecat",that's a skunk for the uninitiated...... :lol:
they dig down into the yellow jacket nest at night and eat them and the larvae....I don't see how they do it but they do.


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Post subject: Re: Yellow Jackets (The hornets, not the tube adapters)
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 7:37 am
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Great suggestions everyone! I can picture my yard now, a battle zone with two smoking craters in it, and skunks patrolling the perimeter. It would definitely keep the neighbors away, thinking I am crazy (I am a little anyway), and I actually enjoy the smell of skunk. :wink: Now I need a helmet and flack jacket before I do battle with these beasts. Chaaaaaaarge! :lol:

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Post subject: Re: Yellow Jackets (The hornets, not the tube adapters)
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 7:51 am
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shimmilou wrote:
and I actually enjoy the smell of skunk. :wink:

Is that before or after they're cooked? :D
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Post subject: Re: Yellow Jackets (The hornets, not the tube adapters)
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 8:12 am
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Post subject: Re: Yellow Jackets (The hornets, not the tube adapters)
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 9:17 am
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:lol: :lol: :lol:

I hope that my yard doesn't look like that golf course when I'm done.

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Post subject: Re: Yellow Jackets (The hornets, not the tube adapters)
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 7:25 am
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Glad you're okay. I think I disturbed some yesterday - got a couple of stings, and actually had an allergic reaction to them. I could breathe fine, but I got dizzy, chills, flushed very red, and my heart was racing. Very scary feeling!


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Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 7:47 am
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Only if you're going after the Go-(L)-pher's... :wink:

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Post subject: Re: Yellow Jackets (The hornets, not the tube adapters)
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 2:45 pm
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The way my dad did it was this. Wait until at least two hours after dark. Take an empty glass Coca Cola bottle, the old fashioned returnable kind. Fill it full of gasoline. Walk over to the nest hole in the ground. Invert the coke bottle and cram the open top of the Coke bottle down the hole and leave it there. Then walk away.

The gasoline will kill the Yellow Jackets. It doesn't take two gallons. It takes about 10 ounces.

Next night remove bottle. Save it for reuse next time.

Being a University of Georgia Football Fan, fighting Yellow Jackets is something I LIVE for. Of course the EPA isn't too happy about dad's method, but it works. I think 2 gallons is way too much.


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