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Man Burns House While Trying To Kill Yellow Jackets
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| October 1, 2007
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Posted on 10/01/2007 3:27:13 PM PDT by decimon
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To: Peanut Gallery
To: decimon
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posted on
10/01/2007 4:34:28 PM PDT
by
txhurl
(Yes there were WMDs)
To: decimon
Yellow Jackets 1
Home owner 0
63
posted on
10/01/2007 4:35:12 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: bert
The way to kill a Yellow jacket nest is to simply place a clear bowl over the hole in the ground. Do it at night when they aren’t active. They won’t dig around it, but when sun comes out they get confused that they can’t come out. In several days they starve to death. No chemicals or fire.
For the yellow jacket sting, simply take a raw onion and slice it. Place the slice of onion on the sting and you will feel instant relief. The swelling will go away and you won’t have a mark after 30 minutes.
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posted on
10/01/2007 4:35:55 PM PDT
by
CJ Wolf
(Gaia Save the thighness! (for a nice muesem or prison somewhere))
To: tsomer
I use the same insecticide on the yellow jackets that I use on the fire ants, Orthene...I place the powder at the entrance of the nest and they carry it into the nest on their little feets...The powder contaminates the entire nest and in a couple of days they are all sick and/or dead. I have run over my share of the little SOB’s with the lawn mower since I mow at least 7 acres of property here in Mississippi. I have recently read of yellow jacket nests as large as 12 feet by 24 feet in Southern Alabama; a new phenomenon. I have hit large nests while mowing with the tractor and been hit at least 20 or more times. Needless to say, I detest the bugs and will see to their deaths whenever I get a chance.
To: CarrotAndStick
OMG!
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"I" shouldn'tlaugh but, OMG!
I wonder if the 'adviser' thought that was a great idea, was being facetious or malevolent?
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posted on
10/01/2007 4:44:34 PM PDT
by
maine-iac7
("...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time" LINCOLN)
To: CJ Wolf
I like the
WHUMP!
When you pour gas down the hole in the evening at twilight, then light it with a towel tied to a broom stick, there is a fantastic Whump!
67
posted on
10/01/2007 4:52:22 PM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . Moveon is not us...... Moveon is the enemy)
To: decimon
Have you ever picked off the members of some other family before burning down their house? Well, no...I guess I could put it on my list of things to do. Get gas, check. Buy bread, check. Etc, etc...
To: decimon
Yellowjackets are a piece of cake next to Africanized bees. Here's a nest I took out this last winter. The bees had completely filled four old tires. I had already pulled one tire away before the picture was taken.
To: decimon
There was the classic cartoon where a homeowner attempted to get rid of a single fly with several different implements including a shotgun.
70
posted on
10/01/2007 5:08:06 PM PDT
by
jimfree
(Freep and ye shall find.)
To: Muleteam1
Those are tires? Where’s the tread? ;-)
That is a lot of honey there. Hope you didn’t pay a price for this.
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posted on
10/01/2007 5:08:42 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: bert
Hi Bert.
Yeah I figure it was volatile, and probably some petroleum distillate; gasoline works just as well as the stuff they sell at the hardware store. Cheaper too.
When I was about six, I discovered a neat trick. We found an old bottle of insecticide with a spray pump. It would emit a pretty fair jet of mist if you leaned on the button. What was really cool was when you put a lit candle about 8 inches in front of it. It was like the fourth of July! Your very own dragon in the attic—that’s where we performed these experiments.
Would you believe I’m not a ghost or even an orphan? God was looking out for me!
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posted on
10/01/2007 5:10:28 PM PDT
by
tsomer
To: jimfree
There was the classic cartoon where a homeowner attempted to get rid of a single fly with several different implements including a shotgun.Those cartoons came with a moral. People do tend to do stupid things as frustration builds.
73
posted on
10/01/2007 5:12:05 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
“Williams did not want to be interviewed”.
I wonder why?
74
posted on
10/01/2007 5:13:18 PM PDT
by
BnBlFlag
(Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
To: Red Badger
That’s ingenious. I’ve also seen bug traps that were simply a clear pane of glass over a pan of water like that. They crash into the glass and fall into the water.
75
posted on
10/01/2007 5:16:50 PM PDT
by
FlyVet
To: decimon
76
posted on
10/01/2007 5:20:20 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: Billthedrill
That was a crazy question. hmmmm
I kill an average of two scorpions/wk in my house, and every panic/scream/run/run back/look for can of hotshot/scream some more/fire/run outside episode is unique. I'm totally down with your bro.
77
posted on
10/01/2007 5:20:40 PM PDT
by
txhurl
(Yes there were WMDs)
To: decimon
I hear the bugs in that part of the country are as big as sparrows.
78
posted on
10/01/2007 5:23:17 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
To: decimon
You were stung as a child, weren’t you?
79
posted on
10/01/2007 5:26:15 PM PDT
by
txhurl
(Yes there were WMDs)
To: decimon
These were tires in an old storage barn my family inherited. My father-in-law, God bless him, lived during through the depression. Need I say more? He never threw anything away.
After the darn bees attacked me several times while mowing last summer (one went up my nose!) I waited for a really cold west Texas day and went after them, of course with appropraite garb. I had to use a crowbar to break the tires away from the wall then rolled them out of the barn to the open. Even at 5 degrees air temperature I could still hear the little buggers angrily protesting. That night the temperatures got down close to zero yet there were still some bees alive the next morning. I have a great respect (maybe the wrong word?) for these little guys now.
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