help with yellow jackets

[crappieseeker]

Need suggestions on getting rid of yellow jackets. I had a nest in the ground just below the edge of my boat. I first poured half a gallon of used motor oil down the hole and put a heavy bucket over the top. They built a trench to get in and out. I moved the bucket and used 2 cans of flying wasp/hornet/yellowjacket spray. There were still hundreds. I put a bottle of lighter fluid in the hole, still no luck. I put a gallon of bleach in the hole, still no luck. I was told to use boiling soapy water, well that didn't do any good. I poured a gallon of gas in the hole and still had a bunch of them. I used 2 more bottles of spray. I then put another gallon of gas in the hole and risked my boat but set it on fire and the hole burned for 10 minutes. What's left of them moved up from the hole and are nesting in the cord mechanism of my trolling motor. I have used 2 bottles of spray and still have some yellow jackets. I have battled them for 2 weeks and never got stung when there were a ton of them. I have been stung twice though in the last three days after I have them thinned down a lot. I do not know what else to try since they are in my trolling motor. I thought about using my pressure washer and blasting up in there.

[SuperDave336]

Wait until night then either gas in the hole or a bunch of dawn dish soap and then shoot water to foam the soap everywhere and fill the nest.

[CrappiePappy]

Make sure you've killed the Queen. Plant some peppermint around the nest area to keep them from coming back to that area. Maybe spray WD-40 on those collected in your trolling motor (late at night on a cool night).

[BuckeyeCrappie]

Wait until night then either gas in the hole or a bunch of dawn dish soap and then shoot water to foam the soap everywhere and fill the nest.

Spot on! And be careful around em in daylight. A swarm about killed me 2 years ago.

[BuckeyeCrappie]

[QUOTE=BuckeyeCrappie;4471553]Spot on! And be careful around em in daylight. A swarm about killed me 2 years ago except light the gas and roast em.

[DockShootinJack]

Most of the nest I have seen have 2 entrances. Cert vile nasty creatures they are

[crappiemax]

My wife had a successful landscape maintenance business before we retired. My only contribution to her business was to get rid of the yellow jacket nests she encountered. When found, she would mark them with a flag. I would return after dark and find the entrance hole if she didn't have it located and all I did was coat the hole with Sevin garden dust. The yellow jackets would contact the dust as the entered and exited the whole and would drag that Sevin dust into the nest as they came and went. In the hundreds of nests that I treated, I only had one nest that wasn't wiped out in 24 hours. That nest took 3 treatments before it was gone.

[SuperDave336]

That's a good idea. I'm gonna try that next time.