Trick for Yellowjackets

mommucked

mommucked

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I've wiped out my 3rd nest w my technique and it's pretty safe and about failproof. I have an old 30" round, all metal, 2 wheeled, rolling shop fan. I set the switch on high, hook up to an extension cord and carefully/quickly position it right beside ( 1' or so ) from the beehole pointing away from the nest. Then as they swarm around the intruder I plug the ext. cord in and in an hour or 2 most or all of the bees are in pieces on the ground or smashed on the inside of the fan. They will get sucked in if they try to get to the nest or when they leave it and some also attack the roaring fan. You can hear the little bastards cracking and popping when the fan sucks them into the spinning blades and you can see some get spit out the front on the ground. The first nest I did this way was large and took 4 or 6 hours but all were gone eventually and I did'nt have to burn my yard or put out poison around my dogs.
 
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It is fun for me!! the first nest I did last year was huge and near the house. I goofed and shot the hole w Hornet spray in the late morning (should have waited till nightime) and evedently alot of the hive was out foraging so a while later a huge swarm of pissed off bees were flying all around it. I quickly drug the fan into the swarm and somehow did'nt get stung. Plugged it in and at once they were sucked up by the dozens. I sat a safe distance away in the shade w a cold delicious and smiled everytime I heard one hit the fan. I've been stung way too much while I surveyed for decades and Yellowjackets were the most common threat.
 
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Sounds like fun. I usually just dump about 1/2 gallon of gas down the hole and stomp it shut.
 
FAWESEOME IDEA! I'd love to have been present and watched that.

We had a fair amount of trouble with yellowjackets at our old house. I've never heard of anyone using a fan to clear the nest. I've typically used a drink bottle full of gas to kill them in the past.
 
I'll have to try that out if I find a nest within dropcord distance of the house. My method is to get about 3 cans of spray and a well sealed vehicle with NON auto down windows. Drive up about 6-8ft from the nest with the A/C and some good tunes on, crack the window, and spray away till they start to be suspicious of the window. Close it, wait/watch about 20 seconds, then repeat. I've done 5 or 6 big nests in this manner with 100% success and no stings. Its also fun to put a front tire on the nest and stir em up first.
 
How do you NOT get stung putting the fan in place? Those little f'ers are viscous! Video with sound would be cool ;)
 
ima a nightime sneak up an pour gas in the hole guy!! never heard of the fan trick but it sounds cool!!

scared to death!!!!!
 
xjtrailrider said:
How do you NOT get stung putting the fan in place? Those little f'ers are viscous! Video with sound would be cool ;)
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It might be lack of fear that keeps me from being stung around yellowjackets and I move deliberately and never run unless i'm being stung. I've been stung by about everything stingy in N.C. including a large European Hornet in the palm of my hand ( I wish I had pics of that) and respect them all but am not afraid to get close to any and will fight them all ( around my house) to their death!! I like to smack carpenter bees w my hand or a 1x4 when they get aggressive or in my face on our back deck. When I was a kid I watched a neighbor walk into a huge swarm of Honeybees around a broken treetop. We had just cut the tree down and my dad was attacked limbing the big tree and retreated. The neighbor picked up a saw went right into the swarm and cut the tree in half and w bees all around him he reached into the hollow and grabbed some honeycomb and brought it to us, a safe distance away. He said that they sense fear and if you're calm they won't attack you.
 
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He said that they sense fear and if you're calm they won't attack you.
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They must also sense anger and hatred. Im not afraid of them, but they really piss me off. I've been stung 1 time by a bumble, 1 time by a wasp, and literally hundreds of times by yellow jackets, usually in batches of 3-5 stings at a time, but on at least 4 occasions 20-30 stings at a time. I get along fine with the other bees.
 
Worst incident for me was at our old house. I got stung 13 times by yellow jackets during a single 'incident' of getting too close to a nest not knowing it was there. That sucked, and I felt short of breath in the hours that followed and had to take a benedryl. That particular hole got about 1 gallon of gas poured down it. That took care of them.
 
I got hit last summer about 20 stings. I was working on my grade around shop with my skid steer and stuck it. Jeepn-Jason's cj had been parked there for months awaiting completion of my shop to get some work done. I hopped in his rig to pull the skid steer out. Apparently corbeau seats make a great nest for yellow jackets. I made it far enough to get hooked to chain and they swarmed out and ate me up.

... called Jason told him his cj had a new security system....

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several years ago,I was metal detecting just across Snow's Cut going into Carolina Beach.Wooded housing developement that was a large Confederate camp and later shelled heavily.Anything ifee sounding needed to be investigated.I got a real light tone in my earphones and took my foot and brushed the pine straw out the way.When I looked back at the coil and my foot...man at the yellow jackets! Didn't know the hive would put off a signal.I hauled ass with the hive chasing me.Didn't drop that machine or shovel tho.I was like the flash going through the bushes.What is sad,one yaller jacket had gotten hung up on the back of my pant's leg.I'd see him out the corner of my eye and swore the whole gang was still after me and kept runnin.Allmost made it back out to 421 before I figured out what was going on.
 
Lol. I got into a nest it in the woods behind my grandmother's house when I was young and one for stuck to my shirt. I thought the hive was after me and I ran about 1/2 Mile before I realized it was just one.

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Lol. I got into a nest it in the woods behind my grandmother's house when I was young and one for stuck to my shirt. I thought the hive was after me and I ran about 1/2 Mile before I realized it was just one.

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Ugh... 20 times? I got stung once on Saturday. Not a big deal then. But Sunday (and even this morning) was no fun.

I went out there last night with the seven dust and a flashlight. A big june bug was attracted by the light, came right for me. I couldn't tell what it was at first, but I'll admit that a little bit of pee leaked out.
 
I don't subscribe to many people on YouTube, but this guy is one of three. One of the reasons is that he makes some pretty impressive tools from wood, including a couple of band saws. Anyways, all of that to say that here is a link to one of his videos where he had a bee problem and decided to vacuum them. Thought it would be interesting to share considering the topic. Link here.
 
a guy I knew took one of those propane wands that people use to melt ice off sidewalks or burn weeds along fence row and laid it next to the hole. Everytime one flew out/in it would burn it. it took a while but it got the whole hive.
 
rodnocker said:
I don't subscribe to many people on YouTube, but this guy is one of three. One of the reasons is that he makes some pretty impressive tools from wood, including a couple of band saws. Anyways, all of that to say that here is a link to one of his videos where he had a bee problem and decided to vacuum them. Thought it would be interesting to share considering the topic. Link here.
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I'd tie that box to a cinder block and throw it in a pond.

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When I was a kid I was helping my grandfather at his cabin and was dragging a tree out of the woods with the 4-wheeler. I hit a hornets next and they attacked me. I couldn't get out of there on the quad because I had a tree chained to it so I bolted for the cabin. They flew up my shirt and were stinging the hell out of me. My grandmother threw me in the shower and turned on the water to get them to stop attacking me. Was 20+ stings. I think I was about 11-12 at the time. Hurt like hell!
 
Glad im not the only one... i was mowing, and just that, wham, they got me.. one on the ankle and another on my thumb. Normally i have to "get rid of them", but this time with all the rain we have goting, them were a little bit to close to down spot. My ankle took almost 3 days, to heal...
 
I had a good friend get stung to death by yellow jackets. We played high school football together back in the day and he was a big ole tough OT. Dead at age 40 just mowing the yard, his wife was in the house. She found him.

I hate those little f'ers and I don't play around with them anymore after that.
 
I'm allergic to bee stings. When we were kids, our dog got out of the house and my older sister went out to get her. Chased her through the woods and when she jumped over the creek, she landed in a yellow jacket's nest. She ran home and mom stripped her cloths to get the bees out. They counted over 25 stings. Mom and doctor both said if it had been me, I would have probably been dead.
 
When I was 7 or 8 yrs old I was playing w friends in the backyard, I was chasing a girl ( go figure ) and a yellowjacket flew in my mouth and stung my uvulva :eek:, I ran in the house and it began to swell and would choke me if I did'nt hold my chin down. Mom took me to the doc who asked what kind of bee stung me and did we bring the bee w us and I pointed at my tummy and said " it's in here ". I think I got a shot but the sore throat and swelling lasted for a few days, upside was I got to eat alot of icecream, doctors orders!!:D
 
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