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When I was maybe 5 years old or so, my grandpa and my uncle (his son, my mom's brother), took out a nest that was up in a tree branch, above a foot bridge that went across a small creek in front of my grandpa's front porch. Neither one had protective suits. Their tools consisted of two long clothesline poles (tall, skinny saplings that propped up the sagging clothesline in the middle between the posts), a small plastic bucket containing a few ounces of gasoline attached to one pole, and a flammable oily rag attached to the other. My uncle ran up, doused the nest with his gasoline, followed up quickly by my grandpa who had lit the oily rag on fire, and immediately set fire to the gasoline. The gas-soaked paper nest went up very quickly, and the burning pieces fell harmlessly from the tree into the creek. For hours after this dramatic event, the swarm that had not been in the nest could be seen vainly clinging to the branch where the nest had been, then others clumping onto them, until a large blob of them became too heavy for the ones holding the branch to support. The entire mass of them would drop away from the branch, dissipate in mid air, fly up, and repeat the cycle. They eventually saw the futility, and went off somewhere to start another nest.
This guy is excellent. The recommended traps really work. We got rid of a lot of nuisance critters following his advice. In this video climbing a ladder and grabbing the nest is just not an option in my situation. Spraying works great, do it at dusk,. And run like crazy when through. Repeat if necessary. Usually gone after two hits.
My dad tells the story of when he was a boy his brothers and him, were offered money to clear some property of wild plants trees and shrubs. But when they arrived they saw it was full of hornets nests, I don't know which kind it is specifically but in Sonora they call them bitachis. They are incredibly painful, I've been stung. Anyway when they saw all the hornets nests they wanted to give up and go back but one of my uncles through of a great idea. There was a creek by the plot of land so he thought of grabbing the nest, running towards the water and jump, squashing it before diving into the water. Obviously the plan didn't work and got stung so bad he didn't make it far from the tree before tossing it and running away in panic. lmfao and they roast him hard for that up to this day.
I remember being a kid and thinking "water makes their wings wet and they can't fly!" So me and my friend sprayed a yellow jacket nest with water and all that happened was they came out and stung us! 😂 But we came back a few days later and threw rocks and branches at it, took a few days of trying, flying by on our bikes while whacking the bush, but we smacked it off the branch. I think they gave up on the nest after that, but I don't remember... Once it was on the ground our mission was done, haha
Good job you did and I must say that you are a brave man. Took 14 stings one year while mowing. They burned me up. They got me on the arms, legs ankle bone and the back of my head. They even got in my house. Thank God for hand held electric bug zappers. Later that night I got a window screen some heavy rocks and four cans of raid and performed a night attack. Entire nest whipped out.
They definitely do present a hazard in a situation like this. They are fascinating critters though and they do an excellent job of removing lots of other insects people consider pests. I live in a rural area with several acres. I wouldn't try this with yellow jackets, but I've had some luck carefully removing wasp nests at night (while they are asleep) and moving them to safer locations.
Due to weather (and temperature) changes, wasps (and yellow jackets) will usually nest in underground burrowings. It is noted by the ancestors, when watching wasps and yellow jackets. "If they nest in the ground - moderate weather temperatures (cool soil). If they nest in the trees (or shaded barn or house awnings above ground, and in the cooling wind - the weather temperatures will be hot." So with all of our recent heat waves, droughts, and heat domes, you should expect to find above ground wasp, yellow jacket, and hornet nests. Only in the South, or where there is truly dense, compact, and vastly shaded overgrowth of trees, shrubs, and foliage will there be underground nests - in/near waterways with the soil being cooled by humid soil.
Late 1970’s, I recall my Dad being armed with chlordane, Reeboks and a t shirt/shorts to kill off a hornet nest under the eve of our house. Chlordane was banned years ago. Deadly.
Crazy Brave Shawn! I sprayed Spectracide on a yellow jacket nest under my deck two mornings in a row before dawn but, it didn't kill the queen so, I left it for exterminator to take care of. Middle of the day, no prob for him.😊
hi shawn, another great video! the next time you do a video where you take down hornet/yellow jacket/wasp nest, could you lay out and show us the different stages in their life cycle side by side? I believe you've done this before in an older video, but I cant seem to remember which one. thanks!
Get them early in the morning just before sunrise while they are all in the nest the tie the bag tight and put it in the freezer for the night!! You will get almost all of them.
I just wanna see that nest on fire at the end 😅🔥 (That sound effect of the mouse trap snapping at the end always makes me think I've just caught a mouse in my house 😂)
I just dealt with 2 yellow jacket ground nests, these guys are tiny, about 1/4'' long. 1 was in a pot plant (soapy dawn dish soap) the other one in the backyard found while mowing, this one was killed with some gas in a bottle turned upside down and shoved into the hole at night.
Should do that at night, they cant see in the dark, thus wont be flying around. Theres less chance of getting stung that way. Just go up there with a red head lamp on and bag the nest.
I hate when wardrobe malfunctions happen! I was young man on Guam throwing sticks at mangos to make them fall, then I saw a jungle hornet zooming down. I blocked my eyes, he stung my right collarbone. That scar was visible for 20 years. I also walked into a Banana spider web, bit me between the eyes.
Hey Shawn Woods I looked at your other yellow jacket videos too and I have a question, if you were to have a yellow jacket nest hidden inside huge old pampas grass and you were to set the pampas grass on fire, would the fire destroy the yellow jacket nest. I figure even if it don't kill the nest at least after the burnout I could then see the entrance hole to treat it with the Seven as you showed in one of your videos.
Had a large nest above my back door, waited until it was dark and they were inactive, then sprayed expanding insulation foam into the entrance, then removed the nest it in the morning.
Good info, the only other yellow jacket nest I’ve ever seen that wasn’t in the ground was one I had in an old golf bag that was hanging in my garage. That was a challenging removal. No suit.
What about doing it at night or early morning? Wouldn't most of the yellow jackets be in the nest? Then you wouldn't have as much trouble with the swarming?
Amused that the wasps appear to have not noticed the small louvred vent behind their nest, seeing how many capped off cells in the nest ~ the risk of the wasps out-growing the nest and “ooo there’s a hole like thing here ~ ready made for us” = if this was a few weeks later, Shawn would have said “an extremely dangerous yellow jacket wasp nest in my friend’s garage attic” 🫢😯. How thick is the fabric of that bee suit? They should be sting-proof for bees & wasps
@@RCinginSC Check them anyway. My mother had a flicker (kind of woodpecker) who knocked the screen out of one of those and moved into the attic much to her disgust.
My favorite way I've seen an extermination of this kind was a guy put an electric motor on the end of a long pole and had zip ties on the motor shaft (similar to a weed wacker) . Then he propped it up near the nest and turned on the motor. It was a matter of only minutes before a pile of carnage laid on the ground beneath the nest. He never had to get that close to the nest and watched from a safe distance. It was brilliant.
What do you suggest for tile roofs? I tried stuffing steel wool I the crevices of the tiles so they can't make nests in there. But no matter what I do they just find another area
Shawn, I have a very large red wasp nest in my chimney right under the cap. I know this because it was recently changed after 30 years during the winter time. If I wanted to get someone to remove that nest what type of person would do that and how would they be listed?
I had one of these nests under an eave on my house. Didn't know what it was at the time but now I know. I sprayed the nest and the yellow jackets that were on the outside and haven't seen any on there since
Had a nest destroyed by a professional exterminator a few days ago. She was in normal clothes and armed with a metal stick with a poison dispenser at the end. She sprayed the nest, left the area and I sprayed a few stray wasps with regular poison after she left. Next day they were all dead, no activity.
Old time folklore has it that yellow jackets will nest above ground as they anticipate a wet season. For those that don’t have a bee suit here’s how I eliminated a hive in a similar location. Attach an old feather duster to a Doca pole or a long cane pole then spray it till dripping with a wasp spray. Place the feather duster gently over the hole during the evening hours then leave it. The wasps will have to crawl over and through the duster where the spray will rub off on them and if you’re using vegetable dust type pesticides they take it into the hive killing them all.
I might have thought to remove the nest during the predawn hours, while they’re inactive? What happens to the remaining wasps? Will they die off without the nest?
Sean! There aren’t any more hornets left underground because you got them all 😂 (joking). I lived in the country for decades, folks nearby always killed the noisy rattlesnakes rather than relocate them (both options make sense to me). However, after 20 years my neighbors began to complain of quiet rattlesnakes. Rattlers that would not rattle if you picked them up with a snake stick and stuck them in a bucket. Yeah! That’s called natural selection. Keep up the good work my friend.
Man I keep getting your videos and always watch them to the end or close to the end but I haven't yet subbed man I should've long time ago... thanks for these videos man❤❤
I wonder if the racoons and skunks would eat the larva if you put it by the beaver dam? I wouldn't do that for anything. I hate getting stung! Thanks for sharing.
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Shawn is the equivalent of the friend with the truck who gets called when someone has to move... only he gets called for pest problems.
When I was maybe 5 years old or so, my grandpa and my uncle (his son, my mom's brother), took out a nest that was up in a tree branch, above a foot bridge that went across a small creek in front of my grandpa's front porch. Neither one had protective suits. Their tools consisted of two long clothesline poles (tall, skinny saplings that propped up the sagging clothesline in the middle between the posts), a small plastic bucket containing a few ounces of gasoline attached to one pole, and a flammable oily rag attached to the other. My uncle ran up, doused the nest with his gasoline, followed up quickly by my grandpa who had lit the oily rag on fire, and immediately set fire to the gasoline. The gas-soaked paper nest went up very quickly, and the burning pieces fell harmlessly from the tree into the creek. For hours after this dramatic event, the swarm that had not been in the nest could be seen vainly clinging to the branch where the nest had been, then others clumping onto them, until a large blob of them became too heavy for the ones holding the branch to support. The entire mass of them would drop away from the branch, dissipate in mid air, fly up, and repeat the cycle. They eventually saw the futility, and went off somewhere to start another nest.
@@Tanks_In_Spacehow did you get any of that from the post above?
Honey bees don't make paper nests 😒
@@ozarkarkykaboom
Boom!! 💥 How far did your logic get you?? Lmao 😂🤣🤣😂😅😁🙂 made my day 😊
😮😅
This guy is excellent. The recommended traps really work. We got rid of a lot of nuisance critters following his advice. In this video climbing a ladder and grabbing the nest is just not an option in my situation. Spraying works great, do it at dusk,. And run like crazy when through. Repeat if necessary. Usually gone after two hits.
Did you consider having someone hold the ladder for you?
Spraying with what?
My dad tells the story of when he was a boy his brothers and him, were offered money to clear some property of wild plants trees and shrubs. But when they arrived they saw it was full of hornets nests, I don't know which kind it is specifically but in Sonora they call them bitachis. They are incredibly painful, I've been stung. Anyway when they saw all the hornets nests they wanted to give up and go back but one of my uncles through of a great idea. There was a creek by the plot of land so he thought of grabbing the nest, running towards the water and jump, squashing it before diving into the water.
Obviously the plan didn't work and got stung so bad he didn't make it far from the tree before tossing it and running away in panic. lmfao and they roast him hard for that up to this day.
I remember being a kid and thinking "water makes their wings wet and they can't fly!"
So me and my friend sprayed a yellow jacket nest with water and all that happened was they came out and stung us! 😂
But we came back a few days later and threw rocks and branches at it, took a few days of trying, flying by on our bikes while whacking the bush, but we smacked it off the branch. I think they gave up on the nest after that, but I don't remember... Once it was on the ground our mission was done, haha
@@volvo09hahaha
The new entrapping foam sprays are very good and should be able to reach that high, they shoot about 20 feet.
Sounds like the way to go 👍
Love those. Wait until sundown & douse the whole thing.
I hate them with a passion.
Good job you did and I must say that you are a brave man. Took 14 stings one year while mowing. They burned me up. They got me on the arms, legs ankle bone and the back of my head. They even got in my house. Thank God for hand held electric bug zappers. Later that night I got a window screen some heavy rocks and four cans of raid and performed a night attack. Entire nest whipped out.
They definitely do present a hazard in a situation like this. They are fascinating critters though and they do an excellent job of removing lots of other insects people consider pests. I live in a rural area with several acres. I wouldn't try this with yellow jackets, but I've had some luck carefully removing wasp nests at night (while they are asleep) and moving them to safer locations.
Looks like a another fishing trip with yellow jacket larvae as bait is coming soon.
Due to weather (and temperature) changes, wasps (and yellow jackets) will usually nest in underground burrowings. It is noted by the ancestors, when watching wasps and yellow jackets. "If they nest in the ground - moderate weather temperatures (cool soil). If they nest in the trees (or shaded barn or house awnings above ground, and in the cooling wind - the weather temperatures will be hot." So with all of our recent heat waves, droughts, and heat domes, you should expect to find above ground wasp, yellow jacket, and hornet nests. Only in the South, or where there is truly dense, compact, and vastly shaded overgrowth of trees, shrubs, and foliage will there be underground nests - in/near waterways with the soil being cooled by humid soil.
@@Tanks_In_Space I own a pest control company, and you are correct.
Late 1970’s, I recall my Dad being armed with chlordane, Reeboks and a t shirt/shorts to kill off a hornet nest under the eve of our house. Chlordane was banned years ago. Deadly.
A shopvac with a bunch of extensions works well in those situations. They attack the nozzle. 😂
@@Tanks_In_Space I've done it personally and it works awesome.
Shawn got something deadlier than the Yellow Jackets... those guns he flexed lol
Crazy Brave Shawn! I sprayed Spectracide on a yellow jacket nest under my deck two mornings in a row before dawn but, it didn't kill the queen so, I left it for exterminator to take care of. Middle of the day, no prob for him.😊
hi shawn, another great video! the next time you do a video where you take down hornet/yellow jacket/wasp nest, could you lay out and show us the different stages in their life cycle side by side? I believe you've done this before in an older video, but I cant seem to remember which one. thanks!
One of my favourite Internet things is hearing Shawn say the word 'bucket'
quite the overhang over that garage entrance
The larva makes a great fishing bait
Shawn showing off his guns
You said you didn't react
But I'm sure you let loose a few expletives😅😅
Good job avoiding to swear after getting stung.
Any children that see me get stung might also get a free vocabulary lesson Haha.
Same here. 😂
That one wasp will live on in legend as the wasp that stung a god of destruction 😄
Get them early in the morning just before sunrise while they are all in the nest the tie the bag tight and put it in the freezer for the night!! You will get almost all of them.
I just wanna see that nest on fire at the end 😅🔥 (That sound effect of the mouse trap snapping at the end always makes me think I've just caught a mouse in my house 😂)
Ready for the next fishing trip!!!
I just dealt with 2 yellow jacket ground nests, these guys are tiny, about 1/4'' long. 1 was in a pot plant (soapy dawn dish soap) the other one in the backyard found while mowing, this one was killed with some gas in a bottle turned upside down and shoved into the hole at night.
I wanted to see the chickens eat the larva again
Should do that at night, they cant see in the dark, thus wont be flying around. Theres less chance of getting stung that way. Just go up there with a red head lamp on and bag the nest.
The yellow jacket just wanted to touch his swole biceps.
I was hoping the nest would be fed to wildlife
I've seen one guy who throws the combs to his chickens. You'd think they were candy the way the chickens go after them.
These are my favorite videos from you!
If only this video was recorded in 2022, to match the house's street number ;) .
Also, we need to find a market for all those shiny new jackets.
I have the same veil. Absolutely hate it.
I try to deal with yellow jackets and other stinging flying insects at night when they’re inside
I love it when he mentions the Dumb Ways to Die video.
I have ground digger wasps aka cicada killers in my front lawn. My sons play ro shim bo to see who has to cut the grass when they're active
What happens to the yellowjackets that stayed behind after you removed their nest? Will they die shortly with no direction or purpose?
They’ll build a new nest.
He did this the worst possible way.
I am also not going on that ladder. Lol
Haha. I do like 85 percent of my work from a ladder. Kinda sucks sometimes
I hate when wardrobe malfunctions happen! I was young man on Guam throwing sticks at mangos to make them fall, then I saw a jungle hornet zooming down. I blocked my eyes, he stung my right collarbone. That scar was visible for 20 years.
I also walked into a Banana spider web, bit me between the eyes.
Hey Shawn Woods I looked at your other yellow jacket videos too and I have a question, if you were to have a yellow jacket nest hidden inside huge old pampas grass and you were to set the pampas grass on fire, would the fire destroy the yellow jacket nest. I figure even if it don't kill the nest at least after the burnout I could then see the entrance hole to treat it with the Seven as you showed in one of your videos.
The bee suit is never 100% string proof
At least his rubber boots are!
Great job. You're the man!
Had a large nest above my back door, waited until it was dark and they were inactive, then sprayed expanding insulation foam into the entrance, then removed the nest it in the morning.
Use the babies as fishing bait again. Lol
Did you know baby mice are often called pinkies
Great job as usual.
It doesn't make for the best videos, but I'm under the understanding the easiest way to do this is to get them at night when they are asleep.
Good info, the only other yellow jacket nest I’ve ever seen that wasn’t in the ground was one I had in an old golf bag that was hanging in my garage. That was a challenging removal. No suit.
Look at them trying to emerge from the nest. Aliens on earth!
Great to see the bee suit worn over the rubber boots again. It's a great combo.
Yellow jacket was a paid actor to sting, so Shawn could show off his massive guns 💪🏽
GYATT Shawns got pythons for arms lmao
Great! Question: when you feed these to your chickens, do the eggs taste different? Serious question.
I was hoping you would use a shop vac. Now that's entertaining.
Do they have long enough stingers to get through the suit? I'm a beekeeper and anything other than honeybees terrifies me even in a suit.
I saw the end where one got in! Omg!
An updated video on voles in the garden would be great!
We used to mix up soapy Dawn water in Super Soakers (more than just one) to knock them down and out!
What about doing it at night or early morning? Wouldn't most of the yellow jackets be in the nest? Then you wouldn't have as much trouble with the swarming?
Amused that the wasps appear to have not noticed the small louvred vent behind their nest, seeing how many capped off cells in the nest ~ the risk of the wasps out-growing the nest and “ooo there’s a hole like thing here ~ ready made for us” = if this was a few weeks later, Shawn would have said “an extremely dangerous yellow jacket wasp nest in my friend’s garage attic” 🫢😯. How thick is the fabric of that bee suit? They should be sting-proof for bees & wasps
I'm guessing the vent had a screen on the inside to prevent such an issue. Most gable vents do.
@@RCinginSC Check them anyway. My mother had a flicker (kind of woodpecker) who knocked the screen out of one of those and moved into the attic much to her disgust.
My favorite way I've seen an extermination of this kind was a guy put an electric motor on the end of a long pole and had zip ties on the motor shaft (similar to a weed wacker) . Then he propped it up near the nest and turned on the motor. It was a matter of only minutes before a pile of carnage laid on the ground beneath the nest. He never had to get that close to the nest and watched from a safe distance. It was brilliant.
So you let the queen get away to start another colony......good job.
Varsol in a Spray bottle does wonders to kill wasps
We probably all have at least one ancestor who ate the larvae out of one of those nests.
Dawn dish soap in a car foam sprayer works extremely well.
What do you suggest for tile roofs? I tried stuffing steel wool I the crevices of the tiles so they can't make nests in there. But no matter what I do they just find another area
Good work Crawdaddy.
Imagine a crossover between Shawn and the Hornet King 💀
I probably had at least 3 phantom stings while watching this
Shawn, I have a very large red wasp nest in my chimney right under the cap. I know this because it was recently changed after 30 years during the winter time. If I wanted to get someone to remove that nest what type of person would do that and how would they be listed?
If it's inside your chimney how about building a fire, or lighting a smoke bomb? After they leave run a chimney sweep through it.
I would contact an exterminator. That is a big job. I would let the pros handle it.
Great video, Mahalo for sharing. But I'm just here for the mice...😅
I had one of these nests under an eave on my house. Didn't know what it was at the time but now I know. I sprayed the nest and the yellow jackets that were on the outside and haven't seen any on there since
Should’ve done it and evening when they’re all back in the nest
We? I'm not going anywhere near that s--t. Lol
dude put on his super suit under the nest☠☠
Had a nest destroyed by a professional exterminator a few days ago. She was in normal clothes and armed with a metal stick with a poison dispenser at the end. She sprayed the nest, left the area and I sprayed a few stray wasps with regular poison after she left. Next day they were all dead, no activity.
Old time folklore has it that yellow jackets will nest above ground as they anticipate a wet season. For those that don’t have a bee suit here’s how I eliminated a hive in a similar location. Attach an old feather duster to a Doca pole or a long cane pole then spray it till dripping with a wasp spray. Place the feather duster gently over the hole during the evening hours then leave it. The wasps will have to crawl over and through the duster where the spray will rub off on them and if you’re using vegetable dust type pesticides they take it into the hive killing them all.
There are just different species of yellow jackets. Some nest in trees, others in the ground. But good advice
Will a smoker calm wasps like it does with bees?
I might have thought to remove the nest during the predawn hours, while they’re inactive? What happens to the remaining wasps? Will they die off without the nest?
Oh man. I was waiting for the chickens to feed on the larva. 😞
You are very brave to do this.
I could not.
Good job Shawn you're very brave.😊
Sean! There aren’t any more hornets left underground because you got them all 😂 (joking).
I lived in the country for decades, folks nearby always killed the noisy rattlesnakes rather than relocate them (both options make sense to me). However, after 20 years my neighbors began to complain of quiet rattlesnakes. Rattlers that would not rattle if you picked them up with a snake stick and stuck them in a bucket. Yeah! That’s called natural selection.
Keep up the good work my friend.
I envy the pain tolerance!
You should try the gasoline trick with the wasps
Shawn has some guns. Lol
Haha daddy Shaun is ripped
Sorry you got stung.
Good thing you did not have a bad reaction.
From what I understand, some people have horrible allergic reactions to bee stings.
Yellowjackets live in the ground.
I thought your were going to use the meat over the oil trick, but I guess that's for hornets. Nice job!
Man I keep getting your videos and always watch them to the end or close to the end but I haven't yet subbed man I should've long time ago... thanks for these videos man❤❤
I wonder if the racoons and skunks would eat the larva if you put it by the beaver dam? I wouldn't do that for anything. I hate getting stung! Thanks for sharing.
I was hoping you would use diesel in a jar for this
I wonder if they'd like being a toasty snack 🤔
Just go out at night and spray it. Take it down in a couple of days after they've all returned to the nest and died from the poison.
Gophers! Let’s see something on gophers.
I wouldve stuck an M60 firecracker in it. There's nothing left after. Anything that didnt get blownup gets knocked out of the air from the shock
That didn’t look super smooth.. what is the best method to remove? Would be great to see!
I love watching chickens attack wasp larvae. Do you have chickens?
Bro is the GOAT
You have no more chickens to feed the wasp nests to?
We should have Wasp Wednesdays
The owl decoy will not be effective in this case
That house is soooooo last year!