Yellow jacket. They are different than bees. Bees don't bother me at all. Yellow jackets want to fight me for my food on the patio. I have loads of bees around my house, enough that you can hear the low hum standing ten feet away from a couple of the bigger plants. I can walk through one of the big plants to get to the hose valve and we don't bother each other, they just fly to other flowers.
Yellow jackets are kill-on-sight. If you have a ground nest you need the powered wasp insecticide. Spray the powder down the hole AFTER it gets dark. The nest should be dead within a couple of days. Liquid spray doesn't work on ground nests.
https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/getting_rid_of_wasps_nests Ground nests are easily controlled with a single application of an insecticidal dust directed at the nest opening. Insecticidal dusts work well in these cases because the wasps pick the dust up as they enter the nest and carry it to the core of the nest. This contaminates the entire nest and soon all the wasps will die off, normally within one or two days.
We have an Epipen from back when Lil Stampie was getting tested for allergies. KInda scary when the doctor gives you a script for one just in case something goes bad during the test. It's still sitting in the medicine spot. Sometimes I wanna reenact Pulp Fiction and Epipen myself.
Brakleen will drop Wasps right out of the air, mid flight. Cheaper than bug spray too.
Windex sprayed on the sting will take the pain away in minutes. Same with Mosquitos and other bites. Ammonia is the secret ingredient in "After Bite" and the key ingredient in Windex. My Big Fat Greek Wasp Sting.
I like to destroy wasps nests via the garden hose. The nests virtually desintigrate, and the wasps (generally) can't tell where the water is coming from so they don't chase you (unless you're close). They'll rebuild the nest once or twice more, and then clue in and relocate.
If you leave the squished carcass of a dead wasp by the nest, they won't rebuild there.
Me and wasps go way back.
Stampie (FS) said:
We have an Epipen from back when Lil Stampie was getting tested for allergies. KInda scary when the doctor gives you a script for one just in case something goes bad during the test.
Be careful if you still need to have one on hand. Typically they expire in about a years time. Damn things cost a small fortune, though.
*calf
cafe is where you get coffee and a pastry. Calf is the part of the leg on the back below the knee above the ankle
lrrs
HalfDork
8/17/20 9:25 p.m.
In reply to Patrick (Forum Supporter) :
Thanks, I know better. Must be the venom.
In reply to mad_machine (Forum Supporter) :
Have to remember that trick for next time i want to dig a hole fast
Keep in mind that yellow jacket nests typically have more than one entrance. Nasty little buggers.
Patrick (Forum Supporter) said:
*calf
cafe is where you get coffee and a pastry. Calf is the part of the leg on the back below the knee above the ankle
The story was way more interesting before you changed it.
My son got tagged by Yellow Jackets under his porch recently. As his ankle swelled and reddened, he marked the outer ring of the red with a marker every hour. As it got bigger he made another mark, on the hour. When it didn't stop he called a Dr., look for Video MD in your area; it may save a trip.
In Ian's case, the doctor flipped and told him to go to the hospital right away and make sure you tell them you were bit by a Black Widow! "No, no, no, I made those marks". Bennetril, alcohol rub, ice, elevate, but it took a long time.
If it effects your senses or movement, you shouldn't be talking to us.
In reply to RevRico :
Don't light the kerosene. It's a petroleum distillate & the fumes will do them in.
