Destroying A Yellowjacket Hornet Nest With A Vacuum. (Huge Queen 👑) Mousetrap Monday
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- In this video we use a vacuum to destroy a dangerous Yellowjacket hornet nest.
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I think it’s 1400 yellow jackets 🐝
Hey Shawn, great video! Quick question: What is the best course of action for dealing with mice that may have gotten into a car? I found some mouse droppings this morning and was considering setting a trap, but wasn’t sure where to start
Do you know of any animal that would like some yellow jackets for a treat? Do birds even eat them?
I know brown/river trouts do, have found them in stomachs from fish I've caught.
Great vid as usual! :)
1,337 yellow jackets
Shawn, I noticed on previous videos that you consistently refer to these insects as "yellow jacket hornets." Is this the standard terminology in your neck of the woods? The reason I ask is that we have them back east as well, but they are just referred to as yellow jackets.
When he put his bare hand into the wasp bucket… I felt that.
Right? I almost threw up.
Nobody:
Shawn: Let me touch this with my bare hands.
Shawn's got balls of steel his old videos he never wore gear, he only did it for you queasy folks.
@@jlang8213 threw up? its about the stinger it stays active for hours
@@archenemy6334 Actually no, it's because he got stung too many times. If it was a 1 time video, the suit's not worth it. If he's planning several videos, the suit's very much worth it.
They breathe through their exoskeleton. Theres a layer of wax/oil on the exoskeleton that makes it hydrophobic and gives them more time to get out of water. What the dish soap does it strips the oil layer completely off the body, making them drown instantly.
Make sure to get your 1 liter iwasp bottle for $99.99
@@Antron_Edition just use a bottle of dutch dishwash soap of the brand " Citroen" of 1 euro
@@bigliftm hahaha lekker man
Good explanation dude
@PhilBurg
Noice!
When I was young, I walked over an in-ground yellowjacket nest and was stung about 50-60 times. Watching Shawn obliterate yellowjacket nests is a favorite pastime of mine.
boo-hoo, woe is me
what the hell is this response
@@paintedflop6150 ayy lmao
waspies
@@neo-filthyfrank1347are you high?
@@chaoticgaming3317 No he's using an alt account to try and get cheeky on me because he got triggered so I'm making fun of him.
Hornets: You may kill me, but hundreds more will take my place!
Shawn: hehe vacuum go brrr
@Avery Marshall we do not care
Reminds me of despicable me 3 when the ice cream truck sucked up all the minions 🤣
🤣🤣🤣
"Hundreds"? You are seriously out of touch with reality.
@Avery Marshall both Yellow Jackets and hornets are Wasps
If you know anyone with chickens, they love the pupae left in the nest and they are a high protein snack for them
Or you could compost the wasps and the whole nest
Good fishing bait too
I think he feeds his chickens with the pupae for a long time now.
Are you thinking of the youtuber: Hornet King?
dont throw yellow jackets drenched with soap water to chickens
When he said vacuum, I honestly thought he was going to put them in a container and create a vacuum by sucking out all the air.
next video idea lol
@@pvic6959 No, that would be too inhumane.
Instead, try slowly pouring a gallon of concentrated hydrochloric acid into the nest while reading FNF reverse trap vore anal prolapse fanfiction aloud and pointing a speaker at it that's playing Cardi B songs at max volume.
Youre watching too much science youtube channel lol
Exactly! So was I.
@@tgnm9615 YES
That clear bucket has got to be one of the best investments Shawn has ever made
There's one guy on TH-cam who feeds the larvae to his chickens. It's a good way to raise chickens while taking care of the nests. :)
Hornet King
I watch him too. Very satisfying to see the chickens feasting.
Picking them up with bare fingers creeps me out, even though they're so clearly dead.
It's still possible for the stinger to get you, though rare.
@@rileygoddard7181 Yeah, there's that classic movie with the line "ever been stung by a dead bee?" Turns out, I have.
Same.
@@rileygoddard7181 ive been stung playing with a dead bee i found in my swimming pool.
Me too! It's something about the legs for me. So spindly, not sure why that creeps me out, but it very much does!
What goes through the Yellow Jacket's mind after getting sucked into the vacuum chamber:
"Oh, I didn't realize they already invented teleporting!"
🤣
And then "oh what's this AHHHHHH BLBLLBLBLBLBBL *dead* "
It's the wormhole to the SOAPY WATER DOOM DIMENSION.
I'm assuming that one of the ways yellowjackets let the hive know they are under attack is by releasing a pheromone when under attack or distressed but since they are getting vacuumed they seem to be calmly walking out with dirt since it is a literal vacuum sucking up all the pheromone in the air so they cant alert each other until you just dug it up. just assuming this since I heard bees also use a pheromone when in distress.
i have done this on a much bigger nest. you dont have to stand there if you have a stronger vac. you just place the hose end at the hole and turn it on. but yes they do pour out when the alarm is sounded. between the vibration of the vac, noise, and the pheromone they come running. this nest was really not that big, it might have been at one time but under 500 wasps is nothing
@@scorpman300
Under 500 yellow jackets is nothing.
Omg, it could've been bigger??
Im crepped the mess out by a wasp nest that only has 2 wasps.
@@ericolens3 you should look up the giant southern nest that a guy took out that was the size of a vw bug. the southern nests will give you nightmares if this tiny one crepped you out.
@@scorpman300
Oof are you referring to the giant hornets of asia? Or southern USA.
@@ericolens3 southern us. the southern yellow jacket. because the weather is getting hotter they dont die off and have longer times to live and just keep building, also they are changing where they are having more then 1 queen per nest, some ants are doing this as well including the fire ants in the south. you will see it the nest is next to a tree and it is a giant.
Hey Shaun. Cool tip if you plan on taking down a yellow jacket nest with a shop-vac. If you bang on the ground near the entrance with your fist / feet, it'll agitate the workers and guards inside and cause them to come up out of the nest. Be sure to angle the vacuum hose so it sucks them up from the air in front of the entrance. This lets you catch returning foragers and prevents them from being able to latch onto the ground to try to avoid being sucked up.
It lets you get the majority of the nest before even doing any digging. A lot of the remaining yellow jackets left in the nest are newly-hatched and can't fly so even easier to take them out.
Funny thing, I just did this at work. An inch of soapy water in the bottom so they drowned works really well.
It's humane to kill them as quickly as possible, not causing needless suffering.
@@kathleennorton6108 no
@@LegitParchment oh? How come?
@@supremeduckissupremetheduc9896 Damn hornets don't deserve the mercy.
A pvc pipe T or Y works AMAZING if you put the vacuum hose on the side of the pvc fitting and the hole above the hornet hole.
I did this where I lived in the summer of 1995. They had built a nest in the block columns of a garage. It worked great!
The scary thing is that these are somewhat underground and hard to find
I don't know why, but the yellowjacket videos are the best content of the channel for me. I like how informative you are during the video and how efficient the traps are (not taking anything away from your other content its a tier as well)
Good thing you took care of that nest, that was a dangerous swarm waiting to happen. Nice save Shawn.
How are you handling all the dead hornets barehanded? I remember as a kid touching a dead yellowjacket and it still stung me
Simple. Hands made of the same material as his bollocks. Pure steel.
@@Krysk_SK I laughed way to hard at this!
I picked up the head of an ant once and it bit me 😂😂
He had a light touch, the weight of the yellow jacket alone isn't enough to sting him so long as he's careful.
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Did this with a nest that was under a roof, so you couldna access it.
Sucked in over 200 , then put my ear on the wall, and the whole wall was just vibrating , must have been thousands of them .
Oh boy! That's scary!
Oooooooohhhh you’re fuuuuuuckeedddd
There was a nest built in a wall that was impossible to get to and my grandpa taped the end of a vacuum cleaner hose next to the hole and turned it on for about an hour a day for a while
Shawn, you do so many fun & interesting things. Thank you for sharing!
This was awesome I would love to see more videos like this. There’s a great satisfaction in watching it. The vacuum works awesome. More vacuum videos please.
Your a brave man Shawn 👍🏼 thanks for taking us along 😎
There was a large nest inside our bedroom wall, in fact, the nest was situated just the other side of the paneling from the head of our bed. I tried all summer to lure the yellowjackets into lures placed about but caught very few. Being the nest was so close to the interior of the house, I knew it would survive winter quite well. Late in the summer, I set up with the shop vac and sucked up yellowjackets for over an hour. I also placed duct tape over the siding and foundation so all yellowjackets had only one path in or out. I filled the path with diatomaceous earth. No yellowjackets the following season.
Dude, i love your videos. Kudos to your and your amazing passion! 🙌🏼🔥🔥
I went from watching yappy Beeman to a random video about getting rid of yellow jackets which happened to be one of yours. From there I saw a mousetrap video. Yellow jackets brought me here, and the mouse traps made me subscribe. Now I see everything. Keep up the great work.
Love this. Saw a guy on another TH-cam channel vacuuming all the wasps up, seems pretty effective
Hornet King?
@Aiden Jules Hornet King for sure
Mathias wandel
Aren't there any critters that would enjoy a yellow jacket buffet? lol
With soap flavor?
Chickens like the larvae
@@Zero_Is_Stopping_Time Skunks actually love yellow jacket larvae, they will dig up a nest when they find one. Seemingly un-phased by their stings. About the only thing I know of that will seek then out...also, about the only good thing I know about skunks lol
@@yearounder honey badgers also do it? I know that they do it with others honey insect bcs they skin works really well as a shield to venomous stings
I used a regular vacuum cleaner, left the nozzle just next to the nest entrance and left it for two hours. The hornets didn’t suspect a thing and eventually they were all gone. And somehow they all died inside the vaccum cleaner bag without soapy water or anything. Suffocation, dizzyness, pride? Don’t know what killed them. This was inside a wall so I didn’t bother trying to find the queen, but they never came back. Super easy and effective!
Dehydration is a likely possiblity. Being unable to access water while a strong current of air flowing over them could be it.
This guy individually counted every yellow jacket. That's commitment right there.
Not to mention when we had that infestation of Japanese beetles! ( They look alot like ladybugs ) My family and I used this method to dispatch those that kept getting inside the house. Pesky buggers!
Japanese Beatles? Praul McRatry and Ron Rennon?
@@BubblesBubbles ....bonus points, that made me chuckle quite a bit XD
@@BubblesBubbles yeesh
Shawn, I've been watching your videos for years, and I was wondering why I like them so much. Today, I realized that it has very similar vibes to PBS educational television shows, except yours is definitely the 4-H version. They should sponsor you!
No matter how bad good or graphic I'll still watch I love these videos keep up the good work
It's 3 AM right now, i have never googled nor typed anything bees related on this device, and yet I'm still blessed by this magnificent video.
Shawn, I had a yellow jacket nest within my house exterior wall. They entered under the lapped siding bottom board. Set up a bucket vacuum, 6" of soapy water & on a timer. Over 3 days I drowned 1,010 yellow jackets! Yes, I counted them. Now virtually no activity, so will soon caulk it for good!
Many thanks for the helpful tips. All the best in 2021 & beyond!
I was just watching a bunch his of yellow jacket videos. Then this popped up. What are the chances! I would have thought it would have been another mousetrap vid for monday.
Exactly my thoughts too lol
It is the season as Shawn said. Summer is when YJs build their hives. Mice are there all year long.
I remember watching you a long time ago, so happy I found you again
Yeah we had a few of these nests on our farm here in Tassie. I made a mix of 5L ( about 1 1/4 gallons) of diesel fuel I had been soaking some greasy hoist parts in, 2L ( about 1/2gall) petrol with some old car engine oil ( 100ml - about 1/10th of a quart) in a weed sprayer. I sprayed the mix down into the nests, with a 2m (6ft) trail to light it. Went off like a cannon, showering dirt about 10m (30ft) away, and burned for over 1/2 hour, then I filled it with water mixed with detergent. Haven’t seen any since.
Kill it! Kill it with fire!! I definitely like your approach!
I would have put a bowl end to the hose and just let it run for a bit. I can’t wait to see what the next attempt brings.
my thoughts exactly
I would put some fireworks in the nest
Yeah, the nozzle being used seemed weak. To me, if you have to put effort in waving the nozzle around to catch them, it kinda defeats the purpose of being as safe as possible, even if wearing a bee suit. A much wider nozzle would have been much more effective and just letting it sit there.
I once had yellow jackets in with walls/attic of a house I was renting. I was too poor to have a service. I didn't want to bother the landlord for fear of a rent increase. I also didn't want poison. So I waited for it to get cold enough to slow them down (we are 50s- 60s year round), then I hung up 3 strips of fly paper before they really started to swarm. They bailed pretty quick. I like this vacuum technique
"And Yellow Jackets" Nice touch there!
Thank you very much for helping the family!
Of all your methods this one seems the most laborious and inefficient albeit very entertaining
A quart of gasoline poured down their hole in the early morning or right at sunset never fails. The fumes kill them all within hours.
Shawn, when you get excited, you sound like Stefon from SNL.
I thought that too!! All fun though!
You should have called the Hornet King to come and get rid of the nest for you.
I like how they just instantly disappear the moment the vacuum tube gets near, you don't even see them get sucked up lol.
Fascinating. I subscribed for the mice. This is bonus information. Although I don't have a beekeeper suit and I can't even stand being bitten by mosquitoes. So I think I'll stick to mice. 😊
I used a shop vac for fruit flies. It was much more effective after I made a funnel like attachment for it out of a milk jug or something like that. I bet with a strong enough vacuum it would be faster to do that job
Me: *Sees there is a wasp nest nearby*
Also Me: Hans bring the Flammenwerfer!
I sent dragon's breath from my 12 gauge at them. It's just more satisfying that way. Also buckshot is great to prove to snakes you're still the apex predator.
Oh my god, when he just scooped the soaked, dead wasps I was SHOOK
Whenever he grabs the massive pile of them with his bare hands i flinch, don’t know why it gets me but it gets me
I know right? Except I actually feel sick and have to look away.
I have a nest in my wood siding of my house. I've sucked out close to the same amount. In my case they have not been aggressive at all. They have flown directly into my head time and time again but so far including my kids have not been stung.
I see them bringing back other insects. I do plan on eradicating the nest however I kinda like it they are not stinging us and also helping to keep the insect population in check.
This is so satisfying to watch!
When I lived in Arizona a friend of mine that ran a pest control business told me that when it came to "taking out" a bee/hornet/wasp ECT... Nest he used a water sprayer with detergent to annihilate them. I used this to great effect in Idaho against Yellowjackets& Wasps. I used a garden sprayer connected to a hose and Dawn dish soap. If they don't die from asphyxiation with the soap film they can't fly. When they can't fly they're as easy to step on as ants. Nice video! Love seeing the one thing that I absoulty despise get exterminated.👍
Skunks and opossums would really enjoy eating the wasp larva in the nests.
You mean Farting Animal and Opossums
I was just thinking of this method for flies then bees. My Mom would do it for Spiders.
The way he just smacked that wasp into the water while explaining 😭😭😂😂
Yellowjackets: ATTACK HIM!!!
You: *sucks (all) the yellowjackets up*
Lots of protein there.
I thought I was watching one of my own videos 🤔
Just missing the chickens and squirly squirrel 😅
He really count them one by one . Respect
Nice job Shawn.
Ugh.... another bee sting last night.... I need to watch this.
The vacuum certainly works, but I seem to recall a couple of your earlier yellow jacket hunts that were more efficient and productive, including the inverted fish tank & ozone. Is the vacuum the most efficient method you’ve tried on yellow jackets?
He literally talked about it he just wanted to try a different method.
Well, then - it’s good that you were on hand to answer for him. Literally.
I imagine the vacuum is safer since ozone toxic.
The chicken tied to a board placed over a bucket of water worked amazing!
@@monkeygraborange - Yup, that’s the one I was trying to remember.
We have had a few this summer. One was under some wood in the yard. After three attempts to destroy the nest, the fourth required a bee suit as I got stung four times by two of the Girls.
We did battle with one living under our chicken coop run's skirt. After four runs at it with no success, a hole I'd made to flood them with turned into an entrance outside the run. We've left them alone since as they are not bothering anyone including the chickens.
We have NERF water cannons for the hangers on. They work like a charm from a good distance away. It takes three washes before the Girls move on.
He knows he makes us nervous by manhandling the dead ones, and he enjoys it
I know yellow jackets are a pest, but I can't help but be extremely impressed with how structured and organised their nests are.
True, but if they'd just stop attacking us, we could live and let live! I think, "Man, it doesn't have to be this way. We could work out a deal. But if you come after me or my kids, I'll have to kill every last one of you." But they never listen.
I've expected you would leave hose on entry for a couple of hours while drinking 🍺 beer and then get back to dig out what would remain.
By the way there is a skeeters vac product that claims that it sucks out mosquitoes 🦟 for good, could you test it?
Some shop vacs don't tolerate continuous duty: the motor overheats leading to irreparable damage.
I would have at least given the ground a good thump to piss them off and bring them out before I started digging.
You counted them each. I’m impressed!
Basic, but entertaining. Thank you!
I had to kill a nest of these a couple of weeks ago. I was mowing grass and just turned around to see an area I just mowed and saw them swarming out the ground. I managed to jump off the mower and get inside without being stung. I ended up filling the nest with the foaming wasp and hornet spray a couple of times and ended up killing the nest.
Somehow i knew a video was gonna pop up in my recommendations. 2 weeks ago that same thing happened to me. I was mowing...but i didnt look back and felt stings on my back....jumped off the mower and ran for my life. Didnt know exactly where they came from and got back on the mower. Went around and while i was taking my time...i managed to get too close to where they were...i looked back and saw them coming. Got stung a couple more times and jumped off and ran for my life yet again. A total of 9 stings. I know where the nest is now but just been cutting around it. At least an 8ft cushion. Not sure how to deal with it. Might get some of the stuff you used.
@@jerico80 pouring gas on the nests works well too. If not so great for the environment. No need to light it. Just let ir run in should kill em all.
@@redcitadel8354 Soapy water instead of gas.
This guy is a mad lad but he gets the job done LOL
You know that tingly feeling when you see a bunch of bees or wasps?
*yea i feel it*
Years ago I found yellow jackets in my dining room - they were coming in through a small hole in the wall. I used an ordinary household vacuum cleaner to pull them out of the air, and then I sprayed some bug spray down the hose to finish them off. Finally I set the vacuum outdoors for the night, in case some of them weren't dead.
Ive once seen a video where they sprayed wd40 into a vacuum and it exploded. So watch out
So it's basically Yellow Jackets, but In Space
I bet they're pretty fast and furious, at least 9 of them.
@@TheHarcipoter When you're a yellow jacket, you're family!
I've wondered for a long time if you could drown a nest with co2 by using dry ice, very much like you did with the ozone generator.
He's actually already tried it! Unfortunately, it didn't work so well.
@@misterrocketman to be honest, I think he picked a day that was too windy, but that's still a failure when you consider how difficult it is. Just that I think CO2 strategy could work with tweaking or right weather conditions. Especially if you drop a lot of CO2 in the evening.
Gasoline is much more satisfying.
@@QuantumConundrum wait until the evening as well as putting something above the nest to trap the co2 released above the dry ice
haha straight up you look like Lester from the Adams Family at the start of the video, i love it
No one:
Shawn Woods: Picks up yellow jackets
When you put your hands in the corpses of the wasps I got anxiety
How did you not sting yourself grabbing that pile? I've been stung by a crunchy dead one before just putting my hand on it.
True
Luck
hes shawn woods thats why
probs the skin on his hands has gotten hard from working outside
Shawn, consider adding the patreon link in the video description and your About page. It took me a while to find the link, and I bet many others couldn’t find it easily either.
This was actually pretty fun to watch.
a better way to do this method is to pound on the ground while you haven't dug anything up yet, it'll make them angry and they will pour out much faster
and leave the hose right at the hole?
Yes, he's doing this the hard way. I've done this with a vacuum (That's def. a wimpy shop-vac he's got there, I must say btw.). just lay the nozzle by the entrance, weight it down, stand back and bang around the entrance with a beefy stick. I didn't have to wear anything special, they don't seem to grasp the idea of the guy who's 8 feet away at the other end of the enemy attacking their doorway.
@pvic Exactly.
That honestly looked really tedious in comparison to some of the other methods you've shown before.
You must feel like a ghost buster doing this!
Every time he even gets near or grabs a yellow jacket (dead or alive) my heart skips a beat
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This is amazing, I do landscape construction. Last Monday I got 16 stings. I'm allergic. I could use something like this. Thanks for the video. It may save a life. Love your work
Hey, there’s a guy on TH-cam called the hornet king, does videos of nest removal like this, might be another good source on how to deal with hornets
"THERE'S THE QUEEN RIGHT THERE" caught me completely off guard😭😭
Before the count, I guessed 360, so close!
Quite amazing..liquid nitrogen was the best so far
Woah just 2 like
Mans really out here chasing yellow jackets with a vacuum. Godspeed
all naughty yellow jackets get sent to the Vacuum Dimension
Pour hot liquid alumunium and making yellow jacket nest art ❤️
Na man place C4 on it
@@pixelcat29 lmao 😂😂😂
Do you know how one could do the same with grasshoppers
I did the same thing to a wasp nest on my house. I waited until dusk, used a long extension and put the vacuum over the hole on the bottom of the nest. Waited a minute and started pushing on the nest breaking it up and sucking it up in chunks. When it was all gone I shut off the vacuum and put a bag over the hose with an elastic and left them in the sun the next day and then dumped the bin out. Worked great!
I’m 100% sure my ph was listening to me today to send me this video as I got stung twice by bees , and a yellow jacket was buzzing around my house….
Which did make me wonder… why do they like scope out a wall or window just hovering around it for ages?? What are they looking for??
And cool video. I didn’t know they nested in the ground! I always thought it was either hanging in a nest or in hollows.
I remember as a kid finding a bunch had somehow nested in a hollow core door to the laundry. Freaked me out!
When he punched that yellowjacket that quickly i was like: "damn bro"
I’ve heard of people just shoving dynamite into these nests, on a scale of 1-10 how effective do you think that would be.
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@@kingsnek7947 nice
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Liquid nitrogen: Lawful
Ozone gas: Neutral
Vaccum: Chaotic
Years back we had a big underground nest right at the edge of a narrow footpath leading to our lake, which would swarm anytime someone walked past. I dealt with it using a small Sparklet CO2 cartridge filled with smokeless powder. In this case the hole was easily wide enough in hard packed clay/soil, lit the fuse and dropped one in, tink tink tink....Booom ! (it was a deep one)
No more wasps =)