Yellow Jackets............

mommucked

mommucked

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Rural Apex n.c.
.........are grumpy when you wake them up and apparently have very good night vision :eek: ..................found a nest yesturday afternoon in a natural area in the front yard where I spread out the leaves from the lawn. Could'nt pinpoint the beehole in the leaves to employ the shopfan so I waited till they were tucked in their beds and snuck out there about 11pm w a rake and flashlight, quickly scratched the leaves to bare ground where the nest was, and runned off..................returned 10 "safe" mins. later w some hornet spray and was trying to find the hole and watching a bunch of them slowly crawling on the ground from a percieved "safe" distance and then BAM 3 stung the arm holding the flashlight and chased me back in the house. I returned after 15 more minutes after taking some benydrl and w a longsleeve shirt and a bigger,brighter flashlight I shot a half can of Hotshot in the hole...............and got my other flashlight back :redface:................I see a few more buzzin around there and fixin to haul the fan out ....................
 
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First time i've battled them late at night................In hindsite not such a good idea..................no fun going to bed w some fresh bee stings and I was'nt drinking last night, but thought about fixing that w a healthy nightcap while I rolled around in the bed trying to get comfortable to sleep :lol:
 
There sneaky, I got stung three times before I even saw one. I prob would have had a lot of spray instead of the fan for that one and go in guns a blazin'.
 
1/2 gallon of gas in the hole then use the spray to light the hole with your lighter!!! Then you have little fire works flying out of the hole!!!


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I've been in the same situation. Gone out there at 5am, and raked the leaves/debris in a 5ft circle in big hurry, then run back to the house. Come out the next morning at 5am, and the hole is easily visible. Got to have patience.
 
I got popped by the little SOB's this past weekend too. Needed a little fill dirt for a low spot in my yard so I took my wheel barrow out in the woods and started to dig me up some. Little did I know I decided to dig right where they were. Got me 3 times before I could realize what was going on. Nasty little buggers.
 
They got me about 20 times several summers ago when I stepped on their nest.
 
........On closer inspection yesterday the nest was really in the layers of decomposing leaves from years of spreading them over the area and just a small part of it in the ground, so I destroyed and slung the broken pieces of the hive all over the place with the rake in the dark. In daylight I would have seen the nest pieces and them buzzing all around and left them the hell alone for a long while!. The ones I saw crawling on the ground where the nest was were flightless youngsters not sleepy/lethargic adults as I assumed........................I googled and found this

 
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