Posted on 08/24/2006 6:52:04 AM PDT by Sopater
The dawn strips all the oils off of the wasps body. Without their body oils the water and soap fills their pores and they drown.
Nice and quiet without poison or expense! Works of red wasps too!
And the polar bears are the canaries in the cage. First they shrink, then.... Well, you know.
More tax money down the crapper.
Well, I live in NYS where everything is regulated up the wazoo...
Yellow Jackets feed on honeybees. They are active at a lower temperterure than honeybees. A large fall population of yellow jackets will destroy honeybee colonies.
"Dawn dishwashing detergent does wonders! Greatly dilute it with water. Pour onto nest at dusk, or sunrise."
This really does the job!
Just get bigger skunks.
Use gasoline. My dad used it to commit yellow-jacket genocide many times while I was a kid in rural Alabama. The Yellow-jackets die on impact and it's still cheaper than the damn pesticides.
>Yellow Jackets feed on honeybees. They are active at a lower temperterure than honeybees. A large fall population of yellow jackets will destroy honeybee colonies.<
But, as the honeybee population dwindles, do yellowjackets take their place? Yellowjackets don't depend on honeybees as their only food source.
Eeewwwwww ... creepy.
Wow, you freepers are slippin'! This whole thread and no one realizes that these nests are because of Bush and Global Warming?
I HATE Yellow jackets. I can see no useful purpose for these pests. Another reason not to move South...just don't let those multi-queen suckers move up here. September is bad enough with these things hovering the garbage cans. C'mon first frost!
I once ran over an inground nest with a lawnmover and they let me have it. The mower stayed right there, running away until it ran out of gas after a couple of hours. Retrieval was a delicate operation. Nowadays with the price of gas, I might make an attempt to turn it off! LOL.
Damn good idea... I wonder how big a Shop Vac they'd need for the nests we read about here?
A gathering of Jihadist Wasps. No doubt it is all Bush' fault.
ROFL!!!
Whatever you do, do it when the sun is not up. If you attack a nest during the day, the workers will come after you, and will hang around the nest for days afterward wondering what to do next, and making it impossible to get near them. I just hope that one of those monster nests doesn't turn up in my back yard. Some of those nests in the article are pretty close to me.
>>> That nest was about the size of a tire in the rear floor seven weeks ago, but quickly spread to fill the entire vehicle, the property owner, Harry Coker, said>>>
OMG!!!
I read the other day about the lady who's mobile home floor was bucking from a growing next that took up the whole end of her trailer. I had a hornets nest the size of three basketballs year before last (I'm in middle Georgia) and you couldn't even walk outside without getting divebombed. I had to call a bee keeper who had a bee suit to come spray it and knock it down. He kept the nest (for whatever reason, novelty I guess).
Neat Idea!, Thanks!
Yellow jackets eat honeybees. I've seen one yellow jacket kill 15 or 20 bees while raiding one of my hives.
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