This was posted on ifish… thought it would be worthwhile to share.

[video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ6k_px1Hu0[/video]

I like the quote...." they're like liberals."

That was a labor of love. The most labor intensive yellow jacket killer I've ever seen.

Shop vac, a little duct tape, and 10-20 feet of pvc pipe. Set up by offending nest or hole. Turn on, let it run for 20 minutes or until you no longer see any flyers. Set off a flea bomb/fogger in the inlet of the shop vac while running. Profit!

Work smarter, not harder. My set up took about 3 minutes to build and position.

I'm a nite time exterminator........soak it all at night......never had any living the next morning......fumes do their thing.

Yeah, but I like to see the fruits of my labor AND not get stung. There is just something about the sound of yellowjackets bouncing down the shop vac hose that make me feel all warm and fuzzy.

I really liked the weed burner / blow torch method as seen on Alaska Last Frontier. That looked to be a most satisfying thing to do.

Curious as to how Doc found this video. How does one safely search for "electronic hotdog?

Gotta go with Dogfish on this one. Watched a buddy do the shop-vac thing to a massive next of yeller-jackets living in the siding of his house. As Dogfish said, it was rather entertaining listening to them get sucked in the shop-vac at a furious pace....until they were all gone.

Unfortunately, he must have missed the part about dropping a bug-bomb down the hose, as a whole bunch of pissed off yellow jackets escaped the shop-vac when he opened it up days later.

Most were dead though and he never did get stung.

I had one this summer in the ground and dumped a couple of handfuls of Diatomaceous earth in the hole and with a day they were all dead...never to return.

With the chickens I avoid poison.

Firecrackers don't work so well either...

Neither does flooding them out with a garden hose . . . .learned that one at age 7. . . . .

Gasoline or Diesel works well.


With gas they come out like little Roman candles.

Get a small fire going at the base, and a garden sprayer filled with diesel or stove oil. Spray, POOF! Profit!

Singed wings and a quick death.

We did use an old refillable WD40 can filled with gas, but then someone lost an eyebrow, had to get a crew cut, and that was outlawed.

Bought a small farm and was getting it cleaned up. Discovered a yellow jacket nest next to the well head. Could not use chemo and tend towards organic anyhow. Old timer told me once that You should at night dump a bucket full of water with dish soap down the hole and put the bucket over it . Come back in the AM and they will all have soap soaked wings be unable to fly and you could just stomp them or burn them. So I did just as he said. Only problem was I forgot about it until 2 pm the next day when I saw the bucket as I walked by. It was August and close to 100 degrees out. I had my two labs who worked the farm with me. We walk over and I kick the bucket over and the jackets exploded in a cloud. I ran left and the dogs went right. I got hit on the back of my arm and that was it. I stopped running when I heard the dogs yelping, they were running fast and trying to tuck their butts under themselves so far it looked like their asses were going to pass their heads. The jackets had stung my chocolate so bad his head and face swelled up the size of a five gallon bucket. Until the day he died he would shy at any insect flying near his head. We kill 50 or more nest a year on the various barns , it's my sons job and he has become quite creative but the bald face hornets are still a challenge.

Bald-faced hornets make yellow-jackets look like fruit flies. Normally, bfh's have big paper nests that you can capture at night and burn in a bonfire.

I used to make quite a bit of scratch off my neighbors when I was a kid as a hornet and wasp exterminator. And normally I had to do it without the assist of a shop vac.

Ah yes. BFH's. Mean, aggressive and hurt like a mofo when they chew through your shirt and draw blood.

Was on the John Deere mowing the lawn around our huge filbert/hazel nut tree when next thing I know a BFH has bitten a hole through my shirt on my shoulder and drew blood! I look up to see I'm underneath a massive basketball sized nest they hade made in the tree. After putting that tractor in to overdrive and escaping, my life at that moment was dedicated to destroying this nest and all the occupants living inside and out of it.

First plan of attack was to fill up a squirt bottle with gasoline and spray the nest and anything flying. Worked great for a while, but between a now extremely pissed off bunch of wasps and heavy gas fumes from a gas-soaked nest, I had to retreat.

Next plan was what I thought to be nothing short of pure genius. I grabbed my recurve bow and wrapped some of my shirt around an arrow. I soaked the cloth in gas, lit that sucker up, and launched the flaming arrive at the nest.

It really didn't matter if I had hit the nest or not, as when that flaming arrow got within feet of the gas fumes clinging around the nest, the whole area exploded in the greatest fireball I've ever seen! The nest was instantly ablaze much like the Hindenburg on its ill-fated last journey!

WOOOOOSH!!!!

Only problem was that half of the tree went up in flames as well.... which promptly freaked out the neighbor, which brought the fire department to my house to put out the InfernoTree. The yard smelled like gas char-roasted hazel nuts for months!

Got in to a little bit of trouble for that stunt.....but was WELL worth it as not a single wasp lived to tell the tale!