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    Default Killing Yellow Jackets

    What is the best thing to pour down in a yellow jacket nest to kill them. I know where they are going in and out, I’ve smoked them out before and dug the nest up but I think this is a pretty big one and I want to kill them the best I can before we dig it up. Oh and we already agitated them with the track hoe, that’s how we found them.

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    Gas and matches.
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    Not exactly environmentally friendly, but have always poured a little bit of gas in the hole and that knocked them out with little issue.

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    Pour gas down the hole at night. Do not light.
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    Shove a garden hose in the hole, run and turn on the water for a while. I think they think they've built in a flood plain and move out.
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    Easy, and environmentally friendly...

    Take a 5 gallon bucket and fill it with HOT water and add some detergent. Wait until dusk when they have gone into the hole. Pour the hot, soapy water down the hole and turn the bucket over on top of the hole. If the hot water doesn’t kill them, the suds will keep them from being able to fly.

    For insurance, or a big nest with multiple holes, add an extra bucket or two.
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    Quote Originally Posted by *Crippler* View Post
    Pour gas down the hole at night. Do not light.
    Fire makes it more fun.

    Just be smart about it. Don't stand over it and light it. Remote detonation is a good thing. Also, if it's dry and windy, fire isn't a good idea, especially if there are structures close.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BigBrother View Post
    Fire makes it more fun.

    Just be smart about it. Don't stand over it and light it. Remote detonation is a good thing. Also, if it's dry and windy, fire isn't a good idea, especially if there are structures close.
    Sounds like experience talking right there

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    Quote Originally Posted by *Crippler* View Post
    Pour gas down the hole at night. Do not light.
    This has worked for me.
    Hopefully its painful and slow for them. Side note, I got my ass whooped by a bunch of them this morning tracking a deer.

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    Did you find the deer?
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    My pa-paw used to keep some old peters paper shells for his 16 gauge double and shoot down into the hole. Said the burning powder smell was more than they could stand. Always worked!

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    Quote Originally Posted by JJ1965 View Post
    Did you find the deer?
    I may have run a 4.6 40 with a doe in tow uphill. Or at least it felt like it.

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    Dawn dish liquid and gasoline.
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    Quote Originally Posted by nitro5x6's View Post
    Dawn dish liquid and gasoline.
    basically napalm

    yellow jackets are the one creature around here that I show zero care for, I've been hit pretty bad a few times.. once ended up with a drip in and knocked out. it was like seventeen times from the shoulders up

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    Only if you toss a match on it..... which for yellow jackets I have no problem with.

    Hate em Hate em...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Highstrung View Post
    basically napalm

    yellow jackets are the one creature around here that I show zero care for, I've been hit pretty bad a few times.. once ended up with a drip in and knocked out. it was like seventeen times from the shoulders up
    Thought it was mixed Styrofoam and gasoline.

    Yard torch works well too. Those things and chiggers weren't created by God.
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    we've used dry detergent.. kinda the same affect

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    I feel like we had this same discussion, years ago

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    Hose on a funnel after dark,pint or so of bleach, zero escapes, dead on contact
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    I just use the wasp spray and let er rip

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