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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsHappiness is finding a yellow jacket nest just inches from your front door...
And wiping that motherfucker out single-handedly with nary a problem.
Victory is mine!
Denninmi
(6,581 posts)Bug killer, drowning, fire, honey and a skunk?
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)I knocked down the nest with a stick and came back and hit it with a bucket of soapy water. I took out the stragglers with a broom. After that I crushed the nest.
I was stung by yellow jackets as a child, so I was very careful to not be around when the nest hit the ground.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)my sorrow doesn't extend to executing yellow jackets and wasps.
I, too, was stung as a child by yellow jackets (once it was whole nest of them and I was covered in stings).
Another particularly vile pest we have in my area are white-faced bees, who make their nests in the ground.
They are, if possible, even more nasty than yellow jackets and wasps.
I co-exist peacefully with honeybees and bumblebees, though.
Kennah
(14,349 posts)Denninmi
(6,581 posts)More my kind of weather.
I want to try the "honey and a skunk" method if I find any of the underground yellow jacket nests this year.
You pour about a cup of honey down the hole and around it at dusk. In the night, wandering animals such as raccoons, skunks, or opossums find it, and will tear apart the nest and eat the wasps. A lot of people say it works.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)I doubt if honey and skunkin' it would have done me any good.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)cliffordu
(30,994 posts)It's the only way to be sure.
(Ripley, "Aliens"
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Riftaxe
(2,693 posts)and after a few hammer strokes finding out there is a wasp nest hidden under the eaves that does not care for hammering....
haven't run that fast since high school track
Archae
(46,363 posts)With a home-made flamethrower, made out of a can of hairspray and a lighter.
You got it, they burn down the house.
(Didn't the Mythbusters make one of those?)
petronius
(26,607 posts)draft for the Conan "What is best in life?" scene. It had to be changed because Arnie couldn't pronounce "nary"...