Yellow Jackets

[Tyme2fish]

We live in a log home and I noticed a yellow jacket's nest the other day bored into one of our outside logs and along the seam where two logs meet. I waited till after dark and sprayed the heck out of the hole and the seam. Aha! I thought. Got you,you little boogers. Not so fast. They started escaping the spray by coming into our bedroom in mass.http://forums.iboats.com/images/smilies/eek.gif

I saw the swarm inside as I walked into the bedroom and quickly got stung on my left forearm. It didn't hurt much at the time but as time elapsed it felt like my ulna bone was paralyzed . I took two ibuprofen and still didn't sleep well last night. (slept in another bedroom) I should've stopped the pain by drinking copious quantities of bourbon but I refrained.

This morning I braved opening the affected bedroom door and most but not all of them were dead or dieing. I got out the shop-vac and starting cleaning up the remnants. I love vacuuming the live ones off the window panes and can imagine their pitiful cries as they are sucked into their death. Serves them right for stinging me!!

I left the shop-vac in the bedroom and am now catching them by the two's and three's trying to escape via the window panes.

Hopefully we can return to our bedroom tonight.

[mhall]

Caulk

[Whitebass]

try that stuff plumbers and electricians use I have seen in some of the houses we looked at when mom and dad were out house shopping. It comes in a can and has a tube about 8 to 10 inches long...the stuff is shot out of the can and after it hits the air it swells into a massive caulk like stuff that fills any voids in materials or something like that.

Maybe someone else knows what it is I'm talking about....

Good Luck and hope you don't get stung again.....

[Tyme2fish]

Great stuff is the name of the product.

http://www.homedepot.com/catalog/pro...a59b63_300.jpg

[HURRICANEBOB]

To keep the nest from re-generating. Buy a box of moth balls. Take 1/2 the box and dump it into a nylon stocking. I have some hidden in my truck if you need borrow some. Make a nylon sock full of 1/2 box, tie the stocking off in a knot, then hang it from a nail right near where the nest formed outside. Guarantee, they will not return. Promise.......trust me, I used to sell cars.

Naw, really, it works!

[kygorski]

Had a swarm build a nest under my porch. I did thye same thing, drove them into the basement, imagine my wifes surprise when she tried to do a load of laundry.Took three trys to finally get rid of them, I'm almost allergic to them, needed to have prednizone to stop the reaction.Been stung by red wasps several times, that hurts but goes away in a day or two.

[Tyme2fish]

They are still outside but at least they are not coming inside. I think I'll just wait for frost to do it's work and leave them alone for the time being. I don't want to go through that ordeal again.