Get Rid of Yellowjackets

Will the "family" please advice me on how to get rid of the yellowjackets
nesting around the fish pond.

See http://userpages.umbc.edu/~rrhudy1/pcare.htm#wasp

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Ghislain wrote:

Will the "family" please advice me on how to get rid of the yellowjackets
nesting around the fish pond.





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On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Ghislain wrote:

Will the "family" please advice me on how to get rid of the
yellowjackets
nesting around the fish pond.





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Thank you ever so much.Your imformation is very interesting.
Your site is well done I added it to My Favorite
I made a copy of section 2 and 6.
Thanks again to the "Newsgroups Family"for the response.
Sincerely Ghislain

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On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Ghislain wrote:

Will the "family" please advice me on how to get rid of the
yellowjackets
nesting around the fish pond.





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"Ghislain" wrote in message
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Will the "family" please advice me on how to get rid of the
yellowjackets
nesting around the fish pond.

Around here (Oregon) many yellow jackets live in a hive underground with
just a small hole, 1/2" dia., for an entry. Find and mark the hole(s)
during the day and then wait until after dark when they will all be in the
nest. There will be a couple guard yellowjackets at the entrance. Just
pour about a 1/2 cup of gasoline down the hole and stuff something like a
paper towel into the hole to plug it up. The next day get a shovel and dig
up the nest. Some nests are small like a tennis ball and I've seen them as
big as a basketball. When the gas hits the yellowjacket they stop moving
in about 3 seconds so there is very little to be concerned about at night.
Some people express concern about putting gas in the dirt but it is easy
to let it evaporate the next day. That's basically all they do when a gas
station has to clean up a leak.

If they are in a hanging nest, again wait until after dark and zap them
with a can of hornet killer that sprays 10-20 feet.

-bill

Thanks for the advice,'Bill"
"bill brown" wrote in message
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"Ghislain" wrote in message
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Will the "family" please advice me on how to get rid of the
yellowjackets
nesting around the fish pond.

Around here (Oregon) many yellow jackets live in a hive underground with
just a small hole, 1/2" dia., for an entry. Find and mark the hole(s)
during the day and then wait until after dark when they will all be in the
nest. There will be a couple guard yellowjackets at the entrance. Just
pour about a 1/2 cup of gasoline down the hole and stuff something like a
paper towel into the hole to plug it up. The next day get a shovel and dig
up the nest. Some nests are small like a tennis ball and I've seen them as
big as a basketball. When the gas hits the yellowjacket they stop moving
in about 3 seconds so there is very little to be concerned about at night.
Some people express concern about putting gas in the dirt but it is easy
to let it evaporate the next day. That's basically all they do when a gas
station has to clean up a leak.

If they are in a hanging nest, again wait until after dark and zap them
with a can of hornet killer that sprays 10-20 feet.

-bill

Be very careful about using insecticides anywhere near a pond -- there was
a thread here a week or two ago about fish dying in a pond, and it turned
out that somehow the water was flowing over ground where wasp spray had
dripped (months ago, maybe?) then going back into the pond, killing the
fish.

I'd also suggest that you *not* pour gasoline onto the ground, as I don't
think it's all that simple to deal with the gasoline-soaked soil.

Anne Lurie
Raleigh, NC







"Ghislain" wrote in message
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Will the "family" please advice me on how to get rid of the yellowjackets
nesting around the fish pond.

Do NOT pour gasoline into the ground. Do NOT use insecticide near a pond (fish
gills absorb any trace of poison in the water and the fish dies).

For an underground nest, spray whip cream in the entrance at night. I am not
kidding. Millions of years of evolution have not prepared yellow jackets for
whipped cream.

For a hanging nest, get a flashlight and a pole and knock it down to the ground
at night. It will be abandoned in a few days, unless it's huge. In that case
you can boot it away somewhere at night (wasps generally refuse to fly in low
light levels).

Solitary wasps like the monstrous looking cicada killers and pepsid wasps
(tarantula hawks) will not sting you unless you grab one.

Don't do that.

Mark Ervin

Mark wrote Millions of years of evolution have not prepared yellow jackets
for
whipped cream.

I don't think we are prepared to deal with it either!


k30a
and the watergardening labradors
http://www.geocities.com/watergarden...dors/home.html

OK, I'll bite! What does whipped cream do to them? Is it the density or
something? Shoot, they dig through the dirt easily enough. Hmmmm - I 'd
REALLY have to keep the dogs away!

Lee

"M4RV1N" wrote in message
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Do NOT pour gasoline into the ground. Do NOT use insecticide near a pond
(fish
gills absorb any trace of poison in the water and the fish dies).

For an underground nest, spray whip cream in the entrance at night. I am
not
kidding. Millions of years of evolution have not prepared yellow jackets
for
whipped cream.

For a hanging nest, get a flashlight and a pole and knock it down to the
ground
at night. It will be abandoned in a few days, unless it's huge. In that
case
you can boot it away somewhere at night (wasps generally refuse to fly in
low
light levels).

Solitary wasps like the monstrous looking cicada killers and pepsid wasps
(tarantula hawks) will not sting you unless you grab one.

Don't do that.

Mark Ervin