Yellow jacket battle round 3: overkill nuclear option?

The best option is surprisingly clean and easy. Now, my experience with these little bastards is extensive. It’s been tough battling in the shit. Many good men lost their lives, some battles won..others lost. There have been chemical weapons, gasoline explosions and until a breakthrough was found I almost fell into the depths of despair at the loss of our homeland to their relentless blitzkrieg. Ready for your eco-friendly nuclear option…........?

Dish soap. Make yourself up a spray bottle with warm water and a big ole glob of palmolive or whatever you have. It kills on contact. C-O-N-T-A-C-T, seriously. Find the nest pour a bottle of that shit in and hit it with the garden hose. Hit the stragglers with the spray bottle and minimize collateral damage. Do not mourn their hollow lifeless corpses. Celebrate victory, walk outside without fear…but keep that spray bottle handy.

Soap breaks the surface tension of water because it’s a surfactant. They suffocate instantly. It’s much quicker and more devastating than chemical wasp killer

Fill a bucket with water. Put a small amount of oil in the top. Hang an uncooked piece of bacon just above the water line.

The bees eat the bacon till they drop. When they hit the water, they are covered in oil and can’t fly. They drown.

All is quiet on the battlefield. I won’t know til morning if this evenings deadly payload did its job. The men are preparing the next weapon in our struggle for control of the domicile. Surely lives will be lost, but Man must prevail.

Good luck and godspeed.

Oh, have you come to right place! Sevin works grea, but you are likely using the 5% stuff from the garden store.

I’m not sure what state you live in but you might be able to buy the 50WP (50% wettable powder) and do a selective injection.

Before you do that I’d try another option. If you have the patience you can use your shop vac and place the nozzle or length of pvc near the opening As they fly out of the hive they are fast and light so they will escape. But when they return, laden with nourishment they slow down for the landing – and that is when the shop vac gets them. Let it run for a full 4–6 hours. It works! And it offers an additional benefit: It keeps them from dying inside your walls and attracting ants who enjoy feasting on the bodies.

@majorrich

Please be sure to update and let us know which option worked for you. Thanks.

It’s still kind of chilly, but there is no activity in the area. Maybe too early to break out the victory cigar. There are also surprisingly few evident casualties outside the nest. Perhaps I smote them down while they slept.

I have met the enemy, tested their mettle and fount them wanting. Today the sun does not shine for them, their women do not mourn them; their children do not wait for them; for I am death, and I have claimed them all.

What got them?

Sevin powder. I was starting to worry, given how they shrugged off two sprays.

Find their nest and commit genocide.

For Yellow Jackets, Gladly. I don’t like having to use Sevin because it is so broad spectrum and a danger to honey bees. But in this case my hand was forced. Thankfully it was a contained area and Sevin has a relatively short half-life. it is, however, a big hammer to be used sparingly.

Sorry, I was late to the question.

Um, I guess I could try some of this but the guys living on my front porch have been pretty good houseguests. They do not attack, they just buzz around their nest and then go off into the wild blue yonder.

I guess I will let them live as long as they do not become aggressive.

they are probably saying the same thing about me

I blast the wasps on my porch with water about once a week. It destroys the nest, which prevents them from multiplying. The water often knocks one or two to the porch floor, and if I’m quick, I can step on them before they fly away.