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HP HQ
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Yellow jackets
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8/7/2013 4:53:35 PM
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Being that there is a wealth of knowledge on this site, I am going to ask for some advice. I have a boat at the shop that has a windlass with a hatch on top and a drain port on the bottom of the anchor box. We appear to have a massive amount of yellow jackets going in and out the drain hole. I know how to deal with yellow jackets in the ground, but how do you deal with them when they have multiple exits, and no direct way to neutralize them due to angles and difficulty of approach??
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250 SEL
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Yellow jackets
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8/7/2013 5:20:46 PM
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What about a Bomb. Not the one you leave in your office but the kind you buy at Hardware store for insects. Do it in the evening.
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HP HQ
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Yellow jackets
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8/7/2013 5:28:05 PM
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Do they work for bees?? Open hatch, drop and run like all get out?? I'm good at dropping bombs lmao!!
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| Name: |
HP HQ
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Yellow jackets
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8/7/2013 5:40:04 PM
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Let me add that its a screw down hatch! So no easy open, drop, bail...
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MrHodja
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Yellow jackets
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8/7/2013 5:51:45 PM
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Borrow Tony the Beekeeper's bee suit and arm yourself with a case of the wasp and hornet killer. Spray the living poo into any hole you can reach. Hope that the yellow jackets don't figure out how to get inside the suit...
Do you have or know soone who has a full-body wet suit (to include the head cap, whatever you call it? I don't thnk a yellow jacket can sting all the way through the neoprene. You would just have to ensure you can cover your hands, feet, and face.
As to the insect bomb option, do you have anclosed space where you could park the boat and then set off about triple the number of bombs recommended for an area that size?
Bottom line is I don't have a clue! Good luck!
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GoneFishin
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Yellow jackets
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8/7/2013 6:17:16 PM
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Email Tony at daburglar@hotmail.com He maybe able to help you.
Have you checked for a wasp kill that uses a thin red straw at the end that you can stick in their entrance hole?
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HP HQ
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Yellow jackets
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8/7/2013 6:24:50 PM
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Tad nervous about all that!!
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MrHodja
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Yellow jackets
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8/7/2013 8:11:35 PM
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The wasp and hornet killer aerosol cans put out a stream up to 20 feet long. If you could enlist the aid of a few helpers you could get three or four cans and bombard the entrances to the nest from all angles simultaneously....Even with a partial hit that stuff is so lethal that even if they can fly they aren't coherent enough to sting. If you could get it to all exit portals at the same time you would just mow them down as they exit their nest to defend.
And as Rev Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof liked to say "On the other hand....", I had an up close and personal meeting with the residents of an in-ground nest at our cabin about 10 years ago. Yellow jackets are smaller and faster than wasps so they are hard to see. I unknowingly ran my riding mower over the entrance to their nest and got about thee pops on the noggin before realizing what was happening and exiting the area.
Good luck and let us know how it turns out!
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MartiniMan
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Whatever you decide
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8/8/2013 8:55:18 AM
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We're behind you all the way........as far behind you as possible. Good luck and have the benadryl handy.
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CAT BOAT
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Yellow jackets
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8/8/2013 9:33:59 AM
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Make a YOU TUBE video. I got to see this chit happen. LOL.
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HP HQ
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Yellow jackets
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8/8/2013 9:41:13 AM
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Do you really wanna watch the video of my death?? Lol
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MAJ USA RET
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Yellow jackets
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8/8/2013 10:41:56 AM
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If you get the 20 foot stream of wasp killer into any entrance... the nest is doomed. If you have accomplices, it will be over in a hurry. My experience is they mostly cannot fly through the stream of death. Those that do... don't make it more than a few feet. The anchor locker is a confined space. The wasps will not be able to return to it.
I helped a neighbor with a nest this summer. Over in 30 seconds. Not one escaped the stream, foam, and fumes.
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Summer Lover
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Yellow jackets
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8/8/2013 11:12:19 AM
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He just wants to see you steppin' and fetchin' like your hair was on fire and your a$$ was a catchin'....
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ChrisCraft
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Yellow jackets
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8/8/2013 12:26:45 PM
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Permethrin...at your local diy pest control store....done deal....nothing else ever needed.
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crappyattitude
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No worries....
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8/8/2013 1:09:09 PM (updated 8/8/2013 1:10:16 PM)
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with Yellow Jackets this year....
They aren't on the football schedule ........
Crappy : )
(Just outside of Nashville)
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Happy2BHere
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Yellow jackets
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8/8/2013 1:54:52 PM
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I had a similar problem last year with the jackets in my retaining wall...many exit and entry points through the boards. I sat with a refreshing beverage in the late evening and observed their entry and exit patterns/points, then duct taped all but the one to be used for gassing them, literally. Wasn't sure how well the sprays would penetrate underground, so good old gasoline down the hole. None escaped to get me. Not ordinarily an advocate of petro chemicals into the ground, but this was a hazard to humans. So, you might try taping over the spots they could use to escape, then fire in the hole.
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HP HQ
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Update
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8/8/2013 4:13:13 PM
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A 10 gauge epi pen in the neck while riding in an ambulance down tallapoosa county back roads is not a fun time!! Bright side is the concrete broke my fall and I think I got the job down, won't know till they release me and hopefully that will be tomorrow!!
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CAT BOAT
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Update
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8/8/2013 4:50:59 PM
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You're kidding right?
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MrHodja
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Update
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8/8/2013 5:02:16 PM
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I surely hope so....one of my professional collagues has some nasty allergies, to include pine nuts, and he unknowingly ingested a safood salad in Lerici, Italy that was chock full of them. By the time we got him to the Pronto Soccorso (ER) in Sarzana he was red as a beet and itching all over. Visiting and Italian ER is an experience in itself, but the good part was the docs shot him full of epi and he was fine. He did, however, get two epi pens that he carries with him wherever he goes. Being a paramedic he knows how and when to administer it, so hopefully if he ever enconters pine nuts again he will be prepared!
And, like you, I hope Jeff was kidding, especially about the concrete breaking his fall.
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Summer Lover
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CAT wants to know
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8/8/2013 7:00:41 PM
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When did the video stop rolling and when will it be posted for our viewing pleasure?
Disclaimer - I assume that you are kidding, if not - I will understand that the post will be delayed.
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BigFoot
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Yellow jackets
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8/9/2013 9:35:35 AM (updated 8/9/2013 10:00:29 AM)
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If I had a video of what happened to me about a month ago, it would most definitely set a YouTube record for views! I was on the roof doing some roof patching near a window A/C when about 50 big red wasps stormed out of the A/C unit with the intent to kill me. I could not run...did not have any defense other than my cap and my hands. I literally went into hand-to-hand combat with them. I was holding my own pretty good until I lost my cap...then I was just slapping the h&ll out of them. I think the sounds I was making freaked them out pretty good...did not know that I could even say such vulgarities! I was only stung twice and killed two of them so I guess I came out pretty good. What a video that would have been....
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| Name: |
HP HQ
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CAT wants to know
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8/9/2013 9:38:51 PM
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I am alive folks!! A lil sore but still kicking!
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