Small yellow jacket problem in the house. They found a hole in the brick and built a nest.
I sprayed it, and filled the hole. Bad idea. The survivors can’t get out, and they’ve found a way into my dressing room. I have to keep the door closed.
I go in there with the 5hp shop vac and pick them live off the windows, floor, even right out of the air, figuring once they all die, that will be that.
I saw one on my underwear, and I had almost put it on.
I was grabbing my pants when I felt something moving in my white button down shirt. Bastard stung me in the gut, and I yelled and hopped around for a while.
I finished getting dressed, walked down stairs and into the kitchen. My wife was walking out, and we ran into each other. She had a drink in one hand, and a spork (spoon-fork) in the other.
I got stabbed in the gut with the spork, and now there’s a row of 5 little punctures about 3 inches from the bee sting.
You’d better call an exterminator for those insects. If they are in the house, it increases your odds for multiple stings, which can lead to an acquired allegeric reaction to stings. Which, in turn, can lead to serious problems
I was attacked by a yellow jacket horde once. Some of the devils got stuck in my hair and stung me several times on the back of my head and neck. The stings were painful, but probably not nearly as painful as the beating I gave myself trying to slap them off my head. Since I had more sting welts than dead bodies, I believe that they can sting more than one time. I am not allergic, but I was stung enough times to bring on a mild case of nausea. An attack like that would be very bad for a small child.
Here is some handy-dandy yellow jacket information for ya, Scylla:
2. Yellow jackets all return to the hive at dusk (they’ve got some kind of species wide curfew thing going)
2. Gasoline fumes will kill yellow jackets (
Put 2 and 2 together and form a plan, like:
Buy an insecticide sprayer.
Make sure the dressing room door is closed and sealed tightly. Caulk if necessary.
Just after dusk (aw, heck, wait 'till it’s good and dark, just to make sure) pour gasoline on every exposed surface in your dressing room - carpet, walls, ceiling, underwear, everything. 15 gallons ought to do.
Use insecticide sprayer to spray more gasoline into the areas you can’t easily reach - under baseboards, inside cracks, under low furniture, between suits. Another 5 gallons should be plenty.
Sit back, light a celebratory cigar and voila! No more yellow jacket problem.
Insecticide sprayer - $15
20 gallons gasoline - $20
1 excellent cigar - $10
The acquired ability to soar a great distance through the air - priceless!
Geez, now I have the urge to scour camping stores for knork. Thanks a lot, lieu.
Did you ever think of just, oh, I don’t know unfilling the hole on the outside of the house, or are you afriad that might allow them to go out and prosper and you’d rather keep them in your walls until they starve?
I just filled it with Great Stuff as a temporary expediant. I think tonight I’ll dig it out, spray a whole bunch more death spray in there and refill it.
