Posted on 08/22/2006 8:21:29 AM PDT by Marius3188
That poor old car!
I inadvertantly stepped on the entrance of an in-ground nest one time when I was a kid and paid dearly. Over 40 bites and or stings. Had I been allergic to them, it would have been curtains for me. Yellow jackets are mean little buggers.
>>>"What we think is going on here is they're not dying off," said Dan Suiter, associate professor of entomology at the University of Georgia's College of Agriculture campus in Griffin. >>>
They said the same thing in the Spalding Co paper. Even though there is a drought (not much water to breed into), there are massive amounts of misquitos down here this year. We haven't had a hard winter in a LONG time.
What amazed me, in doing a search online, was the number of websites that talk about getting rid of them without harming them. Whatta bunch of nutjobs.
I like bees. They serve a purpose in this world.
If yellow jackets serve a purpose in this world, it's lost on me.
Kill them all, I say.
Forget the bug sprayers. Send Ellen Ripley.
Them and fire ants.
Never tried it though.....
You take a large glass mixing bowl and turn it upside down over the entrance during the night. Yellow jackets are not very smart (thank goodness), so they get very confused by the fact that they can get out of the hole in the morning, can see daylight, but can only go a few inches before they run into a barrier.
Because they see daylight, they don't know to dig a new entrance, so they just all starve to death and good riddance.
The yellow jacket traps with the transparent tops work on the same principle, but don't destroy the nest. We sometimes catch so many in the traps we have to empty the little corpses out daily. Good riddance again.
Ugh! That old lie of, "If you leave them alone, they won't bother you," is just that: A LIE!
Someone said to me once, "That's not a wasp, it's just a bee." I promptly told him exactly how much I gave a flying filth-flarn what the heck it was, it was dead meat.
Manbeepig?
Whew, that looks like a set from the original body snatchers film. But on the upside you don't have to worry about lose change falling out of your pockets while driving, tho.
I'm with you. Kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out . . . if He wants to bother.
I was stung by a small hive about the size of a license plate. I ran past it about 4 feet away, and somehow upset them and they attacked.
Must've been more than a few dozen stings on my back, more on my arms, and a few around my neck and upper chest.
Fortunately I'm neither allergic or sensitive to wasp or bee stings, and after a couple hours I was fine. But wasps, especially yellow jackets, and bees give me the willies. It hurt like crazy right after it happened.
My father ran over a yellowjacket nest with a bushhog once. It's the only time I ever saw that man run (and he left the tractor running, for obvious reasons). He got lucky to only take about 10-15 stings while ran the 150 yards back to the house.
And, my older brother had a somewhat interesting method for dealing with a nest one time (yellowjackets or some sort of ground-dwelling bee, I forget which) in the family garden. He went out at dusk, poured a bunch of gasoline down the hole...then stood back a little ways and started shooting .223 tracer rounds at the hole until the gas fumes exploded. It blew a chunk the size of a dinner plate out of the ground, and took care of the nest quite effectively.
I wonder if that poor woman is going to be able to live in that trailer with the sheer amount of insecticide they had to use to kill off that nest.
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OH! Okay.
I assumed it involved something fun, like chemicals or explosives.
Try "Demon WP".Kills,roaches,mosquitos,ticks,fleas,black widows,brown recluse(all spiders),fire ants,wasps,yellow jackets,bees,termites,and damn near any other insect that flys,walks,or crawls.It's not called Demon for nothin'.
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