Posted on 08/22/2006 8:21:29 AM PDT by Marius3188
i run a line of sevin dust around the foundation of my house every year, never have a problem with crawling indoor pests. used it around the entrance of the yellow jacket nest i found too. that suff works awesome.
now if i could just get rid of the dang bats i'd be all set.
I'd swear by it. I use it on about 1 acre. I leave the rest of the property alone, if you go outside the perimeter I create you can tell the difference. If you swamp a yellow jacket nest with it, they are toast. I also spray the sides of my house and barn and the eves on both. Keeps the wasps from nesting and kills any that have already nested. They like to swarm under my apple and peach trees too this time of year. After spraying under them, all gone. Oh yeah, and it gets rid of mosquitoes. I have bug zappers that pretty much stay empty as long as I keep this stuff on the yard. Lasts about 3-4 weeks for mosquitoes. Yellow jackets gone for good, unless a new brood comes in and I have not sprayed in a while.
Has one of them ever stung you? I've heard they're not very aggressive toward people, but I bet a sting would hurt like hell.
Cool pic! Looks like it's ready to drop some major kung-fu on some poor sucka's ass...
When my son was an itty bitty, about three, he was "helping" me wash the car. I turned around, and he had stepped off the driveway and down a little slope and was just standing there, watching - but with a little cloud of yellow jackets circling in and out of a hole about six inches from his left foot.
I don't even remember starting to move -- I was just suddenly at full gallop down the hill, yelling "Don't move! Yellow jackets!" (like he knew what they were), snatched him up under my arm and just kept running. Neither of us got stung fortunately. He started crying because he was scared of my yelling and didn't know what it was all about. I THINK I successfully explained it to him at the time -- he says he doesn't remember anything about that little adventure.
Thank you for the information!!!! I would hope these giant nest are the exception than the rule....
I perfectly understand why she stayed in doors.
I use sevin dust on my tobacco plants and I have a question. I'm tired of blowing $200 bucks a year to have some guy spray my house seasonally. I'm going to start using sevin on the foundation, but what would you suggest for the indoor areas? I have kids and pets, too.
I get the occasional beetle and spider creeping around on my carpets and my cats are too dumb to eat the things; they just play with them until they get under a couch and wonder, "Where'd it go?!"
I just LOOOVE mantids. I have secret spots where they congregate that I can't wait to introduce my Sons to next year. They're like alien cats.
My mother was cutting weeds in the yard at dusk (after they were all in for the night so they werent seen coming and going) and hit the entry hole with the scythe. They barrelled out of that hole and got into her sweater and she couldnt get away from them!
A miserable night for her, and by empathy, us.
Oh MAN! I can see me running like a maniac with my three-year-old Son screaming. 'Course, knowing him, he'd be giggling all the way.
Along with my Wife.
My Five-year-old Son.
The neighbors.
The cats.
etc...
Man, either this thread is infiltrated with liberals pretending to be conservatives and trying to make us all look like stark raving nuts.
Or this thread has a few people who haven't figured out that bees, yellowjackets included, aren't hellion monsters, but creatures whose only method of defending themselves is a stinger.
If someone started mashing your house in you wouldn't just sit there smiling sweetly either. You'd likely go after them.
I have no problem with killing creatures that are a threat to human life, which these yellowjackets obviously are.
What I find repulsive is the putrid way some want these creatures to suffer during the killing. Wierd.
I'm conservative, but I believe in respecting living things. I would find ways to get rid of yellowjackets as humanly as possible while taking care of my own safety.
Covered it already. Don't want wbill jr. getting into it, for the same reasons. :-)
Wait until you step on a nest and get stung a couple of dozen times. The things chased me around my house, twice.
I don't get rid of them. Wifie's rose bushes do better when there are yellow jackets or other wasps around. (Or a praying mantis or two).
Wasps are beneficial insects. The only reason to kill them is when they're a danger, as they certainly were to this lady if she had disturbed this huge nest.
But a little nest up on the rafters of the house or the overhang on the back deck? Not on your life!
Believe it or not, yellow jackets are beneficial insects. They eat pest bugs, which is why they usually hang around places where pest insects gather (trash cans, etc). The problem (of course) is that they are very agressive, and smashing one releases a scent that causes others to attack.
USA Girl --
Despite your concern, I love to find creative ways to KILL yellow jackets. They are aggressive, unwelcome co-inhabitants of the biome.
Personally, I prefer fire, poison and suffocation.
I put them in the same class as roaches in terms of value.
and BTW, they don't have the cranial capacity to understand a human emotion like 'suffering.'
We had a nest outside the back door with a four-inch entrance and lived peacefully with them all summer. Their flights looked like a very busy military base - outbound high, inbound low. Then I had to look for a clean-out valve and I sneaked out one night in winter clothes, masked, goggled, gloved, booted, and discovered a dozen gleaming-eyed sentries around the hole. Poor boogers didn't stand a chance against Raid's chemical warfare - I didn't even need protective clothing.
And some daft raccoon or skunk dug out the nest and ate all the poisoned adults and larvae. Ick.
Mrs VS
the biggest part of getting the bugs inside, is not letting them in in the first place, and keeping up with everything.
sevin also comes in a liquid form the you can spray around windows, doors, attic spaces, and most importantly, basements.
just make sure you get everything dusted/ sprayed early in the year and that'll take care of 99% of it.
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