Ground wasp 4, man 0

3 cans of bee and wasp spray, 4 cups of gasoline and them ding dang buggers got me again. The battle rages on. These are very small yellow wasp not the normal size ground bees. I cannot seem to kill them. Hit them at night and day thought I was making progress but as soon as I got within 50 feet with the mower, here they come after me, got me again for the 4th time. They are holed up in a 30 inch round of pine firewood that was to knotty to mess with.

Unless you all know of a sure fire way to get em they are getting the axe tonight and then the spray again. I am running out of WD40 the only thing that seems to kill the pain from the sting. I gonna split there world wide open.

have heard that wet tobacco (from a cigar) will take or absorp the poison from bee stings, and meat tenderizer mixed with some water to make a paste will do the same. Meat tenderizer is good for fire ant bites as well. If the bees have made a home/nest in some rotten wood/timber, I would pour some gas on it along with a match if there is nothing else around. If there is, just sneak up on 'em and dump some gas on 'em. Leave the mower in the shed as the sound/vibrations of the motor draws their attention.

Wait until dark anad get 'em all.

Gas the nest after dark and AfterBite for the stings. Wally World carries it. It has amonia in it.

If they have swarmed, and I would guess that they have due to your previous efforts, give them a couple of days to settle back down. Sentry guards will fly for a couple of days after a major swarm. Sounds like Yellow Jackets. Go nocturnal and later is better.

Fabric stores sell a mesh fabric, sort of like window screen, called Toole? (sp). 60" wide. Get a couple yards, maybe a couple bucks. I use safety pins to attach 1/2 oz. bass sinkers to weight the net edges to the ground. Sort of a red-neck cast net for bees. Sneak up at night (red lens on headlamp) and drape or throw the netting over the nest. Soft and silent approach, with no heavy steps to send vibrations through the ground. Then you can plot their demise.

Just whacked a ground nest that had hundreds. Gas will bring them out of the nest. I use a 3 gal. pump sprayer with insecticide to hit the escapees that the mesh net catches. Leave the net covering the nest for a couple of days to confirm eradication.

Slight pucker factor putting the net over the nest, but once in place, it gets to be fun. Revenge rage is therapeutic. (Bees only)

"Slight pucker factor putting the net over the nest, but once in place, it gets to be fun. Revenge rage is therapeutic. (Bees only) "
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Originally Posted by jimp

have heard that wet tobacco (from a cigar) will take or absorp the poison from bee stings,

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This isn't a myth. I know it from personnal experience. The thing is, that it's not just from a cigar, cigarettes work just as well. I've used wet tobacco from my cigarettes many times to relieve the sting of some really mean and nasty hornets.

I have tried everything for stings and wd-40 seems to work the best for me. I got em last night. punched the log open with a pool cleaner pole and saw the paper nest inside swarming with wasp, sprayed anther whole can of hornet/wasp spray on the whole thing and then ran like %$#^. I will look at it tonight, will not even go in back yard now. plus to dang hot outside to be chased by bees.

TAPE A PENNY TO THE STING AND YOU WANT HAVE ANY SWELLING OR ITCH AND NEVER KNOW YOU HAVE BEEN BIT .Wife got stung 5 times last weekend did the penny thang and within an hour no pain or swelling no itch. try it it works!

The easy way to kill yellow jackets is to fill a beer bottle with gas, then stick the open in end in the hole and leave... Plugs the hole and no escapees...

I've never found a jellow jacket nest that wasnt in the ground, but have seen pics of some that were. The ones in the ground are easy...wait until right before dark and gas 'em. I could see where the nests outside the ground could be trouble.

Gas will get them the 99% of the time and is my preferred way of doing the killen because they come out and just about die instantly. If You are having trouble getting to them with the gas and the fumes are for some reason not making them at least leave, then get some of the insecticide that is used to kill fire ants that You use in a drenching solution. Mix in a bucket and then dump down the hole and run like hell. after a while, they will carry that down deep and all will die. I kill more bugs a year than the terminex man.CF