the war has begun...

[Pete M]

was out in the corner of the yard and felt a sharp sting on my ankle. looked down and discovered a poor ground wasp that got stuck between my sock and the top of my shoe and freaked out and stung me. I freed her and waddled back to the house to grab some onion to strap to my ankle. now pain free, I waddled back out to see if this was a random encounter or if I stumbled upon a ground nest. turned out to be the latter, so I constructed my first trap and stuck it over the hole. we shall see how many bodies I can collect. the last hole produced many hundreds.

 

side note, I might be the first ever to walk into a walmart with onion strapped to his body. 

 

 

[tugboat95]

So what does that "trap" do? I've always had good luck with piece of rebar shoved down the hole and pour some gas on it. A match comes in handy here.

Works for fire ants as well. But gas and and lighter can be interesting.

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[Pete M]

I prefer to see the body count rather than risk letting them escape out a secondary hole or something.  the trap consists of a 2 liter bottle with the top cut off and inverted and then the assembly is tapped together.  it's just a funnel where they fly up and into the bottle, but can't find the way back out.

[eaglescout526]

I saw a guy use some sort of powder once on a ground nest and it made them spaz out from the poison. He then later at night went and drowned the nest and put a screen over the hole just so that way none came out. 

[70barracuda]

Just last week I was at work reading an electric meter with my supervisor and all of sudden he yells bees! And I guess my legs were the scariest looking objects because I got about 20 stings in each leg.  Not. Fun. 

 

I'm from NJ and I say kill them all!

[Pete M]

dang, that's a lot of onion slices.  

[Chad R]

   I have no mercy for ground bees!    Kill them all!   I pore gas on the nest and leave it I don’t light it. I leave it to soak in and it seams to work for me

[JMO413]

I down for the gas let it soak in then more gas and light it. 

[FrankTheDog]

Park a lawn mower over the hole and walk away for 10 minutes. That way not poisoning anything. I’ve done it a few times and never had any more yellowjackets.

 

Obviously running.

[JustEmptyEveryPocket]

I read an article where the person put a scoop of peanut butter next to the hole. It lead the coons in to find the ground wasps (which apparently they love to eat?) The coons dig up the entire nest over night and eat all of them. Never tried it, but the writer swore by the method.

 

Also, is #peopleofwalmart still a thing? Onion on the leg should definitely count.

[Pete M]

all walmart saw was a guy limping with a cane.    knee brace on one side and ace bandage on the other. 

 

tip:  use the very top of the onion rather than a middle slice to the bandage isn't saturated with juice.

[PCO6]

2 hours ago, Pete M said:

dang, that's a lot of onion slices.  

 

"Slices"?   I wish you'd been more clear about that.   I've been walking around with a whole onion taped to my forehead for most of the day!   

[rokinn]

I recently got stung by wasps twice in two days coming out my back door.  First time on the top of my head and the second on my upper lip.  Seems the little buggers were building a nest in my outside light.  Needless to say, I was highly irritated about the one on the lip.  My wife said she had never seem me that mad or swear like that before.  The dog neither. Put some StingEze on it and no swelling and minimal pain almost immediately.  I've had the little bottle so long most of the lettering has worn off.  Good stuff.

 

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[scaleless]

I'll be honest, I've never been stung by a wasp and I don't know how.  I frequently move occupied nests just by grabbing them with my fingers.  One time I was standing next to a guy when I accidentally angered a nest and despite standing between the nest and him, I was not stung while he got hit 3 times.  I always move nests or just leave them be if possible.

[Pete M]

I definitely have a live-n-let-live lifestyle (especially when it comes to wasps, which are great predators of the more annoying bugs), but I gotta draw the line at a wasp nest of that size being where my nephews play.   

[m2bandit]

My parents house has a 1.5 foot tall Bald faced hornet nest (Actually Wasps)  next to it. There are wasps everywhere right now. 
They're nasty little buggers, and apparently bald faced hornets can recognize faces and will attack people they've seen before over a new person.

No stings yet but I did have one bounce off the top of my head twice before I decided I'm not going to get my stuff out of their shed.
 

[FrankTheDog]

White faced Hornet nests l hit with a compressed water fire extinguisher after dark and destroy their nest with them in it. Haven’t been stung yet.

Your results may vary.

[mjeff87]

I did the gas-down-the-hole trick on ground bees at my last house.  Kept getting stung (and chased, lol) by them every time I cut the grass.  I didn't light it, but did plug the holes with some sticks.  Worked great, but.........a few months later my neighbor was complaining to me one day about the lack of fruits on her trees.  She kept saying "there's no bees around this year!!!"  Yeah, I kinda felt bad about that.

 

 

[Pete M]

14 minutes ago, mjeff87 said:

I did the gas-down-the-hole trick on ground bees at my last house.  Kept getting stung (and chased, lol) by them every time I cut the grass.  I didn't light it, but did plug the holes with some sticks.  Worked great, but.........a few months later my neighbor was complaining to me one day about the lack of fruits on her trees.  She kept saying "there's no bees around this year!!!"  Yeah, I kinda felt bad about that.

 

 

 

 

don't feel bad, the wasps (or hornets or whatever they are) living in the ground aren't pollinators, they are predators.    they are a good thing to have (as long as the nest isn't in a bad location), but it's because they hunt other problem insects and such. 

[FrankTheDog]

13 hours ago, Pete M said:

 

 

don't feel bad, the wasps (or hornets or whatever they are) living in the ground aren't pollinators, they are predators.    they are a good thing to have (as long as the nest isn't in a bad location), but it's because they hunt other problem insects and such. 

Yeah, you won’t find any honey in a wasp, hornet or yellow jacket nest.

 

[EvilMJ]

I'm a gasoline in the hole kinda guy lol.  I was mowing one day in the back yard and see my wife running and flailing about in every direction... she found a nest the hard way.  Gas in the hole and a big rock and they were no more... RIP