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How do you keep them from nesting and working their way into rooftop bathroom vents. I have the little flapper door that closes too but, they seem to figure out how to work it open and get in.
I learned this recently. Two tips: #1 yellow jackets explore the world during the day, but they all come home at night. If you kill the nest during the day, it takes about 1-2 weeks before all the workers die or go away. Until then, they keep coming back and angrily searching for their nest. Wait till sunset, and then do it when they're all home. #2 You don't need a bucket of water. Just pour a couple tablespoons of soap in the hole, and then fill the hole with a garden hose.
Your point about what time of day to do this really seems spot on to me. I mean, even in the video we see _so_ many of the yellow jackets flying around who are coming back, it just seems inadequate what he is doing here.
My mom had an underground yellow jacket nest years ago in one of her flower beds. She called a service to come out and take care of it. They started digging and soon discovered that a shovel wasn’t going to do the trick and they brought in a backhoe, when they were done the nest was bigger than a VW Bug. No joke, it was massive with millions of live yellow jackets they had to deal with. They closed our street down and evacuated us and the surrounding homes for a couple days to neutralize them with some sort of spray. We took pictures but it was way back before digital was a thing and I have no idea what ever became of the photos. I just remember it was massive and scary as hell!!
For ground nests, I just wait until a couple of hours after nightfall and dump about a cup of Sevin dust down the entry hole. Within 24 hours, the entire nest has been eradicated every time. No bee suit, no gasoline, no stings.
Yes but Sevin is an insecticide that kills beneficial insects including pollinators and fireflies. The soapy water with dish soap shown in this video is much more environmentally friendly. I prefer using soapy water at night when all the wasps are in their nest, avoiding the use of harmful insecticides.
I use a diamond bedazzled bucket and pour melted down gold down the hornet's nest. Then I burn $100 bills and make a toxic ash and lay it over top so they don't come back.
Sevin dust no longer uses carbonal in their product, and they say right on their website, it does not kill yellow jackets, or wasps. Used to be great. Likely the government banned the use of carbonal. I also use to use Diazonon ( great) up here in Canada, and it's also now banned.
I hope viewers don't think they ever have to dig up a nest. lol Depending on how soil perks a second bucketful isn't often needed. Some nests are indeed very difficult to approach. I've slid eaves trough, downspout, or PVC sections to near entrances and flooded them from ten or so feet away without getting stung. btw, I'd have saved a lot of money using just soap vs pyrethrins.
I knew about this 20 years ago. Most insects are waterproof, Any detergent will work and it is a surfactant that causes the surface tension of water to no longer work. "surfactant, also called surface-active agent, substance such as a detergent that, when added to a liquid, reduces its surface tension, thereby increasing its spreading and wetting properties" The insects will drown.
I'm surprised it took so little soap to work. When I've done this method I dumped a whole small bottle of Dawn directly into the hole, then hit it with the garden hose with no nozzle. Worked great.
I tried Dawn and a water hose and dug up the hole. It did not work. The nest was in a mole burrow on a hill in thick brush [Salal]. The yellow jackets kept making a new hole higher on the hill. I kept returning ever night at midnight [no bee keeper suit]. I cut down a lot of bushes and dug up a lot of dirt every night, until I reached the nest up on the hill. The mole tunnel was a path from the original hole, to way up the hill where the nest was. That is why water and Dawn did not work on the original hole.
I'm sure a lot of people have seen those guys that poor liquid aluminum into an ant colony nest. Would be cool to see the same technique used for yellow jackets.
It's not very interesting. The molten metal incinerates the paper nest and they just sort of build in a large chamber. So it ends up looking like a small basketball with a small tunnel leading to the surface.
I want a parody of those ads showing a particular brand of dish detergent being used to clean crude oil from ducklings… only the same cheerful attitude about suffocating pest insects instead.
Great idea, except the need for protective gear. As a homeowner, I’ve used peppermint oil, which doesn’t require flooding. However, one time I went out at 4 am to apply the oil and as I approached, three yellow jackets came out and flew at me. I ran and on got into the house, apparently unscathed. However, a few minutes went by and found that one had followed me into the house…because it stung me.
I've down this a few times now. But not with a bucket. I wait until night so most of them are in the nest, pour some dawn down the hole and shove a hose in it let the water run till it over flows. Last time I did it, something came along and dug up the nest. I don't know what kind of animal would sniff it out and feed on the larvae ???
Shawn, you have repeatedly said that this has been the worst year for hornets and yellow jackets you've seen. How many nests on average do you deal with normally?
Soapy Water after dark? What's the fun in that?!? When goin' after a Yellowjacket Nest after dark, the FUN way is to pour a Gallon-or-Two of Gasoline down the hole through a funnel, pour a trail of the pstuph about 5-to-8 feet long and toss a MATCH to set off the ball of FLAME!!! 🔥 LOL!
My late father in law did that in Connecticut ALL the time . He even had like a “ formula “ of his own that included gas , kerosene , and a touch of diesel fuel … 😂😭😆
I would think that it would be a bad idea to feed the soapy larvae to chickens, if you plan on eating eggs from them. If the soap is basic, homemade soap, made from ashes and lard, then that should be fine.
@@FLPhotoCatcherIf I say "soap" then I mean Sodium or Potassium salt of a fatty acid. That said, your average kitchen detergent won't be any significant risk to the birds. Maybe give the snack a rinse with fresh water out of an abundance of caution. You could take a shot glass of Dawn detergent and have no ill-effects beyond loosened BMs.
@@TimeLapseRich it's used to clean birds yes but that doesn't prove its safe for consumption. body wash is safe for us but we dont eat it, at least i hope noone does 😭
Dawn is great for killing insects... we've also had good luck with using it to chase away moles. We put it in in a foam cannon attached to a pressure washer that has a long hose on the output of the foam cannon.... I put the hose in the mole hills and pump a bunch of foam into the tunnels. I'm not 100% certain, but I figure it must irritate their sensitive parts as they won't return until it's rained pretty good for a few days. I've also tried adding cayenne pepper powder or pepper extract to the foam cannon as well, it works even better but it's nowhere near as cheap as plain soap.
This works. I just did it a nest in my yard. Had to use 4, 5 gallon buckets of soapy water. Dug it up and the nest and void was the area of 3 bowling balls. Thank you for this information.
I just poured to pots of boiling water and Dawn soap down a nest yesterday followed by two 5 gallon buckets with about a half a cup of Dawn each lol. Grandpa always told me "If you plan to do a job half way, be prepared to do it twice."
I thought my tinnitus was becoming deafening after I popped my eardrums out watching too much front row NASCAR. Turns out I had an aggressive hornet nest in my walls! Had to peel back the drywall after the buzzing knocked my phone charger out of the socket. Ended up being what started an electrical fire! Don’t peel your walls open to fight wasps! Insurance hates paying out for Wasp Disasters! It doesn’t fall under acts of GOD! -Lenny
My Father in law once took control of a very large Yellow Jacket nest by placing a 3 liter coke bottle into the entrance of their nest . All of the Yellow Jacket’s flew into the bottle and he pulled it out and screwed on the cap and captured the entire colony of Yellow Jackets .!!!
This looks like a good method under some circumstances, but it does have limitations as far as practicality. It assumes you have a supply of water conveniently close. If you have a large yard it either means needing to carry water a distance or running a garden hose, or several of them, to where the nest is.
Yea! "The DAWN of a new day! Without Kellie Jackets!! If you've never been stung by Yellow Jackets, you will not appreciate this video. Our neighbor was stung 37 times by Yellow Jackets and it put her into shock. She was almost dead, when the paramedics arrived. She spent days in the hospital recovering. Had our neighbor not called 911, she would be dead today. 🙏
A few years ago I stumbled onto a yellowjacket nest in the cemetery near a family member's grave. I happened to have a "gopher grenade" (a smoke grenade that's used to kill burrowing rodents) in my car. I waited until nighttime, lit it and pushed it headfirst into the hole, then covered the entrance with a big rock. When I came back the next week I removed the rock. No yellowjackets came out, so I presume the smoke killed them all.
Tried soapy waterseveral times, but not very effective. Then I switched to chainsaw fuel...gas and oil mix...poured a quart down, waited a while and poured another quart. Waited a few minutes and threw a match on the hole. Next day and a year later, no yellow jackets! For the record this was done at night while they were hunkered down. 😮
1 cup of gasoline, 1 scoop of dirt, a flashlight, and something to help you find the nest hole at night. ➡️🕳️ Carefully mark the hole Have the other listed items ready. Wait until after sunset or before sunrise. Find the nest hole using your flashlight Pour the cup of gasoline into the nest hole Cover the hole with the scoop of dirt and pack the dirt inside Done
I bought several medium size totes from Home Depot. Tossed them over the holes and watched. Where they were still escaping, I tossed a bucket of mulch over and ran. All this during the daylight. It’s working like a charm!
I wish I knew this sooner about your tip.That isnt a regular wasp. Brake claener killed them all whe i had a nest near my kids play area. They stung me about 13 times in the legs and cause a massive reactionnand bruising.
At some point these things will evolve and start building homes with emergence exits. I noticed most mammals that live in the ground do NOT install emergency exits either. Stands to reason in a way I mean how could they know WE would come along.
Wowie, talk about serendipity in finding this video, bc I've got a ground nest that is getting bigger by the day with what looks like wasp-bees or whatever, I have been keeping my distance. I just know, I must amuse people when I do my scardie-dance when something buzzing flies bye. I have been wondering what to do and will be buying some Dawn, but will wait for a cooler night, since it is still warm. Thank you, this video was meant to be for me.
Last one I had in my yard I just went out at night with a cup of 5% sevin dust and dumped it in and around the entrance of the hole. Checked it a couple days later and they were all dead. Didn't bother digging it up as there wasn't any point.
Wasps don't make holes in the ground themselves. They "repurpose", if you will, abandoned rodent holes. They do make a nest themselves by chewing cellulosic material, then flying to the nest site, spittting it out, and forming it into a nest inside the burrow. As one commenter pointed out, the ultimate challenge would be a really long burrow complex that slopes uphill. Much harder to fill all of a complex with anything that would kill them everywhere, especially because there's often thick brush hiding all the holes where they enter and exit. For that rare nightmare, I'd go out at dawn and dusk and keep observing, then mark the spots for your attack later. Helps to use binoculars or zoom videocam to see 'em fly in and out.
My grandkids were playing in a part of our yard, we have firewood stacked in between two trees. They ran back and forth up and down the yard then to touch the wood. Not until one of my grandkids went to the right side and picked up a big branch laying in the grass, I noticed him in distress then he screamed and swatted, the bees chased him and my other grandkid, I grabbed them both and ran into the house as the bees stung all of us. So I’m thinking him lifting that branch might be where they were? Ground nest? This just happened a few hours ago and I have not gone back to that area because there was just a huge swarm of them. Just wondering what you think? Thx
I've tried this on ground nesting bees and it didn't work at all. I actually tried it on 2 different nights, with quite a lot of water on 2 different nests. I don't know why bees are so much different, but it doesn't do anything to them.
Last summer I was weed whacking my yard and I disturbed a large under ground nest of these things. It was under one of our storage chests. I got swarmed and stung by over a hundred of them. I’m terrified of these things now
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Kids bubbles from the dollar tree kills bees on contact. I fill up the squirt 🔫 and wipe them out
How do you keep them from nesting and working their way into rooftop bathroom vents. I have the little flapper door that closes too but, they seem to figure out how to work it open and get in.
What about putting a bagging mower on its lowest setting over the hole?
The less of these flying stinger kabobs the better.
I never thought about this, I just use 87 no need for premium here.
Ok at this point Shawn needs to make Wasptrap Wednesday
Great idea!
Lol. Good idea
Great idea!!
Great idea!
Great idea!
I learned this recently. Two tips: #1 yellow jackets explore the world during the day, but they all come home at night. If you kill the nest during the day, it takes about 1-2 weeks before all the workers die or go away. Until then, they keep coming back and angrily searching for their nest. Wait till sunset, and then do it when they're all home. #2 You don't need a bucket of water. Just pour a couple tablespoons of soap in the hole, and then fill the hole with a garden hose.
Your point about what time of day to do this really seems spot on to me. I mean, even in the video we see _so_ many of the yellow jackets flying around who are coming back, it just seems inadequate what he is doing here.
One of the guys doing this on YT explained why he does it inn daylight, it makes it far easier for video recording.
@@danielkaranja7978 😆That sounds very likely true! But if he spent $75 on a good mounted floodlight we'd get a better video.
@@BS-vx8dg Something tells me that kind of thing would absolutely alert the hive to a potential danger.
dish soap and water in a squirt bottle also is effective when the hornets get into the home.
Remember kids, the Geneva conventions don’t apply to wasps 😊
I use boiling water lol
Wait until the UN and the WEF get involved
Phew!
Because ... Yeah... I wasn't kind to them under my front patio last summer ..
If nothing else, you end up with clean yellow jackets. Lol
😂
Yellow jackets blowing bubbles. 🐝
I thought you had to dry clean jackets?
Lower risk of infection if they sting mebbe 😏👍🏼
What do oil-stained ducks and yellowjackets have in common? 😂
The ones that got away will tell stories of a great flood.
😂😅😊
It will be all the buzz!!!!
made me lol
😅😅😅
😂
I don't know what it is but the underground ones are really aggressive. They'll attack you just for looking in their direction.
👀👀😩
Just Dawned on me. Gentle on Baby Ducks. Murderous on Yellow Jackets.
I see what you did there😂😂😂
Gentle for Seals, too.
Just dawned. I see what you did there.
Wasps thought it was raining, then it dawned on them.
I've used pure dish washing soap poured in the hole at night time and plugged the hole up and entombed them , works great !!
Dawn uses cleaning birds as a commercial... maybe they should use this for advertising as well 😅
bleeding hearts would be up their rears about it.
@@jimmythornseed8605 nah
Yes they actually would. Many people care more about animals more than fellow humans and often anthropomorphize non human creatures@@meg4458
My mom had an underground yellow jacket nest years ago in one of her flower beds. She called a service to come out and take care of it. They started digging and soon discovered that a shovel wasn’t going to do the trick and they brought in a backhoe, when they were done the nest was bigger than a VW Bug. No joke, it was massive with millions of live yellow jackets they had to deal with. They closed our street down and evacuated us and the surrounding homes for a couple days to neutralize them with some sort of spray. We took pictures but it was way back before digital was a thing and I have no idea what ever became of the photos. I just remember it was massive and scary as hell!!
Holy crap!
Are you sure you didn’t get confused with the movie E.T.?
right...
The umbrella facility made by wasps.
Sounds made up, love the internet
For ground nests, I just wait until a couple of hours after nightfall and dump about a cup of Sevin dust down the entry hole. Within 24 hours, the entire nest has been eradicated every time. No bee suit, no gasoline, no stings.
I love using molten aluminum. Makes beautiful castings
Yes but Sevin is an insecticide that kills beneficial insects including pollinators and fireflies. The soapy water with dish soap shown in this video is much more environmentally friendly. I prefer using soapy water at night when all the wasps are in their nest, avoiding the use of harmful insecticides.
I use a diamond bedazzled bucket and pour melted down gold down the hornet's nest. Then I burn $100 bills and make a toxic ash and lay it over top so they don't come back.
I like to throw 450 grams of astatine down the hole and have the radiation and heat kill the wasps.
Sevin dust no longer uses carbonal in their product, and they say right
on their website, it does not kill yellow jackets, or wasps. Used to be great.
Likely the government banned the use of carbonal. I also use to use
Diazonon ( great) up here in Canada, and it's also now banned.
I took out an underground yellowjacket nest with a bottle of ammonia.
I hope viewers don't think they ever have to dig up a nest. lol Depending on how soil perks a second bucketful isn't often needed. Some nests are indeed very difficult to approach. I've slid eaves trough, downspout, or PVC sections to near entrances and flooded them from ten or so feet away without getting stung. btw, I'd have saved a lot of money using just soap vs pyrethrins.
I've used this method and found it to be very effective especially when applied after dark when they go dormant. Another great video !!!
I knew about this 20 years ago. Most insects are waterproof, Any detergent will work and it is a surfactant that causes the surface tension of water to no longer work.
"surfactant, also called surface-active agent, substance such as a detergent that, when added to a liquid, reduces its surface tension, thereby increasing its spreading and wetting properties"
The insects will drown.
I'm surprised it took so little soap to work. When I've done this method I dumped a whole small bottle of Dawn directly into the hole, then hit it with the garden hose with no nozzle.
Worked great.
do plants still grow there?
Have you ever used a washing machine?
You heard of the word “overkill”?
@@NeilMalthus would bet he’s gone through several at this point due to soap overuse lmao
I tried Dawn and a water hose and dug up the hole. It did not work. The nest was in a mole burrow on a hill in thick brush [Salal]. The yellow jackets kept making a new hole higher on the hill. I kept returning ever night at midnight [no bee keeper suit]. I cut down a lot of bushes and dug up a lot of dirt every night, until I reached the nest up on the hill. The mole tunnel was a path from the original hole, to way up the hill where the nest was. That is why water and Dawn did not work on the original hole.
That’s a nice alternative to the poisonous spray.
Now all we need is a Lantern Fly video lol!
I'm sure a lot of people have seen those guys that poor liquid aluminum into an ant colony nest. Would be cool to see the same technique used for yellow jackets.
It's not very interesting. The molten metal incinerates the paper nest and they just sort of build in a large chamber. So it ends up looking like a small basketball with a small tunnel leading to the surface.
I want a parody of those ads showing a particular brand of dish detergent being used to clean crude oil from ducklings… only the same cheerful attitude about suffocating pest insects instead.
Great idea, except the need for protective gear. As a homeowner, I’ve used peppermint oil, which doesn’t require flooding. However, one time I went out at 4 am to apply the oil and as I approached, three yellow jackets came out and flew at me. I ran and on got into the house, apparently unscathed. However, a few minutes went by and found that one had followed me into the house…because it stung me.
Hey, Are you saying protective gear is needed or not needed?
I like using boiling water (without soap) for these things, but soapy water seems interesting.
It's much safer and easier to use.
@@Snarkbar Or, hear me out, what if both?
I've been using soapy water for years on yellow jackets, it works great.
While watching this video a fruit fly flew in front of my phone and gave me a little scare, haha.
I've down this a few times now. But not with a bucket. I wait until night so most of them are in the nest, pour some dawn down the hole and shove a hose in it let the water run till it over flows.
Last time I did it, something came along and dug up the nest.
I don't know what kind of animal would sniff it out and feed on the larvae ???
Skunks, Opossums, or Bears.
Skunks
Armadillo
Gorillas
Chimera
Dawn dish soap is good for everything...learn sompin new everyday...
Shawn, you have repeatedly said that this has been the worst year for hornets and yellow jackets you've seen. How many nests on average do you deal with normally?
Maybe climate change has something to do with that?
@@injusticeanywherethreatens4810 pesticides killed the other bugs
@@injusticeanywherethreatens4810mostly the increased regulations on pesticides
Biden administration coaxed them all over the border.
i swear dawn dish soap is magical or something. its used in everything
it makes water more amazing and water is already pretty cool.
after discovering dawn dish soap my marriage was saved. no more long nights of arguing about if we should keep the baby or not, thanks dawn!
@@JeffBilkins but I wouldn't want to drink it...
It's a common brand preferred to remove grease from commercial restaurant kitchen floors
@@007kingifrit😂😂😂😂😂😂
Other people are worried about the rise of the machines
I'm worried about the rise of the yellow jackets
Was going to say that I do this at night when all of the yellerjackets have returned. (But you said it at 2:12 )
Dawn. Everything always comes down to Dawn.
today's sponsor: Dawn dish soap.
also the solution for mosquitos, flies and other pesky bugs.
I never thought of this. I always used 87. A four am fill up works best. I will probably use this method now.
Dawn and Water in the bottom of of 5 gallon bucket with a Dizzy Dunker on top with Peanut Butter. Par Excellence
Soapy Water after dark? What's the fun in that?!? When goin' after a Yellowjacket Nest after dark, the FUN way is to pour a Gallon-or-Two of Gasoline down the hole through a funnel, pour a trail of the pstuph about 5-to-8 feet long and toss a MATCH to set off the ball of FLAME!!! 🔥 LOL!
My late father in law did that in Connecticut ALL the time . He even had like a “ formula “ of his own that included gas , kerosene , and a touch of diesel fuel … 😂😭😆
This video is a life saver. Thank you Shawn. 👍
Does the soapy water treatment prevent the larvae from being fed to the chickens?
I would think that it would be a bad idea to feed the soapy larvae to chickens, if you plan on eating eggs from them. If the soap is basic, homemade soap, made from ashes and lard, then that should be fine.
@@FLPhotoCatcherIf I say "soap" then I mean Sodium or Potassium salt of a fatty acid. That said, your average kitchen detergent won't be any significant risk to the birds. Maybe give the snack a rinse with fresh water out of an abundance of caution. You could take a shot glass of Dawn detergent and have no ill-effects beyond loosened BMs.
Not really. Just that when the chickens fart, they blow bubbles.
Dawn dish soap is used to clean birds after an oil spill.
@@TimeLapseRich it's used to clean birds yes but that doesn't prove its safe for consumption. body wash is safe for us but we dont eat it, at least i hope noone does 😭
2% dish soap in a spray bottle of water is great for misting down your yard waste bin to kill off fruit flies and other insects.
Dawn is great for killing insects... we've also had good luck with using it to chase away moles. We put it in in a foam cannon attached to a pressure washer that has a long hose on the output of the foam cannon.... I put the hose in the mole hills and pump a bunch of foam into the tunnels. I'm not 100% certain, but I figure it must irritate their sensitive parts as they won't return until it's rained pretty good for a few days. I've also tried adding cayenne pepper powder or pepper extract to the foam cannon as well, it works even better but it's nowhere near as cheap as plain soap.
This works. I just did it a nest in my yard. Had to use 4, 5 gallon buckets of soapy water. Dug it up and the nest and void was the area of 3 bowling balls.
Thank you for this information.
I just poured to pots of boiling water and Dawn soap down a nest yesterday followed by two 5 gallon buckets with about a half a cup of Dawn each lol. Grandpa always told me "If you plan to do a job half way, be prepared to do it twice."
Gotta wonder if it would be worth feed a hose down the nest.
I thought my tinnitus was becoming deafening after I popped my eardrums out watching too much front row NASCAR. Turns out I had an aggressive hornet nest in my walls! Had to peel back the drywall after the buzzing knocked my phone charger out of the socket. Ended up being what started an electrical fire! Don’t peel your walls open to fight wasps! Insurance hates paying out for Wasp Disasters! It doesn’t fall under acts of GOD! -Lenny
Sounds like you may have a particularly helpful comment, but your comment could use a slight rewriting job, not quite sure what you mean.
@@ScottyCrawford It was about, tinnitus, NASCAR (?), Hornets or Wasps (?) Walls, fires, and Insurance or something...
You have to use biodegradable soap though or it will take ages until anything grows there again.
My Father in law once took control of a very large Yellow Jacket nest by placing a 3 liter coke bottle into the entrance of their nest .
All of the Yellow Jacket’s flew into the bottle and he pulled it out and screwed on the cap and captured the entire colony of Yellow Jackets .!!!
B S story.
I like the wasp trap Wed idea
This year has definitely been pretty bad for wasps and hornets. I've had to take care of, on average, 5 to 10 a day since mid July.
Why would you take care of them? It's much safer and cheaper to just get rid of them.
@@MarkPloppin Because I'm getting paid to do a job. Boss says kill em, we kill em. That and these services pay well.
@@MiamiZombie2012 oh, I thought you meant that you were going to care for the wasps and nurture them for some reason. My bad
@@MarkPloppin LOL hell no. I blast those bastards into oblivion.
Because of 5G
This looks like a good method under some circumstances, but it does have limitations as far as practicality. It assumes you have a supply of water conveniently close. If you have a large yard it either means needing to carry water a distance or running a garden hose, or several of them, to where the nest is.
Thank you for the tips, had no idea there nest could be underground!
I did the same thing Shawn, but I used boiling water. Insta-death to the entire hive
YJs are unreal in # this year. I pray we get a good frosty winter to help cut back on them next year
Best Commercial for Dawn Dish Detergent
In a pump-up sprayer, it works good for above ground nests, too.
I use ether and then flick matches at it
Safe for ducks, deadly for yellow jackets. Dawn rules
Yea! "The DAWN of a new day! Without Kellie Jackets!! If you've never been stung by Yellow Jackets, you will not appreciate this video. Our neighbor was stung 37 times by Yellow Jackets and it put her into shock. She was almost dead, when the paramedics arrived. She spent days in the hospital recovering. Had our neighbor not called 911, she would be dead today. 🙏
Chris Fix does this with soapy wudder.
Put dawn down your garden hose, insert the hose in the hole, and turn it on.
expanding foam down the entrance work ?
I've found that a bag of quick dry cement works well, too.
A few years ago I stumbled onto a yellowjacket nest in the cemetery near a family member's grave. I happened to have a "gopher grenade" (a smoke grenade that's used to kill burrowing rodents) in my car. I waited until nighttime, lit it and pushed it headfirst into the hole, then covered the entrance with a big rock. When I came back the next week I removed the rock. No yellowjackets came out, so I presume the smoke killed them all.
couple spoons of TSP in water would probably work even better
Tried soapy waterseveral times, but not very effective. Then I switched to chainsaw fuel...gas and oil mix...poured a quart down, waited a while and poured another quart. Waited a few minutes and threw a match on the hole. Next day and a year later, no yellow jackets! For the record this was done at night while they were hunkered down. 😮
1 cup of gasoline, 1 scoop of dirt, a flashlight, and something to help you find the nest hole at night. ➡️🕳️
Carefully mark the hole
Have the other listed items ready.
Wait until after sunset or before sunrise.
Find the nest hole using your flashlight
Pour the cup of gasoline into the nest hole
Cover the hole with the scoop of dirt and pack the dirt inside
Done
Effective, safe, simple. Thank you.
Thank you Shawn , complete eradication. The safe way.. no chemicals.
Dishwashing liquid is most definitely a chemical.
Probably about the only use for the new fresh scented dawn that stuff smells like death.
Dawn dish soap breaks down the waxy exoskeleton of insects which leads to their death.
Yellow Jackets are a force to be reckoned with !
Shawn is the man!
I bought several medium size totes from Home Depot. Tossed them over the holes and watched. Where they were still escaping, I tossed a bucket of mulch over and ran. All this during the daylight. It’s working like a charm!
Dawn really does work for everything! 😂
Wow, he's good! I didn't even see the mousetrap!
I wish I knew this sooner about your tip.That isnt a regular wasp. Brake claener killed them all whe i had a nest near my kids play area. They stung me about 13 times in the legs and cause a massive reactionnand bruising.
I used to get yellow jackets nesting in the ground near my heat pump every summer. Really wish I'd known the soapy water trick back then...
At some point these things will evolve and start building homes with emergence exits. I noticed most mammals that live in the ground do NOT install emergency exits either. Stands to reason in a way I mean how could they know WE would come along.
Wowie, talk about serendipity in finding this video, bc I've got a ground nest that is getting bigger by the day with what looks like wasp-bees or whatever, I have been keeping my distance. I just know, I must amuse people when I do my scardie-dance when something buzzing flies bye. I have been wondering what to do and will be buying some Dawn, but will wait for a cooler night, since it is still warm. Thank you, this video was meant to be for me.
Last one I had in my yard I just went out at night with a cup of 5% sevin dust and dumped it in and around the entrance of the hole. Checked it a couple days later and they were all dead. Didn't bother digging it up as there wasn't any point.
I ordered a Dizzy Dunker from Amazon yesterday. I'm in the UK so it'll take a month for it to arrive.
Where do they put all the dirt they dug out? I dont see anything around the hole like an ant nest.
Wasps don't make holes in the ground themselves. They "repurpose", if you will, abandoned rodent holes. They do make a nest themselves by chewing cellulosic material, then flying to the nest site, spittting it out, and forming it into a nest inside the burrow.
As one commenter pointed out, the ultimate challenge would be a really long burrow complex that slopes uphill. Much harder to fill all of a complex with anything that would kill them everywhere, especially because there's often thick brush hiding all the holes where they enter and exit. For that rare nightmare, I'd go out at dawn and dusk and keep observing, then mark the spots for your attack later. Helps to use binoculars or zoom videocam to see 'em fly in and out.
@@ScottyCrawford what a wonderfully informative comment! Thank you.😄
Thank you. Most people don't have that suit though.
My grandkids were playing in a part of our yard, we have firewood stacked in between two trees. They ran back and forth up and down the yard then to touch the wood. Not until one of my grandkids went to the right side and picked up a big branch laying in the grass, I noticed him in distress then he screamed and swatted, the bees chased him and my other grandkid, I grabbed them both and ran into the house as the bees stung all of us. So I’m thinking him lifting that branch might be where they were? Ground nest? This just happened a few hours ago and I have not gone back to that area because there was just a huge swarm of them. Just wondering what you think? Thx
That hack is really generating some “buzz”.
At least they died clean.
Dawn - cleans birds. Kills bees.
Wow! Great idea. Just won't Dawn Dish Detergent do?.... Thanks!!!
A funnel works well for the initial dousing.
Lmbo 😅 I'll use this next time. Last time was a bucket of gas and a match...foof! ☄
The Great Flood, but man and modern technology have advanced for selective targeting
I've used dishwashing liquid to kill insects since the '70s (before Dawn was even a brand!) but I must say I use quite a bit more of it than he did.
I've tried this on ground nesting bees and it didn't work at all. I actually tried it on 2 different nights, with quite a lot of water on 2 different nests. I don't know why bees are so much different, but it doesn't do anything to them.
Will this work with common soap?
Why not fill the hole with expanding spray insulating foam after night fall?
Proctor & Gamble must be thrilled with your using their dishwashing liquid...lol!
Works on anything small that breathes through small holes in its exoskeleton.
Last summer I was weed whacking my yard and I disturbed a large under ground nest of these things. It was under one of our storage chests. I got swarmed and stung by over a hundred of them. I’m terrified of these things now
Cool. You used detergent. Will actual soap work as well?
Soap water kills most all insects.