so im cleaning out my gutters today. i see a giant yellow jacket nest. i do what any typical teenager would do and try to knock it down. about 15 yellow jackets attack me stinging me on my lips, on my eye, neck, and on my chest. my lips are so huge right now i look like homer simpson.i was just about to leave town with a couple of girls. my day is ruined. any other stories involving yellow jackets, wasps or whatever?

 

I once sprayed a wasp nest with WD40 and lit it up - WOOO HOOO!!

XXL

 

I just poured gas all over a nest and lit it up. Having a hole in my lawn was a small price to pay to see all those things go up in flames.

 

I use a can of hair Spray and a BBQ lighter.

Talk about a blow torch

 

Wasps and bees represent the same thing....the enemy!

I got a big laugh out of this thread when it came around: At war in my garage!

 

I always use WD or carb cleaner and a propane torch. DANGEROUS!!! Be VERY careful that you don't torch anything besides the nest!

WD has a longer "reach" than carb cleaner...

 

My friend and I were making a 4 Wheeler trail in the woods with our machedees. <--I have no idea how to spell that. (Big plant hacking knives) We were about a mile from his house. He chopped a wet rotten stump on the ground...out they came. We high tailed to the house. I ended up with about 15 stings. My friend had about 25 or so. mostly on his head... We were swollen and ticked. We went back the next day with gasoline, lighter fluid, and some matches.

...we were in the middle of the friggin woods...we played it smart though.

We set our crap down, got 3 jugs of water and a rake. We poured the water around the log after we had raked around it first. You could just see their friggin eyes get huge as the gas was poured on followed by 2 matches.

We came, we got stung, we conquered...

 

i had one stump job that was HUGE... old cottonwood stump, 2 sections, about 48" across that i had to grind out with my stump grinder... so i had to cut the stump down, and it was too heavy to move on my own. hooked the tow-strap around it, gave her a yank with my V10.... stump popped right off, rolled over a hornets next that was in the ground... out they came and they were furious! i got stung a few times and so did the customer.

ive had more problems with bees than i have with spiders, moquitoes, and woodticks all combined this year.

 

When I was a kid, about 10, I think, my dad was cutting branches up in an Elm tree, about 40 feet up, when he did something to a hornet nest and they came out in force. He dropped his chainsaw and his handsaw and started down the tree, in a harness, mind you, but the hornets were on him so bad that he jumped (or fell, neither of us can remember) from probably 35 feet, hitting every branch on the way down. I watched in horror from the porch as he dragged himself into the house with a broken foot and wrist, getting stung all the way into the house. That was insane. He got hit 32 times.
BDV

 

Fifteen years ago, I moved my family to Tennessee (last civilised place left on the planet, from what I could see - except maybe Texas). I did this in part using a trailer made from the back end of an old pickup truck - with raised sides made out of plywood and one by twos...

A few years later it was time to see if anything was left in the trailer - and aside from some old cabinets we never used, lo and behold there was an active, productive YELLOW JACKET NEST!!!

Cripes - finding that out cost me runnin' all the way around the house the long way, and I still got stung by one of the little (bugs)....

Well, people - there are definitions of "ANNOYED" and then some.
I came back around the house with a hose in my hand, cussin' the air blue, bound and determined, IT WAS ME OR THEM!

The bottom line is that according to science a bumble bee in theory cannot fly - but the fallacy here is that they are DRY - and FUZZ FLOATS in air.

SOGGY DON'T!!!

So I FLOODED those damn things, and then I sprayed the crud out of them with malathion after cutting the sides off the trailer with a chain saw... (The nest was in the right front corner, near the bottom of the bed behind the cabinets)

I still wonder what my family though was in my mind when I came around the corner hollering "That's IT!!! ALL OF YOU MOTHER F****** ARE GONNA DIE!!!!"

But I tell ya what -

Wet yella jackets cain't fly....


(true story)