End of yellow jacket

Well I have been fighting the yellow jackets in my hay barn about all this week. I sprayed them with
several difference kinds of insecticide spray. I poured diesel on them at night. This morning I had most
of them killed, A few would come in from outside, I sprayed them as they came in.

I started pulling out my old tools and junk ,then I found the nest. Lots of them had hatched out,but
lot more was all most ready to hatch and come out.

Thanks for all the replies.
Photo. Some of the nest tour up when I was pulling it out.

Hammer Man

Dang, that's not just a nest, that's a city. I'd hate to have all of them flying around ------ off at me.

Nasty. Jim

There is a trap , made in Spokane Wash. named 'Rescue Yellow Jacket Trap'. They work amazingly well. A 'tidbit'; The only critters that over winter are queens. So, if you can buy these traps, the trick is to put them (trap(s) out at the first sign of a yellow jacket at your place. I have used them for a couple of years now - started with 4 around the house, this year only 2. HTH

When we started combining oats this summer my daughter went to pull out a gravity wagon and found a nest about that size was hanging on the slanted underside of the box. She did not find it in a good way...more like they found her. Just trimming some trees on the new property this past week and I see another big one hanging from a branch about 8' up. Appreciate them not taking offense of my mowing the grass under there all last month.

Whew - that's a lot of yellow jackets!!

Glad you got them and didn't get stung to bits.

Besides being just plain old vicious, they are both destructive and industrious. That's about what I had in the railroad tie that they hollowed out. Anything that can fly, chew a railroad tie apart, and build tunnels underground to build that in there as well, creatively wicked. Good job. They will try to come back.

Mark

It is amazing that skunks will dig up yellow jacket nests in the ground, during the night, and apparently either do not get stung, or simply don't mind. They eat the larvae and leave the combs spread out on the ground. Yikes! To bad I can't train those skunks,

I was cleaning out a old shed that I'm going to tear down, in there was a old whiskey keg that I had plans for sometime, as I was cleaning around the keg I noticed activity, but kept working, all of a sudden one buzz up by my ear and stung me on the lobe of it. Well I was not happy, went back licked my wounds came back trying to size up the issue. Realized they had a huge nest inside this keg and the opening in the side of it the cork was gone, so I had no idea how I was going to get close to this, I notice in the evening when it was warm, you could hear this hum like a larger fan running, so I knew they were keeping her cool. So after a few sprays and with no effect, I went to plan b. that is thinking, and saying, these guys are not going to win. After discussing with wife over a barley pop,she said why don't you try plug it, I had thought of plugging the hole but with what? One morning well brushing my teeth there it was.
Small solo cup!! Yeaa, well a couple nights later, got my nerve up and went in, yep pushed the cup in nicely, fit like a nice pair of socks going on! Watch it for a few days, and yea there were several outside, but it was like they didn't know where to go..... Without food, water, the party was over. I won. Would love to cut the barrel and just see how big, and might just do that.