Yellow Jacket wasps and JB 80

bigboreG

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Was heading for the shop today, happened to look up under the eave and noticed a big paper nest with around 10 of the heathens looking back at me. ( I don't like them, one sting and off to the ER I go). I didn't have any Raid or hornet killer handy, so I grabbed a can of JB 80. It really is twice as good! Soaked them and the nest good and they dropped to the ground, crawled a bit and died. I would never had guessed that stuff would kill a wasp. Wanted to pass that along, it never hurts to learn something new.
 
One of those boogers stung me Saturday. I climbed onto my 450 and got her started, put her in gear, dang dang dang something just stung me on the back of my elbow. I proceeded to find my self swarmed by paper wasps, I shifted out of 1st gear and dumped the clutch ready to hit the ground running. As the tractor lurched rearward I realized steering wheels are hard and I had found reverse instead of neutral. Dang things are crawling all over me now, mower is starting to jacknife. Finally i find the clutch, shift out of gear with the left hand, my hat in the right hand flailing wildly around hoping to ward off anymore stings. This time I ease off the clutch, kill the switch and jump off at dead run.

Went to the other shop to get the wasp killer, full can but none comes out. Find the break cleaner and head back to the tractor. With the spray can ready I spy that they are all milling around the seat bracket but I can't see their lair. So I give the whole area a good hose down, and they seem to be cooperating now. I lifted the seat up and found Home Sweet Home, I fully saturated the rest of them.

Its always one thing or another around here.

Nate
 
A guy I know (now divorced) used to stop by his shop on the way home from being at the bar and with females associated with the aforementioned establishment and spray some of that nasty-smelling stuff on his hands to cover up the (%*&@#) smell before going home to his wife.

Oh, wait, I think he used WD-40, another NASTY smelling (and basically useless) product!
 
I don't kill them fast. I want to see them twist on the ground, suffering a slow, agonizing,painful death.
 
Bob, many MANY years ago I was on a roofing crew and my Boss said 'milk and cookies time, guys'. So off we went on a short break. New feller was offered some home made cookies (for real) and refused them. Meanwhile Bossman was cleaning one of the air staplers of tar using WD40. The smell drifted back to the new guy and he said 'if the offer's still open, I'd like some of those cookies; they sure smell good.' We wondered just what the guy's wife was cooking for him if he thought WD40 was a tasty odor.
 
I pour a little gas in a tin can..and splash the whole nest..they fall from the nest and don"t even move...Just don"t miss and use common sense when using gas.
 
I used to sell JB products. The "JB 80" is a play on WD40 with JB 80 being twice as good.

I was once, very briefly, Sales Manager for JB for the State of Nebraska. The products are great, but I got into a squabble with the boss about how to market it, so I quit. Doing demos with a viscosity tester, I could make WD40 look like tap water compared to JB 80.

I'm not even sure now where to find it.
 
Been using JB-80 for years, best product I have found, there's better for cutting rust, but JB-80 is the best for drilling and tapping and general lube. Seems like it doesen't take much to knock down wasps, had on old Uncle that would take a big ol drag on his cigar and blow that at the nest, that would drop them to the ground and he would step on them.
 
I've learned that a little bit of patience goes a long way in wasp nest removal. When you spray, there are always some away from the nest who come back and bother you, etc.- So now I just saturate the nest with wasp/hornet spray, then go do something else. By the next day, all are dead or gone.
 
It really is good for drilling. Yeah it smells bad but ive noticed that when drilling it dosent start to smoke as fast as other lubricants do. Its just a good multi use product.
 
Was working on a 2nd home cutting grass over the weekend. Was using my DR Brush mower to cut a large area on the side of the house that I can't maneuver a tractor/brush hog around. After I was done with the mowing, I pulled my truck up on the lawn I had just cut to pull some bushes out next to the deck. Got one pulled and decided I needed another chain. Went to the truck and a yellow jacket landed on my arm. I brushed it off and he came back and buzzed around my head. I waved him off and opened the passenger door of the truck to get the chain. Picked up the chain and as I shut the door, I looked at the truck bed and WOW, there was a swarm of yellow jackets hovering over the bed, some within a few inches of my head. One landed on my arm and I brushed him off. Never seen a swarm so big. I went around to the driver's side and they were buzzing all around the door with the open window. Got in and put it in reverse and backed out right through the swarm. Got the truck into the driveway about 50 ft away and checked all around the truck. No jackets. Walked over to where the truck had been and..... no sign of a single hornet. Checked the trees overhead, the bushes I pulled, walked the area and .....nothing, no nest, no sign of them. Didn't see any the rest of the weekend while I pulled bushes and weed whacked the area.

As for not getting stung, only thing I can think of is that I cover myself with Deep Woods Off before I do any work out at the house or on the vacant property I own next to it. I spray every inch of exposed skin, my shirt, hat, neck, hair, etc, primarily to ward off ticks and skeeters. Just wonder if that's what keeps the hornets away also. This isn't the first time I've encountered hornets while mowing so I'm sticking with the DEET, even it it's not supposed to be for them.
 

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