Yellow jacket nest in the woodpile. What to do?

[demlion]

I cut, split and stack my own firewood. I use a European type of stack called the Holz hausen, known here as the beehive stack, to season my wood.

I have a seemingly pretty big yellow jacket nest in, or under, one of my woodpiles. They come boiling out down near the bottom, but the nest or ground nest could be up to 5 feet away under close to a ton of wood. First I tried the Hot Shot foam--looks like shaving cream, shoots 20 feet, blah blah blah.

No go because I was probably not getting it to the nest. I tried putting my pushmower where the exhaust went right in the gap between the firewood pieces where they were coming in and out. Hit them with forty minutes of carbon monoxide, and it sure seemed like they were gone for a couple days, but they came back.

Got online and read about a bunch of home remedies. All of them seemed to require you do something at the entrance to the nest, which I cannot see. One of the remedies was to take Sevin garden insect killer dust and sprinkle it near the entrance where they can get it on them, because they will take it back to the next and kill everybody in there. But I still don't know where the entrance is.

This morning it appears I got it just right. I took about a half pound of Sevin powder and sprinkled it in the gaps between the wood pieces where they come out, then fired up the LEAF BLOWER and let it whistle that dust right in there. It worked well enough that some dust was coming out the back side of the stack about 7 feet away.

Just received a report that there is no yellow jacket activity now. I'll watch it a couple days, then weed whack around the stack. That will tell the tale!

 

[Woodpecker]

Could you get some mothballs in there? They last awhile and may keep them from coming back.

Of course, you might not want to do that to the moths

 

[LionJim]

I cut, split and stack my own firewood. I use a European type of stack called the Holz hausen, known here as the beehive stack, to season my wood.

I have a seemingly pretty big yellow jacket nest in, or under, one of my woodpiles. They come boiling out down near the bottom, but the nest or ground nest could be up to 5 feet away under close to a ton of wood. First I tried the Hot Shot foam--looks like shaving cream, shoots 20 feet, blah blah blah.

No go because I was probably not getting it to the nest. I tried putting my pushmower where the exhaust went right in the gap between the firewood pieces where they were coming in and out. Hit them with forty minutes of carbon monoxide, and it sure seemed like they were gone for a couple days, but they came back.

Got online and read about a bunch of home remedies. All of them seemed to require you do something at the entrance to the nest, which I cannot see. One of the remedies was to take Sevin garden insect killer dust and sprinkle it near the entrance where they can get it on them, because they will take it back to the next and kill everybody in there. But I still don't know where the entrance is.

This morning it appears I got it just right. I took about a half pound of Sevin powder and sprinkled it in the gaps between the wood pieces where they come out, then fired up the LEAF BLOWER and let it whistle that dust right in there. It worked well enough that some dust was coming out the back side of the stack about 7 feet away.

Just received a report that there is no yellow jacket activity now. I'll watch it a couple days, then weed whack around the stack. That will tell the tale!

You really should get your own radio show, Larry. On second thought, man, just please keep posting these classics here.

 

[BlueLion]

 

[sluggo72]

I'd ask her to get them out for you.

 

[Woodpecker]

I'd ask her to get them out for you.

After:

 

[LionJim]

We've got your back, man. Just say the word.

 

[demlion]

I'd ask her to get them out for you.

I would be happy to have her help me. I'm sure she could be very helpful.
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[demlion]

You really should get your own radio show, Larry. On second thought, man, just please keep posting these classics here.

We begin and end with the simple truth: we are smarter than them. It's sort of like playing Pitt, in a way.

They have a few basic responses, some of which are painful, but that is the extent of their bag of tricks. Once those are avoided or tolerated, we kill them.

 

[LionJim]

We begin and end with the simple truth: we are smarter than them. It's sort of like playing Pitt, in a way.

They have a few basic responses, some of which are painful, but that is the extent of their bag of tricks. Once those are avoided or tolerated, we kill them.

Profound and wise words, indeed. Many thanks.

 

[demlion]

We did once attack a big paper wasp nest with 2 cans of WD 40 and two Bernz-o-Matic torches. We aimed one at the en-trance and one at the middle of the nest, and burned those sonsabitches UP! It was in the middle of a forsythia hedge.

 

[lionNYC]

and I thought you were talking about Pitt playing the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets in their next game........

 

[bwifan]

Nicely done... as I was reading I was waiting for the " I put a whole bunch of gas on it and threw a lit match at it and had the worlds largest bon fire..."

 

[PearlSUJam]

I took about a half pound of Sevin powder and sprinkled it in the gaps between the wood pieces where they come out, then fired up the LEAF BLOWER and let it whistle that dust right in there.

You might not want to cook hot dogs over that open flame or get downwind at any point. Kidding/not kidding.

 

[razpsu]

If you were carl sparkler you would put about 15 thousand gallons of water down the hole to teach them a lesson.

 

[demlion]

You might not want to cook hot dogs over that open flame or get downwind at any point. Kidding not kidding.

I use propane to cook my 'dogs. Whattya think, I'm a savage or something?

There was just enough of a breeze to waft the poison cloud over toward my neighbors' house. What he doesn't know won't kill him. Well, actually it might kill him, but he still won't know.

 

[demlion]

If you were carl sparkler you would put about 15 thousand gallons of water down the hole to teach them a lesson.

If I could find the nest, I'd have done that already.

 

[PearlSUJam]

I use propane to cook my 'dogs. Whattya think, I'm a savage or something?

There was just enough of a breeze to waft the poison cloud over toward my neighbors' house. What he doesn't know won't kill him. Well, actually it might kill him, but he still won't know.

If it didn't do the job today, the poison cloud when you burn it might finish him off altogether.

 

[john4psu]

Shop vac

Put it near the hive entrance, turn it on and leave it on through the evening hours when they return to the hive. It sounds crazy but I can tell you it works.

I have done this method x2 for bees and wasps. They were behind a wood opening near a gutter. Spraying didn't work as the nest was tucked at an angle not visible to the opening.

I put Apecide powder but that takes a while for them to spread it. I got two shop vacs, propped them up with long hose extenders near the opening. At dusk turned both on feeling sorry for my neighbors. The bees and wasps slow down to go into the opening. All you hear is plop, plop, plop, plop, as they get sucked into the shop vac hoses by the hundreds. Spray into the shop vac. Did that for a few nights. Spray and apecide into the hole, seal, done.

 

[PSU95alum]

BONFIRE!!!!

 

[psuro]

It's wood. It burns.

See where I am going with this?

 

[PeetzPoolBoy]

Just have to ask.... what did you wear to protect yourself during application, especially when you fired up the leaf blower? A dust mask capable of filtering out small toxic particles?
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[BlueBand]

Run!

 

[pandaczar12]

You should have told the local football coach.

 

[bac75]

You should have told the local football coach.

 

[bac75]

Sevin dust with a metal duster works great on yellow jackets. Just spray where you see them entering.

 

[Jerademan74]

I cut, split and stack my own firewood. I use a European type of stack called the Holz hausen, known here as the beehive stack, to season my wood.

I have a seemingly pretty big yellow jacket nest in, or under, one of my woodpiles. They come boiling out down near the bottom, but the nest or ground nest could be up to 5 feet away under close to a ton of wood. First I tried the Hot Shot foam--looks like shaving cream, shoots 20 feet, blah blah blah.

No go because I was probably not getting it to the nest. I tried putting my pushmower where the exhaust went right in the gap between the firewood pieces where they were coming in and out. Hit them with forty minutes of carbon monoxide, and it sure seemed like they were gone for a couple days, but they came back.

Got online and read about a bunch of home remedies. All of them seemed to require you do something at the entrance to the nest, which I cannot see. One of the remedies was to take Sevin garden insect killer dust and sprinkle it near the entrance where they can get it on them, because they will take it back to the next and kill everybody in there. But I still don't know where the entrance is.

This morning it appears I got it just right. I took about a half pound of Sevin powder and sprinkled it in the gaps between the wood pieces where they come out, then fired up the LEAF BLOWER and let it whistle that dust right in there. It worked well enough that some dust was coming out the back side of the stack about 7 feet away.

Just received a report that there is no yellow jacket activity now. I'll watch it a couple days, then weed whack around the stack. That will tell the tale!

Well, the best way to move Yellow Jackets is to take your honey to Georgia Tech in Atlanta!

 

[demlion]

Just have to ask.... what did you wear to protect yourself during application, especially when you fired up the leaf blower? A dust mask capable of filtering out small toxic particles?
-----
Human exposure to Sevin be it from direct skin contact, inhalation or ingestion, leads to nausea, impaired cognitive development and tremors. Higher incidences of Parkinson’s disease have been reported by the Harvard School of Public health and the Mayo Clinic. The compounds that make up Sevin are mutagens causing fetal abnormalities during pregnancy, reproductive dysfunctions in males and females, kidney and liver damage and behavioral problems in humans.

Continuous inhalation of Sevin Dust can cause pneumoconiosis, more commonly referred to as “Black Lung Disease,” which is routinely found in coal miners. Pneumoconiosis causes hardening of the air sacs in the lungs caused from inflammation. Complications of pneumoconiosis include: heart failure, lung cancer, respiratory failure.

Same mask I wear for spray painting. One exposure for 5 mins ain't gonna do shit.

 

[The Spin Meister]

impaired cognitive development

He starts rooting for Pitt, we know the cause.

 

[LafayetteBear]

 

[RandyL]

If you used a beehive stack, what are ya complaining about?

 

[83wuzme]

If the wood is coated with all of that stuff you used to kill the nest, I hope you have an outside furnace.

 

[demlion]

If the wood is coated with all of that stuff you used to kill the nest, I hope you have an outside furnace.

The wood will sit in the rain and snow and wind, uncovered, for at least another year.

We all have real things to be scared of. Let's not make up stuff.

 

[hereforthebeer]

That is real stuff. Spouse of a neuro researcher here.

Anyway, stop all the nonsense and just deal with it when it's cold and they're dormant. What is this, redneck amateur hour? We're you not born in a barn?

 

[scueng77]

I cut, split and stack my own firewood. I use a European type of stack called the Holz hausen, known here as the beehive stack, to season my wood.

I have a seemingly pretty big yellow jacket nest in, or under, one of my woodpiles. They come boiling out down near the bottom, but the nest or ground nest could be up to 5 feet away under close to a ton of wood. First I tried the Hot Shot foam--looks like shaving cream, shoots 20 feet, blah blah blah.

No go because I was probably not getting it to the nest. I tried putting my pushmower where the exhaust went right in the gap between the firewood pieces where they were coming in and out. Hit them with forty minutes of carbon monoxide, and it sure seemed like they were gone for a couple days, but they came back.

Got online and read about a bunch of home remedies. All of them seemed to require you do something at the entrance to the nest, which I cannot see. One of the remedies was to take Sevin garden insect killer dust and sprinkle it near the entrance where they can get it on them, because they will take it back to the next and kill everybody in there. But I still don't know where the entrance is.

This morning it appears I got it just right. I took about a half pound of Sevin powder and sprinkled it in the gaps between the wood pieces where they come out, then fired up the LEAF BLOWER and let it whistle that dust right in there. It worked well enough that some dust was coming out the back side of the stack about 7 feet away.

Just received a report that there is no yellow jacket activity now. I'll watch it a couple days, then weed whack around the stack. That will tell the tale!

Is this a Pitt joke?

 

[tboyer]

Shop vac

Put it near the hive entrance, turn it on and leave it on through the evening hours when they return to the hive. It sounds crazy but I can tell you it works.

Also works on neighbors I bet.

 

[demlion]

That is real stuff. Spouse of a neuro researcher here.

Anyway, stop all the nonsense and just deal with it when it's cold and they're dormant. What is this, redneck amateur hour? We're you not born in a barn?

Ask your spouse what I should tell people who visit my house, and there will be some soon, when these jackets sting them and they suffer anaphylactic shock. Should I tell them to hold their convulsions.seizures and death till the weather is colder?

 

[hereforthebeer]

Ask your spouse what I should tell people who visit my house, and there will be some soon, when these jackets sting them and they suffer anaphylactic shock. Should I tell them to hold their convulsions.seizures and death till the weather is colder?

You're right. I'll be more reasonable. Call for a Seven drop via helicopter on the entire earth since bees live there. This is obviously the only option you're left with.

 

[denniskembala]

I cut, split and stack my own firewood. I use a European type of stack called the Holz hausen, known here as the beehive stack, to season my wood.

I have a seemingly pretty big yellow jacket nest in, or under, one of my woodpiles. They come boiling out down near the bottom, but the nest or ground nest could be up to 5 feet away under close to a ton of wood. First I tried the Hot Shot foam--looks like shaving cream, shoots 20 feet, blah blah blah.

No go because I was probably not getting it to the nest. I tried putting my pushmower where the exhaust went right in the gap between the firewood pieces where they were coming in and out. Hit them with forty minutes of carbon monoxide, and it sure seemed like they were gone for a couple days, but they came back.

Got online and read about a bunch of home remedies. All of them seemed to require you do something at the entrance to the nest, which I cannot see. One of the remedies was to take Sevin garden insect killer dust and sprinkle it near the entrance where they can get it on them, because they will take it back to the next and kill everybody in there. But I still don't know where the entrance is.

This morning it appears I got it just right. I took about a half pound of Sevin powder and sprinkled it in the gaps between the wood pieces where they come out, then fired up the LEAF BLOWER and let it whistle that dust right in there. It worked well enough that some dust was coming out the back side of the stack about 7 feet away.

Just received a report that there is no yellow jacket activity now. I'll watch it a couple days, then weed whack around the stack. That will tell the tale!

Google Hansi the farting Parole Officer for your solution.

 

[Howie'81]

If you were carl sparkler you would put about 15 thousand gallons of water down the hole to teach them a lesson.

Or a lot of C4.