"TimR" wrote in message
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On Sep 21, 1:26 pm, "
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LouB wrote:
TimR wrote:
On Sep 15, 3:35 pm, JIMMIE wrote:
On Sep 15, 3:26 pm, mike wrote:

Before you spray flammable and volatile liquids on a building
(eyeroll), maybe you should simply wait. Many wasp-killing products
take a little time to work.
My first choice on wasp, bees, hornets etc... is always Sevin dust. I
can dust it directly on them with out disturbing them. You don't have
to get it on them, just get where they set down and can come in
contact with the dust. A few will carry enough dust into the hive to
kill it.

Jimmie

That's what I use too. The dust is good stuff.

For the ones you can see, I use soapy water. Ordinary dish soap mixed
1:15 with water from a spray bottle knocks them down and drowns them
faster than anything I've found, and they don't go into a buzzing
stinging frenzy as they die. It's safe around kids, pets, and food.
(I'd be careful around electrical of course.)

Interesting tips

Thanks

Our Florida lawn had a nasty infestation of some kind of bug, so we
checked out U of Fla website for tips. Symptoms were of mole crickets,
which has to be one of the ugliest insects around. To be sure, before
treating the lawn, they rec. dousing a couple of square feet with a
solution of water and dish detergent; if mole crickets present, they
would start to drown and come to the surface. Well, it had the same
effect on quite a few critters, including earth worms. Change in
surface tension? of the water bypasses the bugs' normal defense and
drowns them. Interesting experiment for the buggy )- Hide quoted text -

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I've had several yellowjacket nests in my yard. I don't know the
latin species name, sorry. I call them yellowjackets; they are
aggressive colony wasps that live in holes in the ground. I usually
find them while mowing, to my sorrow.

I fill a 5 gallon pail with water and some laundry detergent, wait
until after dark, and pour it into the nest. It's almost always
killed the whole nest the first time, maybe once or twice I've had to
repeat it.

I've been lucky in that I've never found a yellow jacket nest. We get a lot
of paper wasps, but those build those hanging umbrella nests. Paper wasps
are gentle, so I only remove them if they are near heavily trafficked areas.
I found a bald face hornet nest in a tree above my swimming pool (my
daughter found it - luckily it was small and she only got stung once), so I
had to resort to the spray. Bald face hornets are aggressive *******s if you
go near their nest.

Where do you live? I shudder at the thought of running my mower over a
yellow jacket nest.