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The chemical professional exterminators use is mainly just alcohol in a highly pressurized aerosol can (can shoot about 20 feet). I used to be an exterminator, but was by no means a professional. I worked for a small city as a gardener, and one day my supervisor called me in and told me I would now be working for the animal control department (because I had a license to spray both herbicides and pesticides). My new boss was a total, non-functioning alcoholic and did nothing to train me but give some government publications from the Eisenhower administration, mostly recommending bug-killing chemicals that had been long outlawed.

My first assignment was to get rid of a yellow jacket nest that was under an ornamental wood barrel in a park. I had no idea what I was doing and came to site reading the directions off the back of a can. When the park worker showed me the barrel, I said, "This one?" and tapped it with my foot. All at once, the yellow jackets swarmed me, most of them attaching themselves to my left wrist and hand. I didn't want to look like the incompetent rookie I was, so I tried to pass it off as normal and somehow managed to keep a straight face as dozens of bees stung my hand and arm ("Happens all the time. I'm used to this.", I told the horrified park worker). Anyways, after swatting all the bees off of me, I sprayed the nest down with the alcohol spray and they died almost instantly.

So my long, rambling point is that rubbing alcohol with kill a yellow jacket nest. So will gasoline (I've seen my uncle do this). There is no need light either on fire.