You know? I've been lucky this year. Haven't seen one. Bumble and honey bees, yes. Even the regular wood borers that don't sting, just tear up wood. Yellow jackets are both ground and wood borers, and its best to deal with them during the night, absolutely in the dark. When the sun starts going down, they start calming down and go to the nest. That's one way to find them, when the sun starts going down, watch where they're heading. When the sun starts coming up or is up, get yourself out of town. You got any bails of hay up there? They like stuff piled up. They'll track Sevin into their nest, and over time kill it off. Takes a while though. If you go up there, they don't like noise or banging around, and the flash light will give them a target, so carry yourself a can of that stuff that shoots out about 25 or 30 feet just in case, and be ready to empty it at or on the nest. Those cans empty fast, so carry two. They are agressive.
My last stint with them was a couple of years ago after cut some trees up and left piled by a stack of railroad ties that I use for fence posts. My brother was over cutting the trees up for his fire wood and my sister was over helping him. I saw my brother drop the saw and both of them take off running. They both got stung a good three or four times each in a matter of seconds. Most will quit chasing you at a good 50', but there will always be a couple will chase you out a good 100' and they do mean to sting. They don't give up. Meat tenderizer takes most of the sting out, well about 2/3's the sting out quick when mixed as a paste. It's that other 1/3rd it don't take out that hurts pretty good for a while, couple of hours. When they settled down and I saw them going in under a railroad tie, I left them set until about sundown. I took a long log chain, about 30' and gently put it around the tie I saw them going under, drug it out to the Deere's drawbar, climbed on and gave it heck. I'll bet I flew out flippin the tie and stuff about 200' before I stopped, figuring I was ok. Nope...two nests, the one in the ground about 200' back, and the one they hollowed out in that tie which I didn't see until I rolled the tie to unhook it. They were mad at me, mad, mad, mad. They hollowed out in that tie I'll bet big enought to put my whole arm in and built them quite a nest, and they were maaaaaad, mad, mad at the bumpy ride I didn't know I gave them. I got stung several times, and so did that noisy Deere. They hate noise. I got them though, a couple of cans of that long range shooting stuff, and after it got dark, I emptied another in there point blank and left it till morning. The ground nest, and there's always at least two holes a couple of feet apart, so watch where they're going in, cause if you go after only one hole, they surely come out the side and back doors...and they will be mad, mad, mad at you. I ended up burning a couple of gallons of diesel on that, and after I was sure they weren't coming out, heated good, then I made sure to compact the area with an enclosed cab tractor.
I've had my run ins with them guys over the years, and they don't like me much. Don't hex me, none so far this year. You usually don't find them, they find you when you least expect it and offend them. They sure do get offended easily. I figure they've got a Napoleon complex because of their small size.
Good luck, and be ready to run at least 100'. Up in the hay loft? Jump and run 100'. Don't tell them I said "Hi". Oh yeah...have some meat tenderizer paste made up and waiting for you in the house.
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