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Two years ago I was mowing the grass and the next thing I knew I was being attacked by a large swarm of bees. I must have been stung 25 times. Anyway, their nest was in the ground and they didn't like the lawn mower. This year, the same type of bees, but on the other side of the house. I'm in the process of trying to kill them all with wasp/bee spray.
When I was 14, back in 1961, I was 'head' maintenance man for a hotel close to our house. We could not let yellow jackets survive with so many tourist walking around. So the owners gave me a product called Cynogas and directions to always check wind direction and stand upwind after applying a small amount to the hole and hitting it with a little water. It only took one quarter of a teaspoon to get all the yellow jackets. They fell dead out, of the air, if they got within three feet of the hole. Anything that came out of the hole fell dead. I suspect that any tourist would have also fallen dead if they got close to the hole! To this day I still remember the smell of potassium cyanide - it isn't an unpleasant odor.
I remember seeing the cans of Cynogas on supermarket shelves back in the 1950's and 60's. I presume, that today, any hotel owner that gave 14 year olds cans of cyanide to kill bees would be quickly locked up and they would probably throw away the key! But; at least I survived and the bees did not. By the way; there was a picture of a man wearing a gas mask on the outside of the container - but gas mask cost money and they never gave me one.
Fire.....pour a SMALL amount of gasoline down the hole/saturate the area....and then CAREFULLY light it on fire. It really pizzes them off. A couple of treatments will destroy the underground nest, which will come back year after year if left untouched. Spray the errant ones with a wasp/hornet killer as they return to the burned out nest. Nothing is a "one and done" project. Takes tenacity regardless of what method you use. And they get really angry when you mess with them.
I'd like to point out that this is excellent advice for almost every situation one can think of, also a great way to pass the time of day even if you aren't trying to get rid of anything at all.
call an exterminator , never , never and I repeat never use gas on them you can light yourself on fire my next door neighbor did several years ago and he gave his self 3rd degree burns and he was always sick after that too . so please don't use gas .
Fire.....pour a SMALL amount of gasoline down the hole/saturate the area....and then CAREFULLY light it on fire. It really pizzes them off. A couple of treatments will destroy the underground nest, which will come back year after year if left untouched. Spray the errant ones with a wasp/hornet killer as they return to the burned out nest. Nothing is a "one and done" project. Takes tenacity regardless of what method you use. And they get really angry when you mess with them.
^^^^this but to heck with a small amount and use Kerosene. Pour it down the hole after dark, roll a newspaper, soak the end in kerosene, light it, quickly shove it down the hole, then run like heck.
That was how I fixed the bunch that stung me about 20 times after I mowed over them. They completely covered my push mower until well after dark. My son rescued the lawn mower, I nursed my bee stings with Histmanol (sp), the next night I got them back
There is a difference between bees and wasps. Yellow jackets aren't bees.
I had a good sized nest in the ground under a tree in my yard. I had a small container of concentrated insecticide for a sprayer so I opened that and dumped all 5 oz down into the nest. Next day...nothing.
Do they come in and out of little dime-sized holes in the ground? Are they yellow and black, but large? If so, they might be Killer Cicada Wasps and they are indifferent to humans. We just filled in the holes with dirt two times (they came back once), and then they moved on.
Interesting that you mentioned these. I'd never heard of them before but my adult son has been seeing them in his yard and had to look them up. So. MN
I live in CT so yes it will be winter soon. If i cant get rid of them ill just wait until the ground freezes.
Thanks for your responses.
Depending on where you are in Connecticut, there is a guy in the Hartford area that does free yellow jacket removal. He then takes the yellow jackets and sells them to some university lab so they can run tests on their venom and on the yellow jackets themselves.
Never mind - he is not doing free removal this year.
OMG people it's like watching Bill frigging Murray trying to catch the gopher in Caddy Shack reading your posts.
Get some damn C4 OP and blow the mothereffers to hell.
Take off & nuke the site from orbit. Only way to be sure.
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