@@CaptainWingnut Hello Shelley. I appreciate your wise videos very much. Can you tell me how to find the spider video? I am a technical dinosaur and can’t find what the story board is to locate it. Thank you 👍👏👏
Thank you! I used the soda can boric acid.... first the wasps showed up and we're gone 2 weeks later....then yellow jackets gone after 10 days... now hornets are dying off after about 10 days. THIS STUFF WORKS!!!!!! A thousand times thank you!!!!
I know this is quite old.. 4 years now. But I still wanted to thank you, going to try this up at our cabin in a couple weeks when we go open it. We have ground wasps up there, last summer I was swarmed and stung repeatedly all over… from my toes to my face over a dozen times. It was soooo painful! It ruined the rest of my summer up there, was too afraid to sit on the deck or go down to the lake, they were everywhere. My pup was stung several times too. 😢 I sure pray this works! 🙏🏼
So it’s August 27th 2022. At this time of year in New England, I wasn’t sure if meat was still a viable option or if fruit was the better option for late summer so I set out a boric acid laced smorgasbord! I’ve only had yellow jackets visit the buffet that I’ve seen. Some bumblebees perished in the traps with sugar water. :( So here’s the results. They did go for the cooked chicken finely diced but they’re really going for the fruit/veggie purée that comes in the squeeze pouches. It seems to be basically applesauce with minimal other mixed in. They also are enjoying cheap dollar store strawberry soda. I’ve seen them fight over the purée. Just letting folks know who are finding this wonderful video now about some other great options. I’m using shallow lids from jars. Thank you, Brad! Great video!
Thank You Sir. The old ways are usually the best. My sons have learned that dad may not be able to pass on a wealth of money, but my wealth of knowledge is far more valuable.
Great tip. I live in the Ozark mountains and about 9 years ago was viciously attacked by yellow jackets. The folks who came said it was the largest nest he's seen in 30 years.. a tunnel under pine needles about 9ft long.. estimated 10,000 jackets. I was stung repeatedly all.ove my face and torso. Each sting left a welt the size of an egg.. it basically looked like someone tried to beat me to death with a baseball bat. 8 stings just on my face and neck... it was sooooooo bad. I just thank God it was me, and not my young daughter or dog, that got the attack.
Whoa! Is Stephen King your neighbor? A nest that big will surely have proliferated and spread out more queens in your area and worse, they’ll have the genes to grow that big as well... Time to mix up some lightning and keep it out there... plus, with that colony gone, more will move in from the surrounding area to take over and fill the void. Good Luck and I’m glad it didn’t kill you... I get stung by my honeybees occasionally but honeybee stings are nothing compared to yellow jacket wasp stings.
@@CaptainWingnut this was about 9 years ago. I have a row of 50 ft pine trees that line my yard.. I live up in the Ozarks.. And I hadn't raked the pine needles under them yet.. so there were 8 inches or so of needles lining the yard in that part of the property. I was actually out weed eating and I felt the first face hit. Thought it was a rock.. then I instantly got stung 4 more times on my face. I knew I was in trouble and ran. They got me over and over before I could run across the property to the house. I was covered in stings. I had dropped the weed eater and so many swarmed it that I could barely see it. One giant pile of jacks. And the entire front of my property.. that yard is about a half acre.. had a MASSIVE swarm. Thousands in the air. I actually called 911 because I was worried about so.many stings and so many in the air. The FD had an exterminator who crawled up to the needles in a bee suit and dumped some powdered poison mix into the hole. When he crawled back he told me he had never seen or imagined a yellow jacket tunnel that long and populated. It's crazy that i didn't know it was there.. but we live in the forest and have several acres and I see wasps en mass everyday.. And just didn't realise their nest was that close to the house itself. Sucked
@@CaptainWingnut very true. I can't lie. I'm a mountain boy and we have all kinds of critters here. I've interacted with so many that I usually don't have a lot of fear of insects, snakes, ect at this point... but this about scared me to death. By the time I got to the porch I was almost having a panic attack. There were just soooooo many. And you are 100% correct about the sting. I couldn't believe how intense each hit was. Felt like somebody was shooting me point blank with a pellet gun. I don't get rattled to often.. but I was shaking and shivering for about 20 minutes after. Again, I thank God it was me. Because I was actually going to have me 12 year old daughter weedeat while I used the tractor .. at the last second I decided to let her mow the back area while i weedeated between the trees. The thought of it happening to her makes me sick to.my stomach all these years latet.
Man that is terrible. Sounds like what happened to my neighbor when we were trail riding. He stepped on the next and and they lit him up. He ran home full sprint. Nearly a quarter mile. Yellow jacket nest was right next to the trail in some weird holes in the ground. They covered the tractor for 2 hours before we could recover it. A few days later i dumped a half gallon of gas in the whole and put a 5 gallon bucket over the top. At night time when they don't fly when they can't see. They were all gone in about a week. Yall be careful out there.
I own a small 150 acre ranch with a lot of buildings and barns and have had a wasp problem for a few years. I have been doing this all spring and have noticed a huge decline in their numbers. I put out these acid feeders then after a few weeks I put out some of the 2 liter traps and have just about taken care of all of them
Excellent advice, a rare commodity on TH-cam. Obviously you have thought this through since you’re a beekeeper. We have to presume this will work without harming one of the most endangered and valuable species of our lifetime. Thank you!
Exactly I have bees in the yard I like to keep around for the sake of my family’s plants but those damn wasps need to go! (Especially when they make their way into my room and wake me up by flying over my face🤣)
I met a guy who had something for that. He was leading a walking funeral procession, right behind the hearse, and had a Doberman Pinscher on a leash. Behind him was about fifty men in a single file following. I was curious and asked the guy whose funeral it was and he pointed to the hearse and said it was his mother-in-law. I then asked why the dog and he said it was the dog that killed her! Credulous I said that couldn't be, that the authorities would destroy the dog and he said, "Nope. He didn't touch her. They can't prove a thing. What he did was to keep acting like he was gonna tear her apart for days on end. And when she was a nervous wreck and scared to death of him, he rushed at her, snarling like he was gonna kill her, and she died of fright! She had a heart attack and dropped dead right there!" Intrigued I asked him, "Say mister. Is there some way I could buy or rent that dog so I can get rid of my mother-in-law too?", and he said... ..."Get in line."
Thank you for posting this! We have dealt with yellow jackets for about 5 years. They have burrowed into our home three times creating lots of damage not to mention we have been stung repeatedly. They got so bad this year we were unable to enjoy our deck or patio space for fear of being stung. We have tried several methods to get rid of them. I will surely try your method. Thanks again.
Sorry to hear that. Yes they are insanely terrible here this year. We've had feeders out all summer... they don't want ANY sugar this fall... we've had success with tuna fish, but very watered down... they don't want the meat, just the juice off of it... we just keep adding water laced with boric acid to the tuna cans. Good Luck
Thank you sir. Looking forward to trying this. I’m happy that I won’t be standing on a ladder with a sprayer around wasp nests. This seems like a safer alternative.
Thank you, so glad to find a way to rid the wasps without hurting the bees! It's good to know bees won't go for the diluted fruit juice because they want the good stuff! This sounds so much better than commercial pesticide poisons.
This is genius! I was thinking about knocking down the nest to get rid of my problem but you have saved the danger from me doing that and also got to the root of the problem. I will definitely be trying this out.
I have a white faced hornets nest on the side of my house about six feet away from a window that is always open this time of years so that the cats can go in and out as they please. Only two of them have actually come into the house as far as i know. One of them died on a kitchen counter, and am not sure why. The other one i thought was dead floating in a bowl filled with water in the sink. I scooped it out with a spoon and noticed it was still alive. I could have just washed it down the sink, but decided to just toss it out the window where it could possibly recover and rejoin the hive. If it has any intelligence it will know that coming in the house is not the safest place to go. That nest has been there for a few weeks, but i just noticed it a couple days ago. I am out there frequently doing yard work and hanging out with the cats. I have never even seen any of the hornets fly anywhere near me. So far, i have been leaving them alone and they have been leaving me and the cats alone. They have been doing their thing which is probably hunting other bugs in my yard and working on their hive. At this point, i am not really sure what i will do about it. I just might try this method instead of directly confronting the nest.
I lost my entire blackberry crop for the last two years to wasps and hornets. I have yet to come upon a solution that would allow the wasps hornets to self exterminate the colony until seeing this. This solution is ingenious and insidious. I absolutely love it. Many thanks!!!
This is our third season using this technique because it works! We have to adjust the amount of poison due to various flight distances because we have twenty cans covering a large area. But it works. Somebody needs to ominate this guy for a Nobel peace prize.
Yellow jackets are the worst and most painful stings I have ever exeperienced and that is from a person who used to be anaphalactically allergic to wasp stings. Thanks for put this on!
@@CaptainWingnut They are certainly around me. I walked upon a nest that appeared to have been left and armadilloes had dug it up late this winter. Found a paper hornet's nest on a low hanging branch on my property winter before last. Thanks!
@@CaptainWingnut I was stung by 5 yellow jackets at once and it felt like the poison was slowly oozing down into the tissues of my legs with a feeling of being re stung again and again for about 8 hours. That was my particular experience with them. I actually get about 2 weeks of a europhoric pain relief with wasp stings these days. Not that I seek them out, but a total flip from how wasps affected me as a kid.
Really appreciate the information. Sometimes my family gets stung trying to build fence and repair fence. Those yellow jackets are relentless and keep stinging.
I have wasp swarming all over my chicken run. One of my hen suddenly died with no signs of illness or trauma. She was perfectly healthy the day before. I’m assuming the wasp attacked her. Yesterday I was stung by a wasp and it hurted so bad. I’m so glad I found your video! Thank you!!! 🙏
I can not thank you enough for this video. I have a serious wasp problem but I have spent a decade making my property a haven for bees and the last thing I want to do is spray insecticides.
Started using this in August (early Spring here in New Zealand). I saw dozens of Queens every day for weeks coming for the mixture - thought it was never going to end. Didn't use cans - they didn't seem to like them - maybe the Queens were too big? So I used just lids from jars - sometimes with cotton swabs in them. Used for a multitude of bloody ants as well. Thought THEY were never going to end either lol. But after about 3 weeks, there were less and less and now in late summer (early February) - I haven't seen a wasp for ages. I still put out the apple juice mixture. And for the last couple of weeks an ant colony has arrived again - in my bathroom - and again it seems like it's getting worse - but I remember thinking this in spring after only a couple of weeks, so I'm expecting another week or so of the ants and then results. I thank you soooo much - wasps especially are a real problem in NZ and we're trying to eliminate them. THANKYOU 💜💜💜💜💜💜
Thanks for the tips! I was attacked by a swarm last year while washing my car. I have grandchildren that play in my yard so I rather be safe than sorry.
I have used the boric acid and powdered sugar for ants for years, works like a dream. Thanks for the video letting everyone know. If you have red ants create a ring of the boric acid and powderd sugar around their main hills where the opening is.
Wow, great comment. Yes, all you’d have to do is put boric acid powder around the hill and they’ll walk through it. They’re social groomers so the colony will eat it and, viola, done and dusted! Thanks for watching and subscribing...
@@Red_Hairing Yes, but use common sense... you’re killing flying insects so put it where your outdoor pets (and unsupervised children) can’t get to it. The boric acid is way too weak to harm pets or children, but the WHY’s who feed on it will certainly protect and defend it with venom. Thanks for watching and a great question.
Our Texas red ants are becoming extinct because of the fire ant colonies entering into their nests and annihilating them, I understand. I prefer red ants to fire ants anyday. We played side by side outside when Mom sent us out...to get out of her hair....no bad fire ants back then. I have an acquaintance who tries to preserve his one huge red ant bed on his property by surrounding it with protection from fire ants.
If you’re currently in pest control, this so good, it is a job killer for pest control!! A friend of mine years ago worked for a large pest company and they weren’t allowed to use this because it was so long term...
Good informational video Brad. I also appreciate all the additional info you took the time & effort to type into your description summary. Thanks! **For the bugs that think you speak to slow, tell them to try bumping their playback speed up to 1.25 in the settings cog.
Thanks for the comment... When I was a rat, living in the rat race, I spoke fast and furious. When I retired and moved to the country I was able to slow down. I can speak fast and furious but nowadays, I chose not to. The ranch animals don’t care. It’s so sad that more and more people are so judgmental and critical of each other today. If you’re not perfectly scripted, don’t have perfect cameras, sound and fancy Hollywood editing effects, they feel like they’re being jipped. Everyone has this wayward concept that they are in competition with everyone for everything. Fewer and fewer people think of others and “pay it forward” and conversely more and more people are very selfish thinking only of themselves. It’s just a sign of what I call the “fast food society”. Drive up, order a burger, drive to the next window, pay and get your burger... drive away eating as you drive. No waiting. People want it now... not in 10 seconds...not in 1 min. The tolerance level of people today is down to seconds. How long does it take you to cook a burger? Yeah, right. Everything in life has a cost and more and more people want someone else to pay the cost for them. People pass you on the road just to turn off the road as soon as they pass... This impatience is causing massive stress on people and they don’t realize that they probably won’t live to be as old as I am. Slow down, smell the roses. You don’t have to go through life in competition with everyone and every thing. You’ll die of stress related illnesses long before your time and the sun will still come up again in the East and set in the West.
@@CaptainWingnut Great words of wisdom & observations of the world around us Brad. Personally, I'm none too thrilled with the ways of the inconsiderate, hurry-up, point & click, world it's become. I'm grateful I'm not a young kid growing up in this society with a whole lifetime ahead of me. I'm probably even more grateful that I'm not a parent raising a kid these days. I very much envy the life you've been able to make for yourself...you're basically living my dream. I have a feeling you & I would probably get along great. Thanks again for sharing...
@@kailarsen6148 Thanks for the positive comment. Yes life out here is tough but very rewarding. Right now we have cougars hunting deer on the property and I just had to reprimand a grandchild not to walk around in the trees without an armed adult present. We’ve never had a bad incident, but theres always a first. We have had the big cats stalk kids even with an adult present but a warning shot usually makes the point.
@@CaptainWingnut Yeah, none of those big cats are anything I'd want to tangle with...they are very tough and need to be respected. I suppose about all you can do is try to be super aware of what's around you and take all the proper precautions. I'm a big animal lover but I know they don't all love me back the same way, so I'm willing to give them all the space & respect they need to struggle for life in their "fight for survival" world. It's nature, but hopefully there aren't so many that things get too dangerous for you...especially after dark...YIKES! Have a safe Memorial Day weekend Brad!
@@CaptainWingnut Hey Brad, I hope you are still safe & well. I'm back with a question for you about an excessive fly problem I'm having this year. I've had hornets just about every year so I was anticipating using your "Boric Acid In A Pop Can Trick" this year. For some reason the hornets haven't really been a problem this year but I've had an abundance of Flies around. I was just wondering if you could share any technique you may have for eradicating an excess fly problem? The dang things are making it miserable to be outside and impossible to enjoy the patio & backyard, THANK YOU SIR!
Thanks for this! I have been meaning to up put several cans for the wasps in my area, but did not! ☹️. This morning as I was in the garden I noticed a plump Monarch caterpillar munching on a Butterfly weed leaf. I went to go get my husband to show him (we have a butterfly garden, but as of late not many caterpillars), but by the time I got back a big red wasp had knocked it down and had stung it. Gosh I felt so bad…if only I had put the mix up earlier! Lesson learned!
I moved into a dump about 3 years ago now. The german roaches were like sheets on the walls, in cabinets. It was a living nightmare. I made this massive bowl of the boric acid, powdered sugar, and 2 boiled eggs and put it everywhere. Haven't seen a roach in 3 years. Now the hornets and wasps on the other hand are taking us out here. Our walls outside are like overwhelmed and they come in all the time freaking us out!! So, I am going to try this right here!!! Thank you so so so much!
When I moved into an apartment building in the NYC AREA, the place was loaded with both ants and roaches..I spread Boric Acid EVERYWHERE. In about 7-10 days, they were completely gone.
Thank you for this method - I was worried about getting the good bees so haven't used juice. Now I can try the pop can method. We found they're after protein in the Fall, and that's when they're most aggressive as well so I use meat for the bait. Also, when I find a starter nest in Spring, I spray it with the cleaner "Simple Green". Instant kill. If they're flying they drop out of the air. I even sprayed out a nest under the eaves of my house.
Spring is the best time to put this out. Every W.H.Y. flying is a QUEEN... so everyone that drinks the mixture is a colony "nest as you call it" that will die.
Great Video, Sir. One small thing ---- the yellow and black insects are Yellow Jackets and are found throughout North America (even up to my house in Alaska). There are similar and other versions like Bald Faced Hornets and both in-ground and above ground Yellow Jackets but they all die from the Boric Acid. The interesting thing about ants and yellow Jackets is that they are cannibalistic and so that is one reason it takes a while for the entire nest to die-off. I have used Sodium Borate ( 20 Mule Team Borax --- NOT Boraxo and certainly not Boric Acid --- ) with table sugar for ants and it has worked exceptionally well in Northern Idaho - where we have a lot of ants. - Joe -
@@CaptainWingnut Just to make sure I'm understanding you correctly... Borax and Boric Acid work *equally well* against wasps? Is there any reason to search out boric acid if I already have borax on hand?
For those wondering about the effect on house pets, this is my understanding of how Boric acid works: Boric acid causes intestinal gas. Mammals can pass this gas, insects cannot. Thus the insects bloat and die. I have not had issues with my pets but the bugs are gone.
@@jrambo7495 Diatomaceous earth works differently... it is a desiccant. It works from the outside drying insects out when they touch it... boric acid works by short circuiting the insects nervous system from the inside. Insects nervous system is totally different from mammals. Boric acid is poisonous to mammals but the quantities have to be seriously high and its very bitter and distasteful. There is currently no scientific or medical data that any mammal has died from boric acid poisoning. It’s all conjecture, (i.e., if it can kill insects so well it will probably kill mammals). A recent European study that caused the banning of boric acid in Europe found that the only effect on mammals was that some rats became infertile, but the kicker is in the data details that everyone seems to ignore... They had to get them to their weight in boric acid... The studies don’t show how they did that, but I’m sure it was force feeding them because it is seriously nasty stuff to eat. I ate some as a kid thinking it was vitamin C and it was TERRIBLE tasting... Today my IQ is 168 so apparently there was no negative effect, or maybe there was,,, maybe I could have had an IQ of 200!! What ever you use, use MORE common sense.
Thank you sooooooo much!! I have tried everything to rid our yard of wasps and nothing has worked until I found your video. Within days of using your recipe the wasp’s where gone.
A recent comment the person said they put it out and never saw WHY’s at the can but they disappeared anyway. They removed the cans and within weeks the WHY’s were back making nests… the cans come back out. I too see them on the ranch pestering the honeybees. I re-energized my hanging jugs with new mixture and while I never see WHY’s at the jugs, within a week I find no more pestering the honeybees. Thanks for a positive comment.
4:20 for the mixing process... Apple juice 1/4 gal (.5*.5=.25) Boric acid 2 tsp Make sure it is 100% boric acid. (I noticed the bottle was half full, not half empty.)
@@CaptainWingnut I don't have all of the resources to make videos at all, plus it sounds like a lot of time consuming work, but you're right though, I should look into humer type stuff. I have a dad joke calendar ironically for Christmas recently
I can confirm this. Many years ago I worked for a pest control company that would spray for ants indoors with non toxic spray for pets and children. I noticed the active ingredient was boric acid.
@@maryduffy4843 Hi Mary. As an insecticide, there really isn’t a good alternative to boric acid. Some say to use bicarbonate of soda or diatomaceous earth, but they don’t work the same way. Boric acid disrupts the digestion process of an insect and then shuts down their nervous system. Baking soda and diatomaceous earth kill insects by dehydration, drying them out. All must be eaten by the insect to kill them. Boron and its by products such as boric acid have been unscientifically banned in some countries as a poison due to some crazy studies where they fed mice unbelievably high quantities. By size ratio, humans could not consume that much. What they found was that it caused infertility in rodents at extremely high doses. Boric acid has been used as a medicinal supplement and still, more in a moment. By the same science they could ban table salt, because if you eat too much it could kill you as well! The most interesting fact to me is that boron and boric acid is in the soil, air and all around us! Where can you get it? Try online. Its used as a dietary supplement (boron citrate) and perhaps you can get it that way (you’ll have to calculate the equivalency). Also, I think you can buy boric acid vaginal suppositories around the world. They are typically 600-800mg of boric acid and are used as a vaginal stabilizer for bacterial vaginosis (yeast infection). You might need a prescription!! The medical data shows that no one has ever died from using them. Maybe, medically, they’re allowed where you live. You would need approx 8 to make a tsp equivalent of boric acid powder. Some have additional ingredients like aloe which would not change the outcome of your insecticide. Good Luck, thanks for watching and subscribing.
Thanks. We get a lot of wasps out here. I have only been stung once in my whole life, and it was this summer because they built a nest in our lawn decorations, and I didn’t think of the possibility. Well, the sting wasn’t that bad, but I sure hate having to be so cautious with everything. We have to knock down nests all the time on our clubhouse, under our pool deck furniture, on our deck, in our garage…it’s unreal. I am definitely going to try this. I bought some boric acid, and we always have juice and empty soda cans. Mama’s going to have a good time!💀💀💀😄
Thank you very much for teaching us how to get rid of wasps and hornets and leave the bees alone. I am blessed with bees that visit my garden and plants. Thank you very much indeed.
My dad used to make those traps with milk jugs filled with water, apple cider vinegar and a sprinkle of tuna fish. The tuna adds the protein that the hornet's and wasps require. My dad made a lot of them because his home has cedar siding and those insects love to bore into it.
No on the boric acid, the trap lures them and traps them inside, most just drown. You just fill the 2ltr and milk jugs 1/4 to halfway, keeps them upright and from blowing away
I just got my boric acid today I am going ot get this made up and get it out in my front yard...praying it works,I have a ton of these little buggers this year .thanks for the info...
We used to use it on ants, mixed with honey. I didn't know about the concentration affecting the speed of kill, though. I used a different method to wipe out the wasps nesting in a tree above my vege garden. 4 days later, my cabbages were utterly destroyed by cabbage moth. I learnt my lesson. A few wasps around, especially when they aren't bothering you, is not necessarily a bad thing
Wasps provide some valuable services. Besides killing bad bugs, like you mention, they also clean up road-kill and other organic garbage laying around.
@@edwardgrit3074 Agreed. But if you trying to kill ants in your home, the bees shouldn't get it to it. We had to kill a mess of sugar ants that kept coming through the power outlets and light switches. We made a honey boric acid mix and put it in soda bottle lids (plastic) and carefully slid them into the outlets and put the faceplates back on. There was plenty of room to place the lid without touching any wires. No more ants after a few days.
Yes, wasps are very valuable. They are pollinators and they eat pests that destroy gardens like leaf minors. They love caterpillars, but they also love caterpillars that are beneficial like from the monarch butterfly. I hated wasps until I became an organic gardener. Now I welcome them. They have such a bad reputation unfortunately.
Wasps are good insects. Unless their nest is close-by they don't bother people and should be left alone. If their nest is in an inconvenient place then knock it down early in the morning quickly. They will build elsewhere and you won't see them again.
Great advice, thank you! I've been looking for different ways to keep these hateful wasps away and not hurt the bees and also not use a ton of chemicals bc we also have animals that I don't want hurt.
Thanks Lacey. Boric acid used to be the standard chemical for commercial pest control. One retired guy who had a huge pest control business in California (over 100 trucks) said they used to use this exact recipe (this is where I got it) exclusively for crawling insects. He said it was so effective that they didn’t get call backs to re-treat so the industry moved to other chemicals that weren’t so long term effective. He also told me, and I never researched it, that the chemicals that they use today are worse in toxicity than boric acid. I have another response posted where I break down just how diluted this is on the toxicity scale. Thanks for your reply.
@@CaptainWingnut I think the big online delivery place docked my reviews because of an industry grievance. I might have posted a recipe...they hate when the secrets get out. I don’t want strangers and their chemicals traipsing near me.
I used to find the really big ants, take a stick and flick them into a medicine bottle filled with boric acid, shake it, then release the white ant so it could go back to the nest for a good cleaning, works like a charm. Plus you can watch the white dot as it heads towards home!
I have large red Harvester ants on my property, the only food for Horned Lizards, so I leave them alone. I want to try to get the State of Texas to release some Horned Lizards ( Horny Toad) here on my acreage. As far as the wasp, it’s WAR.
What about the wasps who SPECIFICALLY love wood? Or use it for nesting material? We have wasps that look like they take microscopic pieces out of my deck wood and firewood but carry it off to create a nest? Does this work for those as well? Should I spray the mixture on the wood where they frequent? So it absorbs? The wood seems to be their bait.
Hi jamesscroggins3486, This is not a great way to stop wood scavengers and borers… watch my video on carpenterbees. th-cam.com/video/9WGuuAqnC-M/w-d-xo.html
i always found yellow jackets in the ground i have scuppernong vines never found any wasps in them yet i kill yellow jackets nest by pouring 1/2 cup gas into hole at night when they are all in the nest this is fatal
Because I'm sure someone will ask: Boric acid is essentially the same compound as borax, but significantly refined and purified. Borax should do the same job in killing insects, but it's not as potent. For insects that actually eat it mixed into food (rather than just coming into contact with the powder and later grooming themselves) I suspect it will be good enough. It has to actually get inside the insect to kill it, and not all insects groom. Borax was used as a detergent and for many other things a way back before other products mostly replaced it, so it's something you find in many an old garage and cleaning closet :)
Some insects like sugar, some like protein and others like both. I have found putting some egg shells in a plastic bag put some boric powder and sugar mix. Shake the bag. Distribute the egg shells around your property . For outdoors you can place the egg shells in upside down containers held up by a stake so the rain does not get inside. You can also use egg white in other custom made containers that are water proof.
I remember reading years ago about a woman in Texas who when building her new home filled the walls with boric acid. She was that scared of cockroaches.
Been stung twice in one week and its time to do something! I'm confused about the water. Do you do 1/2 gallon applejuice 3tsp boric acid and 1/2 gallon water? Or 1/4 gallon apple juice 3tsp boric acid and 1/4 gallon of water? I couldn't tell if your apple juice was already diluted at half the gallon or not. Thank you! 🙏
Yup. I was up working with the bees today, putting on honey supers and they’re having nothing to do with the tainted nectar in the jugs and we haven’t seen a wasp or hornet around the bees since we brought them out of winter quarters 2 months ago.
I second the sugar/boric acid mix. They all leave your affected area and go to the mixture. Next few day mostly gone. Hummingbird feeder is ant free with a smaller container of the sugar/boric acid at the base. I use a COTTON BALL as a wick. They just go nuts eating it.Termites hate boric acid too.
Great video! Thanks. We tuck cotton balls soaked in borax and sugar water around our entryways to kill ant colonies and prevent them from coming into our home. Will borax work in place of boric acid sine we have that on hand?
Good idea ! But all animals and insects play a part in the balance of ecology which mankind is the latest "Disruptor"of! Be careful as Bees are not the only Pollinators in The World and imagine how long it would take us to replace them so we can have food to eat! I Don't want to be Stung but I would place some Apple juice at least 5ft from my picnic so they join us at a separate table!
@@martinfontana3593 While I honestly appreciate your take on this issue I might add that having milk weeds and any kind of flowers will draw honey and bumble bees to your property and they are not as aggressive as Hornets and wasps are. For the last 3 years we have allowed milk weeds to grow wild here and mowed around them and they came around and haven't left. We have a TON of honey bees and bumble bees that come here every year since so we dont have any issues with pollination. Hopefully, if you are having an issue with that this will help a little bit at least. Plus, if you have a garden dont forget that YOU can pollinate the plants by hand. Weve also done that and been very successful with our little garden crops.
Thank you for the tips. I am reading elsewhere that honeybees are attracted to sweet juices and soda. However, if you add a little bit of apple cider vinegar, they won’t go for it. The yellow jackets will.
I’m gona try this ! Thanks I looked all over town for Boric Acid no one carried it. Not even Canadian Tire or the local Hardware store. But I found some Borax at the grocery store. I’m going to try it.
@@AdamRasmussenAstronaut it’s not Hornet season yet but I tried it on ants. It was not that affective for the ants but I did try and make a paste and puncture hole in the lid of a small canning mason jars and filled them with a borax paste of sugar and honey and the put them on their side and put them everywhere I saw ants and it worked well for ants. And it was waterproof so its lasting a long time . And very effective . But your method works great I’m sure for hornets and wasps 👍
@@AV1611-truth thanks for replying, Dianne. I’ll have to try it out. I had read the Borax didn’t work. Sounds like proof is in the pudding and you got it.
We had a serious ant problem inside our house this spring. I tried all sorts of comercial products but they did nothing. Then I recalled how we got rid of a carpenter ant infestation a couple decades ago so I knew just what to do. I sprinkled diatomaceous earth, sometimes with powdered sugar, usually not, around my yard, doors, cracks in the foundation and anywhere else ants could possibly be getting in and the problem disappeared virtually instantly. Haven't seen a single ant in my house since.
How did you get the carpenter ants to take up the diatomacious earth , did you mix it with sugar and water to make a can trap like this video, or just use it dry mixed with sugar? Did you have to put it in their burrow holes directly? (I thought they eat the wood?)
@D M I used a commercial product that came in a special squeeze bottle with a spout to put through the holes in the wall. It was decades ago, so I'm not certain, but I believe it was called "Bug-b-Gone". The powder would fly out when you squeeze the bottle. TBH, I have no idea what was in there besides the DE. When I use DE to get rid of ants these days, I mix a little icing sugar into it. Not much, though. About a teaspoon per cup. A single application last summer took care of the problem for months. I normally apply it twice per summer.
@Susan Trice It takes a little while to kill them. Not very long, though. DE feels like a soft powder to us, but it's actually made up of billions of tiny skeletons of ancient marine organisms. It has many sharp edges and points on each tiny piece. It cuts and pokes holes in the ant's exoskeletons, and they die of dehydration. It also clings to their bodies and goes back home with them. If they eat it or actively carry some home, thats just a nice bonus. If you would like to hit them with a double blow, mix some half and half borax and icing sugar and sprinkle some of that on top or beside the DE. Just a bit, though. You don't want to cover all the DE. You aren't likely to kill off the entire colony outside of the house; however, once all the scouts who go into your house start dying, there won't be many more following their scent trails in there.
If there's a colony inside your walls, you have to "spray" lots of it directly into all the areas they have infested. That means, drilling several holes into each wall and using a special bottle with a tip you can stick into each hole and then you squeeze the bottle a few times to blow DE around behind the wall.
I cannot wait to give this a go. Not only is there a bad problem with yellow jacket hornet but also the bald faced aggressive monsters as well as paper wasps. I don't know if the fires we had stirred them from their homes, but I can't even go outside to enjoy the weather. I have all kinds of traps out and they are full but no relief from their sheer numbers. I will let you know how it goes.
These are such prolific insects that I don’t think that enough people could do this to really put a serious dent in their population. I’ve kept these traps out from March to October for years. When we first came to the ranch their numbers were seriously scary and they knew they had the power to just take over. Now we only see a few throughout the summer but as fall comes on we always see an influx, especially around the beehive colonies. That’s when I pull out the big guns and put out a LOT of feeders, even right next to the beehives as you see in the video. I alway stay and watch to make sure no honeybees want to sip the swagga and after a nice 20min rest just watching, when I see that the only takers are hornets and wasps, I’ll leave. I come back daily to fill the pop cans being very careful not to alert the wasps and hornets in the cans as that can have consequences, but after about 3-5 days, the wasps and hornets are gone from the beehives and the bees calm down without the constant threats and bombardment. Thanks for watching and good luck and don’t forget to use wisdom (common sense) in all that you do.
I've been using boric acid for decades but found out that in MANY places you can be charged with manufacturing a pesticide without a license so maybe don't let everyone know what you are up to! They can really hurt you with fines and jail time when they want to be pricks about it. Boric acid, peanut butter and icing sugar is a great one for roaches, they love it and take it home to share, but of course making that where I live is a crime so I would never do it myself, never!
Most people don’t really understand how the laws work, I graduated Suma Cum Laude and worked in law for 20 years... Each law has elements or requirements and you have to break ALL of the elements to fulfill the law to get to the punishment section. If all of the elements are not met, no crime has been committed. SELLING the finished product is required to complete the elements of that crime... no one’s selling it here.
Glad I found this video. I need to find some boric acid and then I'm totally doing this. I just got stung the other day, as wasps have a nest under my ramp to the rear door of my house, and I didn't know. My leg felt weird for a few days after the pain went away. My kid had a friend over too, and he got stung around the same area. I don't have a bee suit or anything to attempt lifting the ramp out of there, though I did put out a trap. But this seems like an even better idea, to me.
Thank you for this video. I stepped on a ground yellow jacket nest incidentally the other day. Only 2 stings thank God! However the nest is very close to home & so, it cannot stay. I will be trying this method since it doesnt seem to effect other beneficial bees.
Hi Alan, Sorry about the sound volume. I just ordered a separate wireless mic to fix that issue. I made this video at the request of some friends and didn’t expect it to explode like it has. I’m grateful for everyone like you who get something out of it and support my efforts to teach things I was taught many moons ago. Also, I made this video on an old PC with old video software. It didn’t do very well and couldn’t boost sound or stabilize video. I think it took over 18 hours to render and crashed the PC often. I recently bought a Macbook Pro and added Final Cut Pro X, Apple Motion, Pixelmator Pro, Photoclip and a few others. I have a DJI Mavic drone and love it so I just bought a DJI Osmo Mobile 2 to help stabilize my hand held work with my iphone. The Mac is blast fast at rendering and the software allows me to boost sound and stabilize my shaky video better. I’ve got a ton of film in the can - so to speak, of other things, it’s just getting the quite time to sit at the Mac now, learn new software and knock out some more vids. Thank you very much for your support and comments.
Sometimes right away and sometimes a week or more... smear a tiny bit of peanut butter on the ramp, not enough to eat, just enough to smell and lick... they’ll go up and check it out. If you’re after chipmunks and squirrels, try Almond Butter as they’re sometimes not into peanut butter. I’ve never seen a rat or mouse that can’t resist nasty rancid peanut butter. Thanks for watching
Hi there, Thank you for this great tip. I will use it. I had 7 nests around my house. Some big, some small. My next door neighbor used a high pressure power wash to spray some down. Then I noticed the next day, they were back to building in the same spots. Im allergic and trying to do this safely. What can be used to stop them from building again when I knock them down again? Im going to order borax now. But Im hoping there is something to deter them from my eaves. Thank you :)
Spray your eaves with a combination of blue dawn dish soap and water. Maybe add a few drops of peppermint oil for extra repelling effect. I started doing this preemptively in early spring when they're looking for places to "set up camp", and last year my house, porch, and garage remained free of nests.
Thank you so much Brad for the helpful information. You are quite an intelligent person and also an humble man. My hat is off to you sir. I am definitely going to try your procedure. Here in south Georgia we have a terrible problem with fire ants and I hope this procedure will help to control them. We also have a generous supply of wasps and hornets. Thanks again for the help and keep up the good work.
I'll have to show this to my grandfather because the lake house gets infested on the outside by yellow jackets on the summer and my 6 year old nephew always gets stung. Thank you, good sir!
We live on a lake as well and the yellow jackets are everywhere. My small dog accidentally stepped on a nest on the way to our dock, his head was covered with them, seven of us also got stung. I grabbed my dog up and we all ran and hit the water. I hate them! We also have Cicada killer hornets this year. They are terrifying!
@@KnowEyes When we first moved into the mountains the WHY’s were terrible and thick… they killed two of my honeybee colonies… I put this out and taught my neighbors (who are distant) and it took about 3 years until we had tamped down enough that their numbers are not big enough to dare to take on a honeybee colony. I also got what I think are Russian honeybees who are real nasty and fight hard against them… they’re almost pure black and extreme over producers of honey, but they are the girls with attitude. My sister calls them “X” Factor bees. Where I used to work them with bare hands and arms and in shorts with just a veil, I now have to be in long pants, and full bee suit…
Thanks Brad, been using that solution for ants with great success for years, and was wondering if it would work for wasps / yellowjackets. Need to have them take back to nest instead of just trap and kill as we cannot find the nest. It's a large property plus they may be coming from neighbors.
Thats ironic Julie M, before we lived in the wilderness our house was in an old fig orchard and the ants were out of this world prolific. This is where i learned this trick. One day we had, and I’m not exaggerating, an ant line coming to our house that was 12” (1foot) wide and one leaving 12” wide. They had found a stash of my wife’s classroom candy treats in her work room (she was a school teacher). I put this out in tuna and cat food cans and put them under a wooden pallet. They swarmed the cans. I had to fill the cans 3-4 times a day. After about 7 days the line of ants began to narrow until at day 9 it was just a small single ant line, then day 10 and nothing. The irony was that out neighbors mentioned that they had a serious ant infestation and it just disappeared overnight! We had a few boughs with ants and then there were no more. We never saw an ant again in 11 years there.
@@CaptainWingnut geeezzzz... 12 inches! So our yellow jacket problem died down for the season here in Southern California, and I'm starting to prep the hanging liter bottles cut in half with sticks in them. Hoping to lure the queens in but so far no activity. Wondering if they want the protein at this time of year? Never have found a nest but we live near open space. Thanks for replying! Have a great spring!
@@juliem9096 In the spring I’ve found they’re searching for quick energy...SUGAR... or honey. I bought hornet traps which are nothing more than a plastic pint mason jar with a trap lid, you can just punch some 1/4” holes (abt 3) in a mason jar lid and fill the container 1/2 full with sugar water about 1:1 or 1:2 (1 part sugar to 2 parts water) They will find it and go in and drown. If I could put a pic here I’d show you one from 4-10-18 where the pint jar is 1/2 full of nothing but hornets... and at that time of year HERE the only hornets flying are new queens. We had very few hornets for almost half of the summer before we even saw one. Our neighbors commented that it was a light hornet year... ha! ha! Also, you may never see a colony nest because they can easily forage for a few if not 10 miles. Everyone around you will wonder where they went. At this time of year WE don’t worry about putting boric acid in the sugar as it’s only queens flying... In your area, they may already have brood and you may only be catching workers so err on the side of caution and use boric acid and don’t drown them... let them go feed everyone... Even if they are new queens, they’ll perish somewhere else and won’t get a chance to make brood. Good Luck
@@CaptainWingnut Great! Thanks again... Weather turned cold ( for Southern California anyway, ha ha ) and the activity for everything has slowed, but I will check my hanging half-open-pleatic-liter-bottles tomorrow and refill as needed. I'll let ya know what happens this season... just cuz. Hope you are all well up there!
this is what i'm looking for! i got attacked mowing the yard twice in different spots. i stopped and half my yard is uncut because i don't know where they are coming from. i'm going to try this tomorrow, then wait a couple weeks to try mowing again.
Oh yeah, DIY is the way to go if you know the cheap secrets... Good on you. Thanks for watching... make sure you subscribe and hit notify as I’ve got a ton more common sense vids coming.
@@whiskeyhollowoutfitters3327 is that for ANY kind of fly? I have a pet pig out back & blessssss her heart plus you can't open our doors with out a dozen coming in everytime!!😭😭😭 while I'm at it the last 2 yrs the insects have destroyed my ornamentals...I've used neem oil on them, soapy water, diatomaceous earth, eight dust.....nothing is helping & this yr there's arrange mites EVERYWHERE you sit outside, lawn furniture, sidewalk they'll evn walk across my phone..whaaat gives...I'm an avid flower lover but this is making me not even want my summer flowers I used to adore!!! Please help if you can. New insect color damage daily bt cant ever find the culprits
What are your recommendations on mosquitoes in yard and house? We live in Arizona and for some reason even without rain they’re very bad. Do the bug zappers really work on mosquitoes? I’ve read mixed reviews
Try mosquito dunks/bits! i put buckets of water around the property with the dunks in them, basically a trap for the larvae. We aren't 100% mozzie free but I know they are dwindling. (Safe for other animals, too!)
Isn't there a white powdery laundry detergent with Mule in the name that uses borox? I ask, becsuse I have used it on multiple occasions in the past for washing clothes. How is it different from what you refer to?
Just started this trick today. A few weeks ago we went after an underground yellow jacket nest that was about the size of a lawnmower with shovels and a makeshift flamethrower and protective bee suits. We unearthed a lot of their nest and burned it, but it seems we didn't quite get it all. I bought some apple juice and boric acid yesterday and mixed with it water in a red solo cup with some small twigs poking out from the top. I'll get back in two weeks to share the results :)
After having the mixture out there for about two weeks, I noticed there was no effect on the yellow jackets. I may have put far too much boric acid into the mix and they may have decided it tasted bad. I decided to just go ahead and dump gasoline down into their nest and lit it on fire.
@@shellyd9287 I don't, sorry. It was just a quick flash and it was over. I kind of think the fumes from the diesel alone was enough to kill them, as by the time I was ready to light it, all activity had already stopped.
Hi Brad, Thanks for your video. We mixed up a batch and put 4 cans out with stick in them. Over night the sticks were pulled out and the cans knocked over a few feet away. Oh Yeah! Squirrel prints leading up to the traps. That's Nature
I used a window flower box, filled it halfway with pea gravel, and nested the soda cans inside the gravel for stability. I live in a spot prone to heavy wind gusts, so that was my solution.
Thank you new beekeeper here. Pure sugary soda pop, tuna, hamburger, tuna & vinegar, etc. There are tons of comments here of different baits people use at different times of the year. I notice that early in the spring they go for sweet. Mid summer they go for protein (same with ants) and late summer early fall they’re back to sweet. I usually put out 7-10 jugs, each with a different bait to cover the gambit. I just noticed yesterday, they’ve been avoiding the apple juice and eating the tuna & vinegar. Watch their behavior and see what they’re searching for it possible. That may give you a clue. Otherwise, try many different baits... They’ve got to eat, just figuring out what is is they want at the particular time of year, in your particular area is the test. Good Luck and thanks for watching wisdom from knowledge.
What a great comment “@Conspiracy Discernment”. Just a note to a new beekeeper. Always watch your bees behavior before using this. We were very hot and dry for 6 weeks and I had to take my WHY feeders down as my bees wanted ANY water they could get and I didn’t want them taking the boric acid laced water back to the honey mills. We’ve had monsoon rains daily now tor 3 weeks but I see my bees are still taking water from the dog bowls, bird baths and buckets with rain water, so it will still be a few weeks before I can put the lightning back out for the WHY’s. On a brighter note, I seldom see a WHY right now anyway, but that doesn’t mean they won’t migrate in with the smell of honey in the air.
It worked!!!! thank you for advice on getting rid of wasps. They were really bad. Do you have anything like this for spiders?
Glad to be of assistance. Spiders video on the story board.
@@CaptainWingnut Hello Shelley. I appreciate your wise videos very much. Can you tell me how to find the spider video? I am a technical dinosaur and can’t find what the story board is to locate it. Thank you 👍👏👏
I don't see it anywhere either. Subscribed.
@@Amy-dw7ii it's a video from August 17th 2021. I hope that helps. th-cam.com/video/pVndhssiYlk/w-d-xo.html
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Thank you! I used the soda can boric acid.... first the wasps showed up and we're gone 2 weeks later....then yellow jackets gone after 10 days... now hornets are dying off after about 10 days. THIS STUFF WORKS!!!!!! A thousand times thank you!!!!
You’re very welcome… glad it worked for you.
Do you know if it Works for Cicada killers?
Love how he laughed about the “bite you” part and clarified they sting. Useful info
I know this is quite old.. 4 years now. But I still wanted to thank you, going to try this up at our cabin in a couple weeks when we go open it.
We have ground wasps up there, last summer I was swarmed and stung repeatedly all over… from my toes to my face over a dozen times. It was soooo painful! It ruined the rest of my summer up there, was too afraid to sit on the deck or go down to the lake, they were everywhere. My pup was stung several times too. 😢
I sure pray this works! 🙏🏼
So it’s August 27th 2022. At this time of year in New England, I wasn’t sure if meat was still a viable option or if fruit was the better option for late summer so I set out a boric acid laced smorgasbord! I’ve only had yellow jackets visit the buffet that I’ve seen. Some bumblebees perished in the traps with sugar water. :( So here’s the results. They did go for the cooked chicken finely diced but they’re really going for the fruit/veggie purée that comes in the squeeze pouches. It seems to be basically applesauce with minimal other mixed in. They also are enjoying cheap dollar store strawberry soda. I’ve seen them fight over the purée. Just letting folks know who are finding this wonderful video now about some other great options. I’m using shallow lids from jars. Thank you, Brad! Great video!
I come back to this video annually to remind me how to mix this stuff up. Thanks again!
Does it work? Did you noticed fewer wasps and hornets around?
, no reply from him. probably fake comment
The fact that I can learn from Brad on the other side of the world is just amazing. Thank you for the great tips!!
Wow! Krzysztof, Thank You...
By the way where are you? That sounds like a polish name.
Thank You Sir. The old ways are usually the best. My sons have learned that dad may not be able to pass on a wealth of money, but my wealth of knowledge is far more valuable.
Most kids today only want the money, they don’t want to have to do anything for it, speaking from experience.
@@CaptainWingnut They are definately like that in England, are you in America, if so it probably means it is worldwide.
@@chrisspere4836 Yes Chris, we’re in Utah, USA.
thanks for watching
@Tee Mack Thank You Tee mack.
relax grandpa, glad I sense enough not to have any kids !!!
Great tip. I live in the Ozark mountains and about 9 years ago was viciously attacked by yellow jackets. The folks who came said it was the largest nest he's seen in 30 years.. a tunnel under pine needles about 9ft long.. estimated 10,000 jackets. I was stung repeatedly all.ove my face and torso. Each sting left a welt the size of an egg.. it basically looked like someone tried to beat me to death with a baseball bat. 8 stings just on my face and neck... it was sooooooo bad. I just thank God it was me, and not my young daughter or dog, that got the attack.
Whoa! Is Stephen King your neighbor?
A nest that big will surely have proliferated and spread out more queens in your area and worse, they’ll have the genes to grow that big as well...
Time to mix up some lightning and keep it out there... plus, with that colony gone, more will move in from the surrounding area to take over and fill the void.
Good Luck and I’m glad it didn’t kill you... I get stung by my honeybees occasionally but honeybee stings are nothing compared to yellow jacket wasp stings.
@@CaptainWingnut this was about 9 years ago. I have a row of 50 ft pine trees that line my yard.. I live up in the Ozarks.. And I hadn't raked the pine needles under them yet.. so there were 8 inches or so of needles lining the yard in that part of the property. I was actually out weed eating and I felt the first face hit. Thought it was a rock.. then I instantly got stung 4 more times on my face. I knew I was in trouble and ran. They got me over and over before I could run across the property to the house. I was covered in stings. I had dropped the weed eater and so many swarmed it that I could barely see it. One giant pile of jacks. And the entire front of my property.. that yard is about a half acre.. had a MASSIVE swarm. Thousands in the air. I actually called 911 because I was worried about so.many stings and so many in the air. The FD had an exterminator who crawled up to the needles in a bee suit and dumped some powdered poison mix into the hole. When he crawled back he told me he had never seen or imagined a yellow jacket tunnel that long and populated. It's crazy that i didn't know it was there.. but we live in the forest and have several acres and I see wasps en mass everyday.. And just didn't realise their nest was that close to the house itself. Sucked
@@joshythehand2960 I’m serious... Stephen King couldn’t have created a more scary tale...
@@CaptainWingnut very true. I can't lie. I'm a mountain boy and we have all kinds of critters here. I've interacted with so many that I usually don't have a lot of fear of insects, snakes, ect at this point... but this about scared me to death. By the time I got to the porch I was almost having a panic attack. There were just soooooo many. And you are 100% correct about the sting. I couldn't believe how intense each hit was. Felt like somebody was shooting me point blank with a pellet gun. I don't get rattled to often.. but I was shaking and shivering for about 20 minutes after. Again, I thank God it was me. Because I was actually going to have me 12 year old daughter weedeat while I used the tractor .. at the last second I decided to let her mow the back area while i weedeated between the trees. The thought of it happening to her makes me sick to.my stomach all these years latet.
Man that is terrible. Sounds like what happened to my neighbor when we were trail riding. He stepped on the next and and they lit him up. He ran home full sprint. Nearly a quarter mile. Yellow jacket nest was right next to the trail in some weird holes in the ground. They covered the tractor for 2 hours before we could recover it. A few days later i dumped a half gallon of gas in the whole and put a 5 gallon bucket over the top. At night time when they don't fly when they can't see. They were all gone in about a week. Yall be careful out there.
I own a small 150 acre ranch with a lot of buildings and barns and have had a wasp problem for a few years. I have been doing this all spring and have noticed a huge decline in their numbers. I put out these acid feeders then after a few weeks I put out some of the 2 liter traps and have just about taken care of all of them
The 2 liter traps to get them in and then drown them?
I want to try this
Excellent advice, a rare commodity on TH-cam. Obviously you have thought this through since you’re a beekeeper. We have to presume this will work without harming one of the most endangered and valuable species of our lifetime. Thank you!
Exactly I have bees in the yard I like to keep around for the sake of my family’s plants but those damn wasps need to go! (Especially when they make their way into my room and wake me up by flying over my face🤣)
Yes, I know this works for aunts .. ... but what about mother-in-laws ???
I met a guy who had something for that. He was leading a walking funeral procession, right behind the hearse, and had a Doberman Pinscher on a leash. Behind him was about fifty men in a single file following. I was curious and asked the guy whose funeral it was and he pointed to the hearse and said it was his mother-in-law. I then asked why the dog and he said it was the dog that killed her! Credulous I said that couldn't be, that the authorities would destroy the dog and he said,
"Nope. He didn't touch her. They can't prove a thing. What he did was to keep acting like he was gonna tear her apart for days on end. And when she was a nervous wreck and scared to death of him, he rushed at her, snarling like he was gonna kill her, and she died of fright! She had a heart attack and dropped dead right there!"
Intrigued I asked him, "Say mister. Is there some way I could buy or rent that dog so I can get rid of my mother-in-law too?", and he said...
..."Get in line."
Mothers-in-law
Ask her if she’s heard the good news as you hand her a JW pamphlet ... she probably won’t ever be back.
I wish my Motber-in law was still alive She always kept my side and my wife "in line."
Lol
Thank you for posting this! We have dealt with yellow jackets for about 5 years. They have burrowed into our home three times creating lots of damage not to mention we have been stung repeatedly. They got so bad this year we were unable to enjoy our deck or patio space for fear of being stung. We have tried several methods to get rid of them. I will surely try your method. Thanks again.
Sorry to hear that. Yes they are insanely terrible here this year. We've had feeders out all summer... they don't want ANY sugar this fall... we've had success with tuna fish, but very watered down... they don't want the meat, just the juice off of it... we just keep adding water laced with boric acid to the tuna cans.
Good Luck
@@CaptainWingnut they love wet cat food too
Thank you sir. Looking forward to trying this. I’m happy that I won’t be standing on a ladder with a sprayer around wasp nests. This seems like a safer alternative.
Thank you, so glad to find a way to rid the wasps without hurting the bees! It's good to know bees won't go for the diluted fruit juice because they want the good stuff! This sounds so much better than commercial pesticide poisons.
This is genius! I was thinking about knocking down the nest to get rid of my problem but you have saved the danger from me doing that and also got to the root of the problem. I will definitely be trying this out.
I have a white faced hornets nest on the side of my house about six feet away from a window that is always open this time of years so that the cats can go in and out as they please. Only two of them have actually come into the house as far as i know. One of them died on a kitchen counter, and am not sure why. The other one i thought was dead floating in a bowl filled with water in the sink. I scooped it out with a spoon and noticed it was still alive. I could have just washed it down the sink, but decided to just toss it out the window where it could possibly recover and rejoin the hive. If it has any intelligence it will know that coming in the house is not the safest place to go.
That nest has been there for a few weeks, but i just noticed it a couple days ago. I am out there frequently doing yard work and hanging out with the cats. I have never even seen any of the hornets fly anywhere near me. So far, i have been leaving them alone and they have been leaving me and the cats alone. They have been doing their thing which is probably hunting other bugs in my yard and working on their hive. At this point, i am not really sure what i will do about it. I just might try this method instead of directly confronting the nest.
By the way, did you try it? Did it work for you?
A refreshingly thorough and down-to-earth video and creator!
Ahhh shucks. Thanks a ton. Thanks for watching and a wonderful compliment
And he didnt intentionally delay making his point until the very end. Rather jus started upfront, much appreciated.
I lost my entire blackberry crop for the last two years to wasps and hornets. I have yet to come upon a solution that would allow the wasps hornets to self exterminate the colony until seeing this. This solution is ingenious and insidious. I absolutely love it. Many thanks!!!
I’ve lost 3 years of blackberry harvest for the same reason. Did this work for you?
Hey, did it work?
This is our third season using this technique because it works! We have to adjust the amount of poison due to various flight distances because we have twenty cans covering a large area. But it works. Somebody needs to ominate this guy for a Nobel peace prize.
How do you mix it? I'm not having success.
@@mandyknable8373I haven't tried it yet but he started with a quart of apple juice an a quart of water an 2 teaspoons of boric acid mix well
Always some kindly elderly chap who has all the answers!
Thank you Brad!!!
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Thank you for teaching us how to deal with wasps and hornets without hurting the bees!
🤣😂 wasps are just as important as bees, they eat the bad bugs that eat crops.... but, "KILL THEM ALL," because you're scared of them......
@@markbomberg2545🤦🏻
Wasps are natural to north America, honey bees are not.
@@gardencookeat22 We do have several invasive species of both wasp and yellow jackets in North America.
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We have and love hummingbirds. Is it safe enough?
Very helpful. And thanks for taking the time to type it up. That made it easy to transfer your suggestions to a 'to do' list. I subscribed.
Yellow jackets are the worst and most painful stings I have ever exeperienced and that is from a person who used to be anaphalactically allergic to wasp stings. Thanks for put this on!
Thank YOU for watching... hope it brings you some relief.
@@CaptainWingnut They are certainly around me. I walked upon a nest that appeared to have been left and armadilloes had dug it up late this winter. Found a paper hornet's nest on a low hanging branch on my property winter before last. Thanks!
@@SALTYDEPLORABLEGARBAGE You’re right... I’m a beekeeper and get stung all the time by the bees and a yellow jacket is way more painful...
@@CaptainWingnut I was stung by 5 yellow jackets at once and it felt like the poison was slowly oozing down into the tissues of my legs with a feeling of being re stung again and again for about 8 hours. That was my particular experience with them. I actually get about 2 weeks of a europhoric pain relief with wasp stings these days. Not that I seek them out, but a total flip from how wasps affected me as a kid.
Yellowjacket stings are bad, but nothing compared to the sting of a tarantula hawk!
Really appreciate the information. Sometimes my family gets stung trying to build fence and repair fence. Those yellow jackets are relentless and keep stinging.
Thanks for sharing this with us I've had a wasp and hornet problem for a long time and now I can get rid of them one and for all
Thank you! Your help means so much! Blessing on you and yours!!!
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Probably best idea I’ve seen on the issue so far thanks man
UR Welcome
I have wasp swarming all over my chicken run. One of my hen suddenly died with no signs of illness or trauma. She was perfectly healthy the day before. I’m assuming the wasp attacked her. Yesterday I was stung by a wasp and it hurted so bad. I’m so glad I found your video! Thank you!!! 🙏
Oh that's horrible. Best of luck.
I can not thank you enough for this video. I have a serious wasp problem but I have spent a decade making my property a haven for bees and the last thing I want to do is spray insecticides.
This guy has a very relaxing way of talking. I think he would be a good storyteller.
Yup, one of my specialties... story telling that is!!
Thanks
Started using this in August (early Spring here in New Zealand). I saw dozens of Queens every day for weeks coming for the mixture - thought it was never going to end. Didn't use cans - they didn't seem to like them - maybe the Queens were too big? So I used just lids from jars - sometimes with cotton swabs in them. Used for a multitude of bloody ants as well. Thought THEY were never going to end either lol. But after about 3 weeks, there were less and less and now in late summer (early February) - I haven't seen a wasp for ages. I still put out the apple juice mixture. And for the last couple of weeks an ant colony has arrived again - in my bathroom - and again it seems like it's getting worse - but I remember thinking this in spring after only a couple of weeks, so I'm expecting another week or so of the ants and then results. I thank you soooo much - wasps especially are a real problem in NZ and we're trying to eliminate them. THANKYOU 💜💜💜💜💜💜
So glad to hear great successes with my simple solutions...
Thanks for watching and subscribing.
Thanks for the tips! I was attacked by a swarm last year while washing my car. I have grandchildren that play in my yard so I rather be safe than sorry.
Hope it helps. Remember “Common Sense” in everything.
Thanks for watching
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@@tedbundy3664 "in" works in the context he used it.
I have used the boric acid and powdered sugar for ants for years, works like a dream.
Thanks for the video letting everyone know. If you have red ants create a ring of the boric acid and powderd sugar around their main hills where the opening is.
Wow, great comment.
Yes, all you’d have to do is put boric acid powder around the hill and they’ll walk through it.
They’re social groomers so the colony will eat it and, viola, done and dusted!
Thanks for watching and subscribing...
@@CaptainWingnut Is it safe to do this if you have outdoor pets?
@@Red_Hairing Yes, but use common sense... you’re killing flying insects so put it where your outdoor pets (and unsupervised children) can’t get to it. The boric acid is way too weak to harm pets or children, but the WHY’s who feed on it will certainly protect and defend it with venom.
Thanks for watching and a great question.
Will this work with Fire Ants too?
Our Texas red ants are becoming extinct because of the fire ant colonies entering into their nests and annihilating them, I understand. I prefer red ants to fire ants anyday. We played side by side outside when Mom sent us out...to get out of her hair....no bad fire ants back then. I have an acquaintance who tries to preserve his one huge red ant bed on his property by surrounding it with protection from fire ants.
Your awesome! Been doing pest control for 15 years and ppl ask about natural ways to control issues and that’s on my list now..
If you’re currently in pest control, this so good, it is a job killer for pest control!!
A friend of mine years ago worked for a large pest company and they weren’t allowed to use this because it was so long term...
Good informational video Brad.
I also appreciate all the additional info you took the time & effort to type into your description summary. Thanks!
**For the bugs that think you speak to slow, tell them to try bumping their playback speed up to 1.25 in the settings cog.
Thanks for the comment...
When I was a rat, living in the rat race, I spoke fast and furious. When I retired and moved to the country I was able to slow down. I can speak fast and furious but nowadays, I chose not to. The ranch animals don’t care.
It’s so sad that more and more people are so judgmental and critical of each other today.
If you’re not perfectly scripted, don’t have perfect cameras, sound and fancy Hollywood editing effects, they feel like they’re being jipped.
Everyone has this wayward concept that they are in competition with everyone for everything.
Fewer and fewer people think of others and “pay it forward” and conversely more and more people are very selfish thinking only of themselves.
It’s just a sign of what I call the “fast food society”.
Drive up, order a burger, drive to the next window, pay and get your burger... drive away eating as you drive. No waiting.
People want it now... not in 10 seconds...not in 1 min. The tolerance level of people today is down to seconds. How long does it take you to cook a burger? Yeah, right. Everything in life has a cost and more and more people want someone else to pay the cost for them.
People pass you on the road just to turn off the road as soon as they pass...
This impatience is causing massive stress on people and they don’t realize that they probably won’t live to be as old as I am.
Slow down, smell the roses. You don’t have to go through life in competition with everyone and every thing.
You’ll die of stress related illnesses long before your time and the sun will still come up again in the East and set in the West.
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Great words of wisdom & observations of the world around us Brad.
Personally, I'm none too thrilled with the ways of the inconsiderate, hurry-up, point & click, world it's become.
I'm grateful I'm not a young kid growing up in this society with a whole lifetime ahead of me.
I'm probably even more grateful that I'm not a parent raising a kid these days.
I very much envy the life you've been able to make for yourself...you're basically living my dream.
I have a feeling you & I would probably get along great.
Thanks again for sharing...
@@kailarsen6148 Thanks for the positive comment. Yes life out here is tough but very rewarding. Right now we have cougars hunting deer on the property and I just had to reprimand a grandchild not to walk around in the trees without an armed adult present. We’ve never had a bad incident, but theres always a first. We have had the big cats stalk kids even with an adult present but a warning shot usually makes the point.
@@CaptainWingnut
Yeah, none of those big cats are anything I'd want to tangle with...they are very tough and need to be respected.
I suppose about all you can do is try to be super aware of what's around you and take all the proper precautions.
I'm a big animal lover but I know they don't all love me back the same way, so I'm willing to give them all the space & respect they need to struggle for life in their "fight for survival" world.
It's nature, but hopefully there aren't so many that things get too dangerous for you...especially after dark...YIKES!
Have a safe Memorial Day weekend Brad!
@@CaptainWingnut
Hey Brad, I hope you are still safe & well.
I'm back with a question for you about an excessive fly problem I'm having this year.
I've had hornets just about every year so I was anticipating using your "Boric Acid In A Pop Can Trick" this year.
For some reason the hornets haven't really been a problem this year but I've had an abundance of Flies around.
I was just wondering if you could share any technique you may have for eradicating an excess fly problem?
The dang things are making it miserable to be outside and impossible to enjoy the patio & backyard, THANK YOU SIR!
Thanks for this! I have been meaning to up put several cans for the wasps in my area, but did not! ☹️. This morning as I was in the garden I noticed a plump Monarch caterpillar munching on a Butterfly weed leaf. I went to go get my husband to show him (we have a butterfly garden, but as of late not many caterpillars), but by the time I got back a big red wasp had knocked it down and had stung it. Gosh I felt so bad…if only I had put the mix up earlier! Lesson learned!
I moved into a dump about 3 years ago now. The german roaches were like sheets on the walls, in cabinets. It was a living nightmare. I made this massive bowl of the boric acid, powdered sugar, and 2 boiled eggs and put it everywhere. Haven't seen a roach in 3 years. Now the hornets and wasps on the other hand are taking us out here. Our walls outside are like overwhelmed and they come in all the time freaking us out!! So, I am going to try this right here!!! Thank you so so so much!
Thanks for watching
Great advice, and safe also.
Thank you for being here.
Hope it helps
When I moved into an apartment building in the NYC AREA, the place was loaded with both ants and roaches..I spread Boric Acid EVERYWHERE. In about 7-10 days, they were completely gone.
Another great success story... thanks for sharing.
Thank you for this method - I was worried about getting the good bees so haven't used juice. Now I can try the pop can method. We found they're after protein in the Fall, and that's when they're most aggressive as well so I use meat for the bait. Also, when I find a starter nest in Spring, I spray it with the cleaner "Simple Green". Instant kill. If they're flying they drop out of the air. I even sprayed out a nest under the eaves of my house.
Spring is the best time to put this out.
Every W.H.Y. flying is a QUEEN... so everyone that drinks the mixture is a colony "nest as you call it" that will die.
Is Borax mule team the same as boric acid?@@CaptainWingnut
@@introserveonlinereviews4648I think you want 100% boric acid. Borax isn't the same thing.
Great Video, Sir.
One small thing ---- the yellow and black insects are Yellow Jackets and are found throughout North America (even up to my house in Alaska). There are similar and other versions like Bald Faced Hornets and both in-ground and above ground Yellow Jackets but they all die from the Boric Acid.
The interesting thing about ants and yellow Jackets is that they are cannibalistic and so that is one reason it takes a while for the entire nest to die-off.
I have used Sodium Borate ( 20 Mule Team Borax --- NOT Boraxo and certainly not Boric Acid --- ) with table sugar for ants and it has worked exceptionally well in Northern Idaho - where we have a lot of ants. - Joe -
Very good... yes all of those come from Boron and are all deadly to insects.
@@CaptainWingnut Just to make sure I'm understanding you correctly...
Borax and Boric Acid work *equally well* against wasps?
Is there any reason to search out boric acid if I already have borax on hand?
@@bernardkung7306 nope
For those wondering about the effect on house pets, this is my understanding of how Boric acid works:
Boric acid causes intestinal gas. Mammals can pass this gas, insects cannot. Thus the insects bloat and die. I have not had issues with my pets but the bugs are gone.
Thanks Paul
There might still be long term ill effects against the pets, in some other way.
Use diatemaceous earth!
@@jrambo7495 Diatomaceous earth works differently... it is a desiccant. It works from the outside drying insects out when they touch it... boric acid works by short circuiting the insects nervous system from the inside. Insects nervous system is totally different from mammals. Boric acid is poisonous to mammals but the quantities have to be seriously high and its very bitter and distasteful. There is currently no scientific or medical data that any mammal has died from boric acid poisoning. It’s all conjecture, (i.e., if it can kill insects so well it will probably kill mammals). A recent European study that caused the banning of boric acid in Europe found that the only effect on mammals was that some rats became infertile, but the kicker is in the data details that everyone seems to ignore... They had to get them to their weight in boric acid... The studies don’t show how they did that, but I’m sure it was force feeding them because it is seriously nasty stuff to eat.
I ate some as a kid thinking it was vitamin C and it was TERRIBLE tasting... Today my IQ is 168 so apparently there was no negative effect, or maybe there was,,, maybe I could have had an IQ of 200!!
What ever you use, use MORE common sense.
@@CaptainWingnut you incorrect that boric acid short circuits their nervous system. What it actually does is bloat them.
Thank you sooooooo much!! I have tried everything to rid our yard of wasps and nothing has worked until I found your video. Within days of using your recipe the wasp’s where gone.
A recent comment the person said they put it out and never saw WHY’s at the can but they disappeared anyway. They removed the cans and within weeks the WHY’s were back making nests… the cans come back out. I too see them on the ranch pestering the honeybees. I re-energized my hanging jugs with new mixture and while I never see WHY’s at the jugs, within a week I find no more pestering the honeybees.
Thanks for a positive comment.
4:20 for the mixing process...
Apple juice 1/4 gal (.5*.5=.25)
Boric acid 2 tsp
Make sure it is 100% boric acid.
(I noticed the bottle was half full, not half empty.)
Apparently sugar and boric acid are like catnip for wasps. It's wasp-nip
Great tag. Thanks
@@CaptainWingnut Yeah, just like cinnamon is catnip for bees, and in that instance, it's bee-nip
@@samsimington5563 You’re funny... you should make humor videos!!
@@CaptainWingnut I don't have all of the resources to make videos at all, plus it sounds like a lot of time consuming work, but you're right though, I should look into humer type stuff. I have a dad joke calendar ironically for Christmas recently
@@samsimington5563 i like human nip
Thank you Brad with much appreciation.! I am looking forward to doing this very soon!
I can confirm this. Many years ago I worked for a pest control company that would spray for ants indoors with non toxic spray for pets and children. I noticed the active ingredient was boric acid.
Yup, many, many moons ago a pest control guy told me this pseudo secret. I’ve used it for 40 years and decided to share it.
@@CaptainWingnut : I think thats the way it should be.
Sharing knowledge with our fellow man at no cost!
Thank You very much!
Hi Brad. Boric acid banned where in my country. Can u suggest an alternative please
@@maryduffy4843 Hi Mary. As an insecticide, there really isn’t a good alternative to boric acid.
Some say to use bicarbonate of soda or diatomaceous earth, but they don’t work the same way.
Boric acid disrupts the digestion process of an insect and then shuts down their nervous system.
Baking soda and diatomaceous earth kill insects by dehydration, drying them out.
All must be eaten by the insect to kill them.
Boron and its by products such as boric acid have been unscientifically banned in some countries as a poison due to some crazy studies where they fed mice unbelievably high quantities. By size ratio, humans could not consume that much. What they found was that it caused infertility in rodents at extremely high doses. Boric acid has been used as a medicinal supplement and still, more in a moment.
By the same science they could ban table salt, because if you eat too much it could kill you as well!
The most interesting fact to me is that boron and boric acid is in the soil, air and all around us!
Where can you get it? Try online. Its used as a dietary supplement (boron citrate) and perhaps you can get it that way (you’ll have to calculate the equivalency).
Also, I think you can buy boric acid vaginal suppositories around the world. They are typically 600-800mg of boric acid and are used as a vaginal stabilizer for bacterial vaginosis (yeast infection). You might need a prescription!! The medical data shows that no one has ever died from using them. Maybe, medically, they’re allowed where you live.
You would need approx 8 to make a tsp equivalent of boric acid powder.
Some have additional ingredients like aloe which would not change the outcome of your insecticide.
Good Luck, thanks for watching and subscribing.
@@CaptainWingnut Thank you so much. Great info. Will try and let you know. Love your easy delivery 👍
Thanks. We get a lot of wasps out here. I have only been stung once in my whole life, and it was this summer because they built a nest in our lawn decorations, and I didn’t think of the possibility. Well, the sting wasn’t that bad, but I sure hate having to be so cautious with everything. We have to knock down nests all the time on our clubhouse, under our pool deck furniture, on our deck, in our garage…it’s unreal. I am definitely going to try this. I bought some boric acid, and we always have juice and empty soda cans. Mama’s going to have a good time!💀💀💀😄
How did it go?
@@Beachedwhales237 it works wonders!
I've got these European hornets and I can't wait to start these tomorrow!!! Thank you for sharing!!!!
Did it work?
Thank you very much for teaching us how to get rid of wasps and hornets and leave the bees alone. I am blessed with bees that visit my garden and plants. Thank you very much indeed.
YW 👍
My dad used to make those traps with milk jugs filled with water, apple cider vinegar and a sprinkle of tuna fish. The tuna adds the protein that the hornet's and wasps require. My dad made a lot of them because his home has cedar siding and those insects love to bore into it.
Great comment.
Did he add boric acid also? Or does the vinegar kill the wasps?
No on the boric acid, the trap lures them and traps them inside, most just drown. You just fill the 2ltr and milk jugs 1/4 to halfway, keeps them upright and from blowing away
@@ivyleague3224 Add some boric acid and cure a temporary fix.
Hmm, I thought cedar was supposed to be an insect repellent?
When I heard you say "pop" can, brought me back to my Midwest roots😉
I just got my boric acid today I am going ot get this made up and get it out in my front yard...praying it works,I have a ton of these little buggers this year .thanks for the info...
I am right with you!!! Good luck Mrs. Davis!!!
Good luck to both of you’s...
We used to use it on ants, mixed with honey. I didn't know about the concentration affecting the speed of kill, though. I used a different method to wipe out the wasps nesting in a tree above my vege garden. 4 days later, my cabbages were utterly destroyed by cabbage moth. I learnt my lesson. A few wasps around, especially when they aren't bothering you, is not necessarily a bad thing
Wasps provide some valuable services. Besides killing bad bugs, like you mention, they also clean up road-kill and other organic garbage laying around.
The honey would attract and kill honeybees too. Not cool. Use sugar water instead.
@@edwardgrit3074 Agreed. But if you trying to kill ants in your home, the bees shouldn't get it to it. We had to kill a mess of sugar ants that kept coming through the power outlets and light switches. We made a honey boric acid mix and put it in soda bottle lids (plastic) and carefully slid them into the outlets and put the faceplates back on. There was plenty of room to place the lid without touching any wires. No more ants after a few days.
Yes, wasps are very valuable. They are pollinators and they eat pests that destroy gardens like leaf minors. They love caterpillars, but they also love caterpillars that are beneficial like from the monarch butterfly.
I hated wasps until I became an organic gardener. Now I welcome them. They have such a bad reputation unfortunately.
Wasps are good insects. Unless their nest is close-by they don't bother people and should be left alone. If their nest is in an inconvenient place then knock it down early in the morning quickly. They will build elsewhere and you won't see them again.
Thank you for putting detailed instructions in the description
Thank you for reading them... my father told me “Always read the instructions, even if you don’t intend to follow them”!!
Thanks for watching
Great advice, thank you! I've been looking for different ways to keep these hateful wasps away and not hurt the bees and also not use a ton of chemicals bc we also have animals that I don't want hurt.
Thanks Lacey.
Boric acid used to be the standard chemical for commercial pest control. One retired guy who had a huge pest control business in California (over 100 trucks) said they used to use this exact recipe (this is where I got it) exclusively for crawling insects. He said it was so effective that they didn’t get call backs to re-treat so the industry moved to other chemicals that weren’t so long term effective. He also told me, and I never researched it, that the chemicals that they use today are worse in toxicity than boric acid.
I have another response posted where I break down just how diluted this is on the toxicity scale.
Thanks for your reply.
@@CaptainWingnut I think the big online delivery place docked my reviews because of an industry grievance. I might have posted a recipe...they hate when the secrets get out. I don’t want strangers and their chemicals traipsing near me.
@@lolodee3528 Sorry to hear that they censored you.
I used to find the really big ants, take a stick and flick them into a medicine bottle filled with boric acid, shake it, then release the white ant so it could go back to the nest for a good cleaning, works like a charm. Plus you can watch the white dot as it heads towards home!
@Need2connect they were Carpenter ants
I dumped some jalapeno pepper juice in a wood ant hill n they cleared out😍
I have large red Harvester ants on my property, the only food for Horned Lizards, so I leave them alone. I want to try to get the State of Texas to release some Horned Lizards ( Horny Toad) here on my acreage. As far as the wasp, it’s WAR.
😂🤣🤣 I bet that's fun !
What about the wasps who SPECIFICALLY love wood? Or use it for nesting material? We have wasps that look like they take microscopic pieces out of my deck wood and firewood but carry it off to create a nest? Does this work for those as well? Should I spray the mixture on the wood where they frequent? So it absorbs? The wood seems to be their bait.
Hi jamesscroggins3486,
This is not a great way to stop wood scavengers and borers… watch my video on carpenterbees. th-cam.com/video/9WGuuAqnC-M/w-d-xo.html
Dadgum yellow jackets build nests in my scuppernong vines. Sooner or later I always get stung. Can't wait to spring this on them.
Show 'em the lightning Cindy
My mom is outrageously allergic to the little buggers? Maybe these ideas can help.
They wont be laughing now.
@@lilolmecj Ah, I’ve never heard them called “little buggers” but I guess they are little and they are bugs!! Just kidding!
i always found yellow jackets in the ground i have scuppernong vines never found any wasps in them yet i kill yellow jackets nest by pouring 1/2 cup gas into hole at night when they are all in the nest this is fatal
Because I'm sure someone will ask: Boric acid is essentially the same compound as borax, but significantly refined and purified.
Borax should do the same job in killing insects, but it's not as potent. For insects that actually eat it mixed into food (rather than just coming into contact with the powder and later grooming themselves) I suspect it will be good enough. It has to actually get inside the insect to kill it, and not all insects groom.
Borax was used as a detergent and for many other things a way back before other products mostly replaced it, so it's something you find in many an old garage and cleaning closet :)
Some insects like sugar, some like protein and others like both. I have found putting some egg shells in a plastic bag put some boric powder and sugar mix. Shake the bag. Distribute the egg shells around your property . For outdoors you can place the egg shells in upside down containers held up by a stake so the rain does not get inside. You can also use egg white in other custom made containers that are water proof.
I remember reading years ago about a woman in Texas who when building her new home filled the walls with boric acid. She was that scared of cockroaches.
Hey, that was some smart thinking........never to worry about roaches, silverfish, earwigs, fleas, beetles, scorpions or spiders.
Atta' kid. Massive preemptive strike. Bet it works.
Filled her WALLS?
@@CaptainWingnut kills fungus and mold too, so she is set. And thanks for the tips and recipes, you make it very easy to replicate.
@@maxwellsmart3156 It’s an amazing mineral... so many uses... Thanks for watching and commenting.
Been stung twice in one week and its time to do something! I'm confused about the water. Do you do 1/2 gallon applejuice 3tsp boric acid and 1/2 gallon water? Or 1/4 gallon apple juice 3tsp boric acid and 1/4 gallon of water? I couldn't tell if your apple juice was already diluted at half the gallon or not. Thank you! 🙏
I'm wondering the same thing. Is the juice diluted by half? Is straight apple juice too strong?
I diluted mine and got no takers.I added more sugar and then a beer and they were all over it. All gone in 10 days.
Watch my latest SHORT called WHY Follow Up... I've switched to Apple Cider Vinegar and water with boric
This stuff really works!! I had my doubts, but in 3 days I'm not seen one wasp. I put the soda cans amongst my sweet potato vines.
You have saved me from so much anxiety. Thank you brother. #Subscribed
Now, THAT's the entire reason I make my videos... well, almost the entire reason... well, one of the reasons!!
Thanks for watching. Hope it helps.
New Subscriber. Great info; I was concerned about bees being affected, good to hear it's safe for them. Thanks!
Yup. I was up working with the bees today, putting on honey supers and they’re having nothing to do with the tainted nectar in the jugs and we haven’t seen a wasp or hornet around the bees since we brought them out of winter quarters 2 months ago.
Does it work with those larger red wasps?
We don’t have them but there are comments where people say it works. The trick is to figure out what they are eating and bait that.
Thank-you, found this just when I need this. Liked and subscribed.
Awesome, thank you!
I second the sugar/boric acid mix. They all leave your affected area and go to the mixture. Next few day mostly gone.
Hummingbird feeder is ant free with a smaller container of the sugar/boric acid at the base. I use a COTTON BALL as a wick. They just go nuts eating it.Termites hate boric acid too.
Great video! Thanks.
We tuck cotton balls soaked in borax and sugar water around our entryways to kill ant colonies and prevent them from coming into our home. Will borax work in place of boric acid sine we have that on hand?
I just noticed you already addressed this in your description notes. 😁🤭☺ Thanks again.
Thanks for the helpful tips! We appreciate your advice.
YW and thanks for watching
Ditto
Good idea ! But all animals and insects play a part in the balance of ecology which mankind is the latest "Disruptor"of!
Be careful as Bees are not the only Pollinators in The World and imagine how long it would take us to replace them so we can have food to eat!
I Don't want to be Stung but I would place some Apple juice at least 5ft from my picnic
so they join us at a separate table!
@@martinfontana3593 While I honestly appreciate your take on this issue I might add that having milk weeds and any kind of flowers will draw honey and bumble bees to your property and they are not as aggressive as Hornets and wasps are. For the last 3 years we have allowed milk weeds to grow wild here and mowed around them and they came around and haven't left. We have a TON of honey bees and bumble bees that come here every year since so we dont have any issues with pollination. Hopefully, if you are having an issue with that this will help a little bit at least. Plus, if you have a garden dont forget that YOU can pollinate the plants by hand. Weve also done that and been very successful with our little garden crops.
Brilliant! Thank you!
This fixed my ant problem. Thank you so much!
Thank you for the tips. I am reading elsewhere that honeybees are attracted to sweet juices and soda. However, if you add a little bit of apple cider vinegar, they won’t go for it. The yellow jackets will.
I’m gona try this ! Thanks I looked all over town for Boric Acid no one carried it. Not even Canadian Tire or the local Hardware store. But I found some Borax at the grocery store. I’m going to try it.
Way to go... send 'em packin'
Dianne, did the Borax work?
@@AdamRasmussenAstronaut it’s not Hornet season yet but I tried it on ants. It was not that affective for the ants but I did try and make a paste and puncture hole in the lid of a small canning mason jars and filled them with a borax paste of sugar and honey and the put them on their side and put them everywhere I saw ants and it worked well for ants. And it was waterproof so its lasting a long time . And very effective . But your method works great I’m sure for hornets and wasps 👍
@@AV1611-truth thanks for replying, Dianne. I’ll have to try it out. I had read the Borax didn’t work. Sounds like proof is in the pudding and you got it.
Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge. Is there a difference between that 99% boric acid you use and “orthoboric” acid?
You're welcome. As for boric acid, no difference... same thing... just a different brand name.
We had a serious ant problem inside our house this spring. I tried all sorts of comercial products but they did nothing. Then I recalled how we got rid of a carpenter ant infestation a couple decades ago so I knew just what to do. I sprinkled diatomaceous earth, sometimes with powdered sugar, usually not, around my yard, doors, cracks in the foundation and anywhere else ants could possibly be getting in and the problem disappeared virtually instantly. Haven't seen a single ant in my house since.
How did you get the carpenter ants to take up the diatomacious earth , did you mix it with sugar and water to make a can trap like this video, or just use it dry mixed with sugar? Did you have to put it in their burrow holes directly? (I thought they eat the wood?)
@D M I used a commercial product that came in a special squeeze bottle with a spout to put through the holes in the wall. It was decades ago, so I'm not certain, but I believe it was called "Bug-b-Gone". The powder would fly out when you squeeze the bottle. TBH, I have no idea what was in there besides the DE.
When I use DE to get rid of ants these days, I mix a little icing sugar into it. Not much, though. About a teaspoon per cup. A single application last summer took care of the problem for months. I normally apply it twice per summer.
I tried that and the ants just walked through it
@Susan Trice It takes a little while to kill them. Not very long, though. DE feels like a soft powder to us, but it's actually made up of billions of tiny skeletons of ancient marine organisms. It has many sharp edges and points on each tiny piece. It cuts and pokes holes in the ant's exoskeletons, and they die of dehydration. It also clings to their bodies and goes back home with them.
If they eat it or actively carry some home, thats just a nice bonus.
If you would like to hit them with a double blow, mix some half and half borax and icing sugar and sprinkle some of that on top or beside the DE. Just a bit, though. You don't want to cover all the DE.
You aren't likely to kill off the entire colony outside of the house; however, once all the scouts who go into your house start dying, there won't be many more following their scent trails in there.
If there's a colony inside your walls, you have to "spray" lots of it directly into all the areas they have infested. That means, drilling several holes into each wall and using a special bottle with a tip you can stick into each hole and then you squeeze the bottle a few times to blow DE around behind the wall.
Thank you! I've been allergic to wasp stings and we've tried several ways to get rid of them. We'll try this next.
You’ll love it.
There’s also other comments with different attractants.
I cannot wait to give this a go. Not only is there a bad problem with yellow jacket hornet but also the bald faced aggressive monsters as well as paper wasps. I don't know if the fires we had stirred them from their homes, but I can't even go outside to enjoy the weather. I have all kinds of traps out and they are full but no relief from their sheer numbers. I will let you know how it goes.
These are such prolific insects that I don’t think that enough people could do this to really put a serious dent in their population.
I’ve kept these traps out from March to October for years. When we first came to the ranch their numbers were seriously scary and they knew they had the power to just take over. Now we only see a few throughout the summer but as fall comes on we always see an influx, especially around the beehive colonies. That’s when I pull out the big guns and put out a LOT of feeders, even right next to the beehives as you see in the video. I alway stay and watch to make sure no honeybees want to sip the swagga and after a nice 20min rest just watching, when I see that the only takers are hornets and wasps, I’ll leave. I come back daily to fill the pop cans being very careful not to alert the wasps and hornets in the cans as that can have consequences, but after about 3-5 days, the wasps and hornets are gone from the beehives and the bees calm down without the constant threats and bombardment.
Thanks for watching and good luck and don’t forget to use wisdom (common sense) in all that you do.
I've been using boric acid for decades but found out that in MANY places you can be charged with manufacturing a pesticide without a license so maybe don't let everyone know what you are up to! They can really hurt you with fines and jail time when they want to be pricks about it. Boric acid, peanut butter and icing sugar is a great one for roaches, they love it and take it home to share, but of course making that where I live is a crime so I would never do it myself, never!
Buy Borax for laundry. same thing
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Most people don’t really understand how the laws work, I graduated Suma Cum Laude and worked in law for 20 years... Each law has elements or requirements and you have to break ALL of the elements to fulfill the law to get to the punishment section.
If all of the elements are not met, no crime has been committed.
SELLING the finished product is required to complete the elements of that crime... no one’s selling it here.
@@CaptainWingnut hmm interesting 🤔 . Thanks ☺️
Glad I found this video. I need to find some boric acid and then I'm totally doing this. I just got stung the other day, as wasps have a nest under my ramp to the rear door of my house, and I didn't know. My leg felt weird for a few days after the pain went away. My kid had a friend over too, and he got stung around the same area. I don't have a bee suit or anything to attempt lifting the ramp out of there, though I did put out a trap. But this seems like an even better idea, to me.
Thank you for this video. I stepped on a ground yellow jacket nest incidentally the other day. Only 2 stings thank God! However the nest is very close to home & so, it cannot stay. I will be trying this method since it doesnt seem to effect other beneficial bees.
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Great advice ! Thanks for posting bro! Is there a way to get the microphone a little closer to you the sound is low on my iPad. 🇺🇸✌🏻️
Hi Alan, Sorry about the sound volume.
I just ordered a separate wireless mic to fix that issue.
I made this video at the request of some friends and didn’t expect it to explode like it has.
I’m grateful for everyone like you who get something out of it and support my efforts to teach things I was taught many moons ago.
Also, I made this video on an old PC with old video software. It didn’t do very well and couldn’t boost sound or stabilize video.
I think it took over 18 hours to render and crashed the PC often.
I recently bought a Macbook Pro and added Final Cut Pro X, Apple Motion, Pixelmator Pro, Photoclip and a few others.
I have a DJI Mavic drone and love it so I just bought a DJI Osmo Mobile 2 to help stabilize my hand held work with my iphone.
The Mac is blast fast at rendering and the software allows me to boost sound and stabilize my shaky video better.
I’ve got a ton of film in the can - so to speak, of other things, it’s just getting the quite time to sit at the Mac now, learn new software and knock out some more vids.
Thank you very much for your support and comments.
How long after putting it out does it take for them to notice it and go after the bait?
Sometimes right away and sometimes a week or more... smear a tiny bit of peanut butter on the ramp, not enough to eat, just enough to smell and lick... they’ll go up and check it out. If you’re after chipmunks and squirrels, try Almond Butter as they’re sometimes not into peanut butter.
I’ve never seen a rat or mouse that can’t resist nasty rancid peanut butter.
Thanks for watching
Great. Thank You for taking the time to make this video.
Oh, and thanks for posting this info.
Hope it helps you
Does this work for WASPS & YELLOW JACKETS as well as HORNETS ?
yes
Hi there, Thank you for this great tip. I will use it. I had 7 nests around my house. Some big, some small. My next door neighbor used a high pressure power wash to spray some down. Then I noticed the next day, they were back to building in the same spots. Im allergic and trying to do this safely. What can be used to stop them from building again when I knock them down again? Im going to order borax now. But Im hoping there is something to deter them from my eaves. Thank you :)
Spray your eaves with a combination of blue dawn dish soap and water. Maybe add a few drops of peppermint oil for extra repelling effect. I started doing this preemptively in early spring when they're looking for places to "set up camp", and last year my house, porch, and garage remained free of nests.
Thank you so much Brad for the helpful information. You are quite an intelligent person and also an humble man. My hat is off to you sir. I am definitely going to try your procedure. Here in south Georgia we have a terrible problem with fire ants and I hope this procedure will help to control them. We also have a generous supply of wasps and hornets. Thanks again for the help and keep up the good work.
Let me know how it works on Fire Ants… also watch my other video on killing ants th-cam.com/video/FU8rAKipXVY/w-d-xo.html
I'll have to show this to my grandfather because the lake house gets infested on the outside by yellow jackets on the summer and my 6 year old nephew always gets stung.
Thank you, good sir!
Oh, glad to be of assistance. Good Luck and thanks for watching.
We live on a lake as well and the yellow jackets are everywhere. My small dog accidentally stepped on a nest on the way to our dock, his head was covered with them, seven of us also got stung. I grabbed my dog up and we all ran and hit the water. I hate them! We also have Cicada killer hornets this year. They are terrifying!
@@KnowEyes When we first moved into the mountains the WHY’s were terrible and thick… they killed two of my honeybee colonies…
I put this out and taught my neighbors (who are distant) and it took about 3 years until we had tamped down enough that their numbers are not big enough to dare to take on a honeybee colony. I also got what I think are Russian honeybees who are real nasty and fight hard against them… they’re almost pure black and extreme over producers of honey, but they are the girls with attitude. My sister calls them “X” Factor bees. Where I used to work them with bare hands and arms and in shorts with just a veil, I now have to be in long pants, and full bee suit…
it has to be boric acid? does borax work as well??? Boric acid here in my neck of the woods is not cheap and sold in pharmacies.
Thanks Brad, been using that solution for ants with great success for years, and was wondering if it would work for wasps / yellowjackets. Need to have them take back to nest instead of just trap and kill as we cannot find the nest. It's a large property plus they may be coming from neighbors.
Thats ironic Julie M, before we lived in the wilderness our house was in an old fig orchard and the ants were out of this world prolific. This is where i learned this trick. One day we had, and I’m not exaggerating, an ant line coming to our house that was 12” (1foot) wide and one leaving 12” wide. They had found a stash of my wife’s classroom candy treats in her work room (she was a school teacher). I put this out in tuna and cat food cans and put them under a wooden pallet. They swarmed the cans. I had to fill the cans 3-4 times a day. After about 7 days the line of ants began to narrow until at day 9 it was just a small single ant line, then day 10 and nothing. The irony was that out neighbors mentioned that they had a serious ant infestation and it just disappeared overnight! We had a few boughs with ants and then there were no more. We never saw an ant again in 11 years there.
@@CaptainWingnut geeezzzz... 12 inches! So our yellow jacket problem died down for the season here in Southern California, and I'm starting to prep the hanging liter bottles cut in half with sticks in them. Hoping to lure the queens in but so far no activity. Wondering if they want the protein at this time of year? Never have found a nest but we live near open space. Thanks for replying! Have a great spring!
@@juliem9096 In the spring I’ve found they’re searching for quick energy...SUGAR... or honey. I bought hornet traps which are nothing more than a plastic pint mason jar with a trap lid, you can just punch some 1/4” holes (abt 3) in a mason jar lid and fill the container 1/2 full with sugar water about 1:1 or 1:2 (1 part sugar to 2 parts water) They will find it and go in and drown. If I could put a pic here I’d show you one from 4-10-18 where the pint jar is 1/2 full of nothing but hornets... and at that time of year HERE the only hornets flying are new queens. We had very few hornets for almost half of the summer before we even saw one. Our neighbors commented that it was a light hornet year... ha! ha! Also, you may never see a colony nest because they can easily forage for a few if not 10 miles. Everyone around you will wonder where they went.
At this time of year WE don’t worry about putting boric acid in the sugar as it’s only queens flying... In your area, they may already have brood and you may only be catching workers so err on the side of caution and use boric acid and don’t drown them... let them go feed everyone... Even if they are new queens, they’ll perish somewhere else and won’t get a chance to make brood.
Good Luck
@@CaptainWingnut Great! Thanks again... Weather turned cold ( for Southern California anyway, ha ha ) and the activity for everything has slowed, but I will check my hanging half-open-pleatic-liter-bottles tomorrow and refill as needed. I'll let ya know what happens this season... just cuz. Hope you are all well up there!
this is what i'm looking for! i got attacked mowing the yard twice in different spots. i stopped and half my yard is uncut because i don't know where they are coming from. i'm going to try this tomorrow, then wait a couple weeks to try mowing again.
Thank you so much! You've saved me having to call a pest removal company!
Oh yeah, DIY is the way to go if you know the cheap secrets...
Good on you.
Thanks for watching... make sure you subscribe and hit notify as I’ve got a ton more common sense vids coming.
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I just came from the rodent ridder video. Excellent tips, again without poison. Thanks again Capt.
Do you have a horse fly/yellow fly solution? We got em bad
Black bucket upside down with motor oil poured on it
@@whiskeyhollowoutfitters3327 they like motor oil ?
@@catzdollz9810 they like black object motor oil helps them stick
@@whiskeyhollowoutfitters3327 is that for ANY kind of fly? I have a pet pig out back & blessssss her heart plus you can't open our doors with out a dozen coming in everytime!!😭😭😭 while I'm at it the last 2 yrs the insects have destroyed my ornamentals...I've used neem oil on them, soapy water, diatomaceous earth, eight dust.....nothing is helping & this yr there's arrange mites EVERYWHERE you sit outside, lawn furniture, sidewalk they'll evn walk across my phone..whaaat gives...I'm an avid flower lover but this is making me not even want my summer flowers I used to adore!!! Please help if you can. New insect color damage daily bt cant ever find the culprits
What are your recommendations on mosquitoes in yard and house? We live in Arizona and for some reason even without rain they’re very bad. Do the bug zappers really work on mosquitoes? I’ve read mixed reviews
Maybe this will help
th-cam.com/video/fHFfBtJL_3U/w-d-xo.html
Try mosquito dunks/bits! i put buckets of water around the property with the dunks in them, basically a trap for the larvae. We aren't 100% mozzie free but I know they are dwindling. (Safe for other animals, too!)
Isn't there a white powdery laundry detergent with Mule in the name that uses borox? I ask, becsuse I have used it on multiple occasions in the past for washing clothes. How is it different from what you refer to?
Same, Same!!
Thank you! The hornets and ants are troublesome around my home and property.
Just started this trick today. A few weeks ago we went after an underground yellow jacket nest that was about the size of a lawnmower with shovels and a makeshift flamethrower and protective bee suits. We unearthed a lot of their nest and burned it, but it seems we didn't quite get it all. I bought some apple juice and boric acid yesterday and mixed with it water in a red solo cup with some small twigs poking out from the top. I'll get back in two weeks to share the results :)
After having the mixture out there for about two weeks, I noticed there was no effect on the yellow jackets. I may have put far too much boric acid into the mix and they may have decided it tasted bad. I decided to just go ahead and dump gasoline down into their nest and lit it on fire.
@@Sr_Meowmers That’s good to know. Thank you.
Any chance you have video of the inferno? 😍
@@shellyd9287 I don't, sorry. It was just a quick flash and it was over. I kind of think the fumes from the diesel alone was enough to kill them, as by the time I was ready to light it, all activity had already stopped.
@@Sr_Meowmers I think that's usually what you're supposed to do. Just the gas. No fire. From what I've seen online.
Hi Brad, Thanks for your video. We mixed up a batch and put 4 cans out with stick in them. Over night the sticks were pulled out and the cans knocked over a few feet away. Oh Yeah! Squirrel prints leading up to the traps. That's Nature
I've had that happen also. Try tying your cans to a tree or something stable.
I used a window flower box, filled it halfway with pea gravel, and nested the soda cans inside the gravel for stability.
I live in a spot prone to heavy wind gusts, so that was my solution.
@@lisarainbow9703 ingenious
Thank you new beekeeper here.
Pure sugary soda pop, tuna, hamburger, tuna & vinegar, etc. There are tons of comments here of different baits people use at different times of the year. I notice that early in the spring they go for sweet. Mid summer they go for protein (same with ants) and late summer early fall they’re back to sweet. I usually put out 7-10 jugs, each with a different bait to cover the gambit. I just noticed yesterday, they’ve been avoiding the apple juice and eating the tuna & vinegar.
Watch their behavior and see what they’re searching for it possible. That may give you a clue. Otherwise, try many different baits...
They’ve got to eat, just figuring out what is is they want at the particular time of year, in your particular area is the test.
Good Luck and thanks for watching wisdom from knowledge.
What a great comment “@Conspiracy Discernment”. Just a note to a new beekeeper. Always watch your bees behavior before using this.
We were very hot and dry for 6 weeks and I had to take my WHY feeders down as my bees wanted ANY water they could get and I didn’t want them taking the boric acid laced water back to the honey mills. We’ve had monsoon rains daily now tor 3 weeks but I see my bees are still taking water from the dog bowls, bird baths and buckets with rain water, so it will still be a few weeks before I can put the lightning back out for the WHY’s. On a brighter note, I seldom see a WHY right now anyway, but that doesn’t mean they won’t migrate in with the smell of honey in the air.