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The insect, not the show.
There I was, innocently raking my forest…
They’ve been bad this year but should almost be done for the year.
First thing I knew, I was being stung in the back of my head. They got me three to four times, and chased me for a way.
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Glad you are okay. I experienced an allergic reaction to one once. I have declared war on them since then.
My personal favorite was dealing with the nest inside an old basketball hoop stand. Steel pipe. I sprayed butane into the bottom of the pipe, and touched off a nice bit of mortar fire... WHOOMP ! flaming yellowjacket nest 20 feet up in the air.
The survivors tried to launch a counter attack, but I touched off a few more launches and they stopped.
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Son came over earlier this week and said "You should take care of that wasp's nest on the garage eave". What?
Got some hornet/wasp spray, sprayed it, and close to 100 wasps dropped to the ground... Sprayed it the next day and probably another 25.
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There I was, innocently raking my forest…
That got a laugh. Thanks. Sorry about the stings.
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They really are the a$sholes of the insect world. Glad you're OK.
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If you want to get rid of them, here's the technique:
Find the hole during the day (for the nest which is mostly likely in the ground) by observing where they fly into and out of.
Once located, go out after dark with a flashlight and a can of wasp spray.
Spray the whole can into the hole.
Done.
That will kill the whole nest.
This works because they all (or 98% of them) return to the nest before dark and will not leave the nest after dark.
The few stragglers may return to the nest the next day, but shouldn't be a problem and if they go into the nest then they, too, will die.
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I had a big underground nest out back last year.
My neighbor HATES them and volunteered to do the spray after dark thing for me.
I took him up on his offer.
The first spray got most of them, but he had to spray once more to get them all.
There were hundreds of them. Little bastidges.
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I was lucky that it was a small nest.
If it was bigger, I probably would have spotted it before I disturbed it.
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“ Where do you put the leaves so they don’t catch on fire? “
Branches, needles, old slash and deadfall. It gets burned.
No good burning opportunities in the last couple of years.
