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My best yeller jacket story, it happened about 3 years ago when a colony had hollowed out a hole under my hedge by the sidewalk. They were buzzing the area and creating a hazard for kids. I grabbed my long distance spray and got in my truck and eased up along the curb, rolled down the window hit em and rolled up super fast. Too far away. Moved up on the curb and did the same thing. Still didn’t reach. Backed up and move all the way to the sidewalk. Rolled down the window, hit em hard, direct hit. Hit the button to roll up my window and I swear my window picked that exact moment to come off the guide and fall down into my door. Dead meat staring at a cloud of hurt, I threw it into reverse and jumped the curb so fast I was airborn. No stings by a miracle.

OMG!I started reading this article and immediately thought of Greensboro! We were plagued by yellow jackets and they chased my husband down and stung him so many times his leg looked like a country ham- he had run the lawnmower over their hidden tunnel. We were told to fill a “cokecola” bottle up with gasoline- turn it upside down into their hole and jam it up to as deep as the bottle would go. No one said anything about lighting it!!!The fumes are supposed to kill them. We moved- I hated that town- pretty but boring and full of wasps and yellow jackets!