road flare ease into hole as it burns, then hold or prop it up in there for a few minutes. will kill the nest. you can dig it up after that.Have you used that approach, duck? I'm curious as to how it worked out. Sulphur?
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OK, I’ll certainly get flamed for saying this, but I think dumping gasoline into the ground is idiotic. Sorry. While most will probably evaporate and just contaminate the air we all breath, some may seep down into your well water and contaminate it. It only takes 5 parts per billion of benzene to contaminate your water. Try to sell a house sometime with a contaminated water supply.
After actually digging up a ground dwelling yellow jacket nest this summer, I doubt some of these methods are going to be very effective to begin with; at least not against the nest I dug up. The location of the real nest underground was a good 3 feet (horizontally) from the entrances. By the time I got done digging, the lawn liked like a scene from the movie Caddyshack. Nothing poured down the entrance holes even had a remote chance of getting to the actual nest. Yes, vapors might, but in concentrations high enough to kill the insects? I’m skeptical. (I’ve tried to kills moles and gophers before with smoke bombs; vapors don’t work on them either).
My neighbor kills moles by putting a hose over his exaust on his lawn tractor and inserting it into the mole tunnel and lets the tractor idle for a time.
OK, here’s a photo of my “work” digging up my first yellow jacket nest.
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You don’t want to see the mess I make trying to get rid of moles :-D
I wonder if I could stuff some grits into my mole hills to get rid of them rascals ?
I think this might be the culprit:
http://www.masterbeekeeper.org/stinging/gianthornet.htm (http://www.masterbeekeeper.org/stinging/gianthornet.htm)