Specifically, the little fuckers that just attacked me while I was mowing. I have a dozen or more stings all over my body 
The Buddhist in me that won’t kill random spiders is about to go to war; when I saw the hive I figured I’d board over it come winter…but now it is death for the bees!
Edited to add: not bees, yellow jackets.
Can’t you sentence them to transportation instead?
bees: good. Do not kill bees, which make angiosperms possible. You like angiosperms.
yellow jackets: bad. Do your worst. I hate those sons of bitches.
Ah, yellow jackets. My old nemesis.
I still have both physical and mental scars from that encounter.
Death is too good for them.
i have avoided going near that area again, stopped mowing within the area where they will be disturbed. let winter kill the nest.
on the other hand if you or family risk anaphylaxis or you have to go there to live then kill them. best to get them in the morning after a cool night, there are long range spray nerve poisons.
This, of course, is the safe and responsible thing to do. Minimal exposure to Satan’s minions, exponentially increases your chances of avoiding another run-in with the little fuckers.
. . . however, there is absolutely nothing, nothing that feels as good as getting revenge on a nest of yellow jackets. While avoiding them is the sensible thing to do, attacking them with fire and poison and anything else that is lethal (to them) would be cause for much cheering.
Came in here to say “Spare the Bees!!!”
Oh, they are actually yellow jackets?
In that case, fucking nuke them!!! I hate yellow jackets with an intensity that burns white hot.
Yeah, after I posted I killed one and it was a yellow jacket; I’ve asked a mod to change the title.
I got a big wasp nest out from under my deck last week, and only suffered one sting, right to the face. Ouch! One was plenty.
Buggers.
The two best yellow jacket killing compounds (aside from building a Dalek programmed to EX-TER-MI-NATE the bastards) would be…
1; naphthalene spray, but be careful, it’s nasty stuff, it’s most commonly available in sporting goods stores as “Gun Scrubber” by Birchwood Casey, it’s as close to an instant kill as possible
2; wasp killer containing geraniol (made from geranium extracts) it’s an organic compound, reasonably quick knock down, but distance is your friend with this compound, it’s also less nasty than naphtha, it also tends to hang around longer, better for killing hives/nests, saturate, let it soak in and doom the entire nest…
If you need a wasp down immediately, naphtha works quicker, but also evaporates extremely rapidly and leaves no residue, it’s also extremely flammable so be careful with flame/spark sources
I support this pitting wholeheartedly. Yellow jackets are mean! I get stung at least once a year and it hurts:( except this year. I’ve haven’t gotten one yet. But of course now I will. A few years ago I sat on one in Vegas. Stung me on my ass and my hip swulled up, yep swulled, and I couldn’t walk right and wanted to cry for a day and a half. But, at least I was in Vegas. Got a free drink out of it. But it was the day I was flying back. I watched that asshole die.
ETA I sat on it so I guess I had it coming
Also, desertmonk, it made me feel better after I watched the fucker die to know that it wasn’t a “bee”. I’ve got no problem killing something that’s out to get me. Spiders have free reign in my home.
Ugh! I’ve had numerous run ins with these vicious, aggressive, mean little bastards!:mad:
*6th grade was the first year we could play on the football team in middle school. One managed somehow to get into my cleat and stung me on my ankle multiple times! I ran around the field screaming and trying to get my tightly tied shoe off! Not only did it hurt like a sonovabitch, my pride was hurt as everyone was laughing at my antics not knowing why I was going crazy.
*Some nested up in the outside mirror hub of a car I had. One day they flew out of the hub through the open window and stung me while I was driving!
*Some got into the black handrail to my front porch. Flew out one day and stung my elderly mother who was visiting on her face and neck!
*I was standing in line to go on the diving board at a local pool when I saw one flying towards me from 20 yards away. Flew right up and stung me on my thigh for no fucking reasons!
KILL THEM!!! KILL THEM ALL!!! SPARE NO EXPENSE!!!
Do these guys have a limited range? I don’t think we have 'em in southern California. Anyway, I’ve never seen 'em or been zapped by one.
Bees, yeah, a few times. I once got chased by a migrating swarm.
Rattlesnakes, we got. (And, lately, cobras…)
Okay, I had a better day than you did! I had two run-ins with wasps recently - one sting on the bottom of my foot, and then, a few days later, three stings on my fingers when I (stupidly) didn’t look first while grabbing a compartment handle on the utility trailer. But today was wasp-killing day. I didn’t really really want to face them down, but (a) I was tired of getting stung; and (b) I didn’t want anyone else to get stung - especially my very-allergic mother.
I waited until a good thunderstorm started rolling in, so that everyone would be home in their nests, and went searching. The little nest in the handle compartment of the trailer? Red wasps, but a small nest. Got 'em. Another nest under the front steps - black wasps. Killed 'em dead. Checked the eaves of the house, checked around the well and under the cover of the propane tank. No worries. Got to the back porch? BIG worry. Giganto-normously huuuuuge nest under the eaves of the back porch. I got 'em, but there must have been at least 100 yellow wasps.
Buncha dead bastards now!
Sooooo, this Pitting isn’t about Century 21 real estate agents? Okay, carry on.
Also, I guess this isn’t about the Georgia Tech football team.
Anyway, here’s a handy chart on how to tell the difference.
Get yourself a bear. Bears will scoop up a wasp’s nest and eat it whole. Bears are hard.
I’m all on board with this. We have a large and wild piece of property and our mowers quit on us due to a yellow jacket nest. But two different companies quoted us nine! hundred! dollars! to treat it, one of them saying “…but seriously it’s not worth doing now, just wait for winter.”
So the grass is growing. And growing. And growing.