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Personally I would wait for nightfall. YellowJackets return to the nest at night. That allows you to seal the nest off and gas it, and which is generally the safest way to deal with them.
I had a horrific experience with Yellow Jackets when I was 11. I climbed a tree and did not notice a Yellow Jacket nest. They got me all over. Face, chest , back , head , legs I had over 200 stings !! I dropped down so fast from the tree screaming . A neighbor took me into her house and thank God she saved me !! She was stung a few times.
Shawn, the yellow jacket vids are slowly becoming my favorite content on your channel! Please take every opportunity to film and take down these nests, i could watch these videos all days. I love how elaborate their nests are
I found one of their ground nests with a string trimmer one time. Luckily I saw them coming out before they were all swarming around me and I dropped the trimmer and ran inside. They attacked that trimmer like you wouldn't believe because it was sitting there idling and making vibrations. I stayed inside for several hours after it ran out of gas to give them time to calm down.
@@mountainviewcattle Definitely not, I would have passed out from heat exhaustion long before I got to their nest if I was. It was a long time ago but pretty sure I was wearing shorts, a t-shirt, and sandals.
The same thing happened to me. I got stung 13 times. I think it was 6 or 7 on the top of my head alone. They won the battle that day, but later that night I came back and won the war!
One of the easiest and most effective ways to neutralize a yellow jacket hive is with WD-40. Just one drop of the thin oil coats and chokes them and also makes them unable to fly. I use two cans at a time; one set to fog and one set to spray a stream with the straw. Start fogging the hive as you approach to kill all flying around, then focus the fogger on the hive entrance while you stab the other can's straw through the hive and soak the inside. No stings and no survivors 😁
I’d love a video of the process 😅😂😂😂😂! I hate them! Foaming wasp spray does wonders too! 20-25 ft! Drench the entrance hold & wait a few days! Then kill the remnants!? Throw some gas on da nest!😅😂😂😂😂 Then check activity again! I want to do them before the try to do me!😅
I remember being a youngster and cutting grass one summer afternoon. I started feeling things stinging me. I ran over a yellow jacket nest that was in the ground. I am allergic. I had to go get a shot and man, that was the closest I ever felt to not having air. My throat felt like it was closing up and I was stung a ton of times. Watching this, I backed up in the chair just noticing them come out :)
When I was a kid fishing at a farm pond I found out that yellow jackets not only sting but also bite and will follow you for at least 100 yards. As a teenager I discovered that some smoke and a dustbuster help avoid most of the stings.
I came close to breaking a hip, about a month ago, when the little devils came after me and started to run and fell. They "had their way with me" for a few seconds, while I was on the ground, but adrenalin allowed me to get up and hobble at a fast pace for a 100 yards or so until they called off the attack. Had major lumps all over my body and hip is just now starting to heal.
I saw this video where Japanese honey collectors use mouse glue traps to catch super hornets. He catches one and puts it in the trap to get it to release the ‘help’ pheromones which just brings more hornets into the trap. I’d love to see you give it a try!
Takes me back to 1959, NavSecGru base in Md. 3 different places YJ's had built nests on our building. The Chief of the Mast shop went out with a backpack sprayer of ammonia solution and sprayeddddd the bejeebers out of them. One was close to the air intake of work spaces and the chief gave it a quick spurt for fun. Within milliseconds, crew began pouring out of the 2 exit doors coughing and hacking. He got a good reprimnd from the LtCmdr, the crew went back in after about - the 15 minutes we were out of touch with CINCLANT (which brot the LtCmdr some flack)
I had the unfortunate experience of stopping to sit on a log for a rest during a hike. I didn't realize until I felt an incredible burning sensation that my ankle was covered in yellow jackets. The hike home was quite painful, with a swollen ankle and all.
Hey Shawn, just thinking of the dry ice vids and the relevance of smoke in "calming" bees. Having recently subjected myself to excess CO2 (yes, I opened windows, all of them), and now I'm wondering if paint-ball or soda-stream canisters could be used like smoke. Oh and, consult a chemist before boiling baking soda to clean a pot; there may well be safe limits.
"So, if you pound on this wood right here, they'll come swarming...so, I'll pound on it!" Gotta love it! Somehow, the little boy in all of us just never really goes away. Great vid.
Excellent advice! Years ago, we were having a cable outlet run to our bedroom. The cable guy found a wasp nest in the eaves and knock it down. I It was about 8’ off the ground and I was 10’ away. I was stung 3 times be fro it hit the ground. I’ve never seen anything most so fast. Fortunately only one sting on my neck and I was close to Benadryl. I’m not seriously allergic but I do swell up pretty good.
I've seen few underground nests over the years around the house. They come and they go. I see more and have much more trouble with those paper wasps that like to build under your eaves. Super aggressive and the sting packs a wallop. I've been stung and bitten by just about everything but luckily am not allergic to that stuff.
I had a similar nest but then when I removed it, the yellow jackets kept landing on the spot the nest used to be on and congregating there en masse. I went to my local pest control supply store and they gave me a chemical to spray which gets them to go away. He said they would have rebuilt the nest in that same spot if I didn't do that.
i once walked on one of those underground nest in the forest. I got stung 12 times and those were surprisingly painful for their size. Oddly enough, the mosquito bites I received the same day were more swollen and hitching than the wasp attacks. One hour after I could not find any of the places I got stung by wasps. However, the mosquitos were still visible after 4 days.
If you have these building nests - with a bee suit - then just taking a honey bee smoker and a butane torch, on low flame - all you need to do - same as smoking bee hives - is smoke and confuse all the insect hormone attack aromas (stopping communications). Then put the flame (and holding it) to the entrance, burning the paper nest ... and as the wasps/hornets come out the flame(s) will burn off their wings - and then they all turn into crawling "ants" - instead of flying attack and stinging insects !!!
ants and wasps are closely related , here in AZ in my yard i have the maricopa harvester ant, their sting is worse than a yellow jacket’s it’s got a neurotoxin or two in them
Shawn two words "shop vac" 🤣🤣🤣 but you knew that! I've also used a 5 gal bucket that I clean paint rollers in (just attracted to the latex smell I guess)
Any unusual vibration will get any bees excited. I was a lineman for many years, and bees & hornets just love to make nests in those telephone service taps. If you're climbing a pole and you see bees, you have to tiptoe up, safety off slowly, and do your work with caution. Electric drills drive them crazy. We'd have to bring up a brace & bit.
It's been several years ago now, but I got stung by 11 yellowjackets at one time. It felt like hot coals. I ended up going to the ER because I was having trouble breathing. They gave me 2 or 3 shots, put me on oxygen and watched me for a couple hours before I could leave . They also gave me prescription for a z-pack.
This is exactly how I describe it to people. It feels like a hot ember from a camp fire has landed on your skin that you didn't know was there and goes from kind of a "wait, what is that?" feeling to searing pain like it's burning into your skin- all in a matter of a few seconds. Pain level varies depending on where your stung- so far for me, getting stung on the finger was the worst.
@@kevinmach730 I got stung on the tip of my tongue, that was the worst. It landed in my coffee cause of the creamer. I didn’t know until it was too late. My tongue was swollen for 5 or 6 days.
It happened to me years ago. I was mowing the lawn and I stepped in a hole - the next thing I knew, they swarmed me and the mower. I flew down the driveway, ripping off clothes as I flew into the house and into the shower. It was just instinct. I was lucky. I only got stung about 4-5 times. And they swarmed the lawnmower for three days! Needless to say it ran out of gas, haha...
Soapy water is a great way to drown out all the yellow jackets(or almost any insect). Once it coats their "skin", it'll suffocate them. I use it constantly to get rid of yellow jackets in the area.
Truth for sure. If they want to sting you there's nothing that will stop them or change their minds. Been stung twice and my hand and arm looked like an elephant for a few days. On the other hand I have the brown wasps and they never bother me. They aren't nearly as aggressive as yellow jackets (which luckily I don't have) I've even had the brown wasps land on me and never sting me. Leave their nest (territory)alone and they won't bother you.
I destroyed a yellow jacket nest with wasp spray, but waited until a winter night when the temperature was below 32 degrees. At freezing the yellow jackets are very lethargic or almost in a hibernation state and I was not attacked.
Nice video! I had them going in my storage unit! From the bottom of the garage like door through a crack at the base! I tried baits to no avail! I finally tried glue traps placed near the crack! Low & behold I caught 30-40 & waited another week to hunt for the nest & queen! I had killed over half the inhabitants! I was able to open the garage door find the nest & drench it with sprays soapy water etc! Then was able to remove! Glue traps & fly paper works great! They get curious & get stuck on it! Learned a new trick to getting rid of these suckers!
I have had very good success using soapy water to kill yellow jackets and wasps. A pump up garden sprayer works very well, a few gallons of water and half a cup of liquid dishwashing soap . The spray will knock them out of the air and they will suffocate and die quickly. (it works because it decreases the surface tension of water and the water gets into their breathing tubes, they basically drown/suffocate in under a minute).
Yup this is my go to method as well; I use Dawn dish soap. A garden sprayer for large nests and just a plastic spray bottle for smaller ones. For anyone wanting to try this I’ve found the key is to use lots of soap. Just getting your sprayer to spit out water with some bubbles isn’t enough. The water coming out has to have enough soap in it that it feels noticeably slippery when you spray it on your hand. Do this and they drop within seconds.
I had no idea yellow jackets stung. I’m 54 and many, many times had yellow jackets around me and never been stung. I use to have to clean up the fallen fruit from our orchard and the fruit would be covered in yellow jackets. Never had them get aggressive with me. No idea why.
I am a Sailplane Pilot, and we refer to Power Plane Pilots as "Fan addicts." They are addicted to the fans on the front of their craft. Just watch how they sweat when the fan stops.
When I worked at a paintball field one summer, we had to deal with nests like this all the time in trees. We'd stand a safe distance away and three or four of us would just open fire on it 🤣🤣🤣👍so fun!
Oh, I’ve been there. Playing frisbee with my 7 year-old daughter…frisbee hits yellow jacket nest (I was unaware it was there) and swarm ensues. Daughter escaped unharmed, luckily. I got 8 stings and went to urgent care…was given epinephrine shot and transported by ambulance to local hospital ER for a six-hour stay. Absolutely nothing to mess with.
My Dad, a beekeeping hobbyist, was called upon to remove a yellow jacket hive from a neighbor's shed. He set up a canister vacuum cleaner with disposable bag, the end of the hose near the entrance to the hive. The yellow jackets were "sucked" into the hose and wound up in the bag. After a couple hours or so, the number of yellow jackets remaining was down to a bare few and Dad was able to pull down the nest. I thought that all the yellow jackets would fly out of the vacuum cleaner once he shut it off, but that wasn't the case at all. I think that they were all dead and all he needed to do was replace the bag. The vacuum cleaner may be a good idea for in ground nests. Vacuum up nearly all the yellow jackets before digging up the nest!
I used a shop vac for a yellowjacket hive in the siding of house wall about 3 feet above ground level. I placed the vac at the main entrance/exit and turned it on with the shop vac filled with water. After one hour I went back to check to find hundreds drown. Repeated this for 3 straight days with same result. I finally called an exterminator. He said the hive probably had thousands inside my sidings . He applied his professional spray and told me it works because the insects get the poison on their feet and then enter the hive to infect those inside. It cost me $125 but ended this invasion of my home in just a few hours. He sprayed around the base and roof area of my entire home during the process. That was 3 years ago and I haven't had any more yellowjacket problems but some of my neighbors sure have.
Once in my 20’s there was a large nest about 6 ft directly above my front door. I thought I’d be clever and cover it with a bucket, then slide a piece of metal in and capture the whole thing. I placed the bucket, then noticed they were flying all around me! I jumped off the ladder, broke the porch when I landed, and ran away. No injuries or bites, I was very lucky!
The ones that you find in the Deep South are the ones that live in the ground and they are particularly nasty. I’ve lived in the south all my life and have tromped through the woods many times and have never been attacked by any snake or wild animal. The only thing I’ve been attacked by are fire ants and yellow jackets that live in the ground. If you make enough commotion snakes will get out of your way, but you get anywhere near an underground yellow jacket nest they will attack you. There is nothing I’ve ever experienced that is more dangerous, aggressive, and flat out berserker mean than subterranean yellow jackets. Those are the things I fear most in the wild.
Don't forget to show your bee suit being worn over top of your rubber boots. thats my favourite part of the yellow jacket videos. Looks good when you're protected from head to toe with the bee suit over the rubber boots.
My gosh. I just started watching you're channel on TH-cam a couple of weeks ago and I thoroughly enjoy your rat trap videos, but you get into so much more!!!😅 I didn't realize it. Keep up the good work and stay safe especially around those bees!!!
When I was a kid 60+ years ago a neighbor killed a yellow jacket nest (ground nest.) He simply waited until it was dark then poured gasoline down the entry hole. he didn't light it. Next day, no yellowjackets, I guess it was the fumes from the gas that killed them, but whatever, that nest was dead.
I used to work as a hotel housekeeper, I’ve seen several live bees and other insects roaming the place. I’ve sprayed them with our cleaning chemicals, and it seems to shut them down pretty quickly. I wonder what would happen if the entrance to these nests was saturated in those chemicals. It contains part Hydrogen something, and part literal A C I D
Great video Shawn! I always puff a few puffs of Sevin or Eight crop dust into the holes when I find them in the ground. They carry it to the rest of the hive when they land and enter. I have to wonder if this method would work for hives off the ground? I had a hive in the attic one year as they had found a hole just under the eave. I sprayed a feather duster I had attached to a long pole with pesticide then placed it just over the hole forcing them to land on it before entering their hole. After a few days of refreshing the dust the hive died.
Bahahahah love your story! I tried glue traps & fly paper near their entrance! They get curious & would fly into the glue traps! I have used wasp spray foam on ground nest! Works good too! Above ground is another story! Haven’t tried wasp spray foam! I’d like to try fly paper! Place a lot at night on a hanger type object & put near their entrance! Sun comes up they fly into it!😮😅😂😂😂 I’m betting it will diminish their hive/colony too! I love taking them out! I have only took out 2 hives! No stings so far! 😅
@@orlandojohnson5742 I’d imagine fly strips would get messy if placed near your house and could even catch unsuspecting birds and such. Same for glue boards. Getting stung is never fun.
I have a yellow jacket nest being built in a crawl space under my house, and the entrance is about ten feet from the entrance of another nest on my neighbors house, so I'm seeing a rare occurrence of two colonies within spitting distance competing for influence and resources. The ones coming from my house are going to the neighbors to chew off bits of wood to expand their nest, and the number of individuals I've seen buzzing around the nest has grown exponentially while those from the other nest have dwindled.
Not a chance in heck, would I try that 'stunt' LOL If I don't have and 'Hornet Blaster' close by, I arm myself with a couple of spray cans of 'brake clearer' which will kill these pests at once, on contact. I've even managed to hit of few wasps/hornets while they were flying and they dropped dead at once. Best thing is 'brake cleaner' leaves no trace as it evaporates quickly. If you want proof of how effective this is, try it on one of these pests as they come inside your shop or garage, and go for a closed window, grab a spray tin, and douse them, see how they drop dead.
A survey for a living in the south, Yellowjackets the sting that keeps on giving, for about 24 hours, ammonia meat tenderizer mixed together works pretty good, Grandpa used to put wet tobacco from a cigarette works pretty good too
I want to share a couple of experiences that I had with these. A queen started a hive just over my front door. It was just a few cells and she was the only wasp I could see. I got rid of this small hive by using the trick of moving very, very slowly. The hive was about nine feet up. I went and got my ice scraper. I very, very, slowly moved it closer, and closer to the hive. The wasp didn't react to the scraper at all, as the blade came closer and closer to her new hive. I just slowly scraped it off, then the queen flew away. Next year, yellow jackets built a hive in my plastic composer-tumbler. After reading about the benefits of having yellow jackets in the garden, because they prey on pests, I decided to let them be. I didn't regret this decision at all. They never became aggressive. I was able to walk right next to them and even use my trimmer near the composter, and they never even buzzed around me. They just quietly eat all of the pests in my garden. This year, a couple of brown paper wasps started a nest under my second floor, street facing, window. I tried shoeing them away by spraying them with my hose but they just came back. So, I went to the store and bought a new nozzle that concentrated the spray. When that didn't work either, I zip tied the hose to a pole that I use to put up Christmas decorations. This allowed me to get that concentrated water spray right on top of the nest. It blasted the hive right off the window and the brown wasp just flew away.
The ones here won't fly in the dark, so I just go out at night and give the nest a squirt of carb spray. But only if the nests are where people go. That's really the only time they're aggressive, when someone or something gets too close. Otherwise they have their place.
I tend my garden often, out of no where I got swarmed one day. I dropped something on the ground directly on top of their ground entrance unknowingly and they went bonkers. Did not feel good. I got them with dawn soap and nose later on.
My favorite was the video where you put on the bee suit and encircled the nest with a garbage bag, tied it off, and froze it. It was the most intelligent option because you left a minimal number of yellow jackets behind.
Doing pest control I would just spray a stream and soak the nest from a distance while holding very still. They have no idea where it's coming from. Then you leave and come back a bit later. No more yellow jackets. Obviously not the solution if you want to feed the larvae to chickens.
So much easier if you contain them. If in ground WAIT til evening. They all return to underground nest. If your ok with gasoline, pour 1 cup into ground hole and walk away, go inside.
It seems like it would be easier & quicker to get them all if you wait until there's little to no activity, put a plastic bag over the nest, then remove the nest's hold on the surface, all while keeping the nest & wasps in the bag.
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Personally I would wait for nightfall. YellowJackets return to the nest at night. That allows you to seal the nest off and gas it, and which is generally the safest way to deal with them.
Just before dawn they are coldest so move least and are yet to emerge
Yeah but that doesn't make for good content.
Flames, it has to be done with flames. 🔥🔥🔥
@@ImpendingJoker You could use them as bait for freshwater fishing.
@@BobelPophe does
I had a horrific experience with Yellow Jackets when I was 11. I climbed a tree and did not notice a Yellow Jacket nest. They got me all over. Face, chest , back , head , legs I had over 200 stings !! I dropped down so fast from the tree screaming . A neighbor took me into her house and thank God she saved me !! She was stung a few times.
Damn this sounds horrible… glad you made it out safe though
😢😢 bless you🫶
how is their sting compared to a wasp?
@@jjg1501 A Yellow Jacket is a wasp - it's another name for the common wasp.
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Shawn, the yellow jacket vids are slowly becoming my favorite content on your channel! Please take every opportunity to film and take down these nests, i could watch these videos all days. I love how elaborate their nests are
I hope more yellow jackets invade and sting everyone
I’ve got a few good ones as well.Practically identical to this one.I’m not as charismatic as Shawn but the content is interesting
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I found one of their ground nests with a string trimmer one time. Luckily I saw them coming out before they were all swarming around me and I dropped the trimmer and ran inside. They attacked that trimmer like you wouldn't believe because it was sitting there idling and making vibrations. I stayed inside for several hours after it ran out of gas to give them time to calm down.
Nice, were you wearing coveralls and rubber boots when you were doing the strimming?
@@mountainviewcattle Definitely not, I would have passed out from heat exhaustion long before I got to their nest if I was. It was a long time ago but pretty sure I was wearing shorts, a t-shirt, and sandals.
The same thing happened to me. I got stung 13 times. I think it was 6 or 7 on the top of my head alone. They won the battle that day, but later that night I came back and won the war!
@@fillgYou weedwhack in shorts and sandals? You must like pain.
Trimmer u mean a weed wacker ?
I LOATHE Yellow Jackets so seeing you wipe out their nest is always a pleasure. Keep it up.
We are all Gods creatures.
With proper PPE, I'd rather deal with radioactive materials than hornets, given the choice. You, sir, are a brave man.
I spent 37 years building and maintaining diagnostic imaging equipment. I’m fine with radiation ☢️
Im a big fan of the 20' range cans of wasp & hornet spray for nests on/in buildings. Away from structures, it's bug BBQ.
One of the easiest and most effective ways to neutralize a yellow jacket hive is with WD-40. Just one drop of the thin oil coats and chokes them and also makes them unable to fly. I use two cans at a time; one set to fog and one set to spray a stream with the straw. Start fogging the hive as you approach to kill all flying around, then focus the fogger on the hive entrance while you stab the other can's straw through the hive and soak the inside. No stings and no survivors 😁
Carburetor cleaner or starting fluid works wonders also
Interesting. Wonder if that would work here. We mostly have red hornets, ground hornets and paper wasps.
I’d love a video of the process 😅😂😂😂😂! I hate them! Foaming wasp spray does wonders too! 20-25 ft! Drench the entrance hold & wait a few days! Then kill the remnants!?
Throw some gas on da nest!😅😂😂😂😂 Then check activity again! I want to do them before the try to do me!😅
Hey Shawn! I thought you might feed the yellow jacket nests to wildlife. Chickens love that stuff, too. Great video, thanx!
I thought that too
He has done that in the past.
He has one video where he feeds the nest to skunks.
Im sure he did
He usually does exactly that
Those things are vicious. I had to call in a National Park Ranger to my campsite one time because of ground hornets.
The military of the insect world!
I remember being a youngster and cutting grass one summer afternoon. I started feeling things stinging me. I ran over a yellow jacket nest that was in the ground. I am allergic. I had to go get a shot and man, that was the closest I ever felt to not having air. My throat felt like it was closing up and I was stung a ton of times. Watching this, I backed up in the chair just noticing them come out :)
When I was a kid fishing at a farm pond I found out that yellow jackets not only sting but also bite and will follow you for at least 100 yards. As a teenager I discovered that some smoke and a dustbuster help avoid most of the stings.
Do they smoke menthol or regular?
@@joeyvindictive3552menthol, of course.
That's right, they will light on you and alternately bite and sting, over and over. At least, according to my father.
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they will bite you in fall after they stop laying eggs ( they are angry cause they are starving to death)
I came close to breaking a hip, about a month ago, when the little devils came after me and started to run and fell. They "had their way with me" for a few seconds, while I was on the ground, but adrenalin allowed me to get up and hobble at a fast pace for a 100 yards or so until they called off the attack. Had major lumps all over my body and hip is just now starting to heal.
I saw this video where Japanese honey collectors use mouse glue traps to catch super hornets. He catches one and puts it in the trap to get it to release the ‘help’ pheromones which just brings more hornets into the trap. I’d love to see you give it a try!
I saw that one too. Man, those things are terrifying.
The best way to catch super hornets would be an aircraft carrier’s arresting wire!
Link?
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@@dedoyxp it's literally in the comment above yours.
I found that when I fart next to their nest it really ticks them off. When I return later, they have left the area.
Takes me back to 1959, NavSecGru base in Md. 3 different places YJ's had built nests on our building. The Chief of the Mast shop went out with a backpack sprayer of ammonia solution and sprayeddddd the bejeebers out of them. One was close to the air intake of work spaces and the chief gave it a quick spurt for fun. Within milliseconds, crew began pouring out of the 2 exit doors coughing and hacking. He got a good reprimnd from the LtCmdr, the crew went back in after about - the 15 minutes we were out of touch with CINCLANT (which brot the LtCmdr some flack)
I had the unfortunate experience of stopping to sit on a log for a rest during a hike. I didn't realize until I felt an incredible burning sensation that my ankle was covered in yellow jackets. The hike home was quite painful, with a swollen ankle and all.
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Hey Shawn, just thinking of the dry ice vids and the relevance of smoke in "calming" bees. Having recently subjected myself to excess CO2 (yes, I opened windows, all of them), and now I'm wondering if paint-ball or soda-stream canisters could be used like smoke. Oh and, consult a chemist before boiling baking soda to clean a pot; there may well be safe limits.
"So, if you pound on this wood right here, they'll come swarming...so, I'll pound on it!" Gotta love it! Somehow, the little boy in all of us just never really goes away. Great vid.
You should check out the Hornet King. He uses a vacuum to clean them up.
I used that method to clear out a small wasp nest under my grill a few years ago. I must have learned it from his channel.
Hey, that's not a bad idea..
Always love your yellow jacket videos. They're great at teaching how to find and remove nests safely.
Excellent advice!
Years ago, we were having a cable outlet run to our bedroom. The cable guy found a wasp nest in the eaves and knock it down. I
It was about 8’ off the ground and I was 10’ away. I was stung 3 times be fro it hit the ground. I’ve never seen anything most so fast. Fortunately only one sting on my neck and I was close to Benadryl. I’m not seriously allergic but I do swell up pretty good.
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I thought it was Folger's in your cup? ☕ 😅
@@boomshakalaka415 Na, that's the best part of waking up!
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When I worked at Terminex we took care of these at night with a yellow flash light so they wouldn't fly.
I've seen few underground nests over the years around the house. They come and they go. I see more and have much more trouble with those paper wasps that like to build under your eaves. Super aggressive and the sting packs a wallop. I've been stung and bitten by just about everything but luckily am not allergic to that stuff.
When wasp and yellow jackets go to nest in the evening is the best time to take them out,I have found.
I had a similar nest but then when I removed it, the yellow jackets kept landing on the spot the nest used to be on and congregating there en masse. I went to my local pest control supply store and they gave me a chemical to spray which gets them to go away. He said they would have rebuilt the nest in that same spot if I didn't do that.
Do you feed the larvae to your chickens? I'd like to see them chow down!
i once walked on one of those underground nest in the forest. I got stung 12 times and those were surprisingly painful for their size. Oddly enough, the mosquito bites I received the same day were more swollen and hitching than the wasp attacks. One hour after I could not find any of the places I got stung by wasps. However, the mosquitos were still visible after 4 days.
yellow jackets are hornets not wasps .
If you have these building nests - with a bee suit - then just taking a honey bee smoker and a butane torch, on low flame - all you need to do - same as smoking bee hives - is smoke and confuse all the insect hormone attack aromas (stopping communications). Then put the flame (and holding it) to the entrance, burning the paper nest ... and as the wasps/hornets come out the flame(s) will burn off their wings - and then they all turn into crawling "ants" - instead of flying attack and stinging insects !!!
ants and wasps are closely related , here in AZ in my yard i have the maricopa harvester ant, their sting is worse than a yellow jacket’s it’s got a neurotoxin or two in them
I needed this video today...thank you for showing the entirety of the hive....learned much
Shawn two words "shop vac" 🤣🤣🤣
but you knew that!
I've also used a 5 gal bucket that I clean paint rollers in (just attracted to the latex smell I guess)
Any unusual vibration will get any bees excited. I was a lineman for many years, and bees & hornets just love to make nests in those telephone service taps. If you're climbing a pole and you see bees, you have to tiptoe up, safety off slowly, and do your work with caution. Electric drills drive them crazy. We'd have to bring up a brace & bit.
😮 i never thought about anything like that before
Interesting to see the pupa squirming around!
You should make a series called wasp Wednesday!
Yellowjacket Ytuesday, please.
My Moanday is now a proper Monday! Great video.
It's been several years ago now, but I got stung by 11 yellowjackets at one time. It felt like hot coals. I ended up going to the ER because I was having trouble breathing. They gave me 2 or 3 shots, put me on oxygen and watched me for a couple hours before I could leave . They also gave me prescription for a z-pack.
This is exactly how I describe it to people. It feels like a hot ember from a camp fire has landed on your skin that you didn't know was there and goes from kind of a "wait, what is that?" feeling to searing pain like it's burning into your skin- all in a matter of a few seconds. Pain level varies depending on where your stung- so far for me, getting stung on the finger was the worst.
@@kevinmach730 I got stung on the tip of my tongue, that was the worst. It landed in my coffee cause of the creamer. I didn’t know until it was too late. My tongue was swollen for 5 or 6 days.
Could you test out some Mosquito traps sometime?
It happened to me years ago. I was mowing the lawn and I stepped in a hole - the next thing I knew, they swarmed me and the mower. I flew down the driveway, ripping off clothes as I flew into the house and into the shower. It was just instinct. I was lucky. I only got stung about 4-5 times. And they swarmed the lawnmower for three days! Needless to say it ran out of gas, haha...
Soapy water is a great way to drown out all the yellow jackets(or almost any insect). Once it coats their "skin", it'll suffocate them. I use it constantly to get rid of yellow jackets in the area.
Truth for sure. If they want to sting you there's nothing that will stop them or change their minds. Been stung twice and my hand and arm looked like an elephant for a few days. On the other hand I have the brown wasps and they never bother me. They aren't nearly as aggressive as yellow jackets (which luckily I don't have) I've even had the brown wasps land on me and never sting me. Leave their nest (territory)alone and they won't bother you.
Hornets are even worse.
Yellow Jacket's can't take a joke very well , that's for sure ... good job ! and you all have a good day
Any video where you intentionally disturb a wasp or yellowjacket nest (while properly protected, of course) is a real treat. 😁😁
Idk why but the moment you lifter that piece of nest and the queen started crawling away for her dear life, bit you just slapped her down, i bursted 😂
Something satisfying about watching chickens eating the pups and larve
I usually approach nests like that in the dark of night put the net over them. catch them all while they are sleeping, never need a bee suit
I would be tempted to wait until nightfall, and then shoot it full of expanding foam.
Do you leave those nests out for animals? I bet possums would like those larvae
Yeah he's done that before. If I recall correctly it was a skunk that enjoyed the feast.
@@explorenaked Yeah, 'Stinky' got it before.
I destroyed a yellow jacket nest with wasp spray, but waited until a winter night when the temperature was below 32 degrees. At freezing the yellow jackets are very lethargic or almost in a hibernation state and I was not attacked.
imagine how much fun your chickens would have with those hives!
The queen wasp @3:22: **Nopes out of there**
Nice video! I had them going in my storage unit! From the bottom of the garage like door through a crack at the base! I tried baits to no avail!
I finally tried glue traps placed near the crack! Low & behold I caught 30-40 & waited another week to hunt for the nest & queen! I had killed over half the inhabitants! I was able to open the garage door find the nest & drench it with sprays soapy water etc! Then was able to remove!
Glue traps & fly paper works great! They get curious & get stuck on it! Learned a new trick to getting rid of these suckers!
I have had very good success using soapy water to kill yellow jackets and wasps. A pump up garden sprayer works very well, a few gallons of water and half a cup of liquid dishwashing soap . The spray will knock them out of the air and they will suffocate and die quickly. (it works because it decreases the surface tension of water and the water gets into their breathing tubes, they basically drown/suffocate in under a minute).
Yup this is my go to method as well; I use Dawn dish soap. A garden sprayer for large nests and just a plastic spray bottle for smaller ones.
For anyone wanting to try this I’ve found the key is to use lots of soap. Just getting your sprayer to spit out water with some bubbles isn’t enough. The water coming out has to have enough soap in it that it feels noticeably slippery when you spray it on your hand. Do this and they drop within seconds.
I had no idea yellow jackets stung. I’m 54 and many, many times had yellow jackets around me and never been stung. I use to have to clean up the fallen fruit from our orchard and the fruit would be covered in yellow jackets. Never had them get aggressive with me. No idea why.
Because you weren't around their nest.
I love the domain specific semantics of hearing this as an "above ground nest". It feels like hearing a catamaran sailer call a boat a monohull.
I like your style. Let's all introduce some hard core high brow linguistics into the narrative.
I am a Sailplane Pilot, and we refer to Power Plane Pilots as "Fan addicts."
They are addicted to the fans on the front of their craft.
Just watch how they sweat when the fan stops.
@@mountainviewcattle "light astronomy"
When I worked at a paintball field one summer, we had to deal with nests like this all the time in trees. We'd stand a safe distance away and three or four of us would just open fire on it 🤣🤣🤣👍so fun!
Oh, I’ve been there. Playing frisbee with my 7 year-old daughter…frisbee hits yellow jacket nest (I was unaware it was there) and swarm ensues. Daughter escaped unharmed, luckily. I got 8 stings and went to urgent care…was given epinephrine shot and transported by ambulance to local hospital ER for a six-hour stay. Absolutely nothing to mess with.
My Dad, a beekeeping hobbyist, was called upon to remove a yellow jacket hive from a neighbor's shed. He set up a canister vacuum cleaner with disposable bag, the end of the hose near the entrance to the hive. The yellow jackets were "sucked" into the hose and wound up in the bag. After a couple hours or so, the number of yellow jackets remaining was down to a bare few and Dad was able to pull down the nest. I thought that all the yellow jackets would fly out of the vacuum cleaner once he shut it off, but that wasn't the case at all. I think that they were all dead and all he needed to do was replace the bag.
The vacuum cleaner may be a good idea for in ground nests. Vacuum up nearly all the yellow jackets before digging up the nest!
I used a shop vac for a yellowjacket hive in the siding of house wall about 3 feet above ground level. I placed the vac at the main entrance/exit and turned it on with the shop vac filled with water. After one hour I went back to check to find hundreds drown. Repeated this for 3 straight days with same result. I finally called an exterminator. He said the hive probably had thousands inside my sidings . He applied his professional spray and told me it works because the insects get the poison on their feet and then enter the hive to infect those inside. It cost me $125 but ended this invasion of my home in just a few hours. He sprayed around the base and roof area of my entire home during the process. That was 3 years ago and I haven't had any more yellowjacket problems but some of my neighbors sure have.
Did you get a chance to feed the larvae to wild animals?
Or to the chickens.
Once in my 20’s there was a large nest about 6 ft directly above my front door. I thought I’d be clever and cover it with a bucket, then slide a piece of metal in and capture the whole thing. I placed the bucket, then noticed they were flying all around me! I jumped off the ladder, broke the porch when I landed, and ran away. No injuries or bites, I was very lucky!
The ones that you find in the Deep South are the ones that live in the ground and they are particularly nasty. I’ve lived in the south all my life and have tromped through the woods many times and have never been attacked by any snake or wild animal. The only thing I’ve been attacked by are fire ants and yellow jackets that live in the ground. If you make enough commotion snakes will get out of your way, but you get anywhere near an underground yellow jacket nest they will attack you. There is nothing I’ve ever experienced that is more dangerous, aggressive, and flat out berserker mean than subterranean yellow jackets. Those are the things I fear most in the wild.
Don't forget to show your bee suit being worn over top of your rubber boots. thats my favourite part of the yellow jacket videos. Looks good when you're protected from head to toe with the bee suit over the rubber boots.
"if you really want to see what makes them mad, it's vibration"
*drives nail into board with hammer*
could you secure a bag over the nest and use co2 cartridges to kill it? same idea with a bottle for a ground nest
I believe he has a older video where he uses dry ice and a tote to take care of a ground nest.
@@jasonknight3436 yeah, he has several versions
Your videos are so refreshing. Your passion exudes, keep it up!
My gosh. I just started watching you're channel on TH-cam a couple of weeks ago and I thoroughly enjoy your rat trap videos, but you get into so much more!!!😅 I didn't realize it. Keep up the good work and stay safe especially around those bees!!!
When I was a kid 60+ years ago a neighbor killed a yellow jacket nest (ground nest.) He simply waited until it was dark then poured gasoline down the entry hole. he didn't light it. Next day, no yellowjackets, I guess it was the fumes from the gas that killed them, but whatever, that nest was dead.
You are very brave.
I could not do this, even with ten bee suits on!
Glad that's gone! Kinda hoping to see some kind of critter get a yellow jacket nest snack. Bet the fluffy skunk or the grumpy possum would enjoy it!
This species of Yellow Jackets is called
Dolichovespula Arenaria.
Bald-Faced Hornets are technically Yellow Jackets.
Dolichovespula Maculata.
Miracle that there is no "oh the poor 'bees'" like the last hornet videos
I used to work as a hotel housekeeper, I’ve seen several live bees and other insects roaming the place. I’ve sprayed them with our cleaning chemicals, and it seems to shut them down pretty quickly. I wonder what would happen if the entrance to these nests was saturated in those chemicals. It contains part Hydrogen something, and part literal A C I D
`no feeding to the wildlife section? those had become my favourite parts
I got stung 187 times by those little bastards on a golf course.
Great video Shawn! I always puff a few puffs of Sevin or Eight crop dust into the holes when I find them in the ground. They carry it to the rest of the hive when they land and enter. I have to wonder if this method would work for hives off the ground? I had a hive in the attic one year as they had found a hole just under the eave. I sprayed a feather duster I had attached to a long pole with pesticide then placed it just over the hole forcing them to land on it before entering their hole. After a few days of refreshing the dust the hive died.
Bahahahah love your story!
I tried glue traps & fly paper near their entrance! They get curious & would fly into the glue traps! I have used wasp spray foam on ground nest! Works good too! Above ground is another story! Haven’t tried wasp spray foam! I’d like to try fly paper! Place a lot at night on a hanger type object & put near their entrance! Sun comes up they fly into it!😮😅😂😂😂
I’m betting it will diminish their hive/colony too!
I love taking them out! I have only took out 2 hives! No stings so far! 😅
@@orlandojohnson5742 I’d imagine fly strips would get messy if placed near your house and could even catch unsuspecting birds and such. Same for glue boards. Getting stung is never fun.
I have a yellow jacket nest being built in a crawl space under my house, and the entrance is about ten feet from the entrance of another nest on my neighbors house, so I'm seeing a rare occurrence of two colonies within spitting distance competing for influence and resources. The ones coming from my house are going to the neighbors to chew off bits of wood to expand their nest, and the number of individuals I've seen buzzing around the nest has grown exponentially while those from the other nest have dwindled.
Shawn, the larvae are squirming (3:49?). Side point: it's much ripe for a sci-fi horror. Pick your favorite decade.
I filled a super-soaker with 90% isopropyl alcohol and sprayed the nest on my house. The yellow jackets fell to the ground as fast as they got soaked.
You really need to get some praying mantis to give the yellow jackets to!!
Not a chance in heck, would I try that 'stunt' LOL
If I don't have and 'Hornet Blaster' close by, I arm myself with a couple of spray cans of 'brake clearer' which will kill these pests at once, on contact. I've even managed to hit of few wasps/hornets while they were flying and they dropped dead at once. Best thing is 'brake cleaner' leaves no trace as it evaporates quickly.
If you want proof of how effective this is, try it on one of these pests as they come inside your shop or garage, and go for a closed window, grab a spray tin, and douse them, see how they drop dead.
A survey for a living in the south, Yellowjackets the sting that keeps on giving, for about 24 hours, ammonia meat tenderizer mixed together works pretty good, Grandpa used to put wet tobacco from a cigarette works pretty good too
I was hoping to see what wildlife creature was going to enjoy a yellow-jacket pupa snack.
I want to share a couple of experiences that I had with these. A queen started a hive just over my front door. It was just a few cells and she was the only wasp I could see. I got rid of this small hive by using the trick of moving very, very slowly. The hive was about nine feet up. I went and got my ice scraper. I very, very, slowly moved it closer, and closer to the hive. The wasp didn't react to the scraper at all, as the blade came closer and closer to her new hive. I just slowly scraped it off, then the queen flew away.
Next year, yellow jackets built a hive in my plastic composer-tumbler. After reading about the benefits of having yellow jackets in the garden, because they prey on pests, I decided to let them be. I didn't regret this decision at all. They never became aggressive. I was able to walk right next to them and even use my trimmer near the composter, and they never even buzzed around me. They just quietly eat all of the pests in my garden.
This year, a couple of brown paper wasps started a nest under my second floor, street facing, window. I tried shoeing them away by spraying them with my hose but they just came back. So, I went to the store and bought a new nozzle that concentrated the spray. When that didn't work either, I zip tied the hose to a pole that I use to put up Christmas decorations. This allowed me to get that concentrated water spray right on top of the nest. It blasted the hive right off the window and the brown wasp just flew away.
I have been efforting to add yellowjackets to the endangered species list for years.😂😂😂
More videos like this thanks 😊
I've had the privilege of being stung (hand & chest) by yellow jackets. The nest was on a wooden gate. Slightly painful, but no swelling.
I got stung by one once. It was on a towel I picked up. I smashed it immediately. It got my finger one time.
The ones here won't fly in the dark, so I just go out at night and give the nest a squirt of carb spray. But only if the nests are where people go. That's really the only time they're aggressive, when someone or something gets too close. Otherwise they have their place.
I tend my garden often, out of no where I got swarmed one day. I dropped something on the ground directly on top of their ground entrance unknowingly and they went bonkers. Did not feel good. I got them with dawn soap and nose later on.
At the end of the video when you kept laying your bare hand on the net full of workers made me nervous for you lol.
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My favorite was the video where you put on the bee suit and encircled the nest with a garbage bag, tied it off, and froze it. It was the most intelligent option because you left a minimal number of yellow jackets behind.
More fish bait.
Doing pest control I would just spray a stream and soak the nest from a distance while holding very still. They have no idea where it's coming from. Then you leave and come back a bit later. No more yellow jackets. Obviously not the solution if you want to feed the larvae to chickens.
Pour led or another metal down a wasp hole and carefully dig it up. It makes a cool desk ornament
So much easier if you contain them. If in ground WAIT til evening. They all return to underground nest. If your ok with gasoline, pour 1 cup into ground hole and walk away, go inside.
It seems like it would be easier & quicker to get them all if you wait until there's little to no activity, put a plastic bag over the nest, then remove the nest's hold on the surface, all while keeping the nest & wasps in the bag.
I think he knocked just to show an example of how vicious they are to vibrations.
I’ve never been stung by anything but there’s a nest under the panel of the wall of my house and I’ve definitely smacked and sprayed them a few times.
RARE Yellow Jacket style nest!