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OT Yellowjacket Shop Vac
Cam wrote I had killed almost 2 cups full of yellowjackets in the space of 10 minutes without poison and never got stung. Wow! I'm impressed!! We were having dinner out at this place in Oregon last week. The yellowjackets showed up so we started setting traps with our coffee cup saucers, put down a piece of turkey, waited for the insects to arrive and then put the coffee cup over them. The teenage waiters thought this was most amazing. Entertained the little kids too. kathy :-) algae primer http://hometown.aol.com/ka30p/myhomepage/garden.html |
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Cam wrote I had killed almost 2 cups full of yellowjackets in the space of 10 minutes without poison and never got stung. Wow! I'm impressed!! We were having dinner out at this place in Oregon last week. The yellowjackets showed up so we started setting traps with our coffee cup saucers, put down a piece of turkey, waited for the insects to arrive and then put the coffee cup over them. The teenage waiters thought this was most amazing. Entertained the little kids too. kathy :-) algae primer http://hometown.aol.com/ka30p/myhomepage/garden.html |
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Cam wrote I had killed almost 2 cups full of yellowjackets in the space of 10 minutes without poison and never got stung. Wow! I'm impressed!! We were having dinner out at this place in Oregon last week. The yellowjackets showed up so we started setting traps with our coffee cup saucers, put down a piece of turkey, waited for the insects to arrive and then put the coffee cup over them. The teenage waiters thought this was most amazing. Entertained the little kids too. kathy :-) algae primer http://hometown.aol.com/ka30p/myhomepage/garden.html |
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My guys found a nest in a knot hole that had fallen out of the fascia, 2.5
stories above the ponds. They too got out the shop vac, putting it on the roof and using the hook attachment for gutter cleaning. Once they had got many, they filled the hole with expanding foam. Sealing in the queen and whoever had not left, and sealing out anyone who hadn't arrived. Interestingly, over the next 3 days wasps would be found outside the hole, and from the deck with many long wand attachments, son would suck them off. I guess great minds think alike. ;o) As I thought we were stuck with the nest till fall. ~ jan On 12 Aug 2004 06:58:52 -0700, "Cam" wrote: My back yard is swarmed with yellowjacket wasps every August and September. It can make it tough to sit by the pond with a drink or eat dinner on the deck. They are attracted by the flowering silverlace vines on the fence and deck railing. I have set traps for them, put out borax ant-bait and swatted them with no real effect on the population. I never used a hornet blaster because the poison in those is extremely toxic to fish (and the rest of the world). Rather than cut down the vines I set out to take the battle directly to the wasps themselves. I found their nest, it was actually in a hole in the bricks of my house. I got my wet/dry shop vac and vacuumed up about a gallon of soapy water and then set the crevice tool of the vac beside the entrance of the nest. Over the space of 10 minutes it sucked up every wasp on their way in or out of the nest. As soon as they were flying within 5 inches of the nozzle they would dissappear down the black hole. I let the vac sit on the deck for a few more minutes to make sure the wasps had drowned in the soapy water and then emptied the contents out into some fine netting. I had killed almost 2 cups full of yellowjackets in the space of 10 minutes without poison and never got stung. I'll continue with the traps but any time I find a wasp nest I'm going to get the shop vac out again. It really worked. Cam ~Power to the Porg, Flow On!~ |
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My guys found a nest in a knot hole that had fallen out of the fascia, 2.5
stories above the ponds. They too got out the shop vac, putting it on the roof and using the hook attachment for gutter cleaning. Once they had got many, they filled the hole with expanding foam. Sealing in the queen and whoever had not left, and sealing out anyone who hadn't arrived. Interestingly, over the next 3 days wasps would be found outside the hole, and from the deck with many long wand attachments, son would suck them off. I guess great minds think alike. ;o) As I thought we were stuck with the nest till fall. ~ jan On 12 Aug 2004 06:58:52 -0700, "Cam" wrote: My back yard is swarmed with yellowjacket wasps every August and September. It can make it tough to sit by the pond with a drink or eat dinner on the deck. They are attracted by the flowering silverlace vines on the fence and deck railing. I have set traps for them, put out borax ant-bait and swatted them with no real effect on the population. I never used a hornet blaster because the poison in those is extremely toxic to fish (and the rest of the world). Rather than cut down the vines I set out to take the battle directly to the wasps themselves. I found their nest, it was actually in a hole in the bricks of my house. I got my wet/dry shop vac and vacuumed up about a gallon of soapy water and then set the crevice tool of the vac beside the entrance of the nest. Over the space of 10 minutes it sucked up every wasp on their way in or out of the nest. As soon as they were flying within 5 inches of the nozzle they would dissappear down the black hole. I let the vac sit on the deck for a few more minutes to make sure the wasps had drowned in the soapy water and then emptied the contents out into some fine netting. I had killed almost 2 cups full of yellowjackets in the space of 10 minutes without poison and never got stung. I'll continue with the traps but any time I find a wasp nest I'm going to get the shop vac out again. It really worked. Cam ~Power to the Porg, Flow On!~ |
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"Cam" wrote:
My back yard is swarmed with yellowjacket wasps every August and September. It can make it tough to sit by the pond with a drink or eat dinner on the deck. They are attracted by the flowering silverlace vines on the fence and deck railing. I have set traps for them, put out borax ant-bait and swatted them with no real effect on the population. I never used a hornet blaster because the poison in those is extremely toxic to fish (and the rest of the world). Rather than cut down the vines I set out to take the battle directly to the wasps themselves. I found their nest, it was actually in a hole in the bricks of my house. I got my wet/dry shop vac and vacuumed up about a gallon of soapy water and then set the crevice tool of the vac beside the entrance of the nest. Over the space of 10 minutes it sucked up every wasp on their way in or out of the nest. As soon as they were flying within 5 inches of the nozzle they would dissappear down the black hole. I let the vac sit on the deck for a few more minutes to make sure the wasps had drowned in the soapy water and then emptied the contents out into some fine netting. I had killed almost 2 cups full of yellowjackets in the space of 10 minutes without poison and never got stung. I'll continue with the traps but any time I find a wasp nest I'm going to get the shop vac out again. It really worked. You probably should toss some wasp nerve gas into the hole now. I've used the shopvac method in the past, and while it does a great job of knocking down the worker population, it doesn't do a thing for the queen, the newly-hatched workers (who are still hanging out on the nest) or the pupae. You'll soon have a thriving nest going again unless you do something about those guys and gals. |
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"Cam" wrote:
My back yard is swarmed with yellowjacket wasps every August and September. It can make it tough to sit by the pond with a drink or eat dinner on the deck. They are attracted by the flowering silverlace vines on the fence and deck railing. I have set traps for them, put out borax ant-bait and swatted them with no real effect on the population. I never used a hornet blaster because the poison in those is extremely toxic to fish (and the rest of the world). Rather than cut down the vines I set out to take the battle directly to the wasps themselves. I found their nest, it was actually in a hole in the bricks of my house. I got my wet/dry shop vac and vacuumed up about a gallon of soapy water and then set the crevice tool of the vac beside the entrance of the nest. Over the space of 10 minutes it sucked up every wasp on their way in or out of the nest. As soon as they were flying within 5 inches of the nozzle they would dissappear down the black hole. I let the vac sit on the deck for a few more minutes to make sure the wasps had drowned in the soapy water and then emptied the contents out into some fine netting. I had killed almost 2 cups full of yellowjackets in the space of 10 minutes without poison and never got stung. I'll continue with the traps but any time I find a wasp nest I'm going to get the shop vac out again. It really worked. You probably should toss some wasp nerve gas into the hole now. I've used the shopvac method in the past, and while it does a great job of knocking down the worker population, it doesn't do a thing for the queen, the newly-hatched workers (who are still hanging out on the nest) or the pupae. You'll soon have a thriving nest going again unless you do something about those guys and gals. |
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