Question by Dakota1: What should we use to kill a rather large underground yellow jacket’s nest? The easiest, quickest solution?
It is causing a real problem; can’t cut the grass in the area. We already poured motor oil down the entrance to the nest and they actually went back to their busy routine a day later. Unreal! We need to have a roof put on our garage but this is holding that up too cause we don’t want the construction people getting stung. In the past we have poured gasoline down the entrance on others and stuffed newspaper there and burned them out but that didn’t work either. The survivors just kept on keeping on. These nests get rather large underground and one can actually fall in if they walk on top of one. Grrrrr I hate bees other than honey bees and Bumble Bees! They are such a nuisance!
Ultimus-try being helpful for once.
Best answer:
Answer by Shan
We had wasps living inside a hollow area under a front window. We found the hole they were using and sprayed Raid into it. It took 2 sprayings on 2 different days, but it worked. I held a drinking straw to the spray nozzle in order to really spray the Raid right thru the hole and into the hollow. (I wore disposable gloves while I was doing this.)
Raid should kill your Yellow Jackets. Hold a straw to the nozzle if you want precision spraying.
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